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By Ryan Mac: Julie Wainwright is staring down the shaft of an arrow. She wiggles her toes and cocks her head to focus on a set of blue and yellow rings 50 feet away. Pulling the bowstring…

By Eric Wesoff: Dan Shugar and DBL do it again: “I don’t know anyone who has ramped a company as fast as we have.” NEXTracker, a designer and builder of single-axis PV trackers, just got bought by…

SB 350 Myths and Facts California’s leadership on climate and clean energy has generated billions of dollars of in-state investment, spurring job creation and strong growth in new industries, and paving the way for other…

By Staff Reports: Online luxury consignment marketplace The RealReal is beginning its expansion into the bricks-and-mortar space with the opening of a new valuation office in New York. The new location will give consumers the…

Venture investors Pfund, Doerr, Vassallo, Ehrenpreis, Kortlang, Atluru and Prend make a NEM policy case on behalf of DG. August 26, 2015 Governor Jerry Brown State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814 Senate Pro Tem Kevin de…

By Jeff McMahon: Cheap battery storage will prove as disruptive to the energy industry as the cellphone has been to telecommunications, executives from two California startups—Tesla Energy and Advanced Microgrid Solutions—said today at the National Clean Energy…

By Chris Mooney:  LAS VEGAS — President Obama will arrive here Monday to announce a bevy of initiatives to promote clean-energy growth in America’s homes and on its rooftops — the first stop in a…

NEW YORK (August 19, 2015) – Tesla Motors tops Forbes’ fifth annual list of The World’s Most Innovative Companies (p.104) in the Forbes September 7th magazine issue, bumping Salesforce.com to the No. 2 spot for…

SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — SolarCity Corp. (Nasdaq: SCTY) today completed its Solar Asset Backed Notes, Series 2015-1, a securitization of distributed solar energy assets. The notes consist of a senior class…

By THE NEW YORK TIMES This is no Seurat. It’s not an Andy Warhol. And it’s not your grandmother’s cross-stitch, either. Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have genetically altered basic yeast and created these…

Paul van Zyl Co-Founder & CEO, Maiyet Prior to founding Maiyet, Paul was known for pioneering new approaches to human rights protection; he has advised countries around the world on how to facilitate transitions to…

By Marco della Cava:  USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO – Julie Wainwright has long been eager to be firmly associated with something other than Pets.com, the once high-flying dot-com disaster with that sock puppet mascot. After more than a…