Robert C. Armstrong, deputy director of the MIT Energy Initiative, will replace incoming Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz at the Initiative, MIT News reports.
Rooftop solar maker SunPower CEO Tom Werner said the company is planning to expand into the energy storage business by producing lithium-ion batteries, Gigaom reports.
Aiming to be the first company to repay its Energy Department advanced vehicle loan, Tesla Motors Inc. plans to sell as much as $830 million in stock and debt, Bloomberg reports.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor has announced a $30 million investment to install solar panels at the island's main convention center while making a call for more renewable energy projects.
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing, "The Road Ahead: Advanced Vehicle Technology and its Implications." NHTSA Administrator David Strickland, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers President Mitch Bainwol among witnesses.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Amtrak has unveiled at a plant in California the first of 70 new locomotives, marking what the national passenger railroad service said it hopes will be a new era of better reliability, streamlined maintenance and more energy efficiency.
On a broader scale, the new engines displayed Monday could well be viewed as emblematic of the improving financial health of Amtrak, which has long been dependent on subsidies from an often reluctant Congress.
CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.
The House approved a bill that would protect electric utilities from environmental fines and lawsuits if the Energy Department orders them to keep power flowing, FuelFix reports.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will meet to discuss safe development of shale gas and hear testimony from government and industry officials today, The Hill reports.
Activists and environmentalists launched criticisms against the Environmental Defense Fund for its decision to join industry groups to help develop hydraulic fracturing standards, Bloomberg reports.
Some industry leaders are concerned that shifting opinions and increased legislative action on hydraulic fracturing could hinder their chances to develop Colorado's energy resources, Bloomberg reports.
Dominion Resources Inc. told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week that it had removed all nuclear fuel from the reactor at the shuttered Kewaunee Nuclear Plant, the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports.
A Colorado bill to establish a renewable energy mandate for cooperatives has faced a lawsuit and an advertising campaign over whether the bill would incentivize state renewable energy, The Gazette reports.
