Is it Time to End Subsidies for Wave and Tidal Energy?
Progress in wave and tidal energy hasn’t been slow – it’s been nonexistent. Despite media attention, strategic investments from large energy companies and strong support from national governments, the...
14 Jan 201536min
Will Low Oil Prices Hurt Clean Energy?
With oil prices dropping to five-year lows, pundits are pushing conspiracy theories about OPEC, public investors are acting irrationally, oil companies are going deeper into debt and political leaders...
7 Jan 201543min
The Most Important and Overblown Energy Stories of 2014
This week, we stray from the week’s top news and instead focus on the top news of the entire year. We’ll give our picks for most important news item of the year, the most overblown story of the year a...
24 Dec 201443min
Solyndra? Solyndra! The Legacy of Government Loan Guarantees Beyond Politics
Three years after the political posturing around the Department of Energy’s clean energy loan guarantee program, some lawmakers still haven’t moved on. “What we have seen is incredible mismanagement, ...
18 Dec 201448min
Tesla's Battery Storage Strategy Beyond Electric Cars
As Tesla builds out its Giga factory in Nevada, the company expects that roughly one-quarter of batteries will be used for stationary storage applications beyond automobiles. Tesla is just beginning t...
11 Dec 201447min
Germany’s Largest Utility Is Divesting From Centralized Power Plants
Earlier this week, Germany’s biggest power company, E.ON, announced that it would spin off its centralized power assets in order to make itself a distributed utility and embrace the “new world” of ene...
4 Dec 201445min
How Big Data (and Little Data) Is Transforming Energy Efficiency
After years of very little change, the energy efficiency industry is getting a makeover. The growth in connected, learning devices -- and the data access enabled by them -- is creating a new paradigm ...
19 Nov 201443min
The Biggest Financing Traps for Cleantech Startups
Every decision for a startup is a financial decision. From hiring decisions to supply agreements, investors evaluate an entire company through a financial lens. But some entrepreneurs muddling along t...
14 Nov 201446min
