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The rooftop solar business will continue to grow rapidly in 2015, especially as we get closer to the 2016 ITC cliff. This year I’m adding a bit more specificity to my predictions. So without further ado, here are my ten predictions for rooftop solar in 2015: SolarCity will buy a module-level electronics company. In the past, the firm has not

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Like all other major state-owned companies in India, the Indian Railways has also been tasked with setting up large-scale solar power projects across the country. Indian Railways is planning to set up 1 GW of solar power capacity over the next few years and is currently working on a plan to implement this capacity. The announcement came from the Railway ministry

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Hyundai recently unveiled its 2016 Sonata Hybrid at an unveiling ceremony in Seoul, where it was showing off the new model’s powertrain upgrades, increased cargo-space, improved fuel-economy, and new looks. The specifics of the new system have yet to be disclosed publicly, and it’s not completely certain if this power train will be the one included in the upcoming US release

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One of India’s leading solar power project developers has signed yet another landmark agreement to expand solar photovoltaic power infrastructure in the state of Rajasthan. 40 MW solar PV project by Azure Power located in Rajasthan, India Azure Power recently announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Rajasthan to set up 1 GW of solar

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Our friends over at the energy journal FuelFix.com are reporting little more than gloom and doom in the US oil and gas industry, as drilling companies slash payrolls in a desperate attempt to ratchet down the current freefall in prices. Meanwhile, over in the renewable energy field things are steamrolling ahead. The latest example comes from the US Navy, which

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Ask me a year ago what my primary focus in life would be today, and even I would not have been able to foresee just how important global renewable energy investment news would become in my day-to-day work life. But my career trajectory has followed quite clearly the rise in renewable energy investment throughout 2014, and I want to take

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Editor’s Note: This article is one submission in a live Masdar blogging contest (find out the entry requirements here). Very simply, the focus of the contest submissions is to: “Describe your city in 2030: what will occur due to changes in energy, transportation and water technologies, and how will they transform how you live?” We are sharing this submission here on CleanTechnica because we think it’s

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Germany’s success in adopting sustainable energy has been one of the most positive energy stories of the past several years. Yet on the other hand, Germans have been slow to adopt electric cars, with few places to plug in compared to more aggressively EV-friendly nations like France and Norway. But as Green Car Reports points out, that is changing with

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Tesla’s North American Supercharger network now features more charging points than the network of its CHAdeMO “rival,” according to the most recent numbers. As per said numbers, Tesla’s North American network now consists of 884 individual charging points spread across 141 Supercharger stations, as compared to the 776 CHAdeMO charging points now operational in the US. There are actually 54 CHAdeMO

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The city of Raleigh in North Carolina made over $27,000 last year (the administrative year ending on November 30) via tickets for non-EV vehicles parked in a single EV charging spot located in the city, according to recent reports. Impressive. (Is that the right word?) Still, you feel a bit bad for those that got the tickets. Though, perhaps it’s

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