Southern California Edison (SCE) and the Southern California Gas Company (the Gas Company) have announced a joint effort to help their customers reduce–and in some cases, to pay–their monthly energy bills. Recognizing that in the on-going economic crisis, many households are falling behind on their bills or are looking for ways to cut down on [...]

It’s something clean tech observers and many in the utility industry have long expected, articulated in the form of a report from researchers at engineering and consulting company Black & Vetch: California utilities won’t be able to meet their 2010 renewable energy standard (RPS), which decrees that they must obtain 20 percent of their electricity [...]

Like any other material item that comes with a price tag, solar panels can (and do) get stolen. With reports of solar panel theft coming out of countries as far away as South Africa, Australia or Britain, it’s not a phenomenon particular to California, which has seen solar panels filched from buildings ranging from public [...]