Magical art installation covers L.A.

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Tesla closes solar installation centers as part of layoffs

Tesla’s recently announced layoffs may hurt its solar panel business particularly hard. Reuters sources and leaked documents have revealed that Tesla is closing roughly a dozen solar installation centers in nine states as part of the job cuts. There will still be about 60 facilities left afterward, but this would also end a Home Depot […]

Tesla to cut nearly 20 percent of its SolarCity installation locations

Enlarge / Close-up of logo for Tesla Solar, a home solar power generation solution offered by Tesla Motors, San Ramon, California, March 28, 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) Tesla is planning to close 13 or 14 solar installation locations that were set up by SolarCity before Tesla purchased the company in […]

Installation costs so much that it’s better to use expensive solar panels

Enlarge / Row of new Dutch houses with solar panels attached on the roofs. (credit: Lawrence Berkeley Lab) As the price of solar panels has plunged, a strange thing has happened. The panels have gone from being a large fraction of installation costs to a relatively minor component. That means all the other things—permits, labor, […]

Making your own waves in the ‘Vortices’ art installation

Technology allows you to experience art in a direct way by physically becoming part of the exhibition, and TeamLab is on the forefront of that movement. The Japanese art collective is at it again with a new exhibition at Melbourne’s NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) Triennial called Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement. It’s […]

Residential, utility solar installation falls due to investment trends, Tesla

The third quarter of 2017 has been an unusually slow one for the solar industry, according to a report from GTM Research released on Thursday. US solar installations fell to their lowest overall level since 2015, and residential and utility-scale solar projects fell quarter over quarter. The only silver lining has been non-residential (largely commercial […]

Elon Musk wins bet, finishing massive battery installation in 100 days

Enlarge (credit: Tesla) Tesla has completed construction of a massive 100 megawatt, 129 MWh battery installation in South Australia. The new facility boasts the largest megawatt rating for any grid-connected battery installation in the world. The project was completed less than two months after the contract was signed on September 29, putting it ahead of […]

Women Share Stories About Violence and Harassment in Installation ‘El Tendedero/The Clothesline Project’

The National Museum of Women in the Arts in D.C. is hosting an interactive, site-specific exhibition (that is extremely timely) by Mexico City-based artist Mónica Mayer, inviting visitors to share stories about sexual abuse and harassment, giving audiences a voice. El Tendedero/The Clothesline Project, D.C. will be on display through January 5, 2018. Questions answered include […]

Tesla says world’s largest battery installation is halfway done

Enlarge At a Jamestown, South Australia event on Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the company was halfway done installing a 100MW/129MWh utility-grade battery bank near the site of the 100MW Hornsdale Wind Farm. The battery bank will be the largest grid-tied system in the world when it’s complete. (Currently, the largest grid-tied system […]