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Tesla May Skirt Environmental Regulations for California Giga-Battery Plant
State legislators are considering tax breaks of up to $500 million, and looking at waiving key provisions of the landmark California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), ... -
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Solar Project Integrates Battery Storage to Deliver Local Resilience
A new 2.5-MW solar project in Rutland, Vermont provides “a national model for the future of clean energy” by combining solar with energy storage, ... -
Electric School Buses Could Double as Peaking Power Plants
One of the things we never learned growing up was to think of our school buses as peaking power plants. But with advances in ... -
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NY Counts on Demand Management to Postpone $1 Billion Substation
A $200-million demand management program could help New York’s Consolidated Edison postpone a $1-billion investment in a new substation to serve energy needs in ... -
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BREAKING: Tesla in Reno: 6,000 Jobs, or Millions of Pizzas?
It’s either a $5-billion gigawatt battery plant commissioned by Tesla Motors, the first of several the company plans to build to drive down the ... -
Suntech Returns with Support from Hong Kong Billionaire
Suntech Power, back from a February, 2013 default and rebranded as Wuxi Suntech, is planning to expand its photovoltaic production from 800 megawatts last year ... -
Battery Storage Looms Large at Intersolar North America Conference
Battery storage for photovoltaic solar systems was the big story at the recent Intersolar North America conference, McCabe writes, for two reasons: More solar ... -
A $30,000 Tesla by 2016? (Where Do We Line Up??)
Tesla Motors may launch a $30,000 compact electric vehicle as early as 2016, though details are still scarce. “In an interview with Autocar, Tesla VP ... -
U.S. Microgrid Capacity Will Reach 1.8 GW by 2018
Cities, communities, and public institutions will drive America’s microgrid capacity to 1.8 gigawatts by 2018, predicts GTM Research in its new report, Microgrids 2014: ... -
Battery Storage Rebounds As Enabler for Off-Grid Solar
Battery-based systems only represent about 1% of annual photovoltaic installations in the U.S. and around the world, but solar’s roots are still in off-grid ... -
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EPA Rule Could Add 21,000 MW of Renewable Capacity in 15 Years
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) projects that its carbon reduction rule will increase U.S. renewable electricity capacity by 50% to 67% by 2020, ... -
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Musk Foresees Hundreds of ‘Gigafactories’ for EV Batteries
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk’s first $5-billion “gigafactory” to build lithium-ion batteries is still on the drawing boards, but he’s already looking ahead to ...
