Solar Power Craze on Wall St. Propels Start-Up

By Diane Card­well and Julie Creswell. The first inklings of the idea came to Elon Musk and a cousin in an R.V. head­ing to the Burn­ing Man fes­ti­val in 2004. Lyn­don Rive, […]

Impact investing – Turning a profit for ‘humankind’

BY pree­tamkaushik. Reg­u­lar busi­ness invest­ments are mea­sured on the suc­cess barom­e­ter by their abil­i­ty to deliv­er a finan­cial return. Invest­ing in the social sec­tor, referred to as impact invest­ing, presents an additional […]

SolarCity continues to grow after IPO, 10 New Operations Centers

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 25, 2013—SolarCity® (Nas­daq: SCTY), a lead­ing provider of clean ener­gy, announced the open­ing of ten new oper­a­tions cen­ters in Cal­i­for­nia. All are expect­ed to be operational […]

BrightSource Energy, Inc. Names David Ramm as New CEO

OAKLAND, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bright­Source Ener­gy, Inc., a lead­ing provider of con­cen­trat­ing solar ther­mal tech­nol­o­gy (CSP), announced today that its Board of Direc­tors has named David Ramm to the posi­tion of Chief […]