A boisterous CEO who brags of “out-Eloning” Elon Musk; a reverse merger that makes a little-known fuel-cell trucking company as valuable as Ford; and no actual cars or trucks in production. On this week's edition of The Interchange, we try to make sense of Nikola Motor. Nikola Motor went...
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An Ieefa report has suggested the cost of generating electricity from solar will be near zero in the world’s sunniest regions by 2030-40 – despite what the naysayers at the International Energy Agency might think.From pv magazine International U.S.-based energy transition thinktank the Institute for Energy Economics...
Read MoreA new Duke Energy solar power plant in West Lafayette, Indiana also now helps renew and increase populations of pollinator species important to the growth and reproduction of flowers and food plants. Approximately 1.5 acres of the plant site at the Discovery Park District have...
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Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. New York state’s zero-carbon energy goals will require new...
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic forced layoffs and spending cuts across the solar industry and hammered global electric vehicle sales. But startups serving the EV charging market have continued pulling in new investments in spite of the uncertainty. In recent weeks, managed fleet charging specialist Amply executed a $13.2 million...
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Foreign direct investment into Indian solar concerns from China and other neighboring countries will now have to secure the approval of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.With Indian solar companies weakened by the Covid-19 crisis, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has...
Read MoreThe Solarize NOVA solar energy/energy efficiency program returns June 15 through August 31 to Northern Virginia. Since 2014, 372 contracts have been signed through the Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP)’s Solarize program, totaling more than 3 MW of solar capacity and nearly $9 million in...
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Analysts appear divided on the effects the public health crisis will have on the EV market even as sales of petrol-engined SUVs soar in China. And Portugal is plowing on with its Covid-delayed national solar tender, an exercise which may help establish whether clean energy...
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Since financing and developing commercial solar projects apparently wasn’t enough of a challenge, The Sun Exchange has added crowdfunding and cryptocurrency to the mix.From pv magazine USA. A South African crowdfunding start-up which claims to offer small investors the chance to buy individual solar cells in...
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The SOL 7 series comprises five products for Perc, Topcon and heterojunction devices.German silver metallization paste maker Heraeus has launched a range of products aimed at the manufacture of high-efficiency solar cells. The SOL 7 Series comprises five silver pastes intended for PV technologies including mono...
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