Tapping into live oil pipeline with homemade devices is very dangerous, but poor people will continue to take the risk to get it Illegal tapping of oil pipelines is costing oil companies billions of dollars in lost product each year and the problem is growing around the globe, according to Westlake, Ohio-based PLIDCO, a pipeline […]
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Tesla Motors finishing battery factory build in Nevada SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Tesla Motors Inc on Friday disclosed $1.1 billion in third quarter cash requirements in payments and planned expenditures, about a third of the cash on hand mid-year, in a new sign of pressure on the electric vehicle maker. The company is finishing
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Relative high costs of Zimbabwe solar power impediment to many By Tonderayi Mukeredzi HARARE, Aug 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Innovative ways to pay for Zimbabwe solar power systems could make clean energy affordable for many of the country’s 1.5 million households that lack electricity, campaigners say. Zimbabwe produces only around 60 percent of the
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AGL Energy network will link home, business storage batteries to central grid MELBOURNE, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Australia’s AGL Energy on Friday launched what it called the world’s largest “virtual power plant”, a network that will link 1,000 households and businesses with rooftop solar and batteries which can be centrally controlled. The A$20 million ($15
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3,500 MW of African solar projects planned By Nellie Peyton SANTHIOU MEKHE, Senegal, Aug 4 (Reuters) – In an expanse of sand 60 miles (100 km) north of Senegal’s capital, two men set to work digging up tree stumps to clear space for what could soon be the biggest solar plant in West Africa. In
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Musk share in Tesla Motors to go from 23.2 per cent to 25 per cent By Paul Lienert DETROIT, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Elon Musk and key institutional investors will probably tighten their control over electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc after it acquires sister company SolarCity Inc, a Reuters analysis shows. Musk, who is
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Solar powered TVs not connected to national energy grid By Benson Rioba MACHAKOS, Kenya, Aug 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Violet Mwikali’s new television has not just brought entertainment to her home. It has ushered in peace, too. “The whining has stopped now. I was put on the spot for a while as my two children
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Tesla SolarCity deal part of Musk’s updated “master plan” Aug 1 (Reuters) – Tesla Motors Inc expects to achieve “significant” cost savings and “dramatic improvements” in manufacturing efficiency as a result of its planned $2.6 billion acquisition of solar panel installer SolarCity Corp, Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Monday. Musk said the
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Elon Musk says plan could be mostly funded by vehicle sales By Joseph White SPARKS, Nevada, July 26 (Reuters) – Tesla Motors Inc’s next strategic turn could cost the electric car maker “tens of billions” of dollars over the long term, but will likely require only a “modest” capital raise, Chief Executive Elon Musk said
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Daimler electric truck range of up to 200 Km FRANKFURT, July 27 (Reuters) – Daimler has unveiled an electric truck capable of transporting up to 25 tonnes, putting zero-emission vehicles on a par with conventional-engine variants in terms of payload and performance. So far, the weight and cost of batteries as well as their limited power
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