Enter the Dragon: China and the World’s Greatest Smart Grid Opportunity

Enter the Dragon: China and the World’s Greatest Smart Grid Opportunity

Kamil Bojanczyk: May 23, 2012

China goes big in grid, and it’s all about transmission, distribution automation and smart meters.

How Companies Are Learning to Utilize Data

Video: How Companies Are Learning to Utilize Data

Staff: May 23, 2012

"Data science -- that's now a field that's exponentially increased. [...] We're in this learning mode." What does the data science field mean for utilities and vendors? According to Domenic Armano from Johnson Controls, we're soon going to find out.

SoloPower Raises More Funding for Flexible CIGS Solar Panels

SoloPower Raises More Funding for Flexible CIGS Solar Panels

Eric Wesoff: May 23, 2012

A modest $7.1 million round for the DOE loan guarantee recipient

Leafully Wins Green Button Apps Contest

Leafully Wins Green Button Apps Contest

Katherine Tweed: May 22, 2012

Forgoing kilowatt-hours for trees gets top honors for a Green Button apps contest.

ES-Select: Match.com for Renewable Developers and Energy Storage

ES-Select: Match.com for Renewable Developers and Energy Storage

Herman K. Trabish: May 22, 2012

For any renewable, the DOE’s tool means the perfect storage technology is just a click away.

Update: Solexel, Stealthy Solar Startup, Adds SunPower to KPCB VC Syndicate

Update: Solexel, Stealthy Solar Startup, Adds SunPower to KPCB VC Syndicate

Eric Wesoff: May 22, 2012

Solexel falls in the very-thin-silicon, kerfless-wafer school along with Twin Creeks, AstroWatt, SiGen, Crystal Solar and 1366.

German Solar Death Watch: Inventux Joins the List of German Solar Insolvencies

German Solar Death Watch: Inventux Joins the List of German Solar Insolvencies

Eric Wesoff: May 22, 2012

Inventux (a-Si) joins Germany’s Q-Cells, Soltecture, Odersun, Solar Millennium, Sovello, and Solon in the group of extremely troubled or shuttered German PV manufacturing firms.

CPV Roundup: SolFocus Funding, 5MW Order for Solar Junction, GreenVolts, Amonix

CPV Roundup: SolFocus Funding, 5MW Order for Solar Junction, GreenVolts, Amonix

Eric Wesoff: May 22, 2012

A month of modest forward progress in the world of concentrating photovoltaics

How Analytics Can Solve Expensive Energy Problems

Video: How Analytics Can Solve Expensive Energy Problems

Staff: May 22, 2012

"What is the most expensive problem that big data can solve in the energy world?” Con Edison, Efficiency 2.0 and Johnson Controls respond. From the Clean Energy Connections series.

One-Third of US Homes Have a Smart Meter

One-Third of US Homes Have a Smart Meter

Katherine Tweed: May 22, 2012

Can the first 36 million meters prove they’re worth the cost?

AlertMe Rolls Out Home Energy Analytics, Advice in the UK

AlertMe Rolls Out Home Energy Analytics, Advice in the UK

Jeff St. John: May 22, 2012

The home automation startup deepens its energy analytics chops with long-time partner and investor British Gas.

Cleantech Investing

Lessons From the Past Ten Years (Part One): Trust

Rob Day: May 21, 2012
A New Smart Grid Powerhouse: Eaton Acquires Cooper Industries

A New Smart Grid Powerhouse: Eaton Acquires Cooper Industries

Jeff St. John: May 21, 2012

A new co-equal for the Four Horsemen of the smart grid. The company is also into smart buildings.

Have Wind, CSP, and PV Turned Against Each Other?

Have Wind, CSP, and PV Turned Against Each Other?

Herman K. Trabish: May 21, 2012

Or is it just that the utilities are starting to get picky?

Green Jobs: Simple Energy Gets Comverge Vet; MEMC’s CFO Swap; New CEOs at Oree, Pythagoras

Green Jobs: Simple Energy Gets Comverge Vet; MEMC’s CFO Swap; New CEOs at Oree, Pythagoras

Jeff St. John: May 21, 2012

The smart grid action is moving to the softer side of the grid.