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One of the primary obstacles to EV ownership in China has been a total lack of charging stations, which has spurred both private and public enterprises to resolve the problem. As China’s government is readying a $16 billion investment in EV charging stations, Tesla has announced plans to install 400 of its own charging stations in 120 Chinese cities. Bloomberg

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India remains an attractive market for solar power; this fact has been reaffirmed by a recent order that is in stark contrast to some of the recent regulations issued by several European countries to retrospectively cut tariffs for solar power projects. The Indian Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (Aptel) has ruled that some of the first solar power projects to be

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Vivint Solar announced last week that it’s putting forward a $200 million IPO to the Securities Exchange Commission to finance future growth. The Vivint Solar IPO is an interesting one for many reasons. Currently number two, behind SolarCity, in US solar PV installations, Vivint Solar’s IPO is being financially backed by some heavy hitters. Key underwriters include: Goldman Sachs, Merrill

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By Michał Bacia How your day-to-day decisions affect the climate is hard to access and measure. How your day-to-day decisions impact your finances is significant, direct, and can be measured precisely. Our focus will now be on money, your money. If you are connected to the grid, each month you pay a bill for the consumed energy. The prices might

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Neware provides the world-class battery testing instruments, our systems are capable of testing almost all the energy devices in the market, from traditional electrochemical batteries to the newest super capacitors, energy devices with Can or SMBus protocols, etc. And more over, our system could be easily integrated with 3rd party facilities, such as environment chamber, shaker table, infrared camera, etc.,

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Bike Bistro has introduced two lines of electric bicycles – Felt and BionX, for those who want to electrify their ride. An electric bicycle is a pedal bike with an integrated electric motor to boost propulsion. While there is a great variety of e-bikes, all retain the ability to be pedalled and therefore are not classified as electric motorcycles or

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250 MW of new solar PV projects are currently being developed in Japan by First Solar, according to recent reports. The company is reportedly expecting its rooftop sector in the country to eventually grow to be even larger than its commercial-scale segment — with some of the new projects being the first step towards that eventuality. Part of the purpose

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The US Department of Commerce has decided to back off its previously rather harsh “anti-dumping” duties for solar products made in Taiwan, according to recent reports. Humorously, the readjustment is supposedly because the previous levels were due to a “ministerial error” and this is simply a “correction.” Not sure that I buy that, but OK. The adjustments vary amongst the

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Cumulative worldwide sales of electric motorcycles and electric scooters during the years of 2014 through 2023 will top 55 million units, according to a new report from Navigant Research. The report – Electric Motorcycles and Scooters — provides an overview of expected trends in the e-motorcycles, e-scooters, and related battery technology markets. While the majority of these markets are currently

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Despite some talk to the contrary, there will be no solar module supply shortage next year, according to a recent report from IHS Technology. While most of the main players in the solar industry are expanding, current capacities are still sufficient to meet the projected 2014 market of 45.5 GW, per IHS Technology. IHS Technology solar analyst Stefan de Haan

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