Only days after Tesla moved to purchase SolarCity, America’s leading solar developer has downgraded its 2016 guidance for MW installed. SolarCity announced on Monday that it and Tesla had agreed to combine their businesses, becoming “the world’s only vertically integrated sustainable energy company.” However, despite exceeding second quarter guidance for … [continued]
Tesla’s move to acquire SolarCity has taken a big step forward. Below, I share the most recent facts of the Tesla–SolarCity merger (as presented by Tesla today), my thoughts on where this marriage will lead, and the overall background from which my thoughts arose. If you aren’t keen to know a little bit more … [continued]
I follow well over 100 sites (that is, I check at least the titles of every single article they publish) in order to curate most of the stories we cover on CleanTechnica, and to stimulate ideas for completely original stories of my own. One of these sites is Sunrun, which happens to be the … [continued]
Let’s say that, for some reason, you really don’t want humans to drive in cleaner, more enjoyable, more exciting, safer, better electric cars. How do you go about slowing down the transition? Below are prescriptions for three different groups (automakers, the media, and investors) that could pitch in and do … [continued]
The Gigafactory is open for business, and that business is world domination (of the car and stationary storage markets). Of course, that’s assuming all goes dandy in Gigatown, but there’s a lot of reason to believe it will. Below are 11 key takeaways from the Gigafactory opening, with special thanks … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Time was when Buffalo, New York was an industrial powerhouse. With Lake Erie next door and the Erie Canal nearby, ready access to markets made Buffalo the ideal location for American industry. But manufacturing jobs in the area have been fleeing to other locations since … [continued]
As Elon Musk writes in the beginning of “Master Plan, Part Deux,” the original Tesla Master Plan was pretty simple. It was also written about a company Elon didn’t expect to succeed, so you might say that it wasn’t overly ambitious — even if it did mean creating a successful … [continued]
We’ve written a lot about average solar power prices, especially in the US — utility-scale solar power prices and rooftop solar power prices. But we’ve seldom found or teased out prices from different rooftop solar installers. I think the last time I did so was when I highlighted that SolarCity’s prices (per watt) … [continued]
SolarCity, America’s leading solar developer, has raised yet more money to finance new solar projects, and this week announced another $345 million in tax equity from four separate partners. With preternatural clockwork regularity, SolarCity appears in our headlines as having raised more financing for its company. SolarCity has now raised … [continued]
PG&E, one of the largest natural gas and electric utilities in the US, has announced three partnerships to test distributed energy resource technologies. PG&E is teaming up with GE to demonstrate a distributed energy resource management system, with Enphase Energy to install and test smart inverters, and SolarCity to install … [continued]
