Reporting by Ron Bousso; editing by Gary McWilliams and Marguerita Choy Reuters.com, March 9, 2017 The oil and gas industry risks losing public support if progress is not made in the transition to cleaner energy, Royal Dutch Shell Plc Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said on Thursday. The world’s second largest publicly-traded oil company plans to increase its…
Fred Lambert, Electrek.co March 8, 2017 After the Model 3, Tesla’s ‘solar roof’ is probably the company’s most anticipated product of 2017, which brings some scrutiny to its plans for production – not unlike the Model 3’s production program. The recent release of information from Tesla and Panasonic led to some confusion over the production of the product at Gigafactory…
March 3, 2017 Christian Roselund, PV-Magazine.com Yesterday Amazon announced a new initiative to install solar PV at its fulfillment centers, with plans to deploy PV systems at 50 centers around the world by 2020. As the first step, the company says that it will install PV on 15 fulfillment centers in the United States by the end of 2017, with…
Rapidly falling prices of renewable energy are not just transforming the energy markets but disrupting them. Frank Rijsberman, Director-General, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Huffington Post In 2016, solar power became the cheapest form of energy in 58 lower income countries, including China India and Brazil. In Europe, in 2016, 86% of the newly installed energy capacity was from…
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…
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…
Fred Lambert, January 30, 2017 Profitable production of electric vehicles is highly important. Our capitalist society revolves around profitability and therefore, if electric vehicles are to prevail over gas-powered cars, they need to be profitable to manufacture in mass. A new study published this month by McKinsey & Company and embedded below looks into how automakers can move past producing EVs…
Arnold Schwarzenegger, December 7, 2016 I see your questions. Each and every time I post on my Facebook page or tweet about my crusade for a clean energy future, I see them. There are always a few of you, asking why we should care about the temperature rising, or questioning the science of climate change. I want you to know…
Michael J. Coren, December 19, 2016, Quartz Media Ten years of effort finally paid off for Las Vegas this week when officials announced the city government will now be powered entirely by renewable energy. After a large solar array, Boulder Solar 1, came online on Dec. 12, the city was able to buy enough carbon-free electricity to power its 140…
Island in the sun There are challenges to living on a remote island – from food scarcity to destructive weather – and the lack of affordable, reliable power is among the greatest. The island of Ta’u in American Samoa, located more than 4,000 miles from the West Coast of the United States, is no stranger to power rationing and outages….
