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Caltech’s SSPD-1 Is a New Idea for Space-Based Solar

Cars That Think

Several recently published deep-dive analyses commissioned by NASA and the European Space Agency have thrown cold water on the hope that space solar power could affordably generate many gigawatts of clean energy in the near future. Ali Hajimiri is the codirector of Caltech’s space-based solar power project. And yet the dream lives on.

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Virginia is getting a 764 MW bump in solar power capacity

Baua Electric

Photo: Dominion Energy Virginia Virginia has approved over a dozen new solar projects that will significantly boost Dominion Energy’s clean energy capacity. The solar farms are expected to come online by 2026. gigawatts (GW) of approved solar farms in Virginia – enough to power more than 1.1 million homes at peak output.

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging. It sounds like a utopian dream: rows of electric vehicles staying cool and charging away beneath solar panels while their owners shop, dine and conduct business. Parking lots covered with solar panels is an idea whose time has come. A Closer Look at a Green Eco-System.

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Tesla FSD Beta has grown about 475% year-over-year, 78% since Q3 2022

Teslarati

– Continued to ramp vehicle production at Giga Texas & Giga Berlin, with both building 3k Model Y/week in mid-December – Reached 500k+ Solar Panel & Solar Roof installations – Enabled anyone in North America who has purchased FSD to request FSD Beta, reaching 285k cars total — Tesla (@Tesla) December 29, 2022.

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CESifo: EVs not the best option for reduction in on-road CO2 in Germany given power mix

Green Car Congress

Over the long term, hydrogen-methane technology offers a further advantage: it allows surplus wind and solar power generated during peaks to be stored, and these surpluses will see a sharp increase as the share of this renewable energy grows. —Professor Buchal.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk hints that he’s working on a “Master Plan Part 3”

Teslarati

However, it also emphasized the importance of Tesla Energy and its solar products, as well as the value of advanced driver-assist systems like Autopilot. Musk also touched on the idea of the Tesla Network, which would be possible once autonomous driving is achieved. Do you have any idea what Master Plan, Part 3 will entail?

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China Three Gorges Corporation to install 18 charging stations between São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul

Setec Powerr

Brazil’s second-largest private energy producer, China Three Gorges Corporation, which currently invests heavily in hydropower and wind farms, will expand its business into charging piles and further into solar energy in the future. Later this year, it will announce its entry into the solar space.