Year in Review: A Look at the Biggest Clean Energy Stories of 2013
We may not have been able to predict Time Magazine's person of the year, or Google's most searched term of 2013. But the Energy Gang was on top of the big happenings in cleantech this year. In our yea...
20 Joulu 201341min
Distributed Storage: The Killer App for Solar?
There convergence of solar and distributed batteries is underway. Although the use of storage is still very limited in the solar sector, more companies are looking to bring new value to customers by p...
16 Joulu 201342min
Germany: A Clean Energy Success Story Or Cautionary Tale?
Everyone agrees Germany is a renewable energy powerhouse. But not everyone agrees on how that’s benefitted the country. The web is littered with conflicting opinion pieces on the German experience – s...
6 Joulu 201350min
A Look Inside the Minds of Electricity Regulators
State electricity regulators are as diverse as the regions they come from. So their thinking on the future of energy varies wildly. With worries about the disruptive threat of efficiency and distribut...
21 Marras 201347min
How Distributed Generation Will Cause 'Creative Destruction' in Power Markets
What does the nation's top energy regulator, FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff, think about the future of solar? "I think we're seeing the Moore's Law cost curve together with the entrepreneurial spirit c...
13 Marras 201344min
Is the Wind Industry Prepared for an Expiration of Its Tax Credit?
The wind industry is facing another expiration of the production tax credit at the end of the year, and this time it likely won't get extended quickly. So is the wind industry prepared for a post-PTC ...
7 Marras 201346min
Are Big Banks Botching One of the Greatest Cleantech Opportunities of All Time?
The largest international development banks have made it a priority to deliver energy to the 1.3 billion people without access to the modern grid. But are they approaching a 21st-century market with 2...
31 Loka 201344min
40 Years After the Arab Oil Embargo, Is America Much Better Off?
It's been four decades since Arab oil producers shut off the oil spigot to America, creating price shocks, gas lines and economic hardship. It also spawned the modern political definitions for "energy...
24 Loka 201340min
