A look at the climate change efforts of PG&E, a finalist in the 2011 Gigaton Awards.

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Gigaton Awards Profile: PG&E

Seen as strategic market opportunity, Schneider Electric with Telvent offer smart city applications for critical infrastructure management and efficiency improvements.

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Schneider Electric and Telvent Team Up for Smart Cities

Pike Research predicts the building energy efficiency market to grow in value to $103.5 billion in 2017.

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Spending on Building Energy Efficiency to Boom in Next 5 Years

Pushing device communications standards, a new standards committee from the Consumer Electronics Association will help manufacturers, utilities, and service providers increase time-to-market opportunities for smart grid consumer products.

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CEA Launches New Effort to Promote Smart Grid-Connected Products

Autodesk is on a mission to dispel any doubts about the power and possibilities that cloud computing brings to sustainable design. The technology and its impacts on design are Topic A at company’s user conference in Las Vegas.

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How Autodesk Uses Cloud Computing to Revolutionize Sustainable Design

Cutting energy use across the enterprise can be so simple, and so cost-effective that it’s astounding there is still any of this low-hanging fruit waiting to be plucked. Here are eight case studies showing what’s possible.

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3 Obvious Ways Companies Can Flip the Switch and Save Millions

Naperville city utility has launched a $22 million smart grid initiative to radically improve efficiencies, increase reliability, manage costs, and develop a proactive customer service unit.

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Naperville Smart Grid Initiative Focuses On Consumer Benefits

A Facebook facility in Oregon, a Yahoo! site in Nebraska and a vast QTS data center in Atlanta — the second largest in the world — have achieved LEED certification.

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Facebook, Yahoo!, QTS Data Centers Land LEED Ratings

BlueStar Energy Solutions, a provider of energy efficiency and demand response services, has acquired TruBrite Energy Management. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition builds upon BlueStar’s energy management offerings, which includes lighting controls, design and retrofits, energy monitoring and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) controls. BlueStar also acts as an independent retail electricity

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Efficiency Company BlueStar Buys TruBrite

The U.S. Navy sent a destroyer ship powered by algae-based fuel on a 20-hour trip Wednesday, the largest alternative fuel test it has undertaken to date. Some 20,000 gallons of the fuel were pumped into the test ship (pictured) and powered it overnight from San Diego to Port Hueneme, Calif., reports the Associated Press. The

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Navy Launches Algae-Powered Destroyer