February 23rd, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Arizona is stepping up its energy storage game with a new contract for battery supplier AES to install 100 megawatts of stationary storage for the utility Arizona Public Service
February 20th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
No yards, no golf courses, rutted roads, very expensive water and not being able to play outside at anything for most of the summer doesn’t sound like a lot of fun
February 8th, 2019 | by Nicolas Zart
Which US state is greener? Which is not very electric vehicle (EV) friendly? Such were the questions CarMax asked in its recent survey of the top 10 states for sales of these eco-friendly vehicles in
January 22nd, 2019 | by Charles W. Thurston
Arizona has finally begun to loosen the regulatory shackles from solar hopefuls in the state, proposing new rules for installing solar, energy storage, and other clean energy systems. The Arizona Corporate Commission (ACC) filed a draft rulemaking on January 16, after studying interconnection standards for 13 years
December 14th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill
The latest disclosure data provided to CDP has revealed that some of the largest US-based corporations view climate change as an increasing risk to their bottom line as well as their reputation among consumers and investors, highlighting the growing business readiness for the low-carbon transition
December 2nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
It's widely known that California is the center of US electric vehicle adoption. California leads the country in terms of overall electric vehicle (EV) sales as well as EV market share of new vehicle sales. It's also where Tesla was born and where nearly every US EV startup pops up. But there are other states that are also well ahead of the US average for EV market share ... and they're basically all in the west
September 27th, 2018 | by Jake Richardson
Kroger is conducting a test of self-driving tech for food delivery in Scottsdale, Arizona. Autonomous vehicles from Nuro are being used in the test for Fry's Food Stores.
July 26th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
A couple weeks ago, we wrote about a major new ballot initiative in Arizona. The proposal is a 50% Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) by the year 2030. A total of 480,464 Arizona residents sign onto the initiative to get it on the November ballot. Unfortunately, local media outlets are blowing the story
July 11th, 2018 | by Kurt Lowder
480,464 citizens of Arizona have signed a state initiative to create a state constitutional amendment that would require 50% of electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030.
April 9th, 2018 | by James Ayre
As talk of geoengineering as a possible partial solution to anthropogenic climate change has grown over recent times, it has become an urgent need that there is a set of international rules put into place to govern such activities, some of those involved in the sector have begun arguing.
March 28th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Long a strong supporter of Uber, Arizona governor Doug Ducey has now revoked its permission to operate its self-driving cars.
February 28th, 2018 | by James Ayre
As part of what seems to be a push to prep the general public for the acceptance of self-driving taxis -- presumably because the tech is now nearly there for the firm -- Waymo has released a new video meant to give people an idea of what it's like to ride in one.
February 16th, 2018 | by Guest Contributor
As US president Donald Trump throws his support behind “beautiful clean coal,” the American state of Arizona — a Republican Party stronghold — is poised to take the lead on energy storage in the country as it tosses up whether to impose an 80% clean energy target by
February 1st, 2018 | by James Ayre
Building on its earlier announcements relating to the release of a hydrogen fuel cell powered Class 8 semi truck, and also reservations, Nikola Motor Company has now unveiled plans relating to the development of a $1 billion manufacturing facility near Phoenix, Arizona
January 11th, 2018 | by Christopher Arcus
In a new report from Xcel Energy, the company reported unprecedented low bids for wind and solar with storage. Last year, Xcel announced it would close 660 MW worth of coal-fired power capacity at Comanche Generating Station. Xcel subsidiary Public Service Company issue a request for proposals for wind, solar, natural gas, and storage
January 4th, 2018 | by Lisa Ann Pinkerton
We've partnered with Technica Communications* for a monthly roundup of some of the coolest cleantech press releases in a series we are calling Cleantech in Action. Some of the highlights this month include a gym built entirely from bamboo, solar and storage for cooler schools in Hawaii, and solar flowers
December 3rd, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
SolarCity has challenged a fee structure proposed by the Salt River Project and approved by the Arizona Corporations Commission that it says is in violation of federal antitrust laws. The US Supreme Court has added the case to its docket.
September 7th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The Navajo Nation's first utility-scale solar energy project is now generating enough electricity to provide for the needs of around 13,000 area homes, according to recent reports
May 24th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Tuscon Electric Power has just signed an agreement to purchase solar power for the next 10 years at under 3 cents per kilowatt-hour -- the lowest price ever in the United States.
May 4th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Our friends over at EV Volumes — a Silver Sponsor of our upcoming Cleantech Revolution Tour conference in Berlin+Wroclaw — recently shared some interesting state-specific electric car sales data with us. The most notable finding is clear enough in the following chart
April 3rd, 2017 | by James Ayre
Will the Trump Administration "open the door" to planet-scale geoengineering experiments? That's the question posed in an article that I recently came across, one which referenced plans by Harvard engineers David Keith and Frank Keutsch to test in 2018 (in Arizona) the high-altitude spraying of sulphate particles as a means of limiting warming
March 26th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Uber has temporarily suspended its self-driving vehicle testing following an accident in Tempe, Arizona, according to recent reports. To be clear, though, Uber's self-driving Volvo wasn't at fault — the driver of a different vehicle (that caused the crash) failed to yield to the Uber Volvo
February 20th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Three of the largest coal fired generating plants in the US will be closed before the end of 2019. But how much will replacing them with natural gas facilities do to protect the environment?
January 20th, 2017 | by James Ayre
EV Volumes recently highlighted some interesting stats with an interesting graph showing plug-in electric vehicle sales figures for the years 2011–2016 separated by state. As the graph shows, the vast majority of plug-in electric vehicle sales in the US have been in California — with Georgia, Washington, New York, Florida, and Texas making up the anemic vanguard
