Automaker executives from Ford, GM, Nissan, and Toyota are fond of saying that not very many consumers want electric cars. They sometimes claim they could produce many more electric cars, but customers are not asking for them. Aside from giving me wicked cognitive dissonance via the completely inco... Read more

Market signals for continued investment in storage are critical in California: on the same day the storage bill was passed, state legislators sent Brown a bill establishing a 100% renewable portfolio standard by 2045. S.B. 700, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D, was patterned on the California Solar... Read more

Greaves Cotton announced that it has acquired a majority stake in EV company Ampere Vehicles Pvt. Ltd, subject to customary closing conditions. This acquisition will accelerate the development of clean energy technology solutions for mobility needs of passengers and small businesses. Ampere has stro... Read more

The Union government plans to provide ₹1,000 crore as subsidy for building a nationwide charging infrastructure for electric vehicles as it seeks to expedite the roll-out of India’s ambitious EV programme, said two people aware of the development on condition of anonymity. The ministry of heavy... Read more

Amazon has submitted plans for a 4MW rooftop solar array to be deployed on its Tilbury fulfilment centre alongside a 3.77MW Tesla battery facility to help power the site, our UK sister site Solar Power Portal has exclusively revealed. Planning permission is being sought from Thurrock Council by Pus... Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is said to unveil the FAME II scheme at the inaugural session of the ‘MOVE’ — a global mobility summit to be organised here on 7-8 September — in the presence of several global CEOs from the automotive sector. The development comes after an inter-ministerial pan... Read more

State-owned MOIL, one of the largest producer of manganese in the country is now looking to develop high-grade manganese for batteries, which could be used in electric vehicles (EVs), said Chaudhary Birender Singh, union minister for Ministry of Steel, according to PTI. The report says that the res... Read more

Aiming to make its energy-guzzling data centers environment-friendly, Facebook has pledged it would power its global operations with 100 percent renewable energy by the end of 2020. The social networking giant also said it was committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent in the s... Read more

Utility Xcel Energy’s latest resource plan for Colorado, aimed at increasing renewable energy generation and aiding the retirement of coal plants, was approved by the state’s Public Utilities’ Commission (PUC) on Monday. The local Denver Post reported that the PUC had approved the plan on Mon... Read more

Earlier this year the UK launched its Road to Zero plan with the ambitious goals of at least 50-percent of all new car sales to be ultralow-emission by 2030 and the full cessation of the sale of traditionally fueled cars by 2040. Lofty goals for sure, and ones that most Britons reportedly think are ... Read more

A 41 MW solar photovoltaic, wind, and battery storage hybrid plant is being built in India. The project in Andhra Pradesh and is being constructed by IL&FS Energy Development Company Limited, a company that is behind several gigawatt-scale solar parks in India. The core components of the proje... Read more

India needs to curb power grid deviations through stringent penalties to ensure safety of the national transmission system, power minister R K Singh said today. “Grid deviations need to be penalised at a higher level. We need to increase the penalty to make sure the different systems that are con... Read more