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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google shares Pixel Camera tips for the total solar eclipse  9to5Google Source link

In a revolutionary partnership, Ford, General Motors, Google, SunPower, and Sunrun are teaming up to highlight the additional benefits electric vehicles offer beyond producing zero emissions. Electric vehicles are rolling out at a record pace as consumers’ preference for zero-emission electric cars soars. Nearly every automaker – new and legacy – is selling electric vehicles as fast as they are making them, with most experiencing significant backlogs. Why… Source link

German developer Ib Vogt has started to build the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in the Spanish province of Zamora, and signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for its output with US internet giant Google. The developer has started construction of the project near the city of Toro in northwestern Spain in September after receiving €90m in long-term project financing by Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (NORD/LB) and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (Santander CIB),… Source link

Web giant Google has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with German developer Ib Vogt for output from the 149MW Garnacha solar plant in the Spanish province of Zamora. The developer has started construction of the project near the city of Toro in northwestern Spain in September after receiving €90m ($93.4m) in long-term project financing by Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking, and plans to start operations by October next year. … Source link

Nov 1 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday it would buy about three-quarters of the renewable power from SB Energy Global’s Texas facilities, as it aims to operate data centers on carbon-free energy by 2030. Companies are rapidly shifting toward clean energy and transportation as they look to meet environmental and sustainability goals. The $430-billion Inflation Reduction Act signed by President Joe Biden signed in August also seeks to incentivise a shift to clean… Source link

The energy transition is well underway as solar demand blazes higher. Rob Barnett, a senior clean energy analyst at Bloomberg, forecasted that solar capacity installations are on track to grow by 30% globally this year and see sustained double-digit growth in 2023 through 2025. “At the end of the day, the global solar picture is just staggering at this point,” Barnett told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We are on track to install something like 250 gigawatts of solar capacity this year…. Source link

Solar panels purchased for home use under incentive programs many years ago are nearing the end of their life cycle. Many are already winding up in landfills. (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times) California has been a pioneer in pushing for rooftop solar power, building up the largest solar market in the U.S. More than 20 years and 1.3 million rooftops later, the bill is coming due. Beginning in 2006, the state, focused on how to incentivize people to take up solar power, showered subsidies on… Source link

President Biden signed an executive order on June 6 that invoked the Defense Production Act to accelerate domestic production of solar parts. The action, taken in conjunction with a two-year pause on additional solar tariffs from 4 southeast Asian countries, signaled the administration’s public commitment to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign imports in a market dominated by the Chinese. “What the president’s plan does is it keeps the jobs that we already have in the U.S., in U.S. manufacturing… Source link

BARCELONA, Spain — While visiting Germany last month, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, proffered unsolicited advice to European leaders. “Spain should build a massive solar array,” he tweeted on Apr. 4. “Could power all of Europe.” Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promptly responded. “We’re already implementing most ambitious plan towards efficient & sustainable energy system,” he tweeted at Musk. “Come and see. We welcome investors in Spain.” While prompting 66,000… Source link

A former Tesla (TSLA) quality engineer turned whistleblower says the electric car maker has known for at least four years that some of its solar panels could catch fire but failed to disclose or fix the problem. On Monday, Reuters revealed that complaints over the alleged hazards filed by the whistleblower are the subject of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The agency confirmed the investigation in a Sept. 24 letter to the former engineer, Steven… Source link