BMW electric-car batteries to be used as home energy-storage devices
Stephen Edelstein for GreenCarReports: Tesla Motors was the first carmaker to branch out from selling electric cars to offering standalone battery packs for energy storage, but others have followed the company's lead.
Mercedes-Benz and Nissan have stated their intentions to enter the energy-storage market, and now BMW is jumping on the bandwagon as well.
At the Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition 29—known as EVS29—held this week in Montreal, Canada, BMW unveiled an energy-storage system that uses battery packs from i3 electric cars.
Developed in concert with German firm Beck Automation, BMW's system is designed to use either new battery packs or "second-life" packs that have degraded too much for continued use in electric cars.
Battery packs that can no longer function in cars still have enough usable capacity for energy storage.
BMW has tested the concept over the past five years with various research projects, including a 2013 "micro-grid" project with the University of San Diego, and a 2014 collaboration in Germany with utility Vattenfall to use electric-car battery packs as buffer to help stabilize electricity grids. Cont'd...
Baker Electric Solar Brings Solar Energy to Cathedral Catholic High School
Baker Electric Solar and Cathedral Catholic High School announce plans to install a 1.1 megawatt solar system within the school's 54-acre campus. The carport installation will provide energy for a school that moves ever closer to its green objectives.
What is the Deep Decarbonization Pathway Project?
The Deep Decarbonization Pathway Project (DDPP) is a global collaboration of energy research teams from around the world, charting practical pathways to deeply reduce greenhouse emissions.
Waste to Energy (WTE) Market Size worth USD 33 Billion by 2023: Global Market Insights, Inc.
"Waste to Energy (WTE) Market Size By Technology (Biological, Thermal), Industry Analysis Report, Regional Outlook (U.S., Canada, UK, Germany, France, China, Japan), Application Potential, Price Trend, Competitive Market Share & Forecast, 2016 - 2023"
Brian Maillet joins GEM Energy solar business development team in Milwaukee
Brian Maillet, of Milwaukee, has joined GEM Energy's solar business development team, focusing on the commercial and industrial sectors.
Missouri is about to experiment with power from an unlikely source - its roads
BRYAN CLARK for TheNextWeb: Part of its ‘Road to Tomorrow Initiative,’ Missouri’s Department of Transportation is teaming with Solar Roadways, an Idaho-based startup (seriously, what’s going on in Idaho?) to cover an undetermined length of Historic Route 66 with road-ready solar panels.
Blair also told The Star that the bulk of its efforts will be crowdfunded. After receiving a $100,000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration to build a prototype, and a pair of $750,000 research grants from the US Department of Transportation, the group has raised more than $2 million of its own to complete the project through acrowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.
Solar Roadways’ panels are tempered safety glass that are as strong as they are efficient. In addition to harnessing energy from the sun, they also come with LED lighting to effectively replace road lines and signage. While obviously more expensive to install upfront, the panels do have the benefit of being completely modular, which would allow for quick and cheap repairs by just swapping out the broken panels rather than re-paving entire stretches of road. Cont'd...
Small Hydropower Market size to exceed 145 GW by 2024
"Small Hydropower Market Size By Region (U.S., Canada, Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, China, India, Philippines, Japan, Vietnam, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador), Price Trends, Installed Capacity, Competitive Market Share & Forecast, 2016 - 2024"
California's Rule 21 Decision Comes with Big Wins for Customers
Today's long-awaited, unanimous Rule 21 decision by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) comes with some very important wins for the energy customer who is interested in investing in distributed renewable energy.
Intersolar - Array Technologies To Showcase Best-in-Class Technology at Intersolar North America
Array Technologies, Inc. (ATI) is preparing to showcase the gold-standard in solar tracking at Intersolar North America in San Francisco, California.
The United States is Expected to Deploy 77.3 GW of Distributed Renewables Between 2016 and 2025, According to Navigant Research
Utility strategy and regulatory policies affect deployment of distributed renewables in the U.S., report finds
PVinsights: Strom is brewing in solar market
The price correction of multi-crystalline wafer has enlarged this week as the demand drops noticeably. Yet capacity expansion from the 2nd and 3rd tier multi-crystalline wafer makers comes on stream recently, making the price of multi-crystalline wafer further depressed. Moreover, multi-crystalline wafer prices are also forced to comply with bigger correction in response to the deteriorating demand and prices of multi-crystalline cells. Similarly, the demand of mono-crystalline wafer also sees signs of faltering, due to the expanded price gap with multi-crystalline wafer and the weakening downstream demand.
Intersolar - Solar Energy Could Meet up to 13% of Global Power Needs by 2030
Dramatic cost reductions could drive sharp increase in global solar PV capacity
Veolia North America Moving Headquarters to Boston
Region's Innovation and Sustainability Culture a Perfect Fit for World's Largest Environmental Services Company
Global Clean Energy Acquires TheEcoAppCompany Platform
The energy industry is changing rapidly. 'Smart energy' solutions will exceed $100 billion in revenue by 2020, according to Green Tech Media. GCE will generate revenue from transactions, finance fees, e-commerce and affiliate sales. The company will offer its top 20 SKUs at a dollar per bulb per month over 9-12 months depending on model. The average net profit per home is estimated at $100.
Tesla has just put in an offer to acquire SolarCity
Johana Bhuiyan for Recode: Tesla’s board of directors has just sent an offer to acquire SolarCity to the company’s CEO. In other words, the electric car company Elon Musk is the CEO of just offered to buy the solar company Elon Musk is the chairman of.
In the letter, sent to SolarCity co-founder and CEO Lyndon Rive, Tesla’s board of directors offered to buy all of SolarCity’s remaining common stock in exchange for Tesla’s common shares. That’s $26.50 to $28.50 a share, according to the board.
The stock-for-stock deal amounts to about $2.8 billion based on where Tesla stock was trading before the proposal was announced.
As of yesterday, Musk personally owns 22,160,370 shares of SolarCity. So if the respective boards of each company approves the acquisition, Musk would personally reap $587,249,805 to $631,570,545.
Tesla’s move to acquire the solar company will help Musk in his goal of accelerating the world’s transition to using completely sustainable fuels in transportation. Cont'd...
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