Everyone is used to clunky and heavy panels that are affixed to the tops of buildings and carports, but now GE has announced that it has taken the skinnier solar panels farther than they’ve ever been before, achieving record efficiency for a single cadmium telluride thin film solar cell–a 12.8% conversion rate of sunlight into [...]

The city of Houston is offering commercial building owners up to $200,000 in incentives to improve energy efficiency, putting a special emphasis on retrofitting older and smaller buildings. The city will pay to offset 20 percent of the labor and material costs of projects that improve a building’s efficiency by at least 15 percent, said [...]

As I have mentioned previously, I am a big believer in the notion, “Follow the money.” Hat tip to Green Tech Media and Venture Beat’s Green Beat that do great jobs on the money that flows into the space. Cleantech saw $7.8 Billion in 2010 (the most post-credit bubble), but that was somewhat tempered with [...]

NRG Energy, the parent company of Houston’s Reliant Energy, announced its largest solar ambitions to date, with a plan to spend up to $450 million over four years on a 250-megawatt project being developed by SunPower. According to this Reuters article, NRG Solar as they are known, has also invested in the following solar projects [...]

As we mentioned in an April blog post here, VP Biden is a big believer in retrofits. On Tuesday, Biden and HUD announced a new pilot program that will offer credit-worthy borrowers low-cost loans to make energy-saving improvements to their homes. Backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), these new FHA PowerSaver loans will offer [...]