Clean Energy Finance Forum

A report from the Rocky Mountain Institute and General Motors pushes for support to develop technologies in, and to help drivers buy vehicles fitted for, electric Ubers and Lyfts and Vias and such.

The United Kingdom's promising to phase out internal-combustion-engine vehicles, which means manufacture of car batteries needs to ramp - and, in the town of Blyth, already has. This credulous December 10 article sizes up plans to make batteries in a Northern town- in part thanks to the robust electric grid there.

Two YSE students pick up on a pledge in Joe Biden's climate plan, spelling out how it can reduce asthma and emissions by removing tons of pollution from the air each school day. (This depends on getting schools safely fully open again...)

Shocks can spark interest in secure sources of energy. For that reason, some insiders argue that distributed power can gain a surge of customers- even amid harsh financial conditions for solar and wind projects.

While the sector’s market share is small, Wood Mackenzie expects the 2020s to be a decade of battery electric vehicle growth. The group says it sees global battery electric vehicle market share increasing from 3% in 2019 to 14% by the end of the decade in its base case scenario.

FleetCarma launched its Charge the North study in 2017 to capture and analyze real world charging data from 10 electric utilities and a thousand EV owners across Canada, covering residential, public and workplace charging. Phase one ended in 2019 and phase two is expected to launch later this year.

The country’s foremost utility geeks descended on San Antonio to let their inner wonks run wild. The conference, DistribuTech International, featured the nation’s largest utilities mingling with service providers demonstrating their latest technologies and offerings on impressively large screens and surprisingly intricate displays.

Researchers have looked at historical buying patterns across multiple countries and U.S. states, and found that starting near $1,000/kW of net present value broader uptake of residential solar begins, at $3,000/kW the market is really overheating, and at $7,000/kW it’s projected that 50% of viable home owners would be financially motivated to adopt solar power.