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USA Adds Record Amount of Solar Manufacturing in 4th Quarter — Thanks, IRA

December 8, 2024 admin clean power, Florida, florida solar energy, green economy, Joe Biden, Manufacturing, market research, Republicans, research, seia, solar cells, Solar energy, solar energy industries association (seia), solar panels, solar power plants, texas, texas solar, texas solar energy, u.s. solar market insight, wood mackenzie

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:59:52 +0000

Last week, I wrote about the enormous growth in US manufacturing construction investment that has come from Joe Biden’s strong reshoring and new manufacturing policies (see graph above). Solar technology manufacturing is a part of that and the US Solar Market Insight Q4 2024 report released today by the US … [continued]

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Lessons For Europe & North America From Northvolt Collapse

December 6, 2024 admin batteries, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, green economy, green jobs, hydroelectric, investment, Manufacturing, northvolt, policy & politics, subsidies, Sweden, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:50:39 +0000

The European Union lost a few things in the past week. The least of them was a couple of billion euros of loans and grants. A big one was a new supply of fresh and shiny Europe-made batteries. The biggest was a belief that anything China could do, they could … [continued]

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BYD Popping Sales, Agrivoltaics Winning, US Manufacturing Boom — Top 14 Cleantech Stories

December 5, 2024 admin agrivoltaics, batteries, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, green economy, grid, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, policy & politics, rivian, Smart Grid, Solar energy, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 04:55:22 +0000

It’s time to catch up on the most interesting and most exciting cleantech stories of the past week. As it turns out, some of the top stories were also top stories in other recent weeks. But that’s just how big these stories are. There are several new stories as well, … [continued]

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Small US State Launches Game-Changing Agrivoltaic Project

December 5, 2024 admin Agriculture, agrivoltaic, agrivoltaics, bifacial solar panels, clean power, community solar, Farmers, farming, farms, green economy, New Jersey, pollinators, rutgers university, soil moisture, Solar energy, solar panels, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:15:20 +0000

Space-saving bifiacial PV technology is a new addition to the dual-use agrivoltaic movement, which enables farmers to continue working their land while realizing income from solar projects.

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Baltic Nation Deploys Solar Power For 100% Energy Independence

December 3, 2024 admin building integrated photovoltaic, building integrated solar, clean power, Eastern Europe, Energy, Estonia, Europe, green economy, green jobs, investment, NATO, policy & politics, renewable energy, Republicans, rooftop solar, Russia, Solar energy, solar panels, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:29:46 +0000

Solar power is featured in the reconstruction of the historic Estonian National Library in Talinn, deploying building-integrated solar panels that match the original roofing material.

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Volt Solar Tile Set to Expand into the US Market

December 3, 2024 admin Australia, California, clean power, green economy, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar panels, solar roof tiles, solar tiles

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:47:00 +0000

Readers of CleanTechnica may remember the article about the innovative Volt Solar Tile published a year ago. At that time, Peter Leeson, the visionary founder of Volt Solar Tile, made some predictions about where the company would be by the beginning of 2025. We caught up on zoom yesterday to … [continued]

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LG Chem & ExxonMobil Sign Lithium Offtake Agreement

December 2, 2024 admin batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, exxon, exxonmobil, Fossil Fuels, green economy, lg, lg chem, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, Oil

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:57:03 +0000

Oil was the “black gold” of the last century, and lithium might be called the “white gold” or “silvery-white gold” of this century. (No one calls it that, but that’s okay.) So, it’s only fitting that Exxon is planning to extract and sell some of this white gold now. In … [continued]

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500 Renault 5 Carsharing EVs Used in European First V2G Scheme

December 1, 2024 admin clean power, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, renault group, Smart Grid, Solar energy, vehicle to grid, we drive solar

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:17:02 +0000

13 years ago, Utrecht brightened our day with news of a Traffic Garden — something so basic, so common sense, and yet so amazing. Things are how they should be. Flowing with well-trained bicyclists is just one of the ways Utrecht succeeds with high-efficiency transportation, though. 9 years ago, Utrecht … [continued]

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Hard Sail Power Might Have Niche In Roro Vehicle Shipping

December 1, 2024 admin boats, carbon emissions, cargo shipping, clean shipping, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, investment, natural gas, ocean shipping, Oil, Shipping, shipping emissions

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:33:33 +0000

Sails on ships are a romantic and idealized vision of the world. Our history as a species includes innumerable tiny vessels pushed by wind across great expanses of featureless ocean, bold explorers and traders risking all on the science of sextants and the vagaries of the weather. But in recent … [continued]

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Two US Representatives Try To Suspend 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit

November 30, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, gotion, green economy, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, policy & politics, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:27:54 +0000

The 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit is a top incentive for stimulating and supporting clean energy and battery manufacturing in the US. However, at the moment, there are ways that Chinese companies can benefit from this, if they build factories in the US. That is completely unacceptable to some … [continued]

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