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Tesla | April 17, 2020

Let’s say you have a Tesla electric car that you typically charge at home. Everything goes swimmingly until the electricity goes out. Now what? If you have a Tesla Powerwall installed at your home, you can use it to recharge your car, but at some point all the stored electricity can go into the battery of your car, leaving none left over to power your home. Not to worry, though. Elon Musk and his minions have figured out a way to let you program how much of your Powerwall’s capacity should be de...

NREL | July 14, 2020

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have conducted the first global assessment into the most promising approaches to end-of-life management for solar photovoltaic (PV) modules. PV modules have a 30-year lifespan. There is currently no plan for how to manage this at end of their lifespan. The volume of modules no longer needed could total 80 million metric tons by 2050. In addition to quantity, the nature of the waste also poses challenges. PV modules are made of valuab...

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FirstEnergy | November 24, 2021

Mon Power and Potomac Edison, subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp., have submitted an application to the Public Service Commission of West Virginia for approval to build five utility-scale solar energy projects throughout the companies' West Virginia service territory. Together, the facilities would generate 50 megawatts of clean, renewable energy to help make West Virginia more attractive for business development. The application supports a 2020 bill passed by the West Virginia ...

Microsoft | January 28, 2020

Microsoft’s pledge to go “carbon negative” by 2030 and take more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits raises the environmental stakes among the big tech companies. The software and services giant went further than its pledge by promising to remove by its 75th anniversary in 2050 the equivalent of all historical emissions since it was founded in 1975. With carbon emissions from computing rising rapidly as data centers handle a massive increase in traffic, the technology industry is coming und...