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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

The stimulus package is designed to address the recession and in the short term people were anxiously awaiting two key components of the plan: clarification on the details behind “ grants in lieu of tax credits ” and awards of loan guarantees by the DOE from section 1705. Billion vs. $28.3 Billion in 2008). Five months ago.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. He predicted that 10 percent of the cars sold would be electric vehicles by 2020. And local electrical grids may need reinforcement.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

New for 2020: this is an EV ranking, not a complete ranking for how cool countries are. Including complete tables for Israel in 2019-2020 which I calculated and handed over to Jose! In 2020 Tesla sold exactly 1000 of these for every solar-year day. in 2019 to 4% in 2020. OVERVIEW: WHEW, WHAT A YEAR!

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