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This is an update on a previous Solar Lovearticle about the Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia Inc. (CORENA). The organization has a campaign to raise $5 million dollars by having individual citizens make small donations in order to finance the construction of a community solar power system. If 50,000 people donated $100, they would reach their target. Considering that millions

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BMW’s i3 electric car is profitable at just 20,000 units sold a year — according to the reverse-engineering firm Munro & Associates, which recently did just that, reverse engineered the i3. As per the firm’s opinion, BMW’s well-liked EV was “impressive” in a number of different regards — particularly the CFRP-utilizing “Life Module” body shell. The chief executive of the

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If you’re thinking that the screamingly fast drop in oil prices will beat clean tech into the ground for the foreseeable future, guess again. This is not your father’s oil price cycle, and the next generation of transformative energy technology is already on the horizon. Case in point: graphene, the “nanomaterial of the new millennium.” In the latest development, researchers

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It sounds like the work of a madman. An electric scooter that can’t be plugged in? What were they thinking! Well, the designers of the Gogoro were thinking that in order to make electric scooter ownership as easy as possible, they’d take plugging in out of the equation, and instead create a network of on-demand battery dealers. And it might

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Toyota will be making more than 5,600 of its hydrogen fuel-cell technologies patents free to use for a large number of companies in the industry/sector — absolutely no charges, including no royalty payments — according to recent reports. Seemingly taking a move from Tesla’s recent playbook, the move is certainly an interesting one — but you can’t help but wonder

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What has been dubbed by its manufacturer as being the “e-scooter for everyone” — the Terra Motors A2000 — was recently unveiled in Tokyo, Japan. The new A2000 e-scooter builds on the success and design of the company’s earlier A4000i model — and was developed with the intention of cracking the global scootermarket. Terra Motors has noted that, with the

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The enhanced new incarnation of The Future Build — a green building materials website used by developers, contractors, architects, etc — was officially relaunched recently by its developer, Masdar. The new website allows suppliers to market their products as “The Future Build certified” products — thereby gaining a seal of approval from what is currently one of the largest databases

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When Tesla announced last year that it was going to build battery swapping stations, many journalists and industry insiders harkened back to the legacy of Better Place, the Israeli startup that built its business model around battery swapping stations. Better Place lost $812 million when it went bankrupt in 2012, and many claimed that the battery swapping concept was doomed.

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Wind energy saved customers $1 billion in two just days last year. Frigid Arctic temperatures spread over the 13 Mid Atlantic and Great Lakes states on January 6 and 7, 2014. There was not enough conventional energy to meet demand. According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), spot princes would have skyrocketed if had there not been an abundance

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Solar energy has emerged as one of the best options to meet growing power demand while cutting emissions, but has it also become one of the best options to generate investor returns without volatile financial risk? The answer is a resounding yes, according to Mercom Capital Group, which tallied $26.5 billion in solar project investment from corporate funding sources during

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