Author: CleanTechnica

Switzerland May Implement Rules That Hurt EV Adoption

With the energy situation in Europe right now, countries are looking for ways to cut energy use and save their energy supplies for when they really need it. Ironically, this fossil-derived energy challenge has led to the Swiss government encouraging EV drivers to use their cars less — just for urgent needs like going to […]

India X Cleantech

Welcome to another issue of our India x Cleantech series! On a monthly basis, we are pulling news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article about the country. Cleantech Investments Partners Group Plans To Invest $300 Million In Rooftop Solar Company Sunsure Switzerland-based private equity fund Partners Group is […]

Update On Zimbabwe’s Net Metering Program

In 2020, following some pilot projects, Zimbabwe’s electric utility company ZETDC started its net metering program. Zimbabwe’s net metering regulations say anyone who has a renewable energy source, e.g. wind or solar, and has a grid-tied inverter can apply for net-metering. At the time they were introduced, the threshold to apply for net metering was […]

The ISEA Tesla Raffle is Open!

Raise your hand if you want to win a Tesla! The Illinois Solar Education Association (ISEA) is holding a contest to raffle off a Tesla Model Y, the most popular Tesla model. Enter to win a 2022 Tesla Model Y and support solar education! It’s not the first Tesla raffle that the ISEA has sponsored. In […]

New Total Cost of Ownership Tool for Electric Cars

We’ve written about the total cost of ownership of automobiles for a decade, comparing the total cost of ownership of electric cars to the total cost of ownership of fossil-powered cars. The short and sweet of it is that due to lower operational and maintenance costs, as well as higher value retention, electric cars are […]

Elon Musk Sold ~22 Million Shares Of Tesla This Week

It appears that Tesla CEO Technoking Elon Musk recently determined yet again that he needed to sell a lot of Tesla shares (NASDAQ:TSLA) in order to have cash available for Twitter. Or perhaps he sold for other reasons, but that was his rationale for the prior two periods of major TSLA sales. Notably, this is […]

Global Solar Installs Erupt As Polysilicon Price Peaks

According to the latest Rethink Energy report, “global solar installations are on track for 222 GW of installations during 2022, and manufacturing output shows that next year this will rise by even more as solar manufacturing surges. This demonstrates that the solar industry has shaken off the drag of high polysilicon pricing, and now prices […]