
Millennials: The Core of the Clean Economy? Or Overhyped as the Green Generation?
Depending on your perspective, Millenials are either the most globally aware, technologically savvy generation or the most distracted, dependent, self-obsessed generation. For many, those feelings abo...
31 Okt 201444min

Can America Ever Become a Solar Manufacturing Superpower?
Five years ago, a new wave of startups promised a manufacturing renaissance driven by American solar. Today, after the collapse of dozens of those companies, many are skeptical that the U.S. can ever ...
27 Okt 201452min

What Happens to Solar Power Plants After They’re Installed?
By 2017, there will be more than 150 gigawatts of solar plants that need to be maintained globally. In order for solar to keep growing as an asset class, those plants need to be in top shape. Who’s go...
17 Okt 201440min

SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive Defends His Company’s Long-Term Business Strategy
SolarCity is a much different company than it was before it went public. It has made numerous acquisitions in an attempt to control nearly every part of the value chain – from hardware to customer acq...
10 Okt 201451min

Should You Believe Claims About the Coming End of Fracking?
In mid-September, the U.S. government revised its estimates for U.S. oil production upward once again. Boosted by increases in tight oil from shale formations in North Dakota and Texas, America could ...
2 Okt 201449min

Why New York Is Trying to Create the Most Innovative Grid in the World
New York is taking a hard look at how to reform the distribution grid and encourage more distributed energy resources. But it’s not doing it through mandates. Instead, New York regulators are developi...
24 Sep 201455min

Your Building Is Dumb. Here's a Way to Make it Smarter
Large commercial buildings are the fastest growing energy consumers in the U.S. Why? Because most of them are not very energy aware. Utilities and city planners understand this problem and have target...
9 Sep 201451min

How America's Biggest Energy Consumer, the Government, Is Greening Itself
In December of last year, President Obama issued an order requiring the government to get 20 percent of electricity from renewables by 2020 – up from about 7 percent today. That’s not an easy goal to ...
4 Sep 201449min




















