Homeowners’ right to solar and the solar industry’s fight to cut rooftop solar soft costs could both get a boost from a new effort to educate neighborhood associations.

The Leaf and Volt, two popular plug-in cars, have lifetime costs found to be within 10 percent of conventional vehicles, both gas and hybrids.

Getting to 2 kW energy savings per home in an Oklahoma smart grid program is a big deal in mass automated residential demand response.

A just-proposed California law would do away with the state’s 33 percent renewables mandate in favor of a coherently procured greentech future. And the plan is backed by renewables advocates.

A two-month effort to pass bills in the Texas legislature that would allow Tesla Motors to sell electric cars directly to consumers has failed.

East Coast utilities are making big grid investments to prep for a hot and stormy 2013.

A solar power tower, PV plant, and geothermal facility approved by the Department of the Interior are now in search of PPAs and financing.

SolarCity, in California at least, is pushing forward a number of energy storage systems as a way for homeowners to have backup power in case of utility outages.

There are thirteen U.S. offshore wind projects in ten states on the Atlantic, Pacific, Great Lakes and Gulf of Mexico coasts, representing 5,100-plus megawatts. None of the projects have started construction.

Nest is secretive about its future plans—but the company isn’t shy about being in constant learning mode.