A relatlively large number of business leaders are shifting their firms to be ready for the new energy economy, but important questions remain, including how to measure success and how to convince others to join in the quest.
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How Can Business Leaders Accept the Challenges of the New Energy Era?
From green data center management to real-time carbon emissions tracking, more than 100 developers and sustainability professionals gathered last week to hack together solutions for a greener planet.
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A Hackathon for Geekery and the Greater Good
At the GreenBiz Forum this morning in Minneapolis, Tari Emerson, Kohl's director of energy and capital projects, walked through how the retailer has become the nation's largest corporate solar panel owner, and how other companies can get started.
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Inside Kohl’s Green Energy Leadership
The oil giant insists it remains committed to its alternative energy division, and is on track to invest $8 billion in green technology by 2015; the company says solar is too much of a commodity to make a profit.
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BP to Close Its Solar Business after 40 Years
With the U.S. as the global leader, a new report shows microgrids at universities, corporate headquarters, hospitals, and military bases will grow by 164 percent by 2017.
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Microgrids Poised to Grow to Meet Campus-Scale Energy Demands
DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory documents the country’s first set of test procedures to optimize how electric vehicles connect to the smart grid.
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Nat’l Renewable Energy Lab Moves Ahead on Connecting EVs to the Grid
The still-unproven carbon capture and storage technology is one of the most controversial topics among the business community at COP17. Will the ability to sequester emissions from fossil fuels save us, or doom us to rapid climate change?
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Is Carbon Capture Part of the Problem, or Part of the Solution?
A multi-billion-dollar ‘superhighway’ to connect offshore wind turbines to the US electric grid sounds like a can’t-lose idea, but it’s adrift without clearing some big financial, regulatory and technological hurdles.
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Inside Google’s Big, Bold & Risky Atlantic Wind Project
The search giant declared victory and officially shut down Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, an attempt to push down solar costs.
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Google axes clean energy hacking
Google ends its ambitious 4-year-old initiative to make renewable energy cheaper than coal.
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Google Pulls the Plug on Its RE