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Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

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The arrival of cheap battery storage will mean that it becomes increasingly possible to finesse the delivery of electricity from wind and solar, so that these technologies can help meet demand even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. trillion of that going to wind and solar and a further $1.5

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BMW Designs Custom Solar Charging Station For i3, i8

Green Car Reports

Solar charging is indisputably one of the best ways of running an electric vehicle. It certainly mitigates any lingering worries about fueling your car with a smoke-belching coal-fired power plant.

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One of Texas’ dirtiest coal plants will swap to solar with help from US grant

Baua Electric

A coal plant in South Texas will shut down and convert to a solar + battery electricity generation facility, with the help of a $1.4 The grant will go to San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc (SMECI) headquartered in Atascosa County, Texas, south of San Antonio, and serving 340,000 customers 47 South Texas counties.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Rivian, BrightNight and The Nature Conservancy Unite to Transform Starfire Coal Mine into Kentucky’s Largest Solar Farm

Electric Cars Report

Starfire Mine, formerly one of the largest coal mines in the United States, will be the new site of a solar energy center. They were joined by […] The post Rivian, BrightNight and The Nature Conservancy Unite to Transform Starfire Coal Mine into Kentucky’s Largest Solar Farm appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Next Kind Of Electric Transport: Solar Electric Aircraft?

Green Car Reports

No fossil fuels, no coal, no burning of any sort. For some, that future is already here--plenty of electric car owners run their cars using solar electricity generated from panels at their home or place of work. In utopian visions of the future, we won't have to burn anything to get anywhere.

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Energy Secretary Chu says US faces a new Sputnik Moment in Chinas clean energy successes

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Advanced Coal Technologies. China is rapidly deploying supercritical and ultra-supercritical coal combustion plants, which have fewer emissions and are more efficient than conventional coal plants because they burn coal at much higher temperatures and pressures. Solar fuels. Renewable Energy. Supercomputing.

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