Tesla Powerpack to Enable Large Scale Sustainable Energy to South Australia

    The Tesla Team, tesla.com/blog July 6, 2017   Last September, a 50-year storm damaged critical infrastructure in the state of South Australia, causing a state-wide blackout and leaving 1.7 million residents without electricity. Further blackouts occurred in the heat of the Australian summer in early 2017. In response, the South Australian Government as a leader in renewable energy,…

Wind Capacity – US Current and Potential

Installed Wind Capacity – USA US Department of Energy http://apps2.eere.energy.gov/wind/windexchange/wind_installed_capacity.asp The amount of wind energy available in the United States is continuously growing bringing the nation closer, bit by bit, to the wind energy goals set out in the Wind Vision Report—35% of the nation’s end-use electricity demands coming from wind energy by 2050. Use this page to track the…

Solar power and electric cars could halt fossil fuels by 2020

By Karen Graham     6 hours ago in Environment Digital Journal Fossil fuels will soon be a thing of the past as renewable energy sources are being embraced globally and the technologies behind electric cars, solar and wind power make them less costly to consumers. The coal and oil industries are seriously underestimating the impact the renewable energy industry…