The company NewMotion has fitted public charge points which are capable of charging electric vehicles and delivering electricity back to the grid via Vehicle to Grid technology. The new initiative is in the form of a pilot in the Ditch city of Amsterdam. Here NewMotion are partnering the grid company Alliander, the technology company Enervalis together with […]
Green Energy
Solar Projects In Connecticut Face Local Pushback
New England’s controversial “Northern Pass” energy project is on hold. The nearly 200-mile-long transmission line would have brought in hydropower from Canada, but recently got blocked by regulators in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Connecticut is wrestling with its own clean energy problems: siting solar energy. And in this case it’s not state regulators – but small […]
NSW regional council weighs building its own solar grid
The regional New South Wales shire of Parkes is exploring its options to create its own “virtual power network,” based on its existing PV investments and future solar and storage installations. The plans were aired at a Parkes Shire Council meeting last month, starting with a $100,000 investigation into the feasibility and design of local […]
Get free electricity — use solar power
With the advent of solar renewable energy, we can now harness the free energy produced by the sun and use it as electricity in our homes and businesses. Every five minutes the sun delivers the total annual energy requirements of humanity on earth for a single year. This means that the equivalent of all the […]
Elon Musk Plans To Turn 50,000 Australian Homes Into A Virtual Power Station
The jury is definitely still out on whether Elon Musk is secretly a super villain or not. Anyone who blasts his car into space and funds his company by selling flamethrowers must surely be up to something. If it does turn out one day that he is, at least we will have a convincing argument […]
USAID completes renewable energy project in Nigeria
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) together with Power Africa, have concluded the four-year Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Project (REEEP) in Nigeria. According to This Day, the $2.1 million project ran from March 2014 to February 2018, and was aimed at mitigating climate change, reducing carbon emissions, increasing economic opportunities, improving employment […]
