Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2022

In countries that choose to continue or increase their use of nuclear power, it can reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, cut carbon dioxide emissions and enable electricity systems to integrate higher shares of solar and wind power. However, a new era for nuclear power is by no means guaranteed.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

It lifts the current “cap&# on rooftop solar from the crappy 2.5% The cap has to do with what percent of rooftop solar customers get to participate in the “net metering&# program that actually gives them credit for the solar power they produce and feed back into the grid. to a BFD level of 5%. No you do not.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. SOLAR FINANCING – WHO GETS IT AND WHO DOESN’T. Most have no idea.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2021

The project will enable at least 44 buses in Ride On Montgomery County’s transit fleet to transition from diesel to electric, advancing the County’s goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035, reducing lifetime emissions by more than 155,000 tons, while delivering resilience to climate events and power outages.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

An annual ' tracking the progress of California Climate Investments, released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Finance, finds that nearly $1.4 Projects funded to date are achieving the overall goal of California Climate Investments by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 36.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 3, 2024

US nonprofit coalition Climate United announced $31.8 million in direct financing for the largest commercial and industrial solar deployment in Arkansas’ history.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2016

To reach the level of investment in new renewable power generation needed to avert dangerous climate change, $12.1 trillion above business-as-usual projections— according to a new report by Ceres and Bloomberg New Energy Finance. trillion of investment will be needed over the next 25 years—$5.2

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Creative Greenius

MAY 2, 2014

But in fact, both Wendy Greuel and Marianne Williamson have each reached out to me and I have taken their asks seriously and with more thoughtfulness than usual given the crossroads we find ourselves at climate wise. Without Henry Waxman as our Representative we lose a giant. It is hard to argue that Congress doesn’t need that.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski signed into law a series of bills constituting a climate change package that includes a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS), a B2 mandate, and other transportation-related measures. The bill also requires 20 megawatts of large scale solar be integrated into utility loads. House Bill 3039.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The research was carried out in partnership with the 3C (Combat Climate Change) business leaders’ initiative. The research focused on two key low-carbon technologies: solar photovoltaics (PV) and carbon capture and storage (CCS). In particular, developments in solar photovoltaics have been remarkable.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

President Clinton himself made the announcement of a national PACE finance program as part of the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York. It’s exactly the same kind of land secured financing we’ve been reporting on here at Creative Greenius for over a year now in our coverage of AB 811.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Earlier Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis showed that, with gasoline at $2.09 on 30 June to $61.60

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2009

Business must do even more for climate protection, even in difficult times, said Franz Fehrenbach, chairman of the Bosch board of management, an a talk at the Baden-Württemberg sustainability congress held in Stuttgart on 25 March ( Nachhaltigkeitskongress Baden-Württemberg 2009 ). In Fehrenbach’s view, this would be a breach of trust.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

in addition to Opus 12, they are: WILDCOAST (Imperial Beach, California) is working to secure a resilient coastline to help protect communities, economies and ecosystems from climate change impacts in the Gulf of California. Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2019

It will also become easier to obtain project financing, because the maximum costs for any warranties are capped by the insurance cover. ESS produces stationary battery modules that allow energy from solar parks and network operators to be stored over long periods. Manufacturers can thus unburden their balance sheets.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 9, 2024

Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is the first battery-electric truck project jointly financed by CARB and the CEC, and the largest investment of its kind. Through the JETSI project, NFI and Schneider will collectively install significant charging infrastructure (50 chargers total), warehouse upgrades, on-site energy storage and rooftop solar, resulting in more than $16.8

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Sunpower Corporation’s VP of public policy, Julie Blunden, will be sharing her views on how incentives and laws shape & drive demand for solar energy. UCI’s solar energy research center will be presenting their advice on partnering with the private sector to leverage research in the pipeline & to commercialize it.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Brazil’s Minister of Environment Izabella Teixeira and Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) President Luciano Coutinho announced the launch of a new credit line to support projects focused on greenhouse gas reduction and climate change solutions. Projects that produce new machinery and equipment with higher energy efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2019

PCNA) has launched Porsche Impact , an online tool that links individual CO 2 emissions to specific climate projects. The available programs are focused on forest protection in the US, hydropower in Vietnam, solar energy in Mexico, and habitat preservation in Zimbabwe. Porsche Cars North America, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2009

The report’s authors, Max von Bismarck and Anuradha Gurung from the World Economic Forum, and Chris Greenwood and Michael Liebreich from New Energy Finance, argue that “ enormous investment in energy infrastructure is required to address the twin threats of energy insecurity and climate change. billion) in 2004.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

The many new and expanded strong policy initiatives and green targets in China’s 12 th Five year Plan, released on 5 March 2011, provide “ clear evidence ” that China’s low-carbon policies remain global best-in-class, according to a new report from DB Climate Change Advisors (DBCCA). in the prior 11 th Five Year Plan.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Biomass and solar are shown as primary energy due to their multiple uses. This could contribute towards a goal of holding the increase in global temperature below 2 °C—an aim recognized in the United Nations Climate Convention’s Cancun Agreements. Source: SRREN. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

trillion by 2050, according to a new report, “An Initial Estimate of the Cost of Lost Climate Services Due to Changes in the Arctic Cryosphere”, released by the Pew Environment Group. An Initial Estimate of the Cost of Lost Climate Services Due to Changes in the Arctic Cryosphere”.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2009

Creative Greenius talks AB 811 Financing to the Green Task Force / photo (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani. I bring a passion that’s driven by my sense of urgency over our climate change crisis. All the more reason you should be going solar and produce your own clean, green energy instead of paying the electric company.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Additionally, qualified customers will be able to finance the cost of the charging station and installation with their vehicle through BMW Financial Services. BMW Solar Energy Program. 1 full-service solar power provider, to offer owners of the new BMW i vehicles exclusive access to SolarCity’s most affordable solar service option.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

billion in new renewable energy capacity in 2020, up 2% on the year, helped by the biggest-ever build-out of solar projects and a $50-billion surge for offshore wind. We need to be talking about trillions per year if we are to meet climate goals. Overall, solar capacity investment was up 12% at $148.6 billion (down 11%).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

Last November , w hen Azerbaijan hosted COP29 , the United Nations annual climate summit , i t was a sort of coming-out party for the country. But i n a side room away from media attention, a different climate discussion concluded more auspiciously. The plants solar panels run in long rows over the gently sloped terrain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries. watt utility, $2.37/watt

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. million financing round. But the opportunities are huge. Do they know how to meet [these] commitments? Not really.” This is a hard problem,” Majumdar continued. This is not your green kumbaya.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

The increase reflected several influences, according to the report, including a boom in solar installations in China and Japan—totalling $74.9 Wind, solar, biomass and waste-to-power, geothermal, small hydro and marine power contributed an estimated 9.1% Investment in solar jumped 29% to $149.6 billion set in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Based on a survey of 284 senior-level renewable energy executives, the report canvasses the risks in financing, constructing and operating renewable energy projects as well as the risk management challenges that the renewable energy industry must confront. Here, cuts in solar feed-in tariffs range from 15% in Germany to 70% in the UK.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

Böhni emphasized that the production of climate-neutral fuel is key to climate protection and therefore needs to be given a fair chance; he established the Clean Fuel Now initiative at the Federal Parliament in Bern in late 2014. Climate change is happening much faster than we thought a few years ago. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? A Small Country with Large Heating Needs Big problems demand big solutions, and there is perhaps no bigger 21st-century problem than climate change.

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