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A Burlingame-based startup is one of five companies awarded contracts with the U.S. Army to develop geothermal generating capacity to power military bases.
You'd think California's investor-owned utilities would be all for net metering: it provides them with a considerable amount of solar energy essentially for free, and keeps them from having to sink money into upgrading transmission. But they're fightin...
Northern California's largest utility may have to pay a total of $2.25 billion in penalties over a deadly September 2010 pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno.
A new startup has big plans to connect solar installers with rooftop owners using a resource that's almost as inexhaustible as the sun: cheap student labor.
Almost all of California's new power capacity coming online in the second half of 2013 will be solar, according to the California Independent System Operator.
With a governor who seems unwilling to step up, and a set of regulatory agencies that have not yet announced a clear-cut set of rules to control the impact of fracking on public health and the environment, the legislature must take the lead.
California's grid operator says SoCal should have enough power without San Onofre, but we've all got to be ready to conserve.
Hayes oversaw fast-tracking of wind and solar energy developments on public lands.
A Los Angeles-based company that builds charging stations for electric cars has been sold.
A place that many deride as "The Hood" or "The Ghetto" can still yield the most pleasant surprises.
A "solar window outlet" making the rounds of social media would need to violate a few laws of physics to deliver as promised.
The shut down could happen if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission doesn't approve a plan to restart part of the plant this summer.