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The Polish town of Kisielice has received the European Commission’s ManagEnergy Award 2014 for its clean energy leadership. It is 100% powered by renewable energy (wind and biomass, to be specific). The prize is to award outstanding local and regional sustainable energy projects. Kisielice’s submission was titled, “Energy self-sufficient Commune of Kisielice.” Mayor Tomasz Koprowiak of the small community in

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Editor’s Note: Mercedes was a bit slow getting to the plug-in car party, but perhaps that was just about being cool. The somewhat well regarded /s car company from somewhere in Europe, which uses Tesla tech, is now planning 10 plug-in models by 2017. I’m looking forward to seeing all of those! I’d like to think Mercedes is being bullish

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(Reuters) – Renault plans to build its Fluence electric car in China and is discussing the proposal with Chinese authorities, Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said on Monday. With government approval, “Renault is ready to build the Fluence in China” for an unspecified Chinese brand, Ghosn told reporters at a test-drive event in Nantes, western France. Renault and partner Dongfeng Motors

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Normally, exceeding sales expectations is a win for companies. Not for Tesla – at least not in Georgia. Last week, a Georgia auto dealers association filed a complaint with the state’s revenue department claiming that Tesla violated state laws with its direct sales model. Tesla’s sales-license waiver limits Tesla’s sales to 150 vehicles a year. However, the Georgia Automobile Dealers

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Exar Corporation has completed its merger with Integrated Memory Logic Limited (iML) a leading provider of power management and color calibration solutions for large and medium-sized flat panel displays used in televisions and tablets. The transaction was completed through a second-step merger to acquire all of the remaining outstanding shares of iML. As of September 15, 2014, Exar owns 100%

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NEC Italia SpA, the smart energy competence center for the EMEA market and Ricerca Sistema Energetico SpA (RSE), a company with a solid national and international track record of electro-energy research, tomorrow will release details of a new study into the new ancillary service business models that will be enabled by the Non-Predictable Renewable Energy Sources (NPRES), coupled with Energy

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The battery could be used for many applications including as a reliable energy source in automobiles or for space flight. “Betavoltaics, a battery technology that generates power from radiation, has been studied as an energy source since the 1950s,” said Jae W. Kwon, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and nuclear engineering in the College of Engineering at

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Elon Musk and Tesla Motors have seemingly been on a roll lately, and the latest victory for the Gigafactory was a big one, sending stock prices soaring to new heights. Then on Monday, Tesla stock lost 10% of its value in a matter of hours, falling from about $280 a share down to just above $251 a share, and for

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India has already proven itself capable of delivering on the promises it makes regarding expanding its use of solar power, and now the world’s second largest population is set to revamp their country’s National Solar Mission again. New Delhi-based advisory company Bridge to India has provided “unconfirmed information” suggesting that India will soon announce plans to cancel the planned allocation

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In a completely unsurprising turn of events, NPD Solarbuzz forecasts that global solar PV demand is being driven by major Asian markets, with India, China, and Japan leading the way. In a blog post on the NPD Solarbuzz website, analyst Michael Barker comments on numbers extracted from Solarbuzz Quarterly, published in June. The numbers are represented in the following image,

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