GE Is Watching Your Wind Turbine
Eric Wesoff: April 30, 2012
Somewhere in Schenectady, N.Y., a team of technicians is monitoring every aspect of 6,000 wind turbines.
Somewhere in Schenectady, N.Y., a team of technicians is monitoring every aspect of 6,000 wind turbines.
Adventures in lousy O&M. Or a mid-development bankruptcy. This month’s winner is a seemingly neglected utility-scale solar farm in Germany.
The Chinese commodity crystalline pain train continues to wreak havoc on even industry-leading differentiated PV products.
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Another VantagePoint Cleantech Partner becomes an ex-partner.
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Enerkem joins Luca and BrightSource in pulling its IPO.
The San Francisco-based startup also lands a new garage smart-lighting project and looks for more office space.
The startup captures Philadelphia train braking energy, stores it in a Saft battery, and plays it into lucrative energy markets.
It takes a village to cut through the red tape and streamline solar permitting.
Agua Caliente is now the biggest PV plant around. And there’s more to come. Utility-scale solar will rule in 2012.
The American Society of Civil Engineers finds that failing to spend on grid upgrades will end up costing U.S. homes and businesses nearly $200 billion by 2020.
It won’t last, and mega-mergers could be a win for renewables.
Tendril and Dutch retail utility Essent open APIs and smart meter data to apps developers and hackathons.