Environment

September 30th, 2020 by U.S. Energy Information Administration  Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor; California Air Resources Board,Air Quality and Meteorology System. Note: CAISO=California Independent System Operator. In the first two weeks of September 2020, average solar-powered electricity generation in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), which covers 90% of utility-scale solar capacity in California, declined nearly
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September 29th, 2020 by Press Release  Institutional investors Baillie Gifford, Baron Capital Group, Bridford Investments Limited, Norrsken VC & PCS Holding participate in a $600 million private placement together with private investors Cristina Stenbeck and Daniel Ek. Current Northvolt shareholders Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, IMAS Foundation, Scania and Volkswagen AG join the equity raise,
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September 29th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  Covering a couple of Elon Musk tweets, I recently wrote an article titled “Tesla = Approximately A Dozen Startups.” The company is involved in several different hardcore tech efforts as well as broader business like insurance and seat production. One response to that article caught my attention because of
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Two women have come forward with formal sexual assault allegations against Nikola founder Trevor Milton, accusing the 38-year-old billionaire in complaints filed with Utah authorities of sexual abuse when both women were 15 years old. The accusations, stretching back more than 15 years ago, follow Milton’s resignation as executive chairman of Nikola on Sept. 21
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The logo of Siemens Energy pictured at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Monday, 28 September 2020, in Frankfurt, Germany. Frank Rumpenhorst | picture alliance | Getty Images The CEO of Siemens Energy outlined a vision for the newly-listed firm’s future on Monday, describing it as a “mirror of today’s energy world” and stressing the importance
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September 28th, 2020 by Press Release  BAODING, China, Sept. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, the Beijing-Xiong’an high-speed railway between Daxing Airport and Xiong’an Station officially entered the dynamic testing phase of the joint commissioning and testing, with the first dynamic testing train starting from Beijing Daxing Airport Station, and the countdown to the opening of the project has begun. This
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A hydrogen fuel-cell plane that’s capable of carrying passengers completed its maiden flight this week, in another step forward for low and zero-emission flight.   ZeroAvia’s six-seater Piper M-class aircraft — which has been retrofitted with the device that combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity — undertook a taxi, take-off, full pattern circuit and landing on
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September 25th, 2020 by Press Release  Up to $5M in Prizes to Support Sustained Presence on the Moon HOUSTON, Texas — HeroX, the social network for innovation and the world’s leading platform for crowdsourced solutions, today launched the prize competition “NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge” on behalf of NASA. In support of the agency’s Artemis program to
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