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Mosic Sells Out California Solar Crowdfunding Projects in Hours
Mosaic, which is using crowdfunding to develop solar and other clean energy projects, today (April 8) unveiled $100 million in solar projects that Californians can invest in directly. At the same time it launched its first offering in what it is calling the Golden State Series of solar projects in California, crowdfunding a 114 kilowatt [...]
Palo Alto Goes 100% Carbon-Neutral
The City of Palo Alto has voted to use only carbon neutral sources of electricity from now on, effective immediately. It can do that because the city owns the utility and recognizes environmental sustainability as a top priority. “Palo Alto has been a leader in reducing its carbon emissions,” says Mayor Greg Scharff, “but when we realized we could achieve a carbon neutral electric supply right [...]
Can China meet its Electric Vehicles Target?
New energy vehicles are one of China’s seven strategic emerging industries. Unlike its other “new energy” counterpart industries, NEVs, and electric vehicles in particular, are still waiting for commercial breakthrough. China’s clean energy targets are usually just temporary placeholders. Targets for wind and solar power installed have been met, surpassed, and updated numerous times. New [...]
WOWZERS: China Just Raised Its Solar Power Goal By 67%
I make a lot of jokes on this blog but the hazardous levels of air pollution that the Chinese people are currently having to contend with is certainly no laughing matter. I can’t imagine what it is like for Chinese parents who have to explain to their children why it isn’t safe for them to [...]
Qatar Makes Huge Solar Target: 18% of Energy Output by 2018
Qatar is aiming to generate 16% of its electricity from solar power by 2018, according to Fahad Bin Mohammed al-Attiya, chairman of the organizers of the climate change conference in Doha. Qatar, an OPEC nation, currently has the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions in the world, and is the world’s current top exporter of [...]
Can India Meet It’s Lofty Coal Goals?
I have written before that India has lots of coal–and they do. I have also written that they have had a heckuva time getting it out of the ground–and they have. Corruption, lethargy, too much regulation… all have conspired to keep much of the population in India as energy starved as they are malnourished. As [...]
Saudi Arabia at 100% Renewable?
Cleantechnica reports that Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud, a main spokesman for Saudi Arabia, made a startling statement at the Global Economic Symposium in Brazil last week: his country intends to be 100% powered by renewable energy and other low-carbon energy forms. The prince said he hopes to see this change take place within his [...]
In Focus: Dupont’s Solar Quality Standards
Solar installations were removed from twenty-four San Diego Unified School District campuses after corrosion was discovered that threatened the possibility of electrical issues that could lead to fires. The 4.3-megawatt installation was built in 2005-06 by Solar Integrated Technologies (SIT). SIT was acquired by Energy Conversion Devices (ECD) (PINK:ENERQ) in 2009. ECD’s Uni-Solar manufactured the [...]
Morocco: 40% Renewable by 2020
Morocco currently imports 90 percent of its energy but that’s about to make a drastic dive as the Mediterranean nation starts an ambitious plan to build out 6 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2020. The country will pursue a variety of technologies, including wind, solar, biomass, hydro and other technologies. And its efforts are already [...]