
Debating Tesla's Plan To Acquire SolarCity
Will Tesla acquire SolarCity? Yesterday, news broke that Tesla’s board offered to buy SolarCity for roughly $2.5 billion. While shareholders and financial analysts don't seem to like the proposed deal...
22 Jun 201648min

The Climate Crisis Worsens
Thirty years ago, a Congressional committee held a two-day hearing on climate change. In June of 1986, scientists didn’t have the sophisticated measurement tools and supercomputer models that they do ...
17 Jun 201638min

Getting Subsidies Right for Renewable Energy
Renewables are getting really cheap. But does that mean we need to get rid of all subsidies to support them? Many experts argue that we just need to retarget government support in a smarter way. In th...
9 Jun 201651min

How One of the Most Successful Wind Tycoons Stayed Ahead of the Energy Markets
Two years after Michael Polsky moved from Soviet Ukraine to the U.S. in 1976, America passed a law allowing independent developers to own power plants. He knew he needed to get in on the action. Polsk...
3 Jun 201647min

A Sign of the Utility Death Spiral?
Nevada Power is likely doing a lot of soul searching. Last week, two of the biggest Las Vegas casino companies -- MGM Resorts and Wynn – filed to leave Nevada Power and set off to buy wholesale electr...
26 Mai 201646min

The Solar Coaster: Troubles at Yingli Solar and the Flatlining Global PV Market
This year, GTM Research is forecasting that 66 gigawatts of PV capacity will be installed around the world -- a 21 percent increase over last year. But next year, capacity will only expand by 4 percen...
19 Mai 201652min

Live From New York: Making America Great Again
In this live episode from New York City, the Energy Gang is joined by two prominent energy journalists — Yuliya Chernova of the Wall Street Journal and Chris Martin of Bloomberg — to talk about the ho...
11 Mai 20161h 16min

From Shell to SolarWorld: The Technology Stages of Solar
Terry Jester started her solar career in 1979 as the VP of engineering at ARCO Solar, one of the early oil companies investing in photovoltaics. Over the years, the company was sold to Siemens, Shell ...
21 Apr 201651min




















