More solar news for you solar lovers: Chinese solar panel production is projected to double by 2017. (sustainablog) Apple, Verizon, Google, UPS, Walmart, Kohl’s, IKEA, GM… there are a lot of big corporations investing in solar now. Remember, corporations are primarily aimed at financial profits. Put 1 and 1 together. (Solar … [continued]
Called the Little Box Challenge, Google announced recently that it will be offering a $1 million prize for inventing much smaller solar power inverters. The challenge will be launched this summer, so currently few details have been released to the public. Note that Google Ventures is an investor in Transphorm, … [continued]
The White House video above doesn’t note that President Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House decades ago that were later removed by the Reagan administration, but I guess they didn’t want to get too political with that. It is nice that the Obama administration finally got solar … [continued]
Josh covered the big news earlier this week that Google just acquired Nest (for $3.2 billion). Our friend Yann Brandt over on SolarWakeup has a good follow-up on this news that he passed along. He connects a few important dots, and the end conclusion is surely a possibility. We’ll have to … [continued]
Upon completion, the Jasper Power Project will be one of the largest solar PV facilities on the African continent, capable of producing enough clean, renewable electricity to power some 30,000 South African home, as well as bringing about much in the way of positive, ecologically sustainable social development.
In a new post on Google’s blog, Google Director of Global Infrastructure Gary Demasi has just put forth a plan that could really blow up the domestic renewable energy market. Since utility companies have long charged different rates (aka tariffs) for different classes of customers, the idea is to establish … [continued]
The top commercial solar users in the US have been revealed by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Vote Solar. They were revealed yesterday at Solar Power International 2012 in Orlando. The companies are simply ranked by ranked by cumulative solar energy capacity. I’m a much bigger fan of relative … [continued]
The project’s completion will see nearly 400 MW of clean, renewable electrical power delivered to California homes and businesses, as well as create thousands of jobs, adding more than $1 billion to US economic activity and state tax revenues and avoiding 400,000 tons of CO2 emissions. […]
Google has been a clean energy leader for a long time (see my post on 7 of Google’s top clean energy investments from earlier this year for more on that). While it dropped a major solar R&D initiative recently, it seemed it did so in order to put more … [continued]
Media incorrectly report Google is abandoning renewables. In fact, the company is increasing clean energy investments. Buried at the bottom of an innocuous “spring cleaning” post on Google’s blog yesterday, the internet giant made a very important announcement: it will stop funding its Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C) initiative. … [continued]
