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Report emphasizes need for storage-friendly policy shifts after solar saturation

Photo courtesy of GreenBrilliance Customer-sited solar is a major untapped opportunity, which could see 167 million households and 23 million businesses worldwide hosting their own clean power generation by 2050, according to a joint report by research firm BloombergNEF and Schneider Electric. These deployments will unlock major decarbonization benefits, but policy and tariff design will […]

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4 Amazing Advancements in Robotic Grippers to Keep an Eye On As manufacturing sectors of all kinds struggle with a growing labor gap, these collaborative grip designs can help streamline facility workflows, reducing the labor necessary to complete tasks while keeping the facility flexible and adaptable. Roadblocks to Autonomous Security Robots There are concerns regarding […]

X-factor technology explained | Smart Building EMEA

smartbuildingmag.com 17 {{ “2021-09-17T00:00:00+00:00” | date “MMM” }} ’21 Written on {{ “2021-09-17T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Modified on {{ “2021-09-17T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} BOSCH News Next-level starlight X and HDR X technologies take image quality and resolution further, enabling cameras to deliver improved security and situational awareness around the clock. Image quality is vital […]

Apple’s charger sprawl is bananas

Shutterstock As I noted in my immediate follow-up to Apple’s fall 2021 “California Streaming” event, the charging standards situation with the company’s mobile and computing device line-up has now become completely untenable. Let’s review all the different ways you can juice up your Apple devices. Look what a mess we have Long in the tooth […]

View Photos of the 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing

Marc UrbanoCar and Driver “They don’t make ’em like they used to” will surely be applied to the 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing several years from now. Rear-wheel drive, a 668-hp supercharged V-8, and a six-speed manual transmission, all packaged in a sublime sports-sedan chassis—the recipe for a legendary performance car and, sadly, the last gas-powered […]

Recovery Is Slow, But Global Manufacturing Industry Is Limping In The Right Direction

Written on {{ “2021-09-17T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Modified on {{ “2021-09-17T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} In this article we focus on two of those factors – chip shortages and freight costs – and we take a look at machinery production (traditionally a more volatile sector than industry production) where cautious capital investments in some […]

Solar Prices Increase for the First Time in Seven Years

Supply chain constraints are leading to price increases across every solar market segment, despite the addition of 5.7 GW DC of solar capacity in Q2 2021, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business. This is the first time that solar prices […]

China formally applies to join CPTPP trade pact

Image: Getty Images China has applied to join an Asia-Pacific trade pact that currently has 11 members including Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, the country’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said on Thursday. The trade pact, called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), currently has 11 members that represent about $13.5 trillion in […]