GE plugs into Better Place, Sharp buys U.S. solar developer
photo: GE I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. General Electric on Wednesday gave a jump-start to Better Place, the Silicon Valley startup developing an electric car infrastructure...
View ArticleCalifornia’s solar binge continues; enacts energy storage law
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. While efforts to pass federal climate change legislation have stalled and a fight rages in California to overturn its global...
View ArticleGreen tech investment plummets, California hit hard
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Friday, I write about a report showing venture capital investment in green technology companies nose-dived in the third quarter of 2010, with California...
View ArticleNot just a photo(voltaic) op: Maldives leader goes solar
I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed (on right in above photo), didn’t just agree to have solar panels installed on the presidential...
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s solar strategy to compete with China
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times Green blog on Wednesday, I follow up on my print story about the impact of low-cost Chinese solar manufacturers on high-tech Silicon Valley startups: In an...
View ArticleFeds approve first solar farm on goverment land in Nevada
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The Obama administration’s solar building boom continues. On Wednesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed the first lease...
View ArticleRecipe for U.S. solar boom: policy, money + a little sunshine
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The United States is on the verge of a solar boom that could provide 4.3 percent of the nation’s electricity by 2020, according...
View ArticleGround broken on U.S’ first big solar power plant in 20 years
photo of desert tortoise tagged with a radio transmitter at the Ivanpah solar farm site: Todd Woody In Yale Environment 360 on Wednesday, I interview John Woolard, chief executive of BrightSource...
View ArticleDesert solar boom begins, may be short-lived
photo: Todd Woody In Friday’s New York Times, I write about the beginning of the long-awaited solar boom in the Mojave Desert and how it may well be short-lived if crucial federal incentives for...
View ArticleMegawatt mania: California approves seventh Big Solar farm
photo: Todd Woody In a follow up to my story in Friday’s New York Times on the beginning of a solar building boom in the desert Southwest, I take a look at California regulators’ approval of the...
View ArticleChina syndrome: California’s Solyndra to close solar factory
photo: White House In Wednesday’s New York Times, I have an exlusive about Silicon Valley solar startup Solyndra’s move to shutter a factory and lay off workers just weeks after it opened a state-of...
View ArticleWhy the green energy revolution needs the smart grid
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. If you want a birds-eye view of the future of power, scramble up to the roof of a 562,089-square-foot warehouse in Ontario, a...
View ArticleCode enforcement: iPhone app for enviro monitoring
I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Environmental enforcement? Yes, there’s an app for that too. As California’s permanent budget crisis results in continuing cutbacks to...
View ArticleSaving the desert tortoise from solar power plants
photo: Todd Woody In the New York Times on Wednesday, I follow up my story on solar power plants and desert tortoises: In an article in The New York Times on Wednesday, I write about how the fortunes...
View ArticleNRG to acquire SunPower solar farm for $450 million
I wrote this story for Reuters, where it first appeared on November 30, 2010. A subsidiary of NRG Energy on Tuesday said it will invest up to $450 million in a 250-megawatt photovoltaic power plant to...
View ArticleShort-circuiting California’s solar thermal power plant boom
photo: Todd Woody In Thursday’s New York Times, I write about how the nascent solar thermal boom in California’s Mojave Desert is being derailed by lawsuits from environmental, union and Native...
View ArticlePortlandia to help wean Los Angeles from coal
I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Portlandia may not be the sunniest of places, but it’s exporting solar energy in the form of photovoltaic panels used to build carbon-free power...
View ArticlePower sharing: App connects EV drivers, outlet owners
In The New York Times on Monday, I write about PlugShare, a new iPhone app that lets people share their household outlets and electric car charging stations with EV drivers: First there was music...
View ArticleProp 23 coalition revives campaign for green policies
In The New York Times on Friday, I wrote about the organizers of California’s No on Proposition 23 campaign resurrecting their coalition to press for green energy policies in the Golden State and...
View ArticleStartups aim to reinvent the internal combustion engine
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Thursday, I wrote about a slew of Silicon Valley-backed startups developing new kinds of internal combustion engines that are more fuel efficient and less...
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