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Alstom Joins 250 MW Swansea Bay Tidal Power Project

Alstom has announced that it is planning to design and construct the generators for a £650 million, 250 MW tidal power plant in Swansea Bay, United Kingdom. It signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work with Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd on “a series of tidal lagoons,” including the planned £650 million project. This tidal power plant is expected to generate baseload power for up to 16 hours per day, meet Swansea’s entire electricity demand, and avoid over … Read More
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Lux Meter App Review, & The Danger Of Using An App For Lighting Audits

On an energy efficiency kick and want to do a lighting audit? Think you’re set because you just found an awesome new app on your smartphone to help you do it? Maybe not…. I’m in the midst of gathering together some top products for helping to improve the energy efficiency of your home. I found the Android app “Lux Meter” and thought it would make the whole lighting audit process even simpler and easier. But, … Read More
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World Bank Finds 60 Carbon Pricing Systems In Place Or In Development

A World Bank report finds more than 40 national and 20 sub-national government jurisdictions are either implementing or considering carbon pricing mechanisms. Collectively these systems cover 10 gigatons of annual CO2 emissions - equal to roughly 20% of global emissions.
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Low-Income Solar Programs In California Get The Green Light

They aren’t new programs, but they are programs that were approaching a red light, one that we weren’t sure was going to turn. Luckily, the light has just turned green. But there’s one more light ahead — the California Senate light. If the a bill makes it through the California legislature, it will continue delivering good solar power to low-income households across California. Who would block that? Here’s the full release from GRID Alternatives and … Read More
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Show Me The Money! Public Capital Vehicles Could Liberate More Renewable Energy

Wonk Alert: Via the good people over at NREL’s Renewable Energy Project Finance website, here’s an important article on a very important mechanisms that could liberate more renewable energy in the US: Improving the availability of capital to renewable energy (RE) projects represents a critical component to lowering the overall cost and scaling the adoption of RE technologies. Public capital—investment raised in the financial markets through securitized instruments and pooled investment vehicles—is a potential means of achieving … Read More
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MIT Researchers Weigh In On US–China "Solar Duel"

Editor’s note: For years, we’ve been covering the China–US solar trade controversy. For the most part, this has involved covering the reports and commentary from industry associations and politicians. It has taken awhile for any academic institutions to chime in on the matter, but some MIT researchers have now done so. Their study is linked in the MIT article reposted below (images added). However, before that, here is one key concluding paragraph from the report: … Read More
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ABB Unveils Ultrafast, 15-Second "Flash Charging" Electric Bus

We’ve covered hybrid and electric buses for awhile. They’ve been growing steadily around the world and are becoming quite the cleantech solution to urban transportation needs. But there generally isn’t much “hot” news in this arena. There may be now — ABB has just unveiled a pretty wicked-looking 100% electric bus with “ultrafast charging times.” Here’s a quote from an ABB rep to me: “Using a laser-guided arm, onboard batteries are charged in 15 seconds with … Read More
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