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DOE Head Ernest Moniz Delivers First Major Policy Address 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Dr. Ernest J. Moniz just delivered his first big policy address since being sworn in as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Energy in May. He spoke at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy in Ne...
A List of America’s Fastest-Growing Clean Energy Companies 27 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
The editors at Inc. magazine have released their rankings of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in America. The list offers an interesting snapshot of where growth is taking place in the energy secto...
Optimum, Trove Raise Cash From Strategics for Data-Rich Efficiency Software 26 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
Optimum Energy is courting some big-name friends this year. In June, Johnson Controls invested in the Seattle-based startup through Navitas Capital, as part of a $12.2 million funding round. It was t...
Trina Americas Pres: Despite Tariffs, Module Market Is Stabilizing 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Trina Solar was selected to supply multicrystalline silicon modules for Sempra Energy’s 345-megawatt Copper Mountain 3 project -- and that could be a signal that PV module prices are flattening. “The...
Google Leads $258M Financing Round for Car-on-Demand Firm Uber 26 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
Over the past five years, Google has strayed far outside the traditional bounds of an internet company by making large investments in clean energy. Some of those investments, which included backing a...
LIPA Rebate Pits Local Solar Installers Against Financiers 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
New York's Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has been tuning its solar rebate program -- and it's causing some friction between the utility, local installers, and national solar financiers. Since 20...
The Military Connects Microgrids for a ‘Secure Cluster’ of Power Networks 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Nobody is more interested in microgrids than the U.S. military. The idea of self-sustaining energy islands that can stay on even during grid-wide blackouts is of obvious value to military bases, which...
Lucid Unveils Universal Operating System for Buildings 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
HP desktop computers have Windows 8. MacBook Air has OS X. And now, buildings have Buildings OS. Lucid launched BuildingOS on Monday, an online operating system for buildings. It brings together mete...
Here’s How Chinese Firms Will Produce Solar for 36 Cents per Watt 24 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
From the end of 2010 until the first quarter of this year, leading Chinese solar companies were able to drop the cost of manufacturing multicrystalline solar modules by 54 percent. Their ability to f...
Look: America Is Only 39% Efficient 24 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
An updated analysis published last month by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory suggests that the U.S. is just 39 percent energy efficient. Put another way, more than half (61 percent) of the ...
