‘Tesla Solar’ Wants to Be the Apple Store for Electricity

Tom Randall

June 29, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Tesla Motors Inc.’s bid to buy the biggest U.S. rooftop solar installer has little to do with selling cars. Rather, it’s about solving two of the biggest problems standing in the way of the next solar boom. And perhaps a good deal more. Full Article

Notes from the Solar Underground: Tesla and SolarCity: When Acquisition Strategies Run Amok

Paula Mints

June 27, 2016 | Post Your Comment

When two companies with negative financials and high debt marry a good response to the nuptials is … Huh? Full Article

Shuttered Mine Streamlines Development, Slashes Costs of Pumped-hydro Storage in Australia

William Steel

June 28, 2016 | Post Your Comment

In the eastern Australian state of Queensland, developers plans to transform a disused gold mine into a 450-MW pumped-hydro storage facility at a fraction of the cost typically associated with pumped-hydro projects. Full Article

Developers of 99.9-MW Glyn Rhonwy Pumped-storage Project Withdraw Permit Applications

Michael Harris

June 28, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Hydroelectric power developer Snowdonia Pumped Hydro has withdrawn its application for environmental permits for the 99.9-MW Glyn Rhonwy pumped-storage plant from Natural Resources Wales. Full Article

Drones Go Where Man Has Gone Before

Duke Energy With Comment from Jennifer Runyon

June 28, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Around the nation, that chatter you hear is the buzz about drones (or the more official term - small unmanned aerial systems - sUAS). Full Article

Whitepaper: Understanding Renewable Energy Asset Performance Management

ABB

Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions often focus on the technical details of data collection, processing, and presentation. While these are important considerations, the APM solution in the era of big data should not be primarily a big data analytics solution. Instead, it should be a strategic tool for efficient collaboration. As one analysis puts it: Full Article

California’s New Interconnection Policies First to Address Cost Certainty and Storage

Sky Stanfield

Jun 23, 2016 | Post Your Comment

With today’s long awaited, unanimous decision issued on its Rule 21, California once again cements its leadership position on several cutting edge clean energy issues. Full Article

EPAct 2005: A Game Changer for Transmission? Part One

David Perlman and Jessica Miller

June 27, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Historically, the siting of electric transmission facilities was the exclusive province of state public utility commissions. In the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005 or Act), Congress gave the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) Full Article

Raising Our Game in Clean Energy Innovation

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

June 27, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Recently I traveled to San Francisco to participate in international efforts to meet the challenge of climate change and accelerate the global transition to clean energy. Full Article