#ICYMI Cleantech News 5/22/2015

Welcome again to our series of regular In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) cleantech news blog posts. These blog posts feature some of the most interesting, compelling and/or impactful cleantech news of the week.

This week’s highlights include Beijing exempting Electric Vehicles (EVs)s from a rush-hour vehicle limit policy, NYC food carts switching to solar and a Pew Charitable Trusts report found that clean energy investment is shifting from developed economies to emerging ones.

Here are some of the top stories in cleantech this week:

· EVs: According to The Wall Street Journal, Beijing will exempt battery-powered electric cars from a policy limiting vehicles on the road during rush hour.

· SOLAR: Margaret Rhodes of Wired reported that NYC’s food carts will replace their harmful gas generators with solar panels.

· STORAGE: Renew Economy’s Giles Parkinson reported that an estimated 2.4 million Australian homes will likely install batteries to store the output from their solar panels.

· WIND: Fortune’s Stacey Higginbotham wrote that GE is using holograms and the industrial internet to make wind farms 20 percent more efficient.

· INVESTMENT: A new Pew Charitable Trusts report found that clean energy investment is shifting from developed economies to emerging ones, writes Greentech Media’s Julia Pyper.