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There are 8 major items in the Edmunds True Cost to Own figures: Depreciation, Taxes & Fees, Financing, Fuel, Insurance, Maintenance, Repairs, and a possible Tax Credit. For this article, I’m only going to focus on how fuel costs compare between gas cars and electric vehicles (EVs). The other categories should not have much variation. I’ve owned electric cars for the last 7 years, and although they have fewer repairs than my gas cars, the few repairs that have been required have been more expensive
The California legislature has approved a bill that will add $830 million in incentives to add behind the meter storage for homeowners and small businesses over the next 5 years.
Tesla has increased the registered capital for its new Shanghai Gigafactory from 100 million yuan ($14.6 million USD) to 4.67 billion yuan ($681 million USD) to support new scope for the factory, including core automotive manufacturing operations and battery managements systems at the new factory
Despite recent rocky waters, the US solar saw something of a turnaround in the second quarter, with utility-scale solar procurement soaring and residential installations stabilising, according to new research published this week by Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)
Poor rural people, who have been without power and largely left out of economic calculations, are set to become a market force
I'm restarting regular US renewable energy reports here on CleanTechnica. However, this time around, I'm making them quarterly reports instead of monthly reports. Quarterly reports are better at capturing the trends, and some other organizations do contribute monthly updates
Another month is over (long over, actually) and it's time for another update on what actually changed in the solar industry in that time period. Additionally, we got a significant look at new or updated professional forecasts for the solar industry in various arenas. Read below to see the big solar news of August
To complement our revival of US electricity capacity reports, here's a new report on US electricity generation.
As with the capacity report, things are not looking too bright. There's still a lot of grey — in the bar charts below, in the skies near fossil fuel power plants, and in the human and planetary outlook based on how slowly we are cutting fossil fuel electricity generation
Installing a solar diverter can essentially help convert a home's hot water heater into an energy storage system, allowing solar homeowners increase their self-consumption during peak production hours
The devastation visited on North Carolina by Hurricane Florence may be opening the eyes of some residents to the reality of climate change and the usefulness of microgrids during grid outages.
Zachary Shahan, director & chief editor here at CleanTechnica, earlier this year spoke to Katherine Lucey, CEO & Founder of Solar Sister, after the Zayed Future Energy Prize awards ceremony. He inquired, "What can you say about what inspired you to start Solar Sister? And has it grown as you expected or has it been different than you expected?"
Zachary Shahan, Director & Chief Editor at CleanTechnica, interviewed Zayed Future Energy Prize (ZFEP) winner Harish Hande of the SELCO Foundation earlier this year in Abu Dhabi. SELCO Foundation was founded in 2010 as an open-source, nonprofit, public charitable trust. It is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka
Available only in black, the world’s first series-produced electric car with solar integration will be released in late 2019.
AUO is a player in solar cell and module manufacturing, but in recent years, manufacturing has increasingly evolved into a very commoditized part of the business. The real profits from many vertically integrated companies like AUO come from the engineer, procurement and construction, or EPC, and the operate and maintain, or O&M, parts of the [&hellip
Renault is moving ahead with its Smart Island program, which is designed to bring the benefits of renewable energy to places that have to rely on expensive and highly polluting diesel generators for power.
CleanTechnica's Charles W. Thurston sat down Tuesday morning with Abigail Ross Harper, the CEO of the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA), based in Washington, to discuss the state of the solar union at Day 2 of the Solar Power Industry (SPI) show taking place this week in Anaheim
sonnen charged into the Solar Power International (SPI) show in Anaheim, California, this week with its new ecoLinx home energy management system. ecoLinx takes residential energy management to the next level by stretching beyond energy storage into management of key loads in ways that were previously not possible thanks to direct integration with Eaton's smart breakers and a home automation solution
When people think about cleantech, one of the first questions is, "How does it apply to me?" A lot of the news and opinion pieces talk about today and the general future. What most editorials don’t include is the point of view of the younger generation that stands to lose the most due to climate change, and stands most to gain from clean technology actively being developed today
There may be a growing number of solar application ideas that die off before going mainstream, never having tapped enough technology, financial backing, and market savvy to last. But it seems solar roof shingles is not one of those. Dow withdrew from the market, but Exasun and Tesla moved in. Now, there's also a smart new set of patent-pending thin-film CIGs solar shingles being offered by Sunflare Solar, based in La Verne, California. The company refers to the cell technology as Capture
The reason Tesla names its Nevada battery production factory the Gigafactory was to help people understand that only when operating at a larger economy of scale does EV battery production truly become profitable
There are 8 major items in the Edmunds True Cost to Own figures: Depreciation, Taxes & Fees, Financing, Fuel, Insurance, Maintenance, Repairs, and a possible Tax Credit. For this article, I’m only going to focus on how fuel costs compare between gas cars and electric vehicles (EVs). The other categories should not have much variation. I’ve owned electric cars for the last 7 years, and although they have fewer repairs than my gas cars, the few repairs that have been required have been more expensive
