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It’s been months of waiting and speculation, but word is out that the much-anticipated Tesla Gigafactory has finally broken ground in Reno, Nevada. Nevada governor Brian Sandoval and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are slated to make some sort of official announcement tomorrow morning and a source in the governor’s office has told CNBC that the Gigafactory is “a go, but

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Australian politics has been focused on the future of the country’s Renewable Energy Target for several months now, and it seems that maybe so has the rest of the country. New polling conducted by market research firm Crosby Textor has shown overwhelming support for leaving the Renewable Energy Target (RET) in place. The national study, conducted throughout the month of

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We’re nearly four years out since the launch of the first-generation of electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt and Nissan LEAF. In that brief time, the auto industry has learned some hard lessons when it comes to EVs and plug-in hybrids, with upstart automaker Tesla stealing the show late in the game. What can traditional automakers do to recover? Well

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Nevada’s principal utility, NV Energy, was growing its residential electricity sales at a rate of about 5% a year until 2007. Mike Salisbury isn’t sure what caused that to change, though the most likely cause is a combination of slow economic growth, efficiency programs (which resulted in less need for electricity) and the introduction of rooftop solar. Salisbury believes that

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Tesla Motors announced big plans earlier this year. Though the agreement is not public, Panasonic is also involved: it plans to manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells Tesla uses to build battery packs to power electric cars. Specifically, said Sebastian Blanco of Autoblog Green in June, batteries from Tesla’s announced Gigafactory will power the concept vehicle Tesla Model 3, a

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If you are using Neware BTS3000 series instument and didn’t upgrade to network edition(which means you are still using the COM port version). The main differences between Neware COM port version and network version are: 1. The software of the COM port version won’t be upgraded any more(the latested version is TC5.4 and it will stay there forever); While the

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Analysts from UBS and Citigroup, two of the world’s largest investment banks, believe the growth of solar power, in combination with advances in batteries and electric cars, will cause a huge disruption in the energy industry. UBS believes centralised fossil fuel generation  will become “extinct” sooner than most people realise. Citigroup predicts renewables will replace coal and gas in power

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Utilities in Europe and North America “have to change their business model, whether they like it or not”, says the International Energy Agency (IEA). At the same time, the IEA is very critical about the plans of several European countries to set up capacity schemes which the large European enegy companies are pleading for. “We should try energy-only solutions first

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Solar manufacturers are set to ship a record number of panels this year, with the largest makers expected to deliver 52 percent more panels between them than 2013. Hanwha SolarOne Co. saw “robust” volumes in the first half while maintaining its aim to sell as many as 1.6 gigawatts of panels this year, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the

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Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. (8036) and Etrion Corp. (ETX) will build two solar-power stations in Japan as they embark on a plan to develop 300 megawatts of capacity in the country by 2017. Construction of a 24.7-megawatt plant in the northern prefecture of Iwate and a 9.3-megawatt station in Ibaraki, northeast of Tokyo, is scheduled to begin this year, the companies

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