With the Tesla Model 3 reveal just around the corner, analysts are getting itchy and curious about the performance of Tesla stock over the next few months. To get a better feel for the progress Tesla is making in preparation for the Model 3 launch, Wall Street insiders are heading over to … [continued]
For the first time, a Chinese wind firm, Goldwind, topped the annual ranking of onshore wind turbine manufacturers in 2015. Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology led Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s annual rankings of global wind turbine manufacturers, with 7.8 GW of capacity commissioned during 2015, thanks in part to a surging … [continued]
For the past few decades, the simple message “no time to lose” has fallen on deaf ears, leaving many of us pushing for climate action feeling like Eric Idle in the homonymous Monty Python skit, in which he goes out of his way to help Michael Palin utter the four … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. By Henry Lindon Solar energy has been in a bit of a boom phase as of late (one that will arguably continue for a long while). Why exactly, one might ask, has the technology been finding more and more of a foothold in the global marketplace? … [continued]
Closing out the wonderful, unique Renewable Cities Global Learning Forum, the session below captures a number of the highlights of the forum. It’s a good synopsis if you want to get a general take on what made this forum so special and what we could do at other conferences and events to stimulate … [continued]
A recent Bloomberg article broke news that Google parent company Alphabet is planning to make the innovator’s self-driving car unit a stand-alone business under the new parent company. This news comes from a person “briefed on the company’s strategy,” and as such, must be taken for a grain of salt, but … [continued]
A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance has found that developing nations attracted a record $126 billion in clean energy investment in 2014. Clean energy investment of $126 billion represents an increase of $35.5 billion, or 39%, on 2013 clean energy investment levels. Most importantly, however, this figure eclipsed … [continued]
Global investment in renewable energy and energy-smart technologies reached $70 billion in the third quarter, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. According to new figures published Wednesday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), worldwide investment in renewable energy and energy-smart technologies totaled $70 billion in the third quarter of 2015, … [continued]
A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance has concluded that the levelized cost of electricity is closing between wind and solar with gas and coal. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) published its Levelised Cost of Electricity Update for the second half of 2015 this week, and concluded that onshore … [continued]
Operators began gearing up the nuclear reactor at Kyushu Electric Power’s 31-year-old Sendai plant in the city of Satsumasendai last week. Sendai is about 600 miles (1,000 km) southwest of Tokyo on energy-poor Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu. The community closest to the plant and governor of the prefecture … [continued]
