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In addition to Musk’s personal contributions, SpaceX’s political action committee has donated extensively to members of both parties this cycle. On the Republican side are some of Congress’ most prominent deniers of climate science, including Sens. Jim Inhofe (Okla.) and Ted Cruz (Texas), who received $2,500 and $3,500, respectively. The campaign committee of Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the outgoing chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology who has argued that pumping the atmosphere full of carbon dioxide is “beneficial” to global trade, crop production and the lushness of the planet, received $1,000. … [Read more...] about Elon Musk Has Donated Nearly 7 Times As Much To Republicans This Cycle

Buss served as chief financial officer of solar panel installer SolarCity for two years before retiring in 2016. Tesla bought SolarCity that year. Denholm, the first woman to join Tesla’s board, is chief operations officer of telecom firm Telstra and the ex-CFO of network gear maker Juniper Networks ( JNPR.N ). Rice, the first African-American and second woman to join the company’s board, is the chairman of Johnson Publishing Co, home to Ebony and Jet magazines. … [Read more...] about Tesla Forms Three-Member Panel To Look At Any Musk Deal

In a letter to shareholders after his tweet on Tuesday, Musk fleshed out his idea, suggesting they would get the option to sell their shares for $420 each or remain investors in a private Tesla, out of the glare of Wall Street and its need for quarterly results. … [Read more...] about Tesla board evaluating CEO Musk’s idea to take company private

Further growth in the solar industry is in jeopardy as Massachusetts and other states debate how they will handle “net metering” programs.  Like all distributed electrical generation, solar energy relies on net metering to facilitate a connection to the electrical grid.  In effect, buildings with solar systems use the electrical grid as a giant battery, adding power when the sun shines and taking power when it doesn’t.  Net metering programs basically allow the meter to spin in both directions, resulting in a system in which the solar power produced during sunny days can “net out” electricity used during dark or rainy periods.  Without net metering, solar — or any other distributed form of renewable energy — just isn’t economically viable.  … [Read more...] about Net Metering Uncertainty Threatens to Disrupt Explosive Growth of Solar Power

SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tesla Inc’s <TSLA.O> production of solar roof tiles has been delayed by assembly-line problems at its new publicly subsidized factory and difficulties producing a product that satisfies the aesthetic demands of CEO Elon Musk, eight former and current employees of both companies told Reuters. … [Read more...] about Inside Tesla’s troubled New York solar factory