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Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world's #1 cleantech or clean energy website: New "Micro-Batteries" Show Great Potential, Now The Most Powerful Batteries On The Planet China Wind Power To Add 700 MW Of Solar and Wind By 2015 Wind Energy Production Levels Hit All-Time High In California Smart Electric Drive To Offer Leasing Option In The US Germany Installs 775 MW Of PV In Q1 2013 Solar Power Record In Germany — 22.68 GW — Infographic Excerpts: New "Micro-Batteries" Show Great Potential, Now The Most Powerful Batteries On The Planet Newly created “micro-batteries” that are only a few millimeters in size are now the most powerful batteries in the world. The new batteries, created by researchers at the University of Illinois, greatly out-power “even the best supercapacitors,” while being only a fraction of their size. “They pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone powered by these batteries to jump-start a dead car battery – and then recharge the phone in the … Read More New “Micro-Batteries” Show Great Potential, Now The Most Powerful Batteries On The Planet was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » China Wind Power To Add 700 MW Of Solar and Wind By 2015 In a strategic agreement announced Monday between China Wind Power and CNNC Rich Energy, the two plan to bring another 700 megawatts (MW) of renewable capacity to China by 2015. The Strategic Cooperation Agreement was signed on the 10th of April between the two companies, which lays out plans to co-invest in and construct solar as well as wind projects in China over the next two and a half years. The companies have targeted more … Read More China Wind Power To Add 700 MW Of Solar and Wind By 2015 was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Wind Energy Production Levels Hit All-Time High In California California’s wind energy production levels recently reached a new all-time high of 4,196 megawatts (MW). The record was achieved on April 7th at 6:44 PM. This is a surge higher than the previous all-time high of 3,944 MW achieved earlier in the year on March 3. The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), the state’s primary operator for its high-voltage network, released the information in a recent press release covered by Business Wire. The ISO … Read More Wind Energy Production Levels Hit All-Time High In California was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Smart Electric Drive To Offer Leasing Option In The US Smart USA is going to start offering its US customers the option to lease the batteries for its Smart ForTwo electric cars. Smart’s decision to do so in Europe was highly successful. The success rate of leasing compared to buying outright has been so incredible that 97% of European customers chose to lease the batteries. This reflects the tendency of most people to choose options with recurrent expenses rather than buying their property outright and … Read More Smart Electric Drive To Offer Leasing Option In The US was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Germany Installs 775 MW Of PV In Q1 2013 Derived from German-language reports, Germany’s Federal Environment Minister, Peter Altmaier, announced that the country had added 290 megawatts (MW) of new photovoltaic capacity in March. This information comes ahead of expected Federal Network Agency figures, but if the information proves to be accurate then that not only means that Germany has installed 775 MW of photovoltaic capacity in the first quarter of 2013. The figure is actually lower than any of the decreasing monthly installations … Read More Germany Installs 775 MW Of PV In Q1 2013 was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Solar Power Record In Germany — 22.68 GW — Infographic On Monday, the 15th of April, 2013, the approximate 1.3 million solar power systems in Germany set a new domestic/world record by reaching a peak power output of 22.68 GW at noon. The New Normal This new record is almost 0.5 GW above the “old” record of 22.2 GW, which was set on May 25th, 2012. Allthough I love celebrating all solar records, the biggest news might be that “just” 22.68 GW is apparently no longer newsworthy in … Read More Solar Power Record In Germany — 22.68 GW — Infographic was originally published on: CleanTechnica. 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Top Cleantech Stories Of The Day!

Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world's #1 cleantech or clean energy website: Top 10 Solar Module Manufacturers (IHS Report) Change Is In The Air At NREL's Wind Center SolarWorld Solar Farms Purchase Pushes Duke Energy PV Capacity Beyond 100 MW The Coolest & Greenest Umbrella Ever (Crowdfunding Goodie) Crowdfunding 11th Hour — Urbsly Excerpts: Top 10 Solar Module Manufacturers (IHS Report) Reposted from Solar Love (with minor changes): Market research firm IHS has released a report on the top solar module manufacturers of 2012. Regular readers may think this sounds familiar. If so, it’s probably because you’re remembering the Solarbuzz report on the top solar module manufacturers of 2012 that we reported on in February. For the most part, the IHS report agrees with the Solarbuzz report’s top 10 list. However, there are some differences. As with … Read More Top 10 Solar Module Manufacturers (IHS Report) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Change Is In The Air At NREL's Wind Center This article first appeared on NREL’s website by David Glickson The National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) is at the nexus of a changing landscape, where the mountains meet the plains. It’s also where changes in the wind industry are being previewed. And, a visitor or passerby will notice significant yet subtle changes taking place on site, including a new turbine installation and new blades on another of the site’s giant turbines. Researchers at the US Department … Read More Change Is In The Air At NREL’s Wind Center was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » SolarWorld Solar Farms Purchase Pushes Duke Energy PV Capacity Beyond 100 MW The acquisition of SolarWorld USA's Highlander Solar 1 and 2 solar farms near Twentynine Palms, CA pushes Duke over the 100-MW solar power capacity mark. SolarWorld Solar Farms Purchase Pushes Duke Energy PV Capacity Beyond 100 MW was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » The Coolest & Greenest Umbrella Ever (Crowdfunding Goodie) I know, the first thing you thought when you woke up this morning was: “Isn’t it about time someone made a truly green and long-lasting umbrella?” That’s what keeps me up at night. (That and my inability to stop working.) An Italian designer with an idea for such a green umbrella reached out to us several months ago about the idea, and about the idea to launch a crowdfunding campaign in order to get it … Read More The Coolest & Greenest Umbrella Ever (Crowdfunding Goodie) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Crowdfunding 11th Hour — Urbsly While we don’t generally inch into the food or agriculture realm too often, we have done so a handful of times (and biotech does count as tech in some circles). In my opinion, and that of many scientists, the safety of GMOs is not yet confirmed (which is partly why they are still nearly banned in Europe). Furthermore, on the socioeconomic side of things, I’m frankly not all that into a few companies monopolizing our … Read More Crowdfunding 11th Hour — Urbsly was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Thanks for loving us.  View this email in your browser Related Sites: Some rights reserved  unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences