On the Road Reading: Signs of the California Solar Initiative’s Coming End; If CSI is done, did it do what the Governator wanted it to do?

On the Road Reading: Borrego Solar on SREC Funding and Tips for Talking With Banks; Borrego Solar’s CFO explains SRECs and the many ways of financing solar.

On the Road Reading: Can Decision-Makers Learn to Embrace Change in the Energy Risk Lab? “They can try making a billion-dollar decision without actually making a billion-dollar decision.”

On the Road Reading: Do the Big Three Utilities Need More of Californians’ Money? The Ratepayer Advocate says no, but the IOUs say yes.

On the Road Reading: Do California’s Big Three Utilities Need So Much Ratepayer Money? Requests for higher rates are “out of line,” according to the ratepayers’ advocate.

On the Road Reading: Solar for Mind and Spirit—and $15 Billion for Education; Add schools and churches to the consumers making money in solar through third-party financing.

On the Road Reading: More of President Clinton on Efficiency, Solar, Wind, and Political Realities; “You win the tattooed vote and we’ll have the damnedest environmental policy anybody ever saw.”

On the Road Reading: Fact-Checking the Romney Campaign’s Claims on Wind Power; How correct are the Republican numbers—and will they become a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Weekend Video: The President Stands Up

Weekend Video: Wind’s Tax Credit

Weekend Video: Reviewing The Recent Climate Change Facts

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-THE MONEY BEHIND CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-GREECE FAST-TRACKS SUN

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-JAPAN PLANS WORLD’S BIGGEST OCEAN WIND

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-CHINA SUN DEMAND TO GROW SUPPLY CHAIN

TTTA Thursday-THE POLITICS OF THE PRESIDENT’S CLIMATE FIGHT

TTTA Thursday-49% OF 2012’S NEW U.S. ELECTRICITY WAS NEW ENERGY

TTTA Thursday-BILLIONAIRE ENTREPRENEUR WANTS WYO WIND FOR CA

TTTA Thursday-MORE BIG MONEY TO SOLAR TPO FUNDING

TODAY’S STUDY: SPENDING ON OFFSHORE WIND IS A BETTER INVESTMENT THAN SPENDING ON NAT GAS

QUICK NEWS, January 23: RECORD BUILD PUTS WIND AT 6% OF U.S. POWER; NEW ENERGY CAN BE $1.9 TRIL BY 2018; DOE SUNSHOT SHOOTS AT SOLAR COSTS

TODAY’S STUDY: WHERE THE COSTS ARE IN SOLAR

QUICK NEWS, January 22: OBAMA INAUGURAL BOOSTS NEW ENERGY; A BET ON THE PTC’S EXTENSION PAYS OFF; WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE SMART GRID

TODAY’S STUDY: THE BUDDING OFFSHORE WIND SUPPLY CHAIN

QUICK NEWS, January 21: SCIENCE MEETS FAITH IN THE CLIMATE FIGHT; MONEY IN SOLAR EQPMT STILL FALLING; THE BOOM IN VEHICLE BATTERIES

Weekend Video: Bo Obama On Inauguration Day

Weekend Video: Google On The Offshore Wind Opportunity

Weekend Video: Sun Cleans Up In New Jersey

On The Road Reading: Bill Clinton on “Visibly Tattooed” Solar Workers, Unions, and Wind; “The more people with visible tattoos who advocate for clean energy,” President Clinton said, “the more success it will have in Washington.”

On The Road Reading: Germany Added 1.8 GW of PV in June, More Than 4 GW in 2012; Is the growth from smart management of the feed-in tariff—or is it out of control?

On The Road Reading: Has Ioxus Built a Better Ultracap? Flat cells may beat cylinders by 17 percent.

On The Road Reading: Wind Hits 50 Gigawatts in the US; Harry Reid (D-NV), Department of the Interior, AWAEA tout wind capacity milestone, renewables advances at Clean Energy Summit.

On The Road Reading: Will BMW’s Solar-Wind Package Tap a New Target Car Market? At upscale prices, BMW customers get green electric driving—but does that matter?

On The Road Reading: Will Regulators Put the San Onofre Nuclear Plant Back On-Line? Or will they put its operator, SCE, out of business?

On The Road Reading: How Much Renewable Potential Does the US Have? Energy Department scientists say 481,800 terawatt-hours and 212,224 gigawatts.

On The Road Reading: US Wind in a Tempestuous Congress and a Remote Brazilian Court; Can wind get respite from this year’s death by a thousand cuts?

On The Road Reading: The Utility Regulator Agenda Explored; A review of GTM’s coverage of critical summer meetings by regulators on gas fracking, the value of renewables, and energy subsidies

On The Road Reading: Clean Power Finance Brings Solar REC Trading In-House; Will CPF Capital & Trading take the risk out of the revenue stream?

Weekend Video: 2012’s Record Heat And Wild Weather

Weekend Video: 2012 – The Year It Couldn’t Be Denied

Weekend Video: Meet Mr. EnergyCzar

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-AN ARAB YOUTH MOVEMENT TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-BONNIE NEW ENERGY FOR THE HIGH ROAD TO SCOTLAND

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-SOLAR SOUTH OF THE BORDER

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-CHINA GRID GETS SMARTER

TTTA Thursday-NOT A HOAX

TTTA Thursday-RENEWABLES STANDARDS MEAN MORE RENEWABLES

TTTA Thursday-GOOGLE BUYS MORE WIND

TTTA Thursday-EUROPE PLUGS IN

100 MEGAWATT POWER PLANTS FROM THE OCEAN’S TEMPERATURE GRADIENT

QUICK NEWS, January 9: iTURBINE? APPLE STUDIES THERMAL STORAGE FOR WIND; SOLAR BUSINESS CYCLES TO SMOOTH; TWO WHEELERS PLUG IN

TODAY’S STUDY: HOW UTILITIES SEE SOLAR

QUICK NEWS, January 8: BUFFETT COMPANY BUYS WORLDS BIGGEST PV; UTILITY BUYS WIND AT $1.36MIL PER MW; MILITARY ARMS WITH MICROGRIDS

TODAY’S STUDY: ALL ABOUT OFFSHORE WIND RIGHT NOW

QUICK NEWS, January 7: THE SHIFT TO NEW ENERGY GOES ON; A HISTORY OF NAT GAS SUBSIDIES; THE BEST USES FOR FUEL CELLS

Weekend Video: A Movie About Natural Gas Exploration

Weekend Video: Emergency Care In Hawaii

Weekend Video: The Harmonies of New Energy

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-HISTORIC WIN FOR WIND IN FISCAL CLIFF DEAL

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-A MOMENTOUS MOMENT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-UK PV DEMAND POISED TO JUMP

FRIDAY WORLD HEADLINE-GETTING COMMERCIAL BLDGS’ HELP FOR DEMAND

Holiday Reading: With the Utility Regulators, Day 3: Oil and Renewables Debate Subsidies; Quiz: Which type of energy got the first U.S. subsidy? Which got the most? Has the U.S. ever ended a subsidy?

Holiday Reading: How Solar’s ITC Tax Credit Is a Money-Maker; A new study “blows apart the notion that the ITC is somehow welfare for the solar industry.”

Holiday Reading: Is the US Building Transmission Fast Enough or Too Fast? The 2006 federal order 679 giving incentives for new lines may be out of control.

Holiday Reading: California’s Big Utilities at 20.6 Percent Renewables in 2011; Do Renewable Energy Standards grow solar and wind?

Weekend Video: It’s Not A New Year Without It

Weekend Video: Who Is The World?

Weekend Video: New Energy Is 2013’s Height Of Fashion