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This article orginally appeared on World Resources Institute. Discussions on the social aspects of climate action have long focused on jobs in carbon-intensive industries, but they’ve started considering the broader picture. Solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change can affect all aspects of people’s lives and, if ill-designed, can leave many […]
Biomass Published on January 9th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan January 9th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan We’ve been writing for a while that solar and wind power are the cheapest options on the market for new power capacity in many if not most places. That is also shown by the power plants that companies across […]
ib vogt announces the sale and start of construction of the 180 MWp “Bienvenida” photovoltaic project in Badajoz, Spain. The Talanx Group, one of the major European insurance groups and institutional investor, has acquired the plant. ib vogt has set up an innovative long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) for the project with Shell Energy Europe […]
DGIST researchers are improving the performance of lithium-air batteries, bringing us closer to electric cars that can use oxygen to run longer before they need to recharge. In their latest study, published in the journal Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, they describe how they fabricated an electrode using nickel cobalt sulphide nanoflakes on a sulphur-doped graphene, […]
Lithium ion batteries often grow needle-like structures between electrodes that can short out the batteries and sometimes cause fires. Now, an international team of researchers has found a way to grow and observe these structures to understand ways to stop or prevent their appearance. “It is difficult to detect the nucleation of such a whisker […]
January 9th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan Volkswagen is launching into what could be a huge electric decade that reinvents and rejuvenates the large global automotive group. Yes, the Volkswagen ID.3 — which is sort of supposed to be the VW Beetle or Golf of this century — has some delays. Reinvention can be tough. I […]
Renowned company Ovida has kicked off its first development in its $2.3 million Community Energy Hubs project. Featuring a 52-resident community housing apartment hub in the thriving surrounds of Preston, Melbourne, it includes an innovative solar and a battery storage system. As a first for Australia in a microgrid capacity, the building allows residents to […]
Batteries Published on January 9th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan January 9th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan “Gigafactory” isn’t yet in a Merriam-Webster dictionary, as far as I’ve seen, but it’s a fun term that Tesla CEO Elon Musk coined years ago for a large battery factory producing many gigawatt-hours worth of batteries a year. The […]
REC Group, an international solar energy company, has unveiled its ProTrust Warranty for REC modules, exclusively offered by certified REC professional installers. The REC ProTrust Warranty includes a 25-year product warranty, 25-year performance warranty and up to 25-year labor warranty by REC-certified solar professionals. With the triple 25-year warranty, REC customers are given peace of […]
Expanded energy platform offers energy retailers and multi-site businesses cost-effective portfolio-level awareness, control and integration of distributed energy resources for greater revenue generation and energy efficiency NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – January 2, 2020 – Zen Ecosystems – an intelligent energy management solutions provider for small to medium-sized businesses and residential end-users – today launched a […]
