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California ARB: GHG emissions fell below 1990 levels for first time in 2016; down 13% from 2004 peak; transportation emissions up 2%

Green Car Congress

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

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The first entirely US-made crystalline solar panels are coming to market

Baua Electric

Photo: Heliene All US-made solar panels featured only imported solar cells until now, but two US manufacturers just struck a three-year, $400 million deal. Heliene’s modules will be the first crystalline solar panels with US-made solar cells. Between 2016 and 2020, nearly 20% of solar manufacturing jobs were lost.

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Arizona’s largest battery storage project clinches $513M in financing

Baua Electric

Solar and battery storage developer, owner, and operator Recurrent Energy , a subsidiary of Canadian Solar (Nasdaq: CSIQ), secured financing for its Papago Storage project in Maricopa County, Arizona. The project will dispatch enough power for around 244,000 homes for four hours a day in support of renewable energy.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

After taking solar installation classes and volunteering with GRID Alternatives for several years and learning to install racking systems, PV modules and inverters, and how to wire them up – including bending conduit – in 2015 I installed a solar PV system on my own roof with a crew of GRID experts. Installing the 5.2

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

Cars That Think

That incident—as well as Orajaka’s new fascination with renewable energy technologies, specifically solar—changed his career trajectory. He began researching how solar energy technology worked. Today GVE is one of Nigeria’s leading renewable energy companies. megawatts, serving more than 30,000 households and businesses.

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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

Cars That Think

Finding ways to deal with the impact on the grid caused by incorporating renewable energy has been the focus of Vijay Vittal ’s research for nearly 20 years. By 2016, fast-acting power electronics were being introduced to the grid, and their characteristics differed from the rotating machines used nearly a decade before.

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Our new Australian myenergi HQ

My Energi

Our company mission has always been to drive a sustainable future so that renewable energy becomes the ‘new normal’ for everyone. With the highest levels of solar irradiation in the world, Australia is the perfect extension of our global operations. zappi is the world’s first solar compatible electric vehicle charger.