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In late 2013, Mexico’s congress approved historic legislation that altered the 1938 ban on private sector participation in the Mexican energy sector. These reforms, that end the 75-year monopoly of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and allow for greater foreign investment, are the first to include constitutional change, and promise to address many of the challenges that have resulted in a decade-long

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Can distributed solar continue to grow in the U.S. when the ITC ratchets down and net energy metering gets trimmed? GTM Research VP Shayle Kann explored solar finance scenarios with the experts at last week’s DOE SunShot Summit in Anaheim, California. “We are sitting amid an infinite amount of capital,” said Jeff Weiss, co-chair and managing director of Distributed Sun.

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Alarm.com recently inked a deal with Pure Energies to more directly compete with one of its resellers, Vivint, in selling rooftop solar. The deal with Alarm.com is Pure Energies’ first partnership in the home security space, and likely won’t be the last. Although it also has its eyes on telecoms and HVAC dealers, home security is the big channel in

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Tesla Motors is now the largest auto-industry employer in California — employing more than 6000 people within the state, with a further 500 jobs expected to be added to that figure before the end of 2014. That’s an impressive feat considering how young the company is. And an even more impressive feat when you consider the fact that Toyota has

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The German Parliamentary Secretary of State to the Federal Transport Minister, Katherina Reiche, refueled a fuel cell vehicle for the first time at the “Green Hydrogen Hub” (H2BER) of the Total multi-energy fueling station at Berlin-Schönefeld. The demonstration project is designed to produce “green” hydrogen from a surplus of wind and solar power using an electrolyzer, and to use solid

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CANNES, France (Bloomberg) — Renault has been forced to re-think its ambitious electric vehicle plans, a top executive said. “We’re not in a situation where the market has followed our forecasts,” Chief Performance Officer Jerome Stoll said. “People haven’t yet reached the point where they feel the need to have an electric vehicle for full daily use. People need to

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PARIS (Reuters) — PSA/Peugeot-Citroen CEO Carlos Tavares said the carmaker will decide in the next 12 months whether to continue working on electric vehicles with Mitsubishi Motors. Tavares told a parliamentary economic affairs committee today that the group needed to define a strategy to continue to offer electric vehicles to consumers. “It’s a strategy that will be rebuilt in the

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Do you miss Suzuki, yet? The company is an engineering powerhouse that builds some of the finest, most advanced motorcycles in the world – and their cars aren’t half bad, either! Sadly, poor sales meant the company was forced to stop selling cars in the US … but that doesn’t mean they’re gone. As if to remind American enthusiasts what

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KOA Speer Electronics has introduced two new current sensing resistors, the zero ohm SLZ and the 1W/2012 SLW07. The high current SLZ1 jumper chip offers a rated current of 44A in a 2512 size. The SLW07 has an enhanced high power rating of 1Watt in a smaller package size of 2010. KOA Speer’s SLZ1 and SLW07 both feature a wide

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Linear Technology Corporation has added the LT8620, a 2A, 65V input capable synchronous step-down switching regulator. Synchronous rectification delivers efficiency as high as 95% while Burst Mode® operation keeps quiescent current under 2.5µA in no-load standby conditions. Its 3.4V to 65V input voltage range makes it ideal for automotive (single and dual battery) and industrial applications. Its internal high efficiency

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