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A Georgia Town Gets Half Of Its Electricity From President Jimmy Carter’s Solar Farm

February 26, 2020 admin clean power, consumer technology, Democrats, Georgia, Jimmy Carter, plains ga, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Solar energy, solar panels, solar power plants, white house

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 06:19:50 +0000

Plains, Georgia, is a small town that is just south of Columbus, Macon, and Atlanta and north of Albany. It is the hometown of former United States President Jimmy Carter. On his farmland, there were once nut and soybean crops that would stretch their fingers to the ends of the horizons as if reaching for the unknown. Those have been replaced by 3,852 solar panels that provide clean energy for over half of Plains,

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Perovskite Solar Cells … Toyota Driving Off A Hybrid Cliff … The Boring Company’s 1st Vegas Tunnel — #CleanTechnica Top 20

February 24, 2020 admin batteries, cars, catl, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica top 20, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, ev batteries, grid, grid storage, hybrid electric cars, lithium-ion batteries, research, rooftop solar, SCIENCE, Shipping, Smart Grid, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, solar power plants, tesla, tesla batteries, tesla model 3, tesla semi, top cleantech news, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 07:00:13 +0000

The most popular CleanTechnica stories last week involved perovskite solar cell research and projections (a hot topic for the past few — or several — years), Toyota’s continued focus on hybrids (considered by many to be a death knell for the hybrid leader and 100% electric laggard), and The Boring Company’s first of two Las Vegas tunnels

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American Farmers Are Turning To Wind Energy

February 20, 2020 admin Agriculture, clean power, Farmers, green economy, green jobs, onshore wind farms, policy & politics, Solar energy, solar power plants, wind energy

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 04:40:43 +0000

Wind energy is offering hope for American farmers amid tough times. In an article by Time Magazine, the plight of American farmers is brought into focus. “They’re trying to wipe us off the map,” says the subheading that quotes one of the farmers interviewed in the article

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Solar Power Surges In Vietnam, Dimming Prospects For New Coal Plants

February 11, 2020 admin clean power, Coal, feed-in tariff, Fossil Fuels, Solar energy, solar power plants, Vietnam

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:00:33 +0000

In 2017, Vietnam made a plan to attract 850 MW of new solar power. Two years later, they have 6 times that amount.

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Why One Solar Power Project In South Dakota Will Rule Them All

February 5, 2020 admin clean power, Electricity, Solar energy, solar power plants, South Dakota, wircon gmbh, wirsol

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 17:56:27 +0000

Germany’s Wircon GmbH gains an edge with a new utility-scale solar power project in South Dakota that could open up the floodgates to more PV development

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BYD Adding 2 Megawatt Solar System From Apparent At Lancaster Factory

February 3, 2020 admin apparent, byd, byd truck & bus, clean power, clean transport, electric bus, Electric vehicles, intelligent grid operating system, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:00:36 +0000

Construction has begun on a 2 MW/2MWh solar power plant that will provide electricity for BYD’s truck and bus factory in California. The system will be managed by a microgrid operating system designed by Apparent.

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Coal Makes A Comeback In India, New Capacity Up 73% In 2019

January 20, 2020 admin clean power, Coal, Fossil Fuels, India, india renewable energy, india solar power, india wind energy, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:30:15 +0000

India witnessed a sharp rise in new coal-based power generation capacity last year, with dirty power plants accounting for 44% of the total new power generation capacity added in the country. The share is a huge increase from just 21% in 2017 and 25% in

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India Added 50 Gigawatts Of Renewable Energy Capacity In Last Five Years

January 20, 2020 admin clean power, India, india renewable energy, india solar power, india wind energy, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:30:14 +0000

India has added 50 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity over the last five years, a major achievement for the country in which two-thirds of its capacity still uses fossil fuels to generate electricity

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Sony Electric Car … Australian Fire Insanity … Zombie Solar Energy Storage System — CleanTechnica Top 20

January 14, 2020 admin batteries, cars, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica top 20, Coal, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, hybrid electric cars, lithium-ion batteries, market research, natural gas, Oil, phev, police, policy & politics, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar power plants, Taxis, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model y, top cleantech news, US, us solar, us solar energy, Volkswagen, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:00:24 +0000

The biggest, hottest, most enticing CleanTechnica stories last week were led by Sony unveiling an electric car, the impossible-to-comprehend scale of this month’s Australian wildfires, and a solar energy storage device from the 1980s that has come back to life. You may have noticed something unusual by now — there wasn’t a single Tesla story in the top 3! That’s the first time in a long time, and ironic considering that Tesla stock [TSLA] went bonkers last week (and is still going bonkers)

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Largest US Solar Power Plant Will Be Built On Public Land. Is That A Problem?

January 7, 2020 admin bureau of land management, clean power, gemini solar power plant nevada, LAS VEGAS, nevada, nv energy, quinbrook infrastructure partners, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:00:19 +0000

The largest solar power plant in the United States will be constructed on federal land northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The $1 billion project will include battery storage.