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You may remember the controversial and rude statement from California’s Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (District 80) from last year regarding Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, which specializes in both electric vehicles and home energy solutions that include rooftop solar. Recently, Gonzalez not only backed but amended AB 1139, which could bring the state’s rooftop solar

Originally posted on EVANNEX. For many kids after college, getting a job isn’t so easy. Even if you’re Elon Musk. It turns out that Musk had failed in his efforts to land a job in the internet industry back in 1995. Elon Musk at Tesla Model Y unveiling. According to News18, “Musk, now known for revolutionizing the electric vehicle market,

One of India’s leading renewable energy companies ’ Tata Power Renewable Energy ’ has announced plans for a public listing of its infrastructure investment trust or yieldco. The news of possible public listing of the yieldco comes just days after multiple media outlets reported that talks to onboard Malaysian petroleum giant Petronas had fallen through.

As the United States rejoins the global effort to tackle the climate crisis, we are poised to make historic investments in infrastructure to build a 21st-century, decarbonized economy. RMI is unveiling a series of resources that provide analysis and guidance for how the United States can align its economy to limit warming to less than

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and six leading industry organizations have joined forces in developing a national Wind Cybersecurity Consortium. The goal of the consortium is to improve the cybersecurity of the U.S. wind fleet through collaborative analysis, development, and information sharing. Industry parties that signed into agreement with NREL include Vestas, General Electric,

Installing solar over abandoned landfills is generally viewed as a win-win solution for waste and energy management. Yes, converting a detrimental disposed waste infrastructure to scale up renewable energy in the electricity generation portfolio certainly presents challenges. It also offers opportunities. Renewable solar energy goals help to restore and stabilize degraded land. Instead of occupying

Rising penetrations of variable renewable energy (VRE) in power systems are expected to increase curtailment ’ the reduction of renewable energy delivered due to oversupply or lack of system flexibility. But while curtailment may be the new normal in the evolving grid, and can even be managed in a way that makes the grid more

In a previous article, I covered a recipe Elon Musk gave us for powering the world with renewables. He gave the overall plan, but obviously couldn’t give full details on the plan at the local level. During another part of the Q1 earnings call, he gave a lot more detail on how the local level

The critics are howling. President Biden’s pledge to cut climate warming emissions has too many economic hurdles, they cry. It just can’t be done! During the Leaders Summit on Climate, Biden formally pledged that the US would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52% relative to 2005 levels by 2030 ’ the most

Chanan grew up in a multicultural, multi-lingual environment that often gives him a unique perspective on a variety of topics. He is always in thought about big picture topics like AI, quantum physics, philosophy, Universal Basic Income, climate change, sci-fi concepts like the singularity, misinformation, and the list goes on. Currently, he is studying creative

President Biden has stepped up and made a commitment for the US to reduce carbon emissions 50% by 2030 versus 2005 levels. 50 by 30! We need to do it and we can do it! But what is the best path? There is strong underlying logic behind this new commitment. The math is simple but

Under the leadership of Elon Musk, Tesla made a 4D chess move that Solving The Money Problem’s Steven Mark Ryan pointed out no one seems to have noticed. This move can also be seen as a secret Trojan horse of sorts. The video (below) is inspired by some of Elon Musk’s tweets. Steven explained: “An

Many of us are used to flipping a switch or pressing a button to instantly illuminate a room, heat or cool a home, or access our digital lives through smart devices. Our energy and communications infrastructure is reliable, robust, and flexible enough to support and control advanced technologies. For those living in more remote areas

Many people want both Tesla solar (the conventional solar panels or the solar tile roof) and a Tesla Powerwall. Many just want the solar. If you are in the latter camp, you have just one week left to place your order. Tesla CEO and Technoking Elon Musk just tweeted that Tesla solar products will only

While the three-bladed axial flow turbine has long defined the wind industry, marine energy devices include a wide variety of concepts, including tidal turbines, wave point absorbers, river current turbines, and oscillating water columns, each of which is uniquely suited for certain operating conditions. Without one approach clearly outperforming the others, the nascent water power

We’ve been writing and talking a lot about Tesla’s sales goals and Tesla sales forecasts from people like Troy Teslike and me. We’ve also been covering in great depth the battery supply chain that is needed to make high-volume Tesla vehicle sales possible. In a recent conversation, it came to mind to highlight why Elon

What kind of job do you recommend to someone who wants to get rich? Probably lawyer, banker, investor, software engineer, journalist, or doctor, right? Wait, one of those doesn’t belong. Indeed ’ you don’t go into media to become a multimillionaire, or even a millionaire, or even a thousandaire. You go into media out of

Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog.By Bruce Ho Within the arcane rules that govern New England’s regional power grid, there’s a ticking time bomb that threatens to frustrate the region’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis while raising electricity bills by $3 billion over 10 years. Known as the Minimum Offer Price Rule or MOPR

Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists.By John Rogers, Senior energy analyst The Biden administration’s bold, broad plan for offshore wind released last month attracted a lot of attention ’ and boatloads of support. Because when it comes to being ambitious on offshore wind, there’s a lot that wind companies, labor unions, environmental and community groups, academics, and

This will surprise nobody who has been following renewable energy news for the last 10 years or so, but Texas ’ aka the oil and gas capital of the country ’ has been stealthily transitioning into a new role as the clean tech capital of the US. Now it seems the cat is out of

WASHINGTON, D.C. ’ Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm today joined the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce at a White House roundtable meeting to announce a national goal to deploy 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030. This effort will support approximately 77,000 jobs in industry and surrounding communities, generate electricity to power over 10

Yesterday, I got some good feedback on my post about releasing a Tesla Financial Model on GitHub*. It occurred to me an analysis of my Tesla financial model would be useful. I can’t expect everyone to download it. I was able to work and create a simple macro that copied and pasted the Monte Carlo

I know ’ how was the largest solar installer in the United States not already in Miami, the largest city in the Sunshine State? Well, it wasn’t, but it is now. Florida’s rooftop solar market was actually quite limited for years, especially compared to markets like California and Hawaii and New Jersey (yes … New

Based on the analysis I did of ARK Invest’s Tesla bull and bear cases, here and here, I decided to create my own financial model for Tesla growth. Tesla has a lot of moving parts, and Elon has famously said Tesla is made up of more than a dozen startups. In true agile fashion, I

There are a lot of announcements out there from countries and companies regarding increasing renewable energy adoption and reducing emissions. A recent article in the journal Nature pointed out that they are often too vague and vary quite a lot. The authors recommended clarifying scope and a long-term roadmap, among other things. 47 other scientists

Old(ish) Audi e-tron batteries are getting another life in India. In Uttar Pradesh, a German-Indian startup founded by Berlin-based Prodip Chatterjee, Nunam, has turned two Audi e-tron battery modules into the storage medium for a solar nanogrid. But how far can two battery modules go? Apparently, quite far in Uttar Pradesh. “The prototype currently allows

You got your rooftop solar array, you’re stoked with your zeroed-out electric bill, and you’ve plugged in your EV to drive on sunshine. Then one month, you notice your electric bill gets a little bit greater than zero. Then the next month, same thing. You do what most normal people would do ’ blame your

Natural gas stakeholders are beginning to coalesce around the idea that demand for so-called “blue” hydrogen will keep the dollar bills flowing their way for years to come. Well, not so fast. A new report from BloombergNEF suggests that the blue hydrogen moniker is so much dust in the wind, now that green hydrogen technology

Tuk Tuk Life, with the support of the Norwegian electric vehicle company Infinite Mobility, will attempt to break several world records by driving a solar electric tuk tuk (also known as an auto rickshaw or tricycle) around the world. Here’s a quick summary of the organization attempting the record and the plan: Tuk Tuk Life

The Tesla Owners Club of Austin is celebrating Elon Musk Day on April 20th. The club set up the event and announcement on Tesla’s new Engage platform, and referenced the article I wrote last year when #ElonMuskDay was trending on Twitter on 4/20 ’ which happened to be the same day that the price of