Solar Power More Lucrative Than Crops at Some US Farms

Source: renewableenergyworld.com Published: April 5, 2016  By Bloomberg News Editors For more than a century, Dawson Singletary’s family has grown tobacco, peanuts and cotton on a 530-acre farm amid the coastal flatlands of North Carolina. Now he’s making money from a...

Mercedes-Benz Launches a US Energy Storage Company

Source: greentechmedia.com Published: November 3, 2016 Mercedes-Benz Launches a US Energy Storage Company Photo Credit: Mercedes-Benz Julian Spector We knew the Mercedes-Benz residential battery would be coming to the shores of America in early 2017. Now we know it...

Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here

Source: scientificamerica.com Published: July 29, 2016 Sorek Desalination Plant. Credit: Photo courtesy of IDE Technologies By Rowan Jacobsen, Ensia From Ensia (find the original story here); reprinted with permission. July 19, 2016 — Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I...

Apple Plans to Sell Excess Rooftop Solar Energy from New Home

Source: bloomberg.com Published: June 9, 2016 NOTE: This article requires a Bloomberg subscription to read in full. Photographer: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images By Alex Webb Apple Inc. plans to sell excess electricity generated by solar panels on the roof of its new...

Indian Firm Makes Carbon Capture Breakthrough

Source: theguardian.com Published: January 4, 2017 Tuticorin thermal power station near the port of Thoothukudi on the Bay of Bengal, southern India. The plant is said to be the first industrial-scale example of carbon capture and utilisation (CCU). Photograph: Roger...

Solar Shingles: Elon Musk Takes on the Roofing Industry

Source: understandsolar.com Published: October 31, 2016 Elon Musk’s next project is Tesla’s solar shingles – a roof entirely made of solar cells. Click here to watch “Tesla Unveils Powerwall 2 & Solar Roof”: https://youtu.be/4sfwDyiPTdU Usually, solar companies...

Innovative Wind Turbine Technology

Source: linkedin.com Published: January 3, 2017 Overview Innovative Wind Turbine Technology Developed by Formula One aerodynamics and materials engineers, Anakata’s patented ‘Accelerator Technology’ and ‘micro-downstream’ uses leading-edge technology to create a...

A Microgrid Grows in Brooklyn

Source: scientificamerican.com Published: April 22, 2016 Lawrence Orsini is the founder of LO3 Energy, a company that was started in 2012 and now funds the Brooklyn Microgrid project. Credit: Image courtesy of Sasha Santiago By Morgen E. Peck One New York City...