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Fossil Fuels 0
Portfolios Without Fossil Fuel Stocks Performed Better Than Those With Them

Portfolios Without Fossil Fuel Stocks Performed Better Than Those With Them

Here are some of the stories we’re reading this morning.

by Stephen Lacey
Grid Edge 0
Corporates Continue to Pick Up the Cleantech VC Slack
Research Spotlight

Corporates Continue to Pick Up the Cleantech VC Slack

Strategic involvement in grid-edge investments remains strong.

by Andrew Mulherkar
PV, EV, & Storage 12
Electric Bus Builder Proterra Innovates in Conservative Transit Market

Electric Bus Builder Proterra Innovates in Conservative Transit Market

A Silicon Valley electric bus startup looks to “get diesel fuel out of American cities.”

by Eric Wesoff
Finance & VC 2
IEA Report: Clean Energy Spending Needs to Triple to Stabilize CO2 Emissions

IEA Report: Clean Energy Spending Needs to Triple to Stabilize CO2 Emissions

Here are some of the stories we’re reading this morning.

by Stephen Lacey
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Demand Response 4
Supreme Court Will Hear FERC Order 745 Demand Response Case

Supreme Court Will Hear FERC Order 745 Demand Response Case

Former FERC Chair Wellinghoff is “confident” the court will “restore FERC’s authority in this matter.”

by Katherine Tweed
Utility-Scale Solar 3
Here Are the Top 10 Solar Utilities In America

Here Are the Top 10 Solar Utilities In America

SEPA ranks utilities based on solar capacity added in 2014.

by Julia Pyper
PV, EV, & Storage 36
SolarCity’s Plan for Tesla Batteries: Share Grid Revenues With Homeowners

SolarCity’s Plan for Tesla Batteries: Share Grid Revenues With Homeowners

CTO Peter Rive on how a $5,000 battery, co-financed with solar, can break open markets and serve grid-edge needs

by Jeff St. John
Energy Storage 5
Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage Goes Wholesale

Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage Goes Wholesale

Gexpro, LG Chem, Ideal Power and Geli launch commercial building batteries as a package.

by Jeff St. John
Lighting 6
How LED Lights Are Transforming Auto Industry Design

How LED Lights Are Transforming Auto Industry Design

Here are some of the stories we’re reading this morning.

by Stephen Lacey
Batteries, Storage & Fuel Cells 20
Researchers Pair Hydrogen Storage With Marine Renewables to Test Future Possibilities

Researchers Pair Hydrogen Storage With Marine Renewables to Test Future Possibilities

The tidal scheme doesn’t make economic sense. But that’s not the point.

by Jason Deign
Energy Storage 212
How Tesla’s Energy Storage Play Could Take Flight—or Flop

How Tesla’s Energy Storage Play Could Take Flight—or Flop

Tesla’s home batteries are much cheaper than most predicted. But how they’ll make money is the big question.

by Jeff St. John
Utilities 6
Duke Energy Shifting Away From Coal and Launching a Small Push to More Renewables

Duke Energy Shifting Away From Coal and Launching a Small Push to More Renewables

Some of the highlights from Duke Energy’s 2014 sustainability report

by Julia Pyper
Energy Storage 60
Tesla Battery Bottom Line: $3,500 for a 10-Kilowatt-Hour Storage System

Tesla Battery Bottom Line: $3,500 for a 10-Kilowatt-Hour Storage System

Can Tesla and Elon Musk bring consumer cachet to the lowly battery?

by Eric Wesoff
Energy Storage 40
Alevo CEO Says Tesla Batteries Will Struggle to Do More Than ‘Solar Smoothing’

Alevo CEO Says Tesla Batteries Will Struggle to Do More Than ‘Solar Smoothing’

Can Tesla batteries perform at utility scale?

by Julia Pyper
Wind Markets & Policy 5
Can the US Wind Industry Get Beyond Its Boom-Bust Cycle?
Industry Perspective

Can the US Wind Industry Get Beyond Its Boom-Bust Cycle?

The Energy Gang talks with AWEA’s CEO about where America’s wind industry is headed.

by Stephen Lacey
Batteries, Storage & Fuel Cells 37
Sungevity and Sonnenbatterie to Undercut Tesla and SolarCity on Storage Pricing?

Sungevity and Sonnenbatterie to Undercut Tesla and SolarCity on Storage Pricing?

A U.S.-German partnership could soon bring a $10,000 storage system to consumers.

by Jason Deign
Mobility 13
China Is Requiring Toyota to Keep Making Electric Cars, Even Though It Wants to Stop

China Is Requiring Toyota to Keep Making Electric Cars, Even Though It Wants to Stop

Here are some of the stories we’re reading this morning.

by Stephen Lacey
Grid Optimization 5
Smart Wires Clears Congestion and Allows More Renewables on the Transmission Grid

Smart Wires Clears Congestion and Allows More Renewables on the Transmission Grid

The startup’s power-throttling and routing devices could bring new flexibility to a solar- and wind-influenced power grid.

by Jeff St. John
Batteries, Storage & Fuel Cells 20
3 Charts That Explain Why Tesla Is Developing a Battery for Homes

3 Charts That Explain Why Tesla Is Developing a Battery for Homes

Behind-the-meter storage is still a small market, but Tesla is preparing for a wave of activity.

by Stephen Lacey
PV, EV, & Storage 8
How Much Would the Storage Market Change if Batteries Were One-Sixth the Current Price?

How Much Would the Storage Market Change if Batteries Were One-Sixth the Current Price?

They already are, and startup FreeWire is looking at applications for cheap “second-life” EV batteries.

by Eric Wesoff
Software & Analytics 0
GE Ventures Invests in PingThings for Predictive Grid Analytics

GE Ventures Invests in PingThings for Predictive Grid Analytics

The threat of solar flares is a foot in the door with utilities.

by Katherine Tweed
Energy Storage 1
Younicos Wants to Be the World’s Biggest Grid Battery Controller

Younicos Wants to Be the World’s Biggest Grid Battery Controller

The big-money-backed startup sees a big difference in its expertise in pushing energy storage into mainstream.

by Jeff St. John
Energy Storage 21
LightSail’s Secret Plan to Slash the Costs of Compressed Air Energy Storage

LightSail’s Secret Plan to Slash the Costs of Compressed Air Energy Storage

“We’re storing pressure, and we’re storing heat. We can change those proportions.”

by Jeff St. John
Energy Storage 2
GE Reboots Its Storage Business With a Lithium-Ion Battery and Downstream Services

GE Reboots Its Storage Business With a Lithium-Ion Battery and Downstream Services

GE will supply Con Ed Development with an 8-megawatt-hour utility-scale battery in California.

by Julia Pyper
Grid Optimization 0
Do Pay-for-Performance Capacity Markets Deliver the Grid Resiliency Outcomes We Need?
Industry Perspective

Do Pay-for-Performance Capacity Markets Deliver the Grid Resiliency Outcomes We Need?

How to design capacity markets to ensure a flexible electricity mix

by Mike Hogan, Michael O’Boyle, and Sonia Aggarwal