Macquarie Sells Off Solar Assets to Canada’s Fiera Infrastructure
Australian bank Macquarie has sold a 41MW bundle of solar assets to Canada’s Fiera Infrastructure, a subsidiary of investment giant Fiera Capital Corporation, for an undisclosed sum. The deal, announced yesterday, sees Macquarie hand over a set solar assets which…
BMW Achieves Goal Of Selling 100,000 Plug-In Electric Vehicles In 2017, Company Reveals
The Germany luxury auto manufacturer BMW has achieved its goal of selling at least 100,000 plug-in electric vehicles in 2017, the company revealed in an email sent to CleanTechnica. That means that BMW experienced year-on-year plug-in electric vehicle sales growth…
Bitcoin’s Energy Cost Is Huge and Growing
Bitcoin has been in the limelight for years, but in the last few months it has been rapidly increasing in value. A year ago, Bitcoin was worth less than a thousand dollars per coin but climbed to over $5000 per coin…
Vestas & Northvolt Create Wind Energy Grid Storage Partnership
Headquartered in Denmark, Vestas is the largest manufacturer of wind turbines in the world. This week, it announced the formation of a partnership with young Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt to improve the integration of grid-scale battery storage systems into wind…
‘Monumental’: China Launches National Emissions Trading System
China has today announced further details of its forthcoming national emissions trading scheme (ETS), revealing the rollout will start in the energy sector before full implementation from 2020 onwards. In a move that campaigners hailed as a “monumental” step in…
EV Charge Point Use in Scotland Surges 43 Per Cent in One Year
The use of electric vehicle charge points in Scotland has surged by nearly half in the space of a year, putting the UK region “on the cusp of a motoring revolution”, according to the RAC Foundation. The motoring charity’s analysis…
Toyota Sets Sights on One Million Electric Vehicle Sales by 2030
Toyota has set a bold new target to sell at least one million zero-emission cars by 2030, as it places the environment at the centre of its strategy for the coming decade. In an update yesterday the Japanese automaker, which…