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  • Smart Grid Interoperability Panel: Who to Call

    The federal smart grid standards-setting effort has a new advisory board. Google’s Vint Cerf shares honors with industry giants in leading the group.

    Smart Grid

    Jeff St. John November 20, 2009

  • India Wants 20GW of Solar by 2020

    The government approves a $19 billion program to boost manufacturing and generation, but getting to that goal might not be so easy.

    Solar

    Ucilia Wang November 20, 2009

  • PG&E’s Bakersfield Problem: Getting the Customer on Board

    Pacific Gas & Electric could offer early lessons over how to prevent customer backlash against smart grid spending.

    Advanced Metering

    Jeff St. John November 20, 2009

  • Swapping CIGS for Silicon

    AQT plans to launch production of its thin-film cells that will look like conventional silicon cells but at much cheaper price, its CEO says.

    Solar

    Ucilia Wang November 20, 2009

  • Vinod Khosla: Smart Grid Hard to Invest In and Win

    Green VC Vinod Khosla doesn’t see most smart grid investments paying out, unless they can get ahead of the ‘me-too’ solutions to the grid’s problems.

    Finance and VC

    Jeff St. John November 19, 2009

  • Greentech for Social Good

    A group of entrepreneurs have developed portable power generators and irrigation systems to serve some of the poorest communities in the world.

    Other Energy

    Ucilia Wang November 19, 2009

  • Data Centers That Feed Power to the Grid?

    Locust Storage, which came out of stealth at the GreenBeat Conference, says it has a data storage system that can deliver power to the grid, and cut down IT power.

    Green IT

    Michael Kanellos November 19, 2009

  • Duke Energy Wants to Own Every Piece of the Smart Grid

    Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers sees the utility owning and controlling solar panels and energy management systems in customers’ homes.

    Smart Grid

    Jeff St. John November 19, 2009

  • Giants vs. Startups: SAP Stakes Carbon Accounting Claim

    SAP says its huge existing customer base will give its carbon accounting software huge advantages over startups. But with the carbon-counting game in its infancy, there’s still room for startups to excel.

    Carbon Management

    Jeff St. John November 19, 2009

  • California Adopts Energy Standards for TVs, Will Other States Follow?

    California says TV makers have to curb power consumption, which has riled up TV makers. The big question is whether it will go nationwide?

    Green IT

    Michael Kanellos November 18, 2009

  • MiaSolé Begins Shipping CIGS Panels

    The CIGS thin-film maker has kept a low profile for most of the past year. Now it has something to brag about: customers and plans to boost production.

    Solar

    Ucilia Wang November 18, 2009

  • No Climate Bill This Year, Senators Say

    Key Senators have told the Wall Street Journal that a climate and energy bill containing controversial carbon cap-and-trade provisions won’t get passed this year.

    Policy

    Jeff St. John November 18, 2009

  • Double Run Time on Your Laptop? Maybe, With MIT’s Quantum Dots

    Quantum Dots. Forget understanding them. Just remember that they don’t give electric charges much room to move.

    Green IT

    Michael Kanellos November 18, 2009

  • Aptera Pushes Out Three Wheeled Car Until 2010

    We’re making great progress on engineering. We just don’t have the money, the three-wheeled car maker says.

    Transportation

    Michael Kanellos November 18, 2009

  • Zeachem Moves Into Plastics, Breaks Ground on Prototype Plant

    Fuels are generic. Chemicals are designer substances. Zeachem is opening and a plant and working on ways to get into a new market.

    Biofuels

    Michael Kanellos November 18, 2009

  • Chevy Volt: 12 Months to Go

    General Motors says it is fixing problems and proving performance for its showcase plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt, set for production late next year.

    Transportation

    Jeff St. John November 17, 2009

  • Cleantech Open: It’s All About the Chemicals

    Green chemistry seems to be one of the more interesting topics at today’s Cleantech Open in San Francisco.

    Startups

    Michael Kanellos November 17, 2009

  • Is China a Friend or Foe to the U.S.?

    Duke Energy’s David Mohler addresses concerns about the utility’s growing number of deals with Chinese companies, while President Obama meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

    Solar

    Ucilia Wang November 17, 2009

  • GE Gets Into ‘Cleaner Coal’ in China

    GE and Shenhua Group will form a joint venture to work on coal gasification projects. The U.S. and Chinese governments also announced a broad range of clean energy projects.

    Other Energy

    Jeff St. John November 17, 2009

  • Honeywell’s OpenADR Plans for SoCal Edison

    Honeywell’s $11.4 million DOE smart grid grant will help Southern California Edison turn down power using an emerging standard called OpenADR.

    Applications

    Jeff St. John November 17, 2009
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