A Native American tribe is building a $1B solar farm in Colorado
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Photo: Sun Bear Solar Project The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is going to build the Sun Bear Solar Project, one of the US’s largest solar farms, in Colorado.
Tesla owner builds his own deployable solar roof for Model Y
Baua Electric
JANUARY 15, 2024
A Tesla Model Y owner decided to build his own solar roof that can add over 20 miles of range to the electric SUV per day. Tesla, like many other automakers, had previously explored adding solar to electric vehicles, but it has never pulled the trigger on the feature. It led to a surprise announcement.
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This startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings
Baua Electric
MAY 24, 2024
Aeromine, launched in 2022, makes compact 50 kW or larger “wind harvesting platforms” that it mounts on the edge of a building’s roof. The rooftop wind units, which have no external moving parts or blades, capture wind flowing up and over the building and convert it into onsite electricity. Specs are here.) Get started here. –ad*
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Aptera to showcase solar EV tech in the UAE as it preps its first production-intent builds [Video]
Baua Electric
APRIL 1, 2024
Aptera Motors has just delivered its first solar EV to a customer. This month’s progress update recaps a recent visit to France, details an upcoming trip to the United Arab Emirates, and talks about the status of Aptera’s first production-intent solar EV builds. April fools! Watch the video in full below.
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This company just launched red solar panels to match terracotta tiled roofs
Baua Electric
MAY 7, 2024
Photo: Sonnenkraft Austrian solar manufacturer Sonnenkraft has debuted its new “Terracotta” solar panel that matches red-tiled roofs and is historic-building compliant. The 400W double-glass solar panels have red frames, and have general building approval from the German Institute for Building Technology (DIBt).
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Aptera to sell its solar EVs in the UAE, beginning with 53 exclusive ‘Union Editions’ with ‘Solar Chill’
Baua Electric
APRIL 22, 2024
Just weeks after announcing plans to showcase its solar EV technology to the public in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), startup Aptera Motors is taking things a step further. To commemorate this expansion, Aptera intends to produce 53 UAE-exclusive builds of its solar EV called the Union (or Etihad) Edition.
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Kolhapur has potential to be auto component mfg hub: Gadkari – ET Auto
Baua Electric
MAY 5, 2024
Build-operate-transfer (BOT) will soon be introduced in transmission lines. Solar panels will be installed at homes, solar pumps will be given to farmers and solar tricycles have been made for specially abled citizens. Gadkari was in the city to campaign for Mahayuti candidate Sanjay Mandlik.
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New York State’s largest solar + storage carport breaks ground at JFK airport
Baua Electric
APRIL 24, 2024
Rendering: New York Port Authority New York State’s largest onsite solar plus storage project – a solar carport canopy at JFK International Airport – has begun construction. Once the solar carport comes online, it will help power the AirTrain and reduce electricity costs for residents of low-income neighborhoods in Queens.
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The first production body of Aptera’s solar EV has arrived at its San Diego headquarters
Baua Electric
APRIL 12, 2024
Aptera Motors is touting its latest milestone en route to solar EV production later this year. The first production body of its flagship vehicle has made its way over from Italy to Aptera’s headquarters in San Diego, enabling the team to finalize its design ahead of production-intent builds. Check it out.
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GAF Energy’s new Texas factory is about to make a lot of nailable solar shingles
Baua Electric
MAY 7, 2024
Photo: GAF Energy GAF Energy’s new nailable solar shingle factory in Texas is about to make the company the world’s largest solar roofing producer. GAF Energy built the nailable solar shingle factory in Texas to meet the growing demand for its “world’s first” Timberline Solar Energy Shingle that debuted in January 2022.
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Avangrid just broke ground on its first solar farm in California
Baua Electric
APRIL 10, 2024
Photo courtesy of Tom Brewster/BLM California Avangrid (NYSE: AGR), one of the US’s largest clean energy operators, has begun construction on its first solar farm in California. GW of installed capacity of renewables in the US, is building the 57-megawatt (MW) Camino Solar Project in Kern County, California. Get started here. –ad*
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WattEV opens US’ first megawatt charge station with 1.2MW speeds and solar
Baua Electric
MAY 6, 2024
megawatts of power, currently the highest-speed charger available in the US, along with solar and battery backup on-site and a unique partially grid-islanded setup. Notably, something many operators bring up is that they’re waiting for chargers before they start building or buying trucks.
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Flexible printed perovskite solar achieves a record 11% efficiency
Baua Electric
MARCH 19, 2024
Photo: CSIRO Researchers led by Australia’s national science agency had an efficiency breakthrough with roll-to-roll flexible printed perovskite solar cells. Printed solar cells are highly efficient, flexible, and decreasing in cost. Printed solar cells are highly efficient, flexible, and decreasing in cost.
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Biden commits $7B to low-income solar, expands climate corps on Earth Day
Baua Electric
APRIL 22, 2024
Photo by RAZE Solar on Unsplash President Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in grants for low-income households to go solar, and expanding his administration’s US Climate Corps. The Solar For All program has selected 60 state and tribal applicants as recipients of the fund money.
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This 408-MW solar farm will be one of the largest in Texas
Baua Electric
MARCH 11, 2024
Photo: Primergy Solar Solar developer Primergy Solar has closed commitments for $588 million in debt financing for a 408-megawatt (MW) solar farm south of Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas. But it’s all going to Microsoft – the tech giant has signed a power purchase agreement with Primergy for 100% of Ash Creek Solar’s power.
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Liverpool unveils plans to build the world’s largest tidal power project
Baua Electric
MARCH 11, 2024
Image: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority The City of Liverpool, England, has unveiled advanced proposals to build the world’s largest tidal power generator on the River Mersey. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way.
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Aptera begins offering the public an opportunity to invest in its solar tech via self-directed IRA
Baua Electric
MAY 6, 2024
Solar EV startup Aptera Motors has announced a clever new demand lever to get more of the public to invest in its technology en route to initial vehicle production later this year. Those who invested in Aptera have had their deliveries prioritized with commemorative Launch Edition builds. As it is for all startups, scaling is hard.
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Aptera to close crowdfunding and begin Solar EV production with the help of a private financial group
Baua Electric
MAY 16, 2024
Solar EV startup Aptera Motors announced it is leaving its “crowdfunding nest” of sorts, putting a bookend on three years of its Regulation A offering to pursue private funding. In the small but exciting segment of solar EVs, especially, finding the funds to reach scaled production has proven arduous. Scaling is hard.
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Qcells to supply Microsoft with a whopping 12 GW of solar panels
Baua Electric
JANUARY 8, 2024
In a massive new deal, Solar giant Qcells will supply Microsoft with 12 gigawatts (GW) of solar panels over eight years. Qcells’ largest agreement ever will supply Microsoft with enough solar panels to power the equivalent of more than 1.8 Qcells expects to bring its total solar panel production capacity in Georgia to 8.4
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The world’s largest EV battery maker will build its own $1.83B offshore wind farm
Baua Electric
JANUARY 31, 2024
Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s largest EV battery maker, is going to build its own $1.83 Read more: Stellantis plans deal with CATL for LPF batteries, new gigafactory If you’re an electric vehicle owner, charge up your car at home with rooftop solar panels. ad* FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.
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RCRS innovations files for IPO, aims to expand battery manufacturing – ET Auto
Baua Electric
APRIL 23, 2024
lakh equity shares valued at INR 10 each through the book-building process. Based in Noida, RCRSIL manufactures and markets Lithium-Ion batteries and solar panels under the EXEGI brand, from its two manufacturing plants in the Delhi-NCR region.
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MIT just released directions for commercializing perovskite solar cells
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Photo: Kyoto University An MIT-led team revealed a “guidebook” for how to tune surface properties of perovskites, a silicon alternative – here’s why that’s huge for solar. Their versatility opens up new avenues for solar installations, from urban buildings to portable, off-grid applications.
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The US’s largest solar panel maker is taking over a Peloton factory
Baua Electric
JANUARY 22, 2024
First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) has acquired a former Peloton factory in Ohio and has plans to turn it into a distribution center. The US’s largest solar panel maker says it will repurpose Peloton Output Park’s 1.2 Peloton announced it was going to build Peloton Output Park in 2021. Get started here. –ad*
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Aptera’s latest update teases its solar EV app, battery tech, and delivery timelines [Video]
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Solar EV startup Aptera Motors continued its welcomed level of public transparency today, posting another progress update video for February, offering some juicy details. For example, Aptera offered the public a look at its production-intent build process in mid-February. There’s lots to unfold here, so let’s dig in.
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Costco warehouse installs off-grid solar to power its EV fleet – Charged EVs
Baua Electric
JANUARY 16, 2024
Retail giant Costco has installed on-site solar generation at a new electric truck charging project in southern California. Costco contracted Washington-based Trinity Structures to design and build an off-grid rooftop solar system at its distribution center in Mira Loma. Trinity completed the project in four months.
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Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
China leads the pack with a 40-70% cost reduction in utility-scale solar, onshore wind, and offshore wind compared to other Asia Pacific markets. Solar is cheapest and falling The significant drop in solar power costs, by 23% in 2023, signals the end of supply chain disruptions and inflationary pressures.
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Toyota to invest $1.3B to build EVs at its Kentucky plant
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
billion investment in its Kentucky factory to build EVs, including its three-row electric SUV for the US market. If you live in an area that has frequent natural disaster events, and are interested in making your home more resilient to power outages, consider going solar and adding a battery storage system. Get started here. –ad*
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West Virginia brings first of 5 solar farms online – why that matters
Baua Electric
JANUARY 5, 2024
The first of five planned West Virginia solar farms just came online – here’s why that’s significant for the state. 1 out of 5 new West Virginia solar farms FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison have launched a solar farm on 80 acres at Fort Martin Power Station in Maidsville, West Virginia, north of Morgantown.
Cheap solar panels from China are all over Europe – and everyone is freaking out
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Europe is installing more solar panels than ever before, thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese solar panels, driving installations by 40% last year. But it comes at a hefty cost: Local solar manufacturers are on the brink of a total collapse that could happen within weeks.
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Aptera sells all 2,000 production slots of its Launch Edition solar EV, raising nearly $34 million
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
We are just over one year removed from the initial launch of solar EV startup Aptera’s Accelerator program, which was implemented to not only get customers to commit to their SEV purchase fully but also help give the company some financial runway as it inches toward scaled production. million grant awarded last year.
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Aptera CEOs discuss IPO plans, solar EV production, 3-wheel variants, and a possible 4-wheel model
Baua Electric
MARCH 20, 2024
Video footage meant for investors has leaked, showing Aptera Motors co-founders and co-CEOs Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony discussing many topics about the solar EV startup’s future, including a potential IPO. Usually, when we share progress updates from notable solar EV developer Aptera Motors, they come directly from the horse’s mouth.
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BNEF projects impact of COVID-19 on renewables, energy storage, EVs, etc.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 13, 2020
The global auto market is very sensitive to macroeconomic conditions and will be hit hard by the coronavirus and any economic contraction that accompanies it, BNEF says. Other elements of the note: BNEF cut the global solar demand forecast for 2020 from 121-152GW to 108-143GW. Chart: BloombergNEF.
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Biden administration considers penalties for Chinese EV companies in Mexico
Teslarati
MAY 15, 2024
The tariffs are estimated to affect $18 billion products from China including steel, aluminum, computer chips, and solar cells. We’re not going to let China flood our market making it impossible for American auto—auto manufacturers to compete fairly. I will do it by following international trade laws,” Biden said.
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Aptera claims enough crowdfunding to make solar EV
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Aptera claims to have raised enough money in a recent crowdfunding campaign to start production of its solar-assisted three-wheeled EV, but the company is still far from assured of success. The post Aptera claims enough crowdfunding to make solar EV appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. billion in potential revenue.
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How I turned a shipping container into a solar off-grid charging station with A/C
Baua Electric
MARCH 26, 2024
Between my electric bikes, e-motorcycles, e-ATVs, electric tractors, and a few other things I’m probably forgetting, having a weather-sealed, solar-powered off-grid charging shed would be a big benefit. There are many ways to skin a cat, and even more ways to add solar power to a shipping container. Here’s how I did it.
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Indian Oil ropes in Panasonic for manufacturing cylindrical lithium-ion cells in India – ET Auto
Baua Electric
MARCH 31, 2024
Leveraging Panasonic Energy’s expertise in battery development and manufacturing, both companies will strive to contribute to the growth of the lithium-ion battery industry and to India’s energy transition, while pursuing its mission of helping to build a sustainable society.
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Volkswagen inaugurates 9.5 MW solar park at Chattanooga plant in US; key element of VW Group’s strategic sustainability targets
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2013
MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America.
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Toyota establishes H2HQ in California to promote fuel cell technology – ET Auto
Baua Electric
MAY 3, 2024
“I’m very pleased that Toyota is building on its longstanding commitment to California by locating its North American hydrogen headquarters here in the Golden State,” said California State Senator, District 29, Josh Newman.
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Jaishankar urges Singapore’s business community to invest in India’s semiconductor manufacturing sector – ET Auto
Baua Electric
MARCH 23, 2024
Semiconductors are an essential component in almost everything, from electronic gadgets to consumer goods and from solar panels, satellites to weapons. ” Jaishankar elaborated on the decade spent on building a foundation and goals set for achieving target-driven economic growth saying India has set 25-year goals for itself.
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ZF opens first zero-emission factory in Klasterec, Czech Republic – ET Auto
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
To build strong, sustainable foundations it’s important to equip plants with the ability to generate electricity. In Klasterec, this was accomplished by installing 3,400 solar modules on the campus, meeting roughly 20% of the plant’s annual electricity requirements.
Europe will miss 2030 chip market goal, says ASML CEO – ET Auto
Baua Electric
JANUARY 25, 2024
Europe will miss its goal of raising its share of the global computer chip market to 20% by 2030 because it is not building manufacturing capacity fast enough, semiconductor equipment maker ASML CEO Peter Wennink said. “If you want to get to 20%, you just have to calculate how much you need to build here.”
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Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto
Baua Electric
MAY 10, 2024
While solar and wind provide carbon-free electricity or H 2 through water splitting, they lack the ability to directly produce carbon-based fuels and chemicals without additional carbon sources. By cycling carbon through energy generation systems as biomass, it offers a means to address climate change.
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Volkswagen Group’s PowerCo breaks ground on second cell gigafactory
Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2023
The Volkswagen Group has made battery technology a core element of its NEW AUTO strategy and has established PowerCo, a separate battery company. The cell factory will be supplied completely with green electricity generated by solar and wind power, for example by a new 250-hectare solar farm in the immediate vicinity.
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Skanska is about to transform a Brooklyn marine terminal into a major offshore wind hub
Baua Electric
APRIL 26, 2024
The project scope at the 73-acre South Brooklyn Marine Terminal includes existing building demolition, ground improvements to support the staging of wind turbine components, underground utility installation, and the installation of two new heavy-lift crane pads. ad* FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. Get started here. –
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