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Senate Dem: Energy Bills Stalled Until Fiscal ‘Grand Bargain’ Is Struck
The Washington Post
May 18, 2012
Sen. Mark Udall has reached a sobering conclusion: Energy legislation will remain stuck in the political mud until Washington reaches a sweeping, and thus far elusive, financial agreement.  Read more here.
DOE's Chu Sees Arizona Potential in Energy Diversity
Phoenix Business Journal
May 17, 2012
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu believes in a diversified energy portfolio, and on Tuesday he was in Arizona to speak on at least one aspect of how to get it: financing. Read more here.
Green Energy CEOs to Face Loan Questions
The Hill
May 17, 2012
The Energy Department’s loan guarantee program will be back in the cross-hairs of Capitol Hill Republicans on Wednesday. Read more here.
Kleiner Perkins Backs Solar Sales & Marketing Start-up
GigaOm
May 17, 2012
San Francisco-based Gen110, a solar sales and marketing company, now plans to add other residential energy services and has lined up venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as an investor. Read more here.
Phoenix to Mark New Phase of Solar Program
AP
May 16, 2012
Energy Secretary Steven Chu will join Phoenix officials in marking the second phase of the nation's largest city-sponsored solar financing program. Read more here.
Saudi Arabia Launches Massive Renewable Program with Hybrid FITs
Renewable Energy World
May 16, 2012
While North America continues to dawdle on renewables, the oil-rich Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has proposed one of the most sweeping and massive moves to renewable energy on the planet. Read more here.
Battery Maker A123 Posts Big Losses
GigaOm
May 16, 2012
The lithium-ion battery maker posted lower revenues and greater losses for Q1 of this year, about two months after it launched a program to replace batteries with defective cells. Read more here.
Study Finds Americans Willing to Pay a Little More for Clean Energy
NYT Green
May 15, 2012
A new public opinion study finds that people are willing to pay higher energy costs to move to cleaner energy. Read more here.
'Feed-in Tariff" Rebranded for America
InsideClimate News
May 15, 2012
Officials in Long Island, N.Y., are rebranding a promising yet largely overlooked policy instrument to ramp up the region's solar power capacity: the feed-in tariff. Read more here.
Big Oil's Big in Biofuels
Business Week
May 15, 2012
On the way to a renewable energy future, a funny thing has happened: Big Oil has become the biggest investor in the race to create green fuels.  Read more here.
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