The Smart Meter-Home Security Connection

ADT Pulse

Greentech Media reports on how Southern California Edison and ADT Pulse will offer customers real-time smart meter data. Will customers sign up? Read more →

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Smart-Meter-to-Home Retail Sales Go Live In SoCal

Rainforest EMU

Greentech Media reports on a new program in Southern California that could push the smart-meter-to-home-energy-device connection into the consumer marketplace in a big new way. Read more →

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BrightSource Eyes More Power Towers With Cash Infusion

bloomberg clean energy investment

Concentrating solar might be struggling, but BrightSource Energy just raised $80 million in equity investment, and won regulator approval for two (of five) power purchase deals. Read more →

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California Hits 20% Renewables; Next Stop, 25% In 2016

huron solar power, pacific gas & electric, pg&e

With a big surge last year, California's investor-owned utilities hit a 20 percent renewable portfolio standard target. Ultimately, they need to be at 33 percent by 2020. Read more →

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Smart Meter Opt Out Options Grow In California

Smart meter

Californians with two more major utilities as their power providers now have the option to opt out of smart meters if they so choose as the CPUC rules analog meters must be allowed as a choice. Read more →

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NYC Cleantech Startup A Big Deal In California

Fresh Kills former landfill site on Staten Island, NY

For the longest time it has been playing catch-up, but New York City might at last be taking a forward role in the development of green technology. Read more →

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Solar Power Puts A Little Green In Kleenex

Rooftop Solar Array

Prologis and Southern California Edison expand a 100-kilowatt solar system at a Kimberly-Clark distribution center to a giant 4.9-megawatt array. Read more →

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Molten-Salt Storage Coming To California

BrightSource, energy storage

BrightSource Energy says it will build three big solar thermal power plants with energy-storage capability, with the power going to Southern California Edison. Read more →

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Solar Plant Sprouts At Desert Air Force Base

Edwards-PV

Edwards Air Force Base in California's Antelope Valley is partnering with Borrega Solar to install three 1-megawatt solar farms to offset its utility bills. Read more →

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Smart Meters Come To Orange County

Smart Meters, Southern California Edison

California utility company SCE is on-track to installing five million smart meters in the state, recently rolling out the technology in Orange County. Read more →

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