米国では多くの地域で、太陽光発電や風力発電がすでに最も安価な発電方法となっている一方で、発電した電力を多数の電力消費者とテスラ車が存在する都市部まで届ける送電が普及のボトルネックになっている。送電線の運用可能容量を増やすためのイノヴェイションこそが、さらなる再生可能エネルギーの普及には必要だ。
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New York City bans new natural gas hookups in step toward all-electric future
“The next generation of buildings is going to be electric.”
Why the next big entrepreneur must come from climate tech
It is a financial and a moral imperative to make climate technology, together with medicine, the main priority of humanity.
A step forward for CO2 capture
The air we breathe has a carbon problem. But in Hellisheidi, Iceland, a geothermally active plateau just outside of Reykjavik, a new technology is taking a small but mighty step toward fixing it. A plant called Orca, built by Climeworks, is the first-ever facility where CO2 is being filtered directly from the air and stored […]
発電所の新設を減らせる？ 既存のダムを水力発電に活用する計画が進行中
クリーンな電力の利用を推進すべく、既存の非発電用のダムを水力発電に活用する計画が進められている。すでに米国では2000年以降に36カ所のダムに発電用タービンが追加設置され、500メガワットを超える再生可能エネルギーを生み出せるようになった。こうした技術を世界的に展開できれば、発電所の新設を大幅に減らすことも可能になるかもしれない。
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A road map for climate investors
Climate in the last decade has been unprecedented in many ways, none of them good. Wildfires in California have consumed entire towns; thousands of miles away, New Yorkers inhale the ashes.
Al Gore puts $600M into UK Green energy-tech startup Octopus Energy Group
Former Vice President Al Gore has invested $600 million of equity into UK energy startup Octopus Energy Group via his Generation Investment Management vehicle, taking a stake of approximately 13% in the business. The investment means Octopus has attained a valuation of around $4.6 billion. Octopus has made a name for itself in energy circles […]
Why MPG should matter for electric vehicles
We already have a common denominator for the EV age: the kilowatt-hour. A familiar, tangible energy unit that gives us an apples-to-apples way to think about cost, efficiency and pollution.
Happy 200th, Electric Motor
On 3 September 1821, Faraday observed the circular rotation of a wire as it was attracted and repelled by magnetic poles. In 1820, the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted had noticed the peculiar behavior of a compass near a charged wire. Building …
Tesla’s solar and energy storage business rakes in $810M, finally exceeds cost of revenue
Small as it is, the division is selling more energy storage and solar. Revenue from this division grew 62% from the previous quarter and more than 116% from the same quarter in 2020.