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PRTM Analysis Finds Li-ion Battery Overcapacity Estimates Largely Unfounded, with Potential Shortfalls Looming; Total Market Demand in 2020 Will Require 4x Capacity Announced To Date

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PRTM’s assessment, based on what it called a thorough review of the operational market dynamics, found the following: Under a “Most Probable” scenario, battery manufacturing capacity will hit a shortfall by 2016. Click to enlarge.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

Before we talk about how we might create such a zero-power monitoring system, let's review the basic components of a distributed sensor network. And then, with transmission complete and the triggering stimulus gone, the system would shut down and return to a sleep or fully powered-off state.

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Greenius Goes All AB 811 Over Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

And what it takes is a week of reviewing the six hours of taped presentations and all the PowerPoints and related links from the April 29 California Energy Commission’s AB 811 Staff Workshop. reviewing, learning and translating it all into an easy-to-understand 15 minute presentation. I choose to do the right thing.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

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Last year people were able to get unleveraged tax equity financing to monetize the production tax credits at yields to the tax investor of 6-7%; this year tax equity investors are seeking yields ranging from 10-15% for leveraged tax equity transactions utilizing the investment tax credit that is now available under the Stimulus Bill.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an. Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa.

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DOE awards more than $145M for advanced solar technologies under SunShot Initiative

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Some of these investments also support efforts that will shorten the overall timeline from prototype to production and streamline building codes, zoning laws, permitting rules, and business processes for installing solar energy systems. And is President Obama using stimulus funds to reward his political contributors?

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Can Electric Vehicles Speed Up As The Economy Slows Down?

Wallbox

In this article, we will review the facts and explain our thoughts on where we believe EVs are headed. China – China, the largest EV market in the world, announced that electric cars will be a top priority in its post-coronavirus stimulus plans , extending EV subsidies and tax breaks for two additional years.

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