SolarCity ticks off its many accomplishments in 2013 — including a pioneering move to sell notes backed by its solar projects — while it faces tougher competition from rivals who also… Read more »
SunPower had a break out year in 2013 and now is looking to see significant growth this year, including expansion of its home solar leasing program. Read more »
Drought and fears of water shortages are drumming up interest in new water technology. Just don’t count on venture capitalists to chase these new water tech deals. Read more »
Analytics, sensors, networking — Utilidata is bringing the tools of IT to the last mile of the power grid and in the process could make it operate more efficiently. Read more »
Making design an important focus for product development has been a hot trend in Silicon Valley, and now a big VC firm is boosting its effort on that front for its… Read more »
Many attempts to use dashboards to show energy consumption data and get consumers to conserve energy use have failed miserably. Will a startup’s idea of using a digital photo frame to… Read more »
Silicon Valley startup Kateeva is showing off its first equipment to produce large-format OLED panels, which it hopes will help make OLED TVs cheaper and popular one day. Read more »
A California startup has raised a seed round to show that its energy management app could keep office workers happy and save energy for building owners. Read more »
A Canadian startup has built its first European plant to retrieve phosphorous — a key ingredient in fertilizer — from sewage and wastewater and turn it into fertilizer to grow more… Read more »