I think the video below is my last video from this year’s Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week* that I have to share, which is good, because we’re more than halfway between this year’s Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week and next year’s! This video below is from a tour of GE’s first (and currently … [continued]
Energy monolith GE has announced that it will be investing equity in three Atria Power wind projects currently under construction in India — a move that goes a long way towards GE’s commitment to invest $1 billion annually in the global renewable energy industry. The announcement was made by GE’s investment … [continued]
Recently, Alstom accepted General Electric’s (GE) offer after a bidding war, creating intriguing possibilities for French cleantech. Greentech Media notes the French government accepted GE”s bid over Siemen’s and Mitshbishi’s joint offer. Originally, the German energy giant had offered an asset and cash swap of €10–11 billion ($13.8–15.2 billion). Mitsubishi added their … [continued]
There are a lot of cleantech leaders out there. Numerous cleantech industries are growing in leaps and bounds, and numerous people and companies are to thank for that. I don’t envy the Zayed Future Energy Prize panels who have to narrow down numerous applications to choose just a handful of … [continued]
RenewEconomy Last year, in an interview with Stanford University’s Tony Seba, we foreshadowed the remarkable conclusions of his new book: that energy and transportation as we know it will be history by 2030. That book, the Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation, is now published, and it has even more dramatic prognosis: Silicon Valley … [continued]
RenewEconomy The debate over the future of Australia’s renewable energy target should properly be fought out in the public arena, among politicians, and in the mainstream media. Both seem disinterested, so the real fight is happening behind close doors, in the in-camera sessions of the RET Review panel and within … [continued]
GE Energy Financial Services is aggressively expanding its presence in solar power markets across the world. The company’s latest investment has been announced just weeks after an investment was made in the largest solar power project in India. GE Energy Financial Services has announced that it will invest in a 32 … [continued]
By Denis Kuznetsov Open innovation has been a hot topic in the business world since its introduction by Professor H. Chesbrough in 2003. Having initially evolved in technology and consumer goods corporations (like IBM and P&G), the open innovation paradigm is now spreading to most industries, including energy and cleantech. In simple words, the … [continued]
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Leia Guccione It’s been three months since we released The Economics of Grid Defection exploring when off-grid solar-plus-battery systems could reach economic parity with retail electric service. These systems could become competitive with retail electric service within the next decade for many commercial customers and … [continued]
Tidal power, or, to put it another way, the power of the moon, is certainly a powerful energy source. The tidal fluctuations caused by the movement of the massive body of the moon is worth tapping, right? Many have of course tried — and are currently trying — but the effective … [continued]
