Electrek

JULY 8, 2025

Advertisement - scroll for more content To keep the grid running smoothly, China wants new chargers to be smart, with dynamic pricing to incentivize off-peak charging and solar and storage to power the charging stations. Check out her personal blog. As of May 2025, there were 14.4 million charging points, or roughly 1 for every 2.2

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Electrek

JULY 19, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US produced more petroleum and natural gas than any other country in 2020. Average US solar construction costs continued to fall in 2019. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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Electrek

MAY 24, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The decline in natural gas generation in the first four months of 2021 is the first year-over-year decline since 2017. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Yale researchers found that common road and roofing asphalts produced complex mixtures of organic compounds, including hazardous pollutants, in a range of typical temperature and solar conditions. At typical temperature and solar conditions simulating different life cycle stages (i.e., —Dre Gentner, corresponding author.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

An abandoned 114-year-old paper mill in New Jersey gets a second life as a solar farm. A large luxury home builder will now include solar on all their new California homes. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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Electrek

JUNE 2, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US Department of the Interior suspends oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Wind and solar have been exhibiting very rapid growth, even as subsidies and support have in general become less generous, and that has been driven mainly by dramatic improvements to their cost-competitiveness, as well as by the removal of barriers such as grid bottlenecks. Oil at $60/barrel could mean a natural gas price as much as $0.90/MMBtu

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

ExxonMobil projects that meeting future energy demand will be supported by more efficient energy-saving practices and technologies; increased use of less-carbon-intensive fuels such as natural gas, nuclear and renewables; as well as the continued development of technology advances to develop new energy sources. Natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

The California Air Resources Board released the latest edition of the state’s Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory , which shows that emissions fell by 1.5 After rising during the 2000s, the state’s overall greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2008 as a result of the recession. tons per person in 2001 to 12.0

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

Belcher, who heads up the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT, combines organic and inorganic materials to create novel electronic materials for a variety of applications, such as solar cells, fuel, environmentally friendly batteries and medical diagnostics. Earlier post.). Belcher’s technology has given rise to two companies. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

It’s not the men and women in uniform’s fault in any way and it does not diminish their personal service but it is not the same thing as putting your life on the line to protect and defend our American way of life. My personal sense of patriotism demands that I defend this island, whatever the cost may be.

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Teslarati

MAY 14, 2021

With memes being the preferred language of the internet and with the United States East Coast recently experiencing a gas crisis, it was almost inevitable to see EV fans using Tesla memes and jokes to make a point and perhaps even win over some fossil fuel supporters. Tesla owners during the gas crisis: pic.twitter.com/AeggCbnjwn.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2011

PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), the home of a long line of technology innovations, including laser printing, object-oriented programming, and personal workstations with graphical user interfaces (e.g., The first application of this technique has been for silver gridlines on the front surface of solar cells. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. This carbon dioxide, which stays within the system and is not released as a greenhouse gas, can get much hotter than steam—1,290 degrees Fahrenheit or 700 Celsius.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

SolarReviews launches a new solar calculator that doesn’t require you to sign up. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. GM says it will source 100% clean energy for its US sites by 2025.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

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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Electrek

AUGUST 31, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Hurricane Ida will affect the price of gas for ICE-car drivers across the US. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Were widespread power outages from Hurricane Ida avoidable?

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Electrek

AUGUST 2, 2021

million of roof-mounted solar on courts and prisons. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The Tennessee Valley Authority implodes its oldest coal-fired power plant.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

Although population-dense cities contribute less greenhouse-gas emissions per person than other areas of the country, these cities’ extensive suburbs essentially wipe out the climate benefits, according to a new study by Christopher Jones and Daniel Kammen at UC Berkeley. Credit: ACS, Jones and Kammen. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

Despite the continued economic crisis, global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, have remained constant in 2009 as strong increases in CO 2 emissions from fast-growing developing countries such as China and India, have completely nullified CO 2 emission reductions in the industrialized world. In India the emissions were 1.4

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Electrek

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Natural gas prices have doubled in the US. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Governors of five Midwestern states create an EV charging network. Here are some cleaner alternatives.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The outlook is developed by examining energy supply and demand trends in 100 countries, 15 demand sectors covering all manner of personal and business needs and 20 different energy types. Across OECD nations, the Outlook assumes the implied cost of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will reach about $80 per tonne in 2040.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

Earlier this year, the company announced it had received financing from France’s Total—which earlier had funded research on the technology at MIT ( earlier post )—and from a personal investment by Bill Gates. —Philippe Boisseau, President Total Gas & Power.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 1, 2013

“Well maybe not you, personally… If you help us.” It’s not the oil, coal and gas companies or the Koch brothers or Fox News. citizen volunteer climate change Community Activists environment fossil fuels plug-in cars solar power chevron EV Exxon Hermosa Beach Manhattan Beach Redondo Beach South Bay'

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In addition to personal use, this vehicle can be utilized for business use such as a delivery service by adopting a rear trunk which can be built-in. The progress Honda has been making in testing program of these technologies also will be showcased.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 30, 2024

With Europe’s gas phase-out plans now within view, the countries there could be set to lose significant funding from fuel taxes in the coming years. Still, the change could have some latent effects, especially as most countries get crucial revenue from taxes on gas. What about in other countries?

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Cars That Think

MARCH 5, 2025

Hydrogen in EUV and in Space A continuous flush of low-density hydrogen gas protects the mirror and surrounding vessel from the spray of vaporized tin ejecta. The low-density hydrogen gas is also on the move, though, flowing through the machine at hundreds of kilometers per hour.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The study—part of MIT’s five-year Plan for Action on Climate Change—examines how the complex interactions between advanced drivetrain options, alternative fuels, refueling infrastructure, consumer choice, vehicle automation and government policy will shape the future for personal mobility.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Continued growth of on-road travel increases energy use later in the projection period because current fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards require no additional efficiency increases for new light-duty vehicles after 2025 and for new heavy-duty vehicles after 2027. trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5 Other findings.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2025

Photo: HANSAINVEST Real Assets Solar generated11%of EU electricity in 2024, overtaking coal which fell below 10% for the first time, according to the European Electricity Review published today by think tank Ember. EU gas generation declined for the fifth year in a row, and total fossil generation fell to a historic low.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 16, 2009

Admittedly I am a geek when it comes to AB811 type programs that give people loans to put solar on their roof and add energy efficiency to their homes. I hadn’t met Flanigan before this conference knowing him only through his EcoMotion work with Santa Monica Solar Santa Monica and Palm Deserts 30:30 program.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

In the document, the commission argued that the existing net energy metering tariff “negatively impacts non-participating customers; is not cost-effective; and disproportionately harms low-income ratepayers” since homeowners without solar are being shouldered with the price of maintaining the grid. requires your leadership.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2024

Solar is forecast to displace natural gas in the middle of the day and in the summer on the Texas grid, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). However solar generating capacity additions, often paired with battery storage, grew rapidly. Most solar power is generated in Texas by midday.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 5, 2009

And on globalization we actually had a union person speak. I personally want us to do more about us getting out of Iraq but the committee voted against me and said it was not an environmental issue. I’m proud of all the things we’ve done, particularly the Energy Fairs and the solar homes tours.

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JUNE 16, 2025

Energy Institute alum, Chris Knittel , along with Gib Metcalf and Shereein Saraf , have a new working paper , which takes a swing at one of the less thrilling, but wildly important, topics in public finance: how we pay for roads when no one’s buying gas anymore. Heavier vehicles also consume a lot more gas. Their findings?

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