Despite current circumstances, corporations in the US are spending heavily on solar and energy storage to power their operations. On that topic, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) just released its annual Solar Means Business report. Joe Biden’s efforts as president of the United States to create green policies will … [continued]
Landscape equipment like mowers, trimmers, and blowers create millions of tons of exhaust emissions every year in America. It’s time to go electric.
At the end of last month, I covered a deal Home Depot made with a solar company to help move their stores’ operations to clean power. Now, I’m seeing several other similar deals in the press releases we sift through here at CleanTechnica. It’s becoming more popular than ever for … [continued]
When you have a big retail space, it makes a lot of sense on the surface to cover the whole roof in solar panels. After all, there’s space and generating renewable energy is a good thing. But even the largest stores can only cover around half of their electricity needs … [continued]
The top 15 U.S. retailers were responsible for as much climate pollution in 2019, from their shipping alone, as the energy used to power 1.5 million American homes, a report released Monday by Pacific Environment finds. Walmart tops the list, with 3.7 million tons of CO2 pollution — more than a … [continued]
Cleantech darling Tesla has fallen to third place in the Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables ranking of US residential solar installers, with Sunrun securing its spot atop the pile and Vivint Solar reclaiming the number two spot for the first time in nearly two years.
With so much emphasis on the Model 3, the question on many people’s mind is, “Will Tesla’s solar efforts finally begin to gain traction?” According to USA Today, “The company is going to double down on selling solar through its 110 U.S. Tesla stores, which it has reconfigured in past months to ensure that Powerwall is on prominent display and in-house solar experts, some of whom worked Home Depot aisles for Tesla, are at the ready.”
ENGIE Insight is the consulting arm of parent company ENGIE that works with corporate customers around the world to leverage the expansive network of experts at ENGIE’s disposal to solve their clients’ most challenging problems.
Bloomberg reports that Tesla will have rooftop solar displays inside 800 Home Depot stores by the middle of the year. The sales locations will be staffed by Tesla employees.
Originally published on Sustainnovate. By Henry Lindon Americana “big box” stores could host around 62.3 gigawatts (GW) of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity — enough to generate enough electricity to provide for the equivalent needs of roughly 7 million US households — according to a new report from Environment America … [continued]
