photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Wednesday, I write about California regulators’ preliminary decision to reject requests by two big utilities to install grid-connected fuel cells: While Google, Wal-Mart and other corporations have embraced fuel cells, California regulators have turned down requests from the state’s two biggest utilities to install the technology. [...]
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California regulators reject utilities’ fuel cell projects
Posted in alternative energy, Bloom Energy, energy, environment, fuel cells, green policy, PG&E, Southern California Edison, tagged Bloom Energy, California Public Utilities Commission, fuel cells, PG&E, Southern California Edison on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The electric car future is unfolding in San Francisco
Posted in Better Place, electric cars, environment, green cars, green policy, PG&E, Southern California Edison, Tesla Motors, tagged Bay Area, Better Place, Chevrolet Volt, Coulomb Technologies, electric cars, Nissan Leaf, PG&E, San Francisco, Tesla Motors on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In a story I wrote with Clifford Krauss in Monday’s New York Times, I look at how the San Francisco Bay Area has is scrambling to prepare for the arrival of mass-market electric cars later this year: SAN FRANCISCO — If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may [...]
The fight to control California’s EV infrastructure
Posted in Better Place, electric cars, energy, environment, green cars, green grid, green policy, PG&E, San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, tagged Better Place, California Public Utilities Commission, electric car charging networks, electric car infrastructure, PG&E, San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Better Place With electric cars months away from hitting the road, the California Public Utilities Commission has begun the complex task of establishing a regulatory framework for the state’s emerging electric vehicle infrastructure. The biggest fight is likely to be over whether to regulate companies like Better Place, which plans to build an electric [...]
Home market dead, desert developer goes solar
Posted in alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, climate change, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, green startups, PG&E, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, tagged BrightSource Energy, Coyote Springs Land Company, Harvey Whittemore, Nevada, solar energy, solar power plants on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: BrightSource Energy In today’s New York Times, I write about how Harvey Whittemore — one of Nevada’s biggest power brokers and a confident of Senate majority leader Harry Reid — has responded to the housing crash by leasing desert land at his mega-home development to BrightSource Energy for a 960-megawatt solar farm complex. What [...]
Bechtel jumps into solar power plant business
Posted in alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, PG&E, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, tagged Bechtel, BrightSource Energy, Ivanpah, solar energy, solar power, solar power plants on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: BrightSource Energy In another sign that old-line corporate giants see solar power as big business, engineering and construction giant Bechtel has signed a deal with BrightSource Energy to build the solar developer’s first solar power plant, a 440-megawatt project in Southern California on the Nevada border. As I write in Wednesday’s New York Times: [...]
California moves to auction off solar energy contracts
Posted in alternative energy, energy, environment, green policy, PG&E, Recurrent Energy, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, SunPower, tagged California Public Utilities Commission, CPUC, photovoltaics, Recurrent Energy, reverse auction market, solar energy, SunPower, Suntech on August 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
photo: Southern California Edison It hasn’t received much media attention, but the California Public Utilities Commission has just proposed instituting a first-of-its-kind reverse auction market to spur renewable energy development — mainly solar photovoltaic. As I write today in The New York Times: California regulators are taking an eBay approach to ramping-up renewable energy in [...]
Tessera to build solar dish farm in Arizona
Posted in alternative energy, energy, environment, San Diego Gas & Electric, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, Stirling Energy Systems, Tessera Solar, tagged Salt River Project, San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, Stirling Energy Systems, SunCatcher, Tessera Solar on August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
photo: Tessera Solar Another day, another Big Solar deal. Tessera Solar on Wednesday said it will build a 1.5 megawatt Stirling solar dish power plant outside Phoenix to supply electricity to utility Salt River Project. The announcement follows Tuesday’s spate of solar power plant deals. As I wrote in The New York Times, utility Southern [...]
eSolar’s green edge — critter friendly solar farms
Posted in alternative energy, climate change, endangered species, energy, environment, eSolar, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, Tessera Solar, tagged Bill Gross, David Myers, endangered species, eSolar, Mojave Desert, solar power plants, Wildlands Conservancy on August 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
photo: eSolar eSolar on Wednesday fired up its five-megawatt Sierra “power tower” solar farm outside Los Angeles during an opening ceremony that featured such green tech luminaries as Google.org climate change director Dan Reicher and Dan Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley. But the speaker that caught my eye was environmentalist David Myers, [...]
Texas’ first Big Solar project, PG&E’s deal with NRG/eSolar
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, BrightSource Energy, environment, eSolar, PG&E, renewable energy, San Diego Gas & Electric, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, tagged Ausra, BrightSource Energy, CPS Energy, eSolar, NRG, PG&E, Stirling Energy Systems, Tessera Solar on June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
photo: Tessera Solar When it comes to renewable energy, Texas has been all about Big Wind. But this week the Lone Star State took on its first Big Solar project when San Antonio utility CPS Energy signed a 27-megawatt deal with Tessera Solar. Houston-based Tessera is the solar farm developer for Stirling Energy Systems, which [...]
Google-backed eSolar to build New Mexico solar farm
Posted in alternative energy, energy, enviro startups, environment, eSolar, First Solar, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, tagged eSolar, New Mexico, NRG, solar power plant on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
photo: eSolar California may be in the midst of licensing dozens of massive megawatt solar power plants but New Mexico may be first state out of the gate with a big project using next-generation solar thermal technology. On Thursday, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced that Pasadena, Calif.-based eSolar and utility giant NRG Energy will [...]
