February 4th, 2021 by Zachary Shahan SunPower has long been one of the largest, most influential, most popular solar power companies in the United States. In fact, its precursor was a core part of what launched the global solar industry decades ago. It is heavily focused these days on getting solar power installed on American
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Silver as a key component in solar panels makes it a better investment than gold for investors who are interested in the metals market, Goldman Sachs‘ commodities chief Jeffrey Currie told CNBC on Thursday. Currie laid out his case in an interview on “Fast Money: Halftime Report,” and it didn’t have anything to do with
February 4th, 2021 by Rocky Mountain Institute Courtesy of RMI. Energy visionary RMI signals an evolution in its ambition and approach to mobilize transformative change at the pace required by the climate crisis. RMI, formerly known as Rocky Mountain Institute, is launching a new brand identity to mark an inflection point in its support of
Royal Dutch Shell products in Torzhok, Russia. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday reported a sharp drop in full-year profit as the coronavirus pandemic took a heavy toll on the global oil and gas industry. Shell reported adjusted earnings of $4.85 billion for the full-year
February 3rd, 2021 by Scott Cooney Rooftop or on-site solar can often generate enough power for homes, businesses, and industry, helping customers become resilient and self-sufficient, and giving them a stable price for clean electricity for decades to come. If you’re in the market for solar, though, one thing needs to be top of mind:
Owaki/Kulla | The Image Bank | Getty Images Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been given the nod to supply and install turbines for the £6.5 billion (around $9 billion) East Anglia Hub, a major offshore wind development planned for waters off the east coast of England. In a statement Tuesday, project developer Scottish Power Renewables
February 3rd, 2021 by Jennifer Sensiba A recent article by Liam Denning and Elaine He at Bloomberg gives readers a really cool set of infographics showing how much energy EVs could save the US economy. They answer the question of “where would all that electricity come from” and make some really good points. The biggest
Going green is increasingly becoming a way to make bank. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is the richest of the billionaires who owe their fortune to technologies that reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Green that was published Tuesday. A full $180.7 billion of Musk’s $199.2 billion net
February 2nd, 2021 by U.S. Energy Information Administration Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor In the final months of 2020, electricity generation from wind turbines in the United States set daily and hourly records. Hourly data collected in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Hourly Electric Grid Monitor show an hourly record set late in
Workers photographed walking past a section of solar panels at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai on March 20, 2017. STRINGER | AFP | Getty Images BMW said Tuesday it had started to source and use aluminum that has been produced using solar energy, a move the German carmaker described as “an
A BP company logo is displayed on a fuel pump on the forecourt of a gas station operated by BP Plc in London, U.K. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Energy giant BP on Tuesday reported a weaker-than-expected full-year net loss, following a tumultuous 12-months in which the global oil and gas
February 2nd, 2021 by Zachary Shahan The most popular CleanTechnica story this past week was about the US Army’ latest foray into the electric vehicle market, followed by the 9th piece in a series about a Tesla Cybertruck–inspired tiny home for the homeless. The third most popular CleanTechnica story of the past week was a
February 1st, 2021 by World Resources Institute Originally published on WRI’s Resource Institute Blog.By Devashree Saha and Jillian Neuberger The economic fallout from COVID-19 took a serious toll on U.S. fossil fuel workers and communities. But well before the coronavirus pandemic arrived, the U.S. fossil fuel industry was under significant pressure as the country moves toward cleaner forms of
This image shows Vestas’ V90-3MW wind turbines being used at the Kentish Flats Windfarm in England. John Turp | Moment | Getty Images A turbine production plant owned by energy giant Vestas will now be powered using an environmentally-friendly source of gas, according to a new deal announced on Monday. A biogas facility off
February 1st, 2021 by Tina Casey The hits just keep on coming for fossil energy stakeholders, and the worst is yet to come as new low-cost perovskite solar cell technology bubbles up through the R&D pipeline. Helping things along is the US Department of Energy. The agency has spent years plotting the nation’s course back
A vehicle passes an Exxon Mobil Corp. gas station in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The CEOs of Chevron and ExxonMobil last year discussed the possibility of merging the two companies, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing unnamed people familiar with the talks. The