The US is in desperate need of more charging for electric cars. Charging needs to quadruple by 2025 and grow eight-fold by 2030 to accommodate EVs. The US doesn’t have nearly enough plugs to accommodate the coming influx of electric cars. Charging infrastructure has been growing quickly over the past several years, but not fast […]
Silicon Ranch Conducts $600 Million Equity Raise to Cap Off Another Record Year – EQ Mag
Independent power producer raised well over $1 billion in 2022 to help fund its rapid growth and support future capital investments in rural communities across the US NASHVILLE, Tenn. : Silicon Ranch Corporation, a community-focused provider of renewable energy, carbon, and battery storage solutions, announced that it conducted a $600 million equity raise. Initial funding […]
Wells Fargo turning positive on solar stocks in 2023 – EQ Mag
Wells Fargo analysts upgraded Sunrun (NASDAQ:RUN), Sunnova Energy International (NYSE:NOVA), First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) to Overweight, and SunPower (NASDAQ:SPWR) to Equal Weight in a note to clients Friday, stating they are turning positive on clean energy in 2023. “While continued Fed tightening in early 2023 will likely act as a near-term headwind, the fundamental and regulatory […]
Sony-Honda christen their new EV brand Afeela, will start rolling cars in 2026 – EQ Mag
Rumors about Apple’s plans to launch an Apple Car this decade flooded the web in the past two years, but the tech giant is yet to make any official announcement. In the meantime, a different tech giant is ready to commit to a launch schedule for an electric car and might beat Apple to market. […]
PG&E Teams With Energy Vault to Build and Operate the Largest Green Hydrogen Long-Duration Energy Storage System in the U.S. – EQ Mag
PG&E Teams With Energy Vault to Build and Operate the Largest Green Hydrogen Long-Duration Energy Storage System in the U.S. Hybrid system will be capable of powering approximately 2,000 electric customers within PG&E’s Calistoga microgrid for up to 48 hours (293 MWh of carbon-free energy) during a planned outage This Long-Duration Energy Storage System is […]
Can Small Modular Reactors Be a Sustainable Solution for Energy-Intensive Data Centers? – EQ Mag
To be more sustainable and produce fewer carbon footprints, the energy-intensive data center industry must turn from conventional fossil energy sources to renewable or low-carbon energy sources. Under such circumstances, will small modular reactors (SMRs) be a promising solution in the coming years? An SMR, as its name suggests, is a scaled-down nuclear plant. Unlike […]
The Wait For Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Aircraft Just Got Shorter – EQ Mag
The US firm ZeroAvia is one step closer to bringing its zero emission electric aircraft to market, powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The jet-tracking social media account ElonJet has drawn renewed attention to the role of private and corporate aircraft in blurting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The issue can be an embarrassing one for […]
Climate fight is becoming the foundation for a new trading system – EQ Mag
This was the yr vitality’s world ruptured. Mysterious explosions that ripped aside the Nord Stream fuel pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea symbolized the severing and rewiring of long-standing commerce routes — casualties of Russia’s brutal, and botched, invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions imposed in response. But linkages additionally stretched and snapped removed from that […]
As Extreme Cold Troubles Charging, EV owners in the US Complain “Driving in Winter is a Big Challenge” – EQ Mag
Countries around the world are trying to solve the problem of EV charging by accelerating the construction of charging stations, with EV makers striving to advance battery technologies. However, extreme cold can cause trouble to EV owners as freezing conditions affect the performance of Li-ion batteries—a crucial component powering their vehicles. The historic winter storm […]
Rusty Batteries Could Greatly Improve Grid Energy Storage – EQ Mag
Iron-air batteries have a “reversible rust” cycle that could store and discharge energy for far longer and at less cost than lithium-ion technology A U.S. company is designing a large battery that it says could help decarbonize the nation’s power sector more cheaply than lithium-ion storage systems—and with domestic materials. The concept, known as the […]
