After being eclipsed by residential property-assessed clean energy financing in 2014, commercial PACE projects lined up considerable funding in 2015, and not just in California. The Connecticut Green Bank just announced that […]

Substantial impairment charges may change an investor’s appetite for an oil company given the potential impact on future cash flows. via Forbes – Energy http://ift.tt/1IYs5RM

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) redesigned the weekly Coal Production report and combined two price reports into a single Coal Markets product to improve access to EIA’s coal data. Users can […]

The long-delayed Tres Amigas superstation would help move up to 20 gigawatts of electricity around the continent via IEEE Spectrum Recent Content http://ift.tt/1Qvlu4n

This week, pay-as-you-go solar firm BBOXX said it plans to lead the first-ever securitization of off-grid assets. The plan is to lower its cost of capital as it scales in developing countries. Despite improvements […]

In the iron economy, you’d retrofit coal plants to burn iron powder, then recycle it using renewable energy via IEEE Spectrum Recent Content http://ift.tt/1MhwoCI

House Republicans unveiled legislation late Tuesday night that included multi-year extensions of tax credits for solar and wind.  The credit extensions were attached to a broad set of spending measures as part […]

Stored electricity, increasingly derived from renewable sources, will entirely replace fossil fuels as the preferred method to power everything in our lives. via Renew Economy http://ift.tt/1NMKf9j

Washington a Big energy companies are bracing for the next round in their fight to stop U.S. regulators from making them reveal what they pay foreign governments for rights to extract oil, […]

A Weibull reliability analysis reveals that 2/3 of early Tesla drive units need to be replaced by 60,000 miles. So far, repairs have been under warranty. The post Early Tesla Drive Units […]