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The “Teslanaires” are investors who have clung to Tesla’s clean-energy mission, riding out numerous storms — production obstacles, CEO Elon Musk’s tirade of tweets, and the covid-19 economic turmoil — and thrived financially. The stock was up 695% in 2020, making many long-term holders very rich in the process. In December, 2020, Tesla joined the

Originally published on opportunity:energy. As Europe accelerates its transition to electric mobility, a key factor many countries are focusing on for a successful shift is their charging infrastructure. Italy’s electric car market is just now starting to get noticed, and while its limited network of fast chargers has always been a concern of skeptics and

As technology develop, the size of wind turbines is increasing. This image does not show the type of turbine that will be used at Triton Knoll. Rini Kools | iStock | Getty Images A major wind farm off the U.K.’s east coast featuring huge turbines has produced its first power, in the latest example of

Whelp, that was fast. Just a couple of months ago the US Department of Energy launched a venture aimed at teasing farmers into the green ammonia market with an assist from distributed wind power and it all seemed rather pie-in-the-sky, but now here comes the global firm Yara with a green ammonia project in Norway

We recently noted that cleantech media giant Greentech Media is closing down shop. It’s a big loss to the industry, and thus to the world. Being in this industry for more than a decade, and running CleanTechnica for most of that time (since mid-2010), I thought I could offer some perspective on this, some words

Welcome to China × Cleantech — January 2021 edition. Our China x Cleantech series covers top cleantech stories in China each month. Happy 牛 Year! I hope your Spring festival went well, Happy 牛 (NIU) Year. EV Sales China — 9.4% Plugin Vehicle Share In Another Record Month On the 28th of January, José Pontes reported on

fanjianhua | Moment | Getty Images A Swedish firm backed by investors including Spotify founder Daniel Ek plans to build a steel production facility in the north of the country that will be powered by what it describes as “the world’s largest green hydrogen plant.” H2 Green Steel, which was established in 2020, will focus

Solar power has replaced wind power to become the largest renewable energy technology in India. According to data reported by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy for January 2021, solar power capacity in India was 38.7 gigawatts. Wind energy capacity was reported to be 38.6 gigawatts. Solar power overtaking wind power as India’s largest

Chevron announced the launch of its new energy fund Thursday with a commitment of $300 million toward low-carbon technology investments. Future Energy Fund II is the eighth venture fund to come out of Chevron Technology Ventures, which seeks to invest in innovative companies driving solutions for a cleaner future. “We’ll be focused in on some

Pump jacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas, U.S, on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. Matthew Busch | Bloomberg | Getty Images The shock winter storm in Texas that left millions without power and took dozens of lives also froze a major local commodity: the Lone Star state’s oil production, slashing some 4 million

The European Solar Initiative and Solar Power Europe have teamed up to launch the new Solar Manufacturing Accelerator. This new platform is aimed at accelerating the deployment of solar PV manufacturing projects in Europe — something that strengthens the EU’s leadership in clean energy technologies. It also contributes to the re-industrialization of Europe. This initiative

Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images New homes in London could soon be powered using excess heat recovered from sewage treatment in a project described as a “first of its kind” for England. The collaboration between Thames Water and Kingston Council, toward the southwest of the U.K. capital, would see the heat captured and

Courtesy of Rocky Mountain InstituteBy Josh Brooks, Dan Cross-Call, & Heather House 2020 did not go according to plan, to say the least. But that did not stall North Carolina’s drive forward on clean energy. Over the past year, state officials, utilities, and a broad set of stakeholders worked together to advance key portions of

Offshore wind turbines being installed in waters off Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China, on September 3, 2020. Yao Feng | Visual China Group | Getty Images The world added more than 6 gigawatts (GW) of new offshore wind capacity in 2020, with China responsible for over half of installations in the sector, according to new figures

Nuclear energy will “absolutely” be politically palatable, billionaire philanthropist, technologist and climate change evangelist Bill Gates recently told Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Nuclear power has to overcome a baneful reputation garnered by association with the atomic bomb and radioactive disasters, but it’s a necessary, worthy and surmountable challenge to correct the naysayers,

By Alex Grant, Principal, Jade Cove Partners, San Francisco, USA, & Paul Martin, Chemical Process Development Expert, Toronto, Canada Exxon first correctly identified combustion of their hydrocarbon products as the cause of future catastrophic climate change as early as 1977.¹ But for decades, Exxon successfully ensured that their investors and the world’s governments would not know what