Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:05:59 +0000
Solar panels between the rails of train tracks is a new idea being tested in Switzerland by start-up Sun-Ways.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:56:44 +0000
An electric vehicle makeover for the US locomotive fleet has been slow in coming, but signs of activity are beginning to bubble up and the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is here to help.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:47:30 +0000
One of my life’s ongoing inner ruminations is considering options for transportation. (The welcome influence of CleanTechnica.) If walking is a timely option, I prefer to do it. For the simple reason that I always—I mean always—feel better after going for a walk. Walking restores vitality that is lost after … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:25:20 +0000
The Swiss startup Sun-Ways is piloting an ingenious new system for hiding large arrays of solar panels in plain sight, in between the ties of railroad tracks.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:13:29 +0000
The long-running seminar series for India’s utility professionals through the India Smart Grid Forum closed with hydrogen. The hype glitter is starting to tarnish, but there is still a lot of substance-less shiny noise around the molecule. To that end, I stepped through the challenges and why hydrogen is virtually … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:37:08 +0000
China’s electrification, renewables, and infrastructure trajectories mean coal demand is going to plummet, and emissions with it. The USA? Not so much.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:09:12 +0000
The subway system in Barcelona is using regenerative braking technology to help power its trains, stations, and EV chargers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:25:14 +0000
Electrify Canada has added more than 40 individual Hyper-Fast chargers in Québec and Nova Scotia. The all-new Macan Electric is now part of the charging agreement between Electrify America and Porsche Cars North America, which has been extended. Owners of the Macan Electric will receive complimentary 30-minute charging sessions for … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:55:21 +0000
Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation is celebrating the historic progress of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and its impact on communities across America with a new fact sheet. To date across the Biden–Harris Administration, more than 60,000 projects are moving forward thanks to funding from the infrastructure law — … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:45:59 +0000
At the beginning of the year, I highlighted a few epicenters of hydrogen folly, cities or states that decided at some point in the past that hydrogen was the molecule they were going to double down on. Today, news arose of the inevitable failure of one of the signature hydrogen … [continued]
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