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The UK will install solar energy in 800,000 low-income homes

The U.K. is set to provide as many as 800,000 low-income homes with free solar panels over the next five years in the biggest green program the country has ever ...
/ energy, international news, news, policy

How 139 countries could be powered by 100 percent wind, water, and solar energy by 2050

The latest roadmap to a 100% renewable energy future from Stanford's Mark Z. Jacobson and 26 colleagues is the most specific global vision yet, outlining infrastructure changes that 139 countries ...

Cummins Beats Tesla To The Punch, Unveiling Heavy Duty Electric Truck

Cummins, a leading maker of diesel and natural gas engines for commercial trucks, unveiled a Class 7 heavy-duty truck cab Tuesday featuring an advanced 140 kWh battery pack that it ...

China’s Clean Energy Success Stories

Last month, Clean Energy Canada's Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz visited Beijing, China for the eighth annual Clean Energy Ministerial. Watch as they share a few success stories from the ...
/ energy, international news, technology

Hanergy to Partner With Audi to Put Solar Cells on Car Roofs

Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd., the Chinese solar equipment maker whose shares were suspended more than two years ago after they lost almost half their market value in a ...

Energy-intensive Canada could cut back dramatically through efficiency measures

According to a new report from The Conference Board of Canada, energy efficiency measures such as incentive programs, retrofits, audits, land-use measures, building standards and renewable subsidies can substantially reduce ...
/ energy, policy, technology

Ford, Chinese partner look at possible electric car venture

BEIJING — Ford Motor Co. and a Chinese automaker said Tuesday they are looking into setting up a joint venture to develop and manufacture electric cars in China. Ford's potential ...

Electric vehicle batteries may get much more valuable soon

A new study shows they can help the grid without being degraded. One of the hottest questions among energy nerds these days has to do with the interaction of electric ...
/ e-vehicles, technology

The Redemption of the Canadian Soul: More Lessons from the Avro Arrow.

Dr. Arden Henley | August 13, 2017 Can you imagine the utter foolishness of a country that would fund, design and manufacture a world class, supersonic jet and, then, order its ...
/ e-vehicles, opinion, technology

The death of the internal combustion engine

It had a good run. But the end is in sight for the machine that changed the world “HUMAN inventiveness…has still not found a mechanical process to replace horses as ...