Another huge solar panel farm opens in California
Just months after the world's largest solar panel farm, called Topaz, was turned on outside of San Luis Obispo, Calif., on Monday a similarly-large solar panel farm is being officially dedicated…
View ArticleApple to spend $850M on solar energy from new solar farm in California
Apple continues to aggressively adopt solar to power its data centers. On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company plans to spend $850 million to purchase energy from a…
View ArticleIt’s official: GM’s 200-mile, $30K electric Bolt car will be produced
Last month GM showed off an electric concept car called the Bolt, which was widely seen as a competitive shot at Tesla's planned lower cost Model 3 car. Now on Thursday,…
View ArticleWhy Elon Musk thinks Tesla will be worth as much as Apple in a decade
Thanks to a killer 2014, this week Apple became the first U.S. company to be worth over $700 billion. Could a company that makes electric cars ever be worth that much?…
View ArticleTesla charges ahead at the grid storage market
For years Tesla, in partnership with solar partner SolarCity, has been experimenting with selling batteries that can store energy locally at a building, or combined with a solar panel. I was…
View ArticleAn increasingly rare type of solar farm goes online in California
When the huge solar farm just outside of Las Vegas called Ivanpah opened up in early 2014, many lamented that this type of solar plant, called solar thermal, could soon become…
View ArticleInvestors back startup that sells offgrid battery & solar panels
Batteries paired with solar panels aren't just intriguing customers in the U.S., Europe and Japan looking to ditch their utilities. People are slowly adopting batteries and solar panels in offgrid...
View ArticleGoogle to buy wind power from Bay Area’s Altamont Pass
Google will finally be able to say that its Mountain View headquarters is powered by 100 percent clean energy. On Wednesday, Google announced via a blog post (and reported in more…
View ArticleIt’s official: GM’s 200-mile, $30K electric Bolt car will be produced
Last month GM showed off an electric concept car called the Bolt, which was widely seen as a competitive shot at Tesla's planned lower cost Model 3 car. Now on Thursday,…
View ArticleWhy Elon Musk thinks Tesla will be worth as much as Apple in a decade
Thanks to a killer 2014, this week Apple became the first U.S. company to be worth over $700 billion. Could a company that makes electric cars ever be worth that much?…
View ArticleTesla charges ahead at the grid storage market
For years Tesla, in partnership with solar partner SolarCity, has been experimenting with selling batteries that can store energy locally at a building, or combined with a solar panel. I was…
View ArticleTesla’s strategy for the launch of the Model 3 slowly emerges
Since Tesla was founded over a decade ago, the company's long term goal has been to bring a low cost, long-range electric car to market for the masses at a price…
View ArticleSolarCity to move into former Solyndra site
The building that once housed one of the biggest crash and burn stories in Silicon Valley -- Solyndra and its tubular rooftop solar panels -- will soon be home to another…
View ArticleBill Gates, energy execs, once again call for tripling of energy research...
Almost five years ago a group of business leaders, including Bill Gates, GE CEO Jeff Immelt and venture capitalist John Doerr, called for a massive increase in U.S. government funding for…
View ArticleGoogle & SolarCity partner on $750M fund for rooftop solar
Solar installer and financier SolarCity announced on Thursday that it plans to raise a $750 million fund to invest in installing solar panels on the rooftops of home owners, and $300…
View ArticleClean power is on its way for data centers as a service, too
Using clean energy to power data centers is becoming increasingly commonplace, and it's not just the huge Internet companies like Apple, Google and Facebook that are doing this with their own…
View ArticleTesla’s gigafactory will make batteries in 2016 for Model S & X
Tesla is moving incredibly fast on getting its massive battery factory built. According to the company's recent annual filing, Tesla plans to produce batteries in the factory as early as 2016…
View ArticleThis data project could help save forests being destroyed by insects
A new project that combines satellite data, airplane mapping data and on-the-ground field data of the forests of the Pacific Northwest over several decades could help researchers better manage future...
View ArticleThere are now 2,000 Tesla superchargers out there
Electric car company Tesla Motors says it's now deployed 2,000 of its fast chargers at close to 400 Supercharger stations (380 according to the latest annual report). Tesla's Superchargers can give…
View ArticleSolarCity sues Arizona utility over solar anti-competitive practices
The solar financier and installer chaired by Elon Musk, SolarCity, has filed a lawsuit in Arizona federal court claiming that the Arizona utility Salt River Project is using anti-competitive practices to…
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