Originally published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the China PV Investment and Finance Alliance (CPVFA) have formed a collaboration with the goal of opening wide-scale and diverse sources of investment for solar photovoltaic (PV) asset development in China. NREL is … [continued]
Originally published on SolarLove.org. With utility-scale solar projects multiplying across the US, the quality assurance of solar panels has become a major subject of owners’ and investors’ focus. The success of multi-million-dollar systems hangs in the balance and stakeholders have vested interests in the reliability of the products being installed. … [continued]
The Alliance to Save Energy — a coalition of prominent business, government, environmental, and consumer leaders — has scored big at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit with CarbonCount™, an exciting new system for scoring the carbon impacts of green bonds. This revolutionary financial innovation has the potential to steer large quantities … [continued]
Originally published on NREL. Analysis from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) finds that by making shared solar programs available to households and businesses that currently cannot host on-site photovoltaic (PV) systems shared solar could represent 32 to 49 percent of the distributed photovoltaic market in 2020. Shared … [continued]
China can reach 86% renewables by 2050 while its economy grows sevenfold, according to a new government report
Here are some more clean electricity readin’s for ya: Renewables (as a whole) 100 Percent Renewable Energy is Within Reach Slightly Positive Net Effect on Jobs from Energiewende Energiewende Shuts Down Most Efficient Gas Turbine Solar Energy Free Solar Powered Recharging Stations In San Francisco Huge Solar Array For Utah Major League Soccer … [continued]
A new demonstration could provide fuel cell EV owners with a truly zero emission ride, thanks to renewable hydrogen from solar and wind energy.
By “He who shall not be named” There are many ways to achieve high renewable penetration levels. According to an NREL study examining high renewable energy integration in the US, 80% of US electricity could be coming from renewables by 2050. Feel free to copy the above paragraph & link and use … [continued]
Below is another cleantech link drop, my favorite cleantech stories from around the interwebs other than the ones we’ve covered. However, one of these stories doesn’t have a link, but I figured this is the best place to share it. Tesla emailed over a Q1 sales update (woohoo!). In case you … [continued]
Reaching California Governor Jerry Brown’s goal of 50% renewables by 2030 is possible with existing technologies – if we make smart choices.
