Tag: energy
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Tesla Powerwalls Are in High Demand, Installers Just Don’t Have Them
Just 12 percent of solar companies carry Tesla’s Powerwall, according to the latest findings in a report in EnergySage and the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners. The analysis, a nationwide survey of U.S. solar contractors, noted that one in three customers are now expressing interest in energy storage options for their residence. Of…
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Oil Supermajor Shell Acquires Sonnen for Home Battery Expansion
Picture Credit: Shutterstock.com Shell will obtain German startup sonnen, staking a claim to the home energy storage market and further enlarging its ever-increasing footprint from the energy industry. Sonnen distinguished itself at the first home-storage market, with thousands of units deployed across Germany, and a notable presence elsewhere in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Besides…
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A Look at the Green New Deal’s Clean Transportation Goals and How to Achieve Them
Picture Credit: Shutterstock.com Though scant on details of what a transport overhaul might look like, the Green New Deal — actually a frame designed to create more specific policy suggestions — has caused a partisan stir about exactly what a remade and more precisely transit system might look like. The resolution released from Representative Alexandria…
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Energy Jobs: Big Regulator Moves, Rive Brothers Join Zola Electric, EnSync in Restructuring
We start this installment of the Energy Jobs column in possibly the most active state for the energy industry. This season, the California Public Utilities Commission brought on a brand new commissioner, Genevieve Shiroma. She was on the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, and also worked to the state’s Air Resources Board and invested nearly a…
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This Tesla Powerwall owner didn’t realize there was a blackout amid intense heat wave
A Tesla Powerwall 2 owner is thanking his home battery system once it allowed him and his family to remain cool and comfortable even though having a widespread blackout in the middle of a heat wave a week at Sydney, Australia. After power was cut at his place, homeowner Carl Prins received a text message…
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Panasonic slumps as Tesla branches out with new battery deal
Japanese battery maker Panasonic’s appears to be feeling the direct impacts of its venture with California-based electric automobile maker Tesla. Just Panasonic chose to reduce its profit outlook for 2019 over China’s slowing market because of the trade war against the United States. Amidst these headwinds, Panasonic’s venture with Tesla was a silver lining for…
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Tesla’s $218M Maxwell acquisition aims to give its batteries a boost
Tesla has got energy storage company Maxwell Technologies within an all-stock deal a deal aimed at helping its batteries are improved by the automaker that was electric and costs as more competitors enter the marketplace. The deal will appreciate every one of Maxwell’s 45.9 million shares at $4.75. The merger is expected to close in…
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Analyst Roundtable: Breaking Down the Green New Deal (Part 2)
Part 2 in a two-part conversation concerning the Green New Deal. (Read Part 1 here. ) Political feasibility aside, there are many questions about what a Green New Deal might mean for energy that is clean. Broad regulatory change and stimulus could drive the increase of cleantech, however, policies could result in enormous wins —…
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EIA Outlook 2019: The ‘Extremely Conservative’ Case for Renewables Growth
The U.S. Energy Information Administration last week published the national authorities 's annual permanent energy outlook report. Top-level items focused on the slumping production of U.S. petroleum and natural gas, and also the EIA anticipates will create the U.S. a net energy exporter in 2020. In contrast, EIA's clean energy growth projections were far more…
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Energy Jobs: More Shuffles at Tesla, Layoffs at Cypress Creek, PG&E Departures Just Beginning
This year begins from several huge players in the business with some significant news. Tesla announced on its fourth-quarter earnings call Wednesday that CFO Deepak Ahuja will be retiring, and Zach Kirkhorn, formerly the company’s VP of financing, will soon be taking over. Put simply Tesla information, CEO Elon Musk lately declared that approximately 7%…