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Green Button Apps: How Innovative Are They?

Green Button Apps: How Innovative Are They?

Katherine Tweed: May 17, 2012

It looks like the killer app for Green Button is still waiting in the wings.

Guest Post: Top-Tier Chinese Solar Firms Have a Legitimate Cost Advantage

Guest Post: Top-Tier Chinese Solar Firms Have a Legitimate Cost Advantage

Molly Castelazo: May 16, 2012

Keeping this debate to the actual facts is critically important, in no small part because the stakes of this trade case are so high.

CASE: American Solar Manufacturers Oppose Solar Tariffs

CASE: American Solar Manufacturers Oppose Solar Tariffs

CASE: May 15, 2012

Dow Corning, Hemlock Semiconductor, GT Advanced Technologies, MEMC, REC Silicon, and Suntech America believe that free trade is good for the American solar industry and American jobs.

Guest Post: US-China Solar Trade Investigation; Upcoming Catalysts

Guest Post: US-China Solar Trade Investigation; Upcoming Catalysts

Hari Chandra Polavarapu: May 15, 2012

China’s solar industry subsidies distort the solar PV competitive and trade landscape.

Anatomy of the SolarWorld US-China Solar Trade Case

Anatomy of the SolarWorld US-China Solar Trade Case

Eric Wesoff: May 14, 2012

The other tariff shoe drops this week. It could change the shape of the solar market.

Guest Post: The Rise and Decline of Oil

Guest Post: The Rise and Decline of Oil

Toby D. Couture: May 10, 2012

Oil’s market share has dropped to below 40 percent and continues to decline.

Guest Post: The Net Energy Metering Debate—Symptom of a Much Deeper Issue

Guest Post: The Net Energy Metering Debate—Symptom of a Much Deeper Issue

Ned Harvey, Virginia Lacy: May 8, 2012

Twenty-first-century technology is colliding with institutional structures that have remained relatively unchanged since the 20th century.

Operational Efficiency: A Hidden Energy Efficiency Opportunity for Commercial Buildings

Operational Efficiency: A Hidden Energy Efficiency Opportunity for Commercial Buildings

Ken Kolkebeck: May 7, 2012

A guest post on finding the hidden and low-hanging fruit of energy efficiency

Guest Post: UK Solar Feed-In Tariffs—Debunking the Myths

Guest Post: UK Solar Feed-In Tariffs—Debunking the Myths

Dane Cross: May 3, 2012

A perspective piece which asserts that passing solar costs on to non-solar customers is “right” and an incentive to go solar

Guest Post: Will Banks Win Best Actor in a Leading Role for Solar in 2012?

Guest Post: Will Banks Win Best Actor in a Leading Role for Solar in 2012?

Michael Johnson: May 2, 2012

From this point forward, every solar project will go through a tax equity investor and, most likely, that investor will be a bank.

Guest Post: Exxon’s Big Bet on Shale Gas Won’t Pay Off if Clean Energy Scales

Guest Post: Exxon’s Big Bet on Shale Gas Won’t Pay Off if Clean Energy Scales

Mike Casey: May 1, 2012

The clean energy industry has to dramatically scale its advocacy investment to meet an aggressive disinformation campaign.

Bill Clinton on Scaling Sustainability

Bill Clinton on Scaling Sustainability

Katherine Tweed: April 25, 2012

“I believe that the only economic policy is one geared towards shared responsibility [and] centered around sustainability.”

Guest Post: Three Areas Where Data Matters for Building Efficiency

Guest Post: Three Areas Where Data Matters for Building Efficiency

Bennett Fisher: April 24, 2012

Data—combined with software to make sense of it all—is driving new trends in building efficiency.

Guest Post: Innovation Trumps Conservation on Earth Day

Guest Post: Innovation Trumps Conservation on Earth Day

Naveen Jain: April 18, 2012

Naveen Jain on strategies for saving the planet

Cash vs. Culture: Do Utilities Need a Moneyball Approach to Analytics?

Cash vs. Culture: Do Utilities Need a Moneyball Approach to Analytics?

Katherine Tweed: April 17, 2012

One-third of all utilities have “too many barriers to change.”