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TESLA | March 03, 2020

Tesla's third-generation Solar Roof, sometimes known as the Solarglass Roof, has arrived. Elon Musk's latest solar energy tiles, unveiled in October 2019, offer a striking design that promises to look like a regular roof to the untrained eye. The tiles have a lot to offer. They're designed to blend into a roof, while providing renewable power round-the-clock when paired with a Powerwall battery. They have a warranty of 25 years. Tesla has produced a video of them surviving the highest-rating hai...

BlackRock | January 27, 2020

The world’s largest asset manager has a new multibillion-dollar renewable energy fund in the works, and a good chunk of it may go to batteries. Long a major global investor in wind and solar energy, BlackRock has more recently begun buying into energy storage projects — including its acquisition last year of GE’s distributed solar and storage business. Looking out over the next few years, energy storage is one market “where we’ll see the opportunity set expand,” said Martin Torres, managing dire...

Power-technology | August 24, 2020

First Solar has named one of its power plants as the world’s first licensed utility-scale solar facility to commercially deliver ancillary grid services. The US-based photovoltaic (PV) solutions provider has said its Luz del Norte facility will now deliver a range of grid services, including automatic generation control. Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional, an independent system operator (ISO) in Chile, has added the facility to its portfolio of large-scale power generators. Chile Minist...

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...