It's Elon Musk Vs. Warren Buffett In The Fight For The Future Of Solar

Elon Musk's SolarCity, America’s largest manufacturer and leaser of solar panels, was welcomed into Nevada with economic incentives. But then Warren Buffett's Nevada Energy started charging homes with solar panels more to use the public grid. The outcome of fight in Nevada could set the course for solar energy adoption across the country.

Feb 1st, 2016

SolarCity, America’s largest manufacturer and leaser of solar panels, was welcomed into Nevada with economic incentives. But then Nevada’s Public Utilities Commission started charging homes with solar panels more to use the public grid. This is bigger than a fight over solar energy - Nevada Energy, is part of Warren Buffett’s business empire, and Elon Musk is behind SolarCity. The outcome of fight in Nevada could set the course for solar energy adoption across the country.

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$4.5B Clean Energy Complex Planned for Louisiana

The facility will produce “blue hydrogen."

In this Thursday, April 29, 2021 file photo, a coal-fired RWE power plant steams on a sunny day in Neurath, Germany. The International Energy Agency is urging governments to make stronger commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions at an upcoming U.N. climate summit.

Energy Agency Urges Bigger Global Push to Cut Emissions

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Huntington Beach pier, California, Oct. 11, 2021.

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In this Feb. 22, 2020 file photo, a power generation plant stands idle near Huexca, Morelos state, Mexico. A constitutional reform presented by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador would cancel contracts under which some private power generating plants plants sell power into the national grid, declares “illegal” other private plants that sell energy direct to corporate clients in Mexico and would cancel many long-term energy supply contracts and clean-energy preferential buying schemes.

Mexico Plans to Shutter Private Power Plants

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Hydropower Decline Strains Power Grids in Drought

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Solar Panel Maker Plans $36M Georgia Factory, Hiring 500

Production will start sometime next year.

Former SCANA CEO Kevin Marsh, center, walks out of a courtroom with his lawyers after being sentenced to two years in prison for lying and deceiving the public about the progress of a pair of nuclear reactors in South Carolina that were never finished and wasted billions of dollars on Thursday, Oct. 7, in Columbia, S.C. Marsh also has pleaded guilty in state charges in the case.

Ex-CEO Who Oversaw Doomed Nuclear Project Sentenced

Imprisoning Kevin Marsh sends a message of public responsibility to powerful executives.

Ted Bowman, design engineer with Tsunami Products, installs a unit in homeowner Don Johnson's backyard in Benicia, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021. The recent invention can make water out of the air and in parched California, some homeowners are already buying the pricey devices. The air-to-water systems work like air conditioners by using coils to chill air, then collect water drops in a basin.

In California, Some Buy Machines That Make Water Out of Air

The machines are not cheap.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a mug, during a visit to a construction site in Manchester, England, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021.

UK Pledges to Hit All-Renewable Electricity by 2035

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK could get to “complete clean energy production” by the next decade.

Shipping Industry Group Aims for Net-Zero Emissions by 2050

The International Chamber of Shipping submitted a proposal to stop adding CO2 to the atmosphere.