Tesla officially acquired SolarCity for roughly $2 billion. Tesla will integrate SolarCity’s team and operations, and it will phase out its brand in favor of ‘Tesla Energy’ over the next few months. At the special shareholders meeting held on Nov 17th to vote on the merger, General Counsel Todd Maron announced that shareholders have approved […]
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All change for roof tiles Well this was a surprise. Not only is Elon building rockets, cars, battery factories and merging Tesla with Solar City he also has time to reinvent the solar panel as a solar roof tile. Last Friday evening just before sunset Elon Musk took to a stage and cranked up his presentation about
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[dropcap style=”normal or inverse or boxed”]I[/dropcap]ntersting article on Wind contract pricing and the implications for the UK energy markets. For years the complaint against offshore wind was prohibitive cost. The new worry is that it is suddenly becoming too cheap. The world’s biggest wind companies are driving down power contracts so fast in their
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Boat comes in Today the first boat load of LNG arrives in Scotland on route to Ineos for the manufacturing of various petrocmeichals. Igenos will take delivery of a tanker full of ethane at its Grangemouth plant in Scotland, marking the first fruit of a $2bn investment. The imports are due to replace dwindling supplies
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Scot Heat & Power has secured a significant competitive tender to supply biomass fuel to the University of St Andrews as part of an innovative £25million green energy project. The Broxburn-based biomass energy specialist will supply round wood for the next five years to the Guardbridge Energy Centre – a macro-renewable project on the site
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China and the United States have formally joined the Paris climate deal, a giant step by the world’s two biggest polluters in confronting global warming. At a ceremony on the eve of the G20 summit in China, the leaders of both countries handed ratification documents to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, raising hopes that the accord
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Over 50,000 UK households have now installed biomass boilers, solar thermal systems or heat pumps under the government’s domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. It means these households are now generating up to 827,000MwH of heat, equivalent to 16.54MwH per household, and providing estimated carbon savings of 3.4 million tonnes of CO2 over the scheme’s
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A third of solar jobs have likely been lost in the UK, found the report by PwC for the Solar Trade Association (STA), based on a survey of 238 companies, around 10% of the industry. More than 12,000 solar power jobs have been lost in the past year because of government subsidy cuts, according to the
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Sign today The much-delayed construction of two reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset is expected to be given the go-ahead by the board of the French energy giant at a meeting in Paris on This afternoon afternoon, despite the opposition of unions. The decision will pave the way for Greg Clark, the new business and energy
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A report in the Telegraph today reports that Drax is optimistic that tight UK power supplies this winter will raise electricity prices, after low prices led to a slump in profits in the first half of the year. Britain’s biggest power plant, which is in the process of converting from burning coal to biomass wood
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