As the Solyndra fallout drags on, it’s clear that the government’s support of cleantech is becoming increasingly political — as it should be. After all, the value of developing an economy… Read more »
Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s testimony before Congress is dominating today’s news. Chu is out with the message that politics didn’t influence his decision to grant the loan guarantee, nor did it… Read more »
The dream of the “hydrogen highway” in recent years has morphed into a tech for industrial applications like to power forklifts and fleet vehicles. Pike Research estimates that there will only… Read more »
If anyone was wondering what the Obama Administration wanted to see from utilities and companies building the country’s smart grid, here’s a document for you to read. The White House released… Read more »
As expected, at an event at the White House on Monday, Obama administration officials unveiled a slew of programs and initiatives that will aim to help add information technology to the… Read more »
On Monday morning the White House plans to hold an event focused on the smart grid that will discuss new private and public initiatives for how to implement a smarter power… Read more »
Want to see history in the making? I shot this 30-second video of California Governor Jerry Brown signing a bill into law that requires utilities to source 33 percent of their… Read more »
Can the U.S. government do for clean power, what it did for airplane technology almost a century ago? That’s the plan that nerd-rockstar Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu detailed at… Read more »
After the Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu spoke on stage at the ARPA-E Summit on Tuesday, he joined a group of reporters and answered questions candidly about the budget cuts,… Read more »
Let’s go to Washington D.C. this morning, where the Department of Energy is holding an annual summit for its ARPA-E program. The DARPA-modeled program has invested some $400 million into 121… Read more »