To help California reach its renewable portfolio standard goals, The California Independent System Operator (the ISO) may be aggravating a rivalry between large- and small-scale renewable energy producers.The Small Generator Interconnection Procedure... [more]

Over the past few weeks, I've had a number of meetings with engineers, executives and investors and such, and I keep coming away with the same conclusion.The fastest-growing and arguably most attractive segment in alternative energy and energy effici... [more]

Recurve, the energy efficiency retrofitter and software developer, is getting a retrofit itself.The company has hired Andy Leventhal as its new CEO, replacing Pratap Mukherjee. Leventhal co-founded Planet Metrics, a carbon accounting company, in 2007... [more]

You can have a Model T in any color, as long as it's black. The automotive world has come a long way since Henry Ford made this statement while introducing the revolutionary Model T Ford in 1908. Today, paint color and quality both play major r... [more]

Water is an enormous issue around the globe -- for drinking, farming and industry. There is a looming water crisis facing everyone on Earth as populations rise, pollution increases and climate and weather patterns change. There is already a wate... [more]

Debate was still going on when midnight rolled around.The California Legislature last night failed to pass SB 722, a bill that would have required California public utilities to obtain 33 percent of their power from new renewables, i.e., solar, win... [more]

A slew of recent studies, energy writer Robert Bryce wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal essay, show that wind-generated electricity likely won't result in any reduction in carbon emissions-or that they'll be so small as to be almost meaningle... [more]

How much power do computers use?Data centers, desktops, printers and other IT equipment now accounts for around 40 percent of the power bill of large corporations, argues Kartik Ravel, practice director of Green IT at Fujitsu America. At hedge funds ... [more]

I'm not much of a web guy, but I'm terrifically impressed with Twitter these days.For one thing, after I posted a pretty critical take today on a book I'd just read, it was a new experience to have the author (Vinnie Mirchandani, The New Polymath ) ... [more]

In advance of the Clean Energy Summit 3.0: Investing in American Jobs next week, Senator Harry Reid brought together Pacific Gas & Electric Chief Executive Officer Peter Darbee, the Center for American Progress and Energy Resource Management for a pr... [more]