Spanish wind energy company Gamesa has announced a firm order for 150 MW in Brazil, bringing its fiscal-year 2014 cumulative total up to 3,300 MW. The company will provide 54 G114-2.0 MW turbines to several farms within the União dos Ventos complex located across several towns in the state of Rio Grande … [continued]
Much has been made of the competition between the United States and China for the title of world’s leading wind energy country, with the former claiming leading generator and the latter claiming leading installer. However, according to GlobalData analyst Pranav Srivastava, both titles are soon to be handed over to China as soon … [continued]
Thanks to protracted temblors in the US (and some other English-speaking nations) over the role of fossil fuels in generating climate change, many of us sometimes forget that agriculture, deforestation, and land use change (AFOLU, for short) also emit a large proportion of greenhouse gases. Those with a rough idea … [continued]
One of China’s wealthiest men has taken to Weibo (the Chinese version of Twitter) to complain about the exorbitant cost of obtaining approvals for large-scale solar power projects in the country. Shi Yuzhu recently claimed on his personal Weibo account that for a 1-gigawatt solar project in China, the cost … [continued]
One of the world’s six “supermajor” oil and gas companies, BP, has released its annual Energy Outlook, and in addition to predicting a 37% increase in global demand for energy, the company also believes that — if nothing is done to corral them — carbon dioxide emissions are likely to … [continued]
China’s National Energy Administration has released figures for the country’s solar installation over 2014, and the news is good: 10.6 GW of new solar was deployed in 2014, pushing the country’s currently installed capacity up to near-30 GW. According to PV-Magazine and PVTech, the National Energy Administration released official data … [continued]
Enjoy the electric vehicle stories below from around the interwebs, as well as our own electric vehicle stories from the past week. Tesla Tesla Sales — Updates & Estimates “Secret Weapon” To Increase Tesla Demand & Beat Dealers — Ideas Tesla: More Pure-Electric Car Revenue Than All Other Companies Tesla … [continued]
Renewable energy won’t die from cheap oil. With oil prices hitting six-year lows, you would think cleantech’s momentum would stop. After all, history has not been kind to renewables when oil prices have fallen. However, Bloomberg Business paints a different picture. In his analysis, author Tom Randall cites 7 key reasons why, this … [continued]
A new study has found that renewable energy systems will prove to be the most economically viable in the future, specifying that solar and wind will prove the cheapest forms of energy production for Asia’s largest energy markets by the end of the next ten years. The study, conducted by … [continued]
In this critical year for climate, the United States has just obtained a superior information and action tool in UNPRECEDENTED: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis? David Ray Griffin spent almost three years researching and compiling this excellent summary of climate disruption and what people can do about it. Read UNPRECEDENTED, and you will discover the … [continued]
