battery storage

Tesla Is Building a Giant Battery in Texas to Back up Grid

Tesla Is Building a Giant Battery in Texas to Back up Grid

Almost a decade after moving into the electric vehicle industry, Elon Musk’s Tesla is supersizing its plans to bring its battery technology into the power storage game. Gambit Energy Storage LLC, a Tesla subsidiary, is building a 100 megawatt energy storage project in Arlington, Texas, outside of Houston. The giant battery will plug into the […]

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    83% Decline of Freshwater Animals Underscores Need to Protect and Restore Freshwaters

    83% Decline of Freshwater Animals Underscores Need to Protect and Restore Freshwaters

    This year’s Living Planet Report shows that populations of animals—including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians—plummeted by 60 percent between 1970 and 2014. But those living in freshwater are experiencing a far more drastic decline: 83% since 1970. It’s a sobering statistic and one tied directly to the ever-increasing pressures that people are putting on […]

    What Is Climate-Ready Infrastructure? Some Cities Are Starting to Adapt

    What Is Climate-Ready Infrastructure? Some Cities Are Starting to Adapt

    By Mikhail Chester, Braden Allenby and Samuel Markolf The most recent international report on climate change paints a picture of disruption to society unless there are drastic and rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Although it’s early days, some cities and municipalities are starting to recognize that past conditions can no longer serve as reasonable […]

    Could Paper Power the Next Generation of Devices?

    Could Paper Power the Next Generation of Devices?

    By Seokheun Choi It seems like every few months there’s a new cellphone, laptop or tablet that is so exciting people line up around the block to get their hands on it. While the perpetual introduction of new, slightly more advanced electronics has made businesses like Apple hugely successful, the short shelf life of these […]

    This College Could Become the First 100% Renewable Campus in U.S.

    This College Could Become the First 100% Renewable Campus in U.S.

    As a growing number of U.S. cities make pledges towards 100 percent renewables, it’s easy to forget that the entire state of Hawaii set this important benchmark three years ago when it mandated that all of its electricity must come from renewable sources no later than 2045. To help the Aloha State meet this ambitious […]

    Tesla Installing World’s Largest Solar Rooftop on Nevada Gigafactory

    Tesla Installing World’s Largest Solar Rooftop on Nevada Gigafactory

    Tesla has started building a massive rooftop solar array on top of its Gigafactory 1 (GF1) outside Sparks, Nevada. Once finished, the 70-megawatt system will be the largest in the world by far; the current record-holder is the comparatively shrimpy 11.5-megawatt array in India that can power 8,000 homes. Building Tesla has posted satellite images […]

    Alternative State

    Alternative State

    Did you make it through Donald Trump‘s State of the Union address? If you did, congratulations on your endurance. Not everyone can handle sitting through more than an hour of lies, deceit and distortions. Then again, we’ve all been surviving and fighting through the past 12 months of this administration. Resistance takes stamina, and it’s […]

    A Climate Resistance Game Plan for 2018

    A Climate Resistance Game Plan for 2018

    By Jamie Henn Let’s talk for a moment about how the climate movement is going to fight back in 2018. But first, a public service announcement. This Jan. 31, movement leaders like the one-and-only Bernie Sanders, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus, Jacqueline Patterson of the NAACP, and more, […]

    Battery Storage Revolution Could ‘Sound the Death Knell for Fossil Fuels’

    Battery Storage Revolution Could ‘Sound the Death Knell for Fossil Fuels’

    If we want to accelerate the world’s renewable energy transition, we’ll have to modernize the electric grid and we’ll need much better batteries. Just look at Germany, which generates so much clean energy on particularly windy and sunny days that electricity prices are often negative. Sure this is good news for a German person’s wallet, […]