Global Installed Solar Capacity To Blow Past 2 Terawatts, USA Or Not

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:40:48 +0000

The installed solar capacity of the global PV industry is poised for another round of rapid growth, with or without an assist from the US.

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2024 Earthshot Prize Winners Announced In Cape Town

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:22:00 +0000

The 2024 Earthshot Prize awards were announced last week. Two winners have new technologies that could benefit the entire world.

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Canadian Transit Think Tank CUTRIC Chooses Inaccuracy, Irrelevancy, & Attack

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:06:13 +0000

Over the past three weeks, I’ve been assessing various aspects of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium’s (CUTRIC) positions, research, and publications on transit bus decarbonization. I’ve published ten articles directly about CUTRIC’s material and reports, or closely related and with serious implications for their claims that both … [continued]

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Solx Will Manufacture Solar Panels In Puerto Rico

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:48:57 +0000

Puerto Rico has been in the news lately after a so-called comedian at a Republican campaign event referred to it as cesspit of human garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly a decade ago, after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, a US president gave Puerto Rico the back of his … [continued]

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The One Core Reason Trump Won The Election

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:42:10 +0000

There are a lot of takes going around that try to explain why Donald Trump — despite all of this — won the election against Kamala Harris. Some of it has validity around the edges. Some of it definitely doesn’t. But when it comes down to it, this was a … [continued]

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Interest Rates, Inflation, EV Sales, & EV Transition In Coming Years

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 01:19:33 +0000

We are all in a weird place right now with what to expect in the US EV market in the coming years. That’s in large part because we have no real idea what Donald Trump is actually going to do with regard to EVs, the economy, and tariffs. Yes, he … [continued]

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How Is China’s Relationship With USA (& Tesla) Going To Change On Cleantech?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:05:46 +0000

Let’s just start this off by saying that Donald Trump doesn’t have a lot of deep longstanding beliefs on topics that don’t directly concern him. And he’s one of the most transactional politicians I’ve ever seen, in a world of course where politicians are exceptionally transactional. We assume many things … [continued]

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How Many Things Can A Bus Transit Study Get Wrong?

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 01:00:53 +0000

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Raynor, formerly a managing director of sustainability and thought leadership for Deloitte and author of multiple books on innovation and strategy. We talked about not only an innovative approach to addressing Scope 3 emissions Raynor has developed, but also an … [continued]

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Thanks, Biden — For $1 Trillion In Private-Sector Investment In US EV & Tech Economy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:46:29 +0000

I recall when the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was passed. Immediately, that day, we started getting announcements of EV battery factories and battery-related factories. In coming days, weeks, and months, we also got news of solar panel factories coming to town, battery mineral refineries, and numerous other production facilities. … [continued]

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World Moving On Without USA As It Declines

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:26:38 +0000

For the past eight years, the United States has been missing in action in climate leadership globally. Biden’s climate policy experiments, aimed as much at attempting to deal with the root causes of working class and middle class grievance as at useful emissions reductions, will persist in some diminished form. … [continued]

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