A new report published this week shows that 33 global banks provided $1.9 trillion to fossil fuel companies since the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement at the end of 2015 and that the amount of fossil fuel financing has increased in each of the past two years.
The Children of the Sun, as the Spokane Tribe refer to themselves, are going solar this year with installations in 28 locations generating over 600 kilowatts of energy, thanks to the support of Wells Fargo Foundation, the US Department of Energy and non-profit Grid Alternatives. The project is being managed by the Spokane Indian Housing Authority, in Wellpinit, WA.
It’s been a minute — or a month — since our last cleantech news roundup, but we’re back at it again, and this week we have stories about the state of electric motorcycles, the pros and cons of biofuels, electric supercars, smart wood, solar deals, topsoil fertility, and more.
Spring break is coming! Spring break is coming! But instead of going to the beach, or the mountains, or wherever it is college students go these days to let off steam during spring break, about 200 of them are going to get some hands-on solar training while helping to install solar projects in low-income and under-served communities.
The Seattle city council has voted unanimously to stop doing business with Wells Fargo Bank because of its financial support of the Dakota Access pipeline.
The 6th annual Clean Energy Trust Challenge is accepting applications for its Midwestern cleantech startup competition. One million dollars will be awarded to the winners on April 12, 2016, in Chicago. The competition categories are: Renewable Energy, Advanced Transportation, Efficiency, Energy Storage, Building Technologies, Microgrids/Smartgrids, Bioenergy, Water-Energy Nexus, and Internet of Things/Smart Cities. Students, … [continued]
We now have more insights into how the clean-tech economy is doing from this year’s sixth annual US Clean Tech Leadership Index. The index, prepared by Clean Edge, a research and indexing firm founded in 2000, tracks and ranks clean-tech activities in all 50 states and the largest 50 metro … [continued]
JinkoSolar’s US subsidiary recently agreed to and signed a $20 million, two-year credit agreement with Wells Fargo Bank. According to the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Charlie Cao, the new deal improves and strengthens the company’s financial position not just in the US market, but across the world as well. It demonstrates, … [continued]
The Cleantech Open, a 501(c)(3) nongovernmental organization, catalyzes global cleantech. It runs a rigorous one-of-a-kind accelerator program for start-up cleantech companies over a period of five months per year. Rooted in the efforts of volunteers (many of whom are top professionals in their fields), the organization has fostered over 900 emerging businesses … [continued]
One of the largest banks in the world, Wells Fargo, is investing $100 million of tax equity financing into nine new solar PV projects being developed by Strata Solar in North Carolina, according to recent announcements. The projects will all be utility-scale and will sell electricity directly to the utility … [continued]
