Cheap battery storage will prove as disruptive to the energy industry as the cellphone has been to telecommunications, executives from two California startups—Tesla Energy and Advanced Microgrid Solutions—said today at the National Clean Energy…
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United States Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz worries more about cars being hacked than the electric grid being attacked, he said this morning in Las Vegas.
At the National Clean Energy Summit, former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta—now…
• Tesla Reports More Than 100,000 Battery Reservations, Worth $1 Billion
• Batteries Sold Out Through 2016
• Musk Predicts Battery Sales Of 'At Least A Few Billion Dollars' In 2017
When Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced a cheap utility-scale…
The final version of the Clean Power Plan includes a carrot for companies that use algae, or other processes, to turn captured carbon dioxide into biofuels and other products. If you can prove it reduces carbon emissions, the EPA says, states can…
Even if it gets its energy from the sun, the burgeoning sustainable fuels industry will only worsen climate change if it gets CO2 from the earth and not from the air, an expert on the carbon cycle said Tuesday.
Sustainable fuels are hydrocarbon…
The United States missed an opportunity to fuel its renewables revolution at a fraction of the cost when it failed to put a price on carbon, John Rowe, former CEO and chairman emeritus of Exelon Corp, said Wednesday in Chicago.
"As far as I'm…
China's efforts to reduce air pollution could be negated by its unregulated and unmonitored burning of petcoke, a fuel dirtier than coal, an expert on Chinese climate and energy policy said Tuesday in Washington D.C.
Petroleum coke is a cheap…
Extending imperiled subsidies for renewable energy may not be the best way to maintain the revolutionary growth of solar and wind, the International Energy Agency's policy honcho said in Washington D.C. Friday.
Technologies benefit from different…
Almost half of homes and business in the United States are unfit for rooftop solar installation, either because of building structure, credit rating or other obstacles. But that doesn't mean they have to sit out the renewables revolution.
"Community…
Solar energy will be cost competitive with fossil fuels by 2020, if not before, the director of the Department of Energy's Solar Technologies Office said in New York Thursday.
And industry leaders agreed that the remaining obstacles to solar's…
