Global energy investment patterns are a mixed bag of trends. A recent snapshot of these patterns offers an equal measure of good news and cause for concern.The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its second annual...
At a time when Energy Star may be on the chopping block, a newcomer is making its entrance, and the timing is completely coincidental.In mid-July, the House Appropriations Committee voted to pass the Fiscal Year 2018 Interior...
According to the latest report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), released the last week of July, absolute and per capita residential energy usage continues to decline. The EIA reported that annual...
A subway construction project in Los Angeles has unearthed a variety of 11,000-year-old fossils since last year and is likely to uncover even more in the upcoming months.Because of the subway project’s proximity to the La...
Venture capitalists are always looking for the next "best deal," and many of them are finding these deals in technologies that deliver and manage electricity on the grid.Mercon Capital Group's most recent "Battery Storage...
The House Appropriations Committee voted on July 18 to pass the Fiscal Year 2018 Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill, which provides $31.4 billion to federal investments in natural resources. This budget is $824...
A merger that has been in the works for years, and that has suffered some setbacks along the way, seems destined to happen after a court ruling last week.On July 20, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed the...
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has released three recent reports that illustrate a generally positive environment for the housing market, starts and remodeling, though two of the three showed some signs of...
A new type of local area network—passive optical local area networks (OLANs)—is becoming widely accepted because it costs less than half as much as traditional LANs. How much do you know about passive OLANs?