Cleantech

Tesla turns a profit

Tesla shares surged 12 percent in after hours trading on news that Tesla reached profitability in Q1 for the first time in its ten-year history with a profit of $15 million on sales of $562 million for the quarter, a record for the EV producer.[read more]

energy business leaders/shuterstock

This feels like the launch of an arms race in intelligent energy, in other words. And investors who are building and selling into it should be pretty excited right about now.[read more]

smart meter

A new report predicts that smart meter installations will drop more than 35 percent through 2014 in North America, due to the depletion of stimulus money granted by the first-term Obama administration.[read more]

PJM's demand reponse

Increasing reliance on smart technology to revolutionize the way efficiency is utilized represents a departure from the supply-side approach that has traditionally governed the "dumb," centralized electricity system of years past.[read more]

Chevy Volt

Cost-cutting plans include a weight reduction of the 3,700-pound car and a switch to a dedicated platform, rather than the use of the gasoline-powered Cruze platform.[read more]

Anne McEntee

Newly appointed GE Renewable Energy VP Anne McEntee, who will run the world leading wind division, met with a group of reporters to talk shop at Windpower 2013, the industry’s annual conclave.[read more]

solar-powered flight

At each stop Solar Impulse will be on display for the public to see the groundbreaking airplane as it kicks off the Clean Generation initiative to raise awareness of the potential of clean and renewable sources of energy.[read more]

GE's Brilliant wind turbine

After premiering its 2.5-megawatt, 120-meter rotor Brilliant wind turbine in February, GE is now announcing the commercial installation of the first three models that will integrate energy storage capability.[read more]

Clear Edge fuel cell

Verizon has announced it will invest $100 million in a solar and fuel-cell energy project that will help power 19 of its facilities in seven states across the country.[read more]

solar energy/shutterstock

Is the solar industry marketing itself successfully? Are solar firms reaching consumers? Is branding important? Can the average consumer name even one solar panel manufacturer?[read more]

AC vs DC/shutterstock

Perhaps Thomas Edison was right after all. As new technology develops, it's time to ask the question: should be using direct current (DC) instead of alternating current (AC) power?[read more]

is policy standing in the way?

Last week was the BNEF Summit (Bloomberg New Energy Finance), the annual gathering of the clean energy faithful. Here are my three take-aways with respect to our clean energy future.[read more]

California's grid

Almost all of the new generation capacity in the California transmission system operator’s queue for the second half of 2013 is solar -- 97 percent, to be exact. There are 1,633 megawatts of new generation capacity in the 2H 2013 queue.[read more]

GE's new wind turbine

General Electric recently announced it had started testing the prototype of what it calls the world’s most efficient high-output wind turbine. The new 2.5-120 is being tested in Wieringermeer, Netherlands.[read more]

Virginia statehouse/shutterstock

Virginia enjoys bipartisan support for clean energy and sees it as a path towards economic development. But Dominion Power, the state’s largest investor-owned utility, continues to offer resistance.[read more]