By Ucilia Wang

The U.S. government is giving $620 million to 32 projects to demonstrate technologies for storing energy, managing electricity distribution and monitoring energy consumption.

By Ucilia Wang

The cost of solar electricity is likely to drop by 50 percent in 2009 from the previous year due largely to a big fall in solar panel prices, said New Energy Finance Monday.

By Ucilia Wang

Globe Specialty Metals (GSM) said it has re-opened its factory in Niagara Falls to produce a type of silicon that hasn't found a wide adoption in the solar industry.

By Ucilia Wang

NRG Solar said Monday it has bought a near-complete solar power plant in California from First Solar (FSLR), which entered the project development business to create demand for its solar panels.

By Jeff St. John

The South Korean government has declared its intention to help its home industries win 30 percent of the global smart grid market, Reuters reported Friday.

By Michael Kanellos

Johnson Controls (JCI) will informally refer to itself as the IBM of green building and in many ways the analogy is apt. Both companies have extensive histories. The Milwaukee-based company just announced another quarterly dividend, the latest in a streak that stretches back to 1887.

By Ucilia Wang

Solar company executives have often talked about India as a potentially huge market. Now they can count on the government's help to make that a reality.

by Jeff St. John

The South Korean government has declared its intention to help its home industries win 30 percent of the global smart grid market, Reuters reported Friday. But to start, the government will spend a relatively small 37 billion won ($32 million) to test smart grid systems from a consortium including SK Telecom (SKM), LG Electronics (LGERF.PK), Hyundai Heavy Industries (HYHZF.PK) and national utility Korea Electric Power Corp., or KEPCO (KEP).

by Michael Kanellos

Nearly two months after its successful initial public offering, A123 Systems (AONE) seems headed back to its roots.

by Michael Kanellos

Tesla Motors is preparing to move forward with an IPO, according to unidentified sources at Reuters.

By Michael Kanellos

Ed Lu, the former astronaut who now works as a program manager for advanced projects at Google, says that Google (GOOG) does not see PowerMeter, the software it created for monitoring energy in your home, as a way to make money.

By Jeff St. John

Microsoft (MSFT) turned on the data feeds to its Hohm home energy monitoring platform at a third utility on Thursday – the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.

By Jeff St. John

Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy (DUK), wants to own every piece of the smart grid, all the way down to the energy portals in customers' homes and the solar panels on their roofs.

By Jeff St. John

By Jeff St. John

Add car-charging to the list of capabilities smart meter maker Itron (ITRI) and demand response provider Comverge (COMV) want to offer utilities.

By Jeff St. John

The U.S. Senate will postpone until next year its debate on energy and climate legislation, along with its controversial plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions.

By Jeff St. John

General Electric (GE) and Chinese coal company Shenhua Group will partner on cleaner coal power plant technology, the two announced Tuesday, adding their names to a growing list of Chinese-U.S. clean energy partnerships.

By Michael Kanellos

A-Power Wind Generation Systems (APWR) and the U.S. Renewable Energy Group have said that they will build a wind turbine factory in the U.S. that will produce 1,100 megawatts worth of wind turbines a year and employ approximately 1,000 American workers.

By Jeff St. John

Itron (ITRI) has picked a new partner to link its older, one-way communicating electricity meters to utilities – North Carolina-based home energy networking startup Sequentric Energy Systems.

By Jeff St. John

The Chevrolet Volt, General Motors' showcase plug-in hybrid car, is still set to start rolling out of factories in November 2010, despite losing $1.2 billion in its most recent quarter.