Environment

November 18th, 2020 by Barry A.F.  One of the ways to slow the advance of climate change is to reduce your personal carbon usage. While we can’t efficiency our way to climate neutrality, we can buy ourselves time by slowing the rate of carbon emissions and conservation, as Negawatts are often the cheapest form of

This photo shows an electric car being charged on a street in London. Miles Willis | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.K. will stop selling new diesel and petrol (gasoline) cars and vans from 2030 under plans announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The move is part of a wider 10-point plan for

Wind turbines in waters off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. K Neville | iStock | Getty Images Plans have been announced for a multi-billion pound “underwater energy superhighway” which will allow electricity produced in Scotland to be sent to the northeast of England. The Eastern Link project, as it’s known, is to focus on the

November 17th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  The most popular CleanTechnica articles of the first two weeks of November were led by a couple of stories about revised versions of the Tesla Model 3, followed by my monologue on how I feel about Full Self-Driving and white seats more than a year after buying my Model

November 17th, 2020 by Sponsored Content  By Alf Poor, CEO of Ideanomics* with contributions from Christiane Heckeroth, Chief Communications Officer of Solectrac The increasing demand for organic foods gets a lot of headlines. Consumers have shown they are prepared to pay a premium for foods with an untouched pedigree, which has helped bolster the thin

The word “premium” suggests high quality, the best of the best. But what is commonly called “premium gasoline” is a waste of money for countless drivers. Thanks in part to the coronavirus, gas prices have been relatively low compared with the soaring ones seen roughly a decade ago. At the same time, U.S. drivers are paying

November 16th, 2020 by Johnna Crider  The S&P Global Dow Jones media center just announced that Tesla (TSLA) will be added to the S&P 500 on Monday, December 21. The press release noted that this is to coincide with the December quarterly rebalance and that, due to the large size of the addition, S&P Dow

November 16th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  As we’ve been reporting recently, everyone (the fossil-friendly International Energy Agency) and their mother (Lazard) have concluded that solar and wind offer the cheapest options for new electricity capacity, and new solar and wind power plants can even undercut the operational costs of existing fossil and nuclear power plants.

The energy sector is coming off its best week ever. That group was swept up last week in a rally rewarding stocks tied to the economic growth story – even with U.S. Covid-19 cases on the rise and the threat of further lockdowns looming. The sector rose by more than 16%. Last week was a

November 15th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  We recently saw the International Energy Agency (IEA) report that solar power offers the cheapest electricity in history. That was a global report. A US-focused report from Lazard recently reported something similar. The highly regarded energy analysts showed that wind and solar offer the cheapest electricity in the country,

November 15th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  Last year and for several years prior, a US taxpayer who installed a solar power system on their roof could get a 30% tax credit on the cost of that system. In 2020, that tax credit was reduced to 26%, and it will drop to 22% next year. Confused

November 14th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  We have a big special election coming up in Georgia in January, an election that will decide who represents Georgia in the US Senate. Both senators for the State of Georgia will need to be chosen. Since these races will determine who is in control of the US Senate

High-flying automotive executive turned international fugitive Carlos Ghosn believes the coronavirus pandemic will accelerate consolidation of the global automotive industry, including his former employer Nissan Motor. In a rare interview following his daring escape to Lebanon from Japan on Dec. 29, the former Nissan chairman said the industry will continue to struggle even after a

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden leaves The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 9, 2020. ANGELA WEISS | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — The prospect of a Joe Biden presidency and the most progressive climate strategy the U.S. has ever attempted is not something that should concern the energy industry, oil and gas executives

November 14th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  Senator Joe Manchin isn’t typically the most popular Democrat in the US Senate. He represents quite red West Virginia and can often be the most challenging Democratic vote to get on a progressive bill. Nonetheless, he comes across as a very earnest man who’s just trying to do best