Tag Archives: prices
1BOG: The Expedia of Solar
Remember when you had to call different airlines to find the best airfare? Or comb the Sunday paper looking for ads promising a cheap flight to your favorite destination? Sure, you could have used a travel agent – for a fee. And then came Expedia.com, who rocked your world and sent you flying anywhere for [...]
Nissan’s Zero-Emission Electric Van
Nissan Motor Company has started the field tests of its new electric compact van, e-NV200, in Saitama City (Japan). Saitama City is promoting the adoption of electric vehicles by bringing together different interested parties, under a program called E-KIZUNA. Since 2009, the project promotes electric vehicles as means to address global warming and create a [...]
How Cool Earth Keeps Costs Low
As they deploy their first demonstration projects, Cool Earth Solar executives believe they’re poised to change the entire solar industry landscape. “We didn’t take anyone else’s idea and improve on it,” said Cool Earth CEO Rob Lamkin. “We started with a clean sheet of paper.” Cool Earth’s objective when it was founded in northern California [...]
Will PV Module Prices Finally Stabilize?
Solar PV revenues and module prices are predicted to slightly stabilize in the second half of 2013 but not after more declines over the next several months, according to a market research report released this week from IHS. A new solar PV module shipment record of 11GW was reached in the fourth quarter according to [...]
DOE’s LBNL Study: PV Prices Continue to Fall
In it’s fifth annual “Tracking the Sun” report, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory determined that the price of installed solar has continued to fall, largely because of price drops in the cost of photovoltaics. While the report also found falling prices in the soft costs of solar they were not nearly as [...]
Ed Dolan Discusses Affordable Energy
We were fortunate enough to speak with the well known economist Ed Dolan on various energy and economic issues. In the interview Ed talks about the following: • Why cheap energy is not vital to economic growth • Why high oil prices aren’t necessarily a bad thing • Why the U.S. Oil and gas boom is hurting [...]
Saudi Arabia: Using Oil Taxes for Solar Research
Saudi Arabia may be known for its controversial conservative views and huge oil resources, but little is known about the fact that they are heavily investing in renewable technology that will change the way they use their fossil fuel resources in the future. The use of renewable and clean energy is taking a boom in [...]
The 10 Biggest U.S PV Plants
The world’s largest PV solar farm is the the massive Agua Caliente deployment in Yuma County, Arizona. First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR), the developer and panel supplier at Agua Caliente, just announced that the project has hit a peak generating capacity of 250 megawatts AC and is online and connected to the electrical grid. The project [...]
No More Hybrid Taxis in NYC
Last year, Nissan won the competition to make New York City’s new taxis, which will replace the iconic Yellow Cabs starting next year. At the time, we were disappointed that Nissan’s taxis would only get 25 miles per gallon (mpg) (although that’s double what current yellow cabs get). Now we’re even more disappointed that phasing in [...]
Only in China: The Umet Wooden Electric Car
One of the world’s first all-wooden cars has made its debut at the China Eurasia Expo. Dubbed the Umut, this 4 metre long, 7-seater car is composed completely of wood, made entirely by hand, and is powered by an electric motor. With an expected top speed is 60km/h, it can last about 2.5 hours or [...]
U.S Military Buys 1,500 Chevy Volt Hybrids
It seems as though commuters aren’t the only ones worried about the price of fuel. With dozens of different alternative-fuel projects reportedly in the works, it is the U.S. military that is trying desperately to reduce its reliance on oil. According to a recent article in gas2.org, writer Christopher Demorro reports that the military has [...]