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While the 377-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System is a star among the solar community, the project recently got to be a star in another way. The Denver-based rock band, The Fray, used the monolithic…

One week before Veteran’s Day, military “LinkedIn” platform RallyPoint announced it just closed a $5 million Series A round led by Silicon Valley’s DBL Partners, which has invested in Pandora and Tesla. RallyPoint co-founders Yinon…

NIPTON, Calif.—Once we passed Whiskey Pete’s, a tawdry castle-turned-casino/hotel where rooms go for $36 a night, I got my first glimpse of Ivanpah, the world’s largest solar project, which cost $2.6 billion to build. The…

SolarCity Corp. (SCTY:US), the rooftop-solar power provider that’s quadrupled in value since its December initial public offering, agreed to buy closely held Zep Solar Inc. for about $158 million in stock to ensure supplies of…

We have a free, abundant fuel source in the sun that, with improvements in energy storage, can become a substantial source of power. Passage of AB 327 last month is an important step forward as…

DBL’s Managing Partner, Nancy E. Pfund,  speaks on climate change and a consumer’s choice to positively impact the environment through rooftop solar. See video presentation here.    

Five Prime Therapeutics Inc.’s $62 million stock debut Wednesday is getting good reviews on Wall Street so far, continuing the biotech industry’s rise to investment favor. Five Prime is the fourth Bay Area biotech initial…

If you have a child in school, chances are fairly good he or she has come in contact with Revolution Foods. The company, headquartered in Oakland, has served some 75 million meals in school cafeterias…

“Federal dollars per new megawatt-hour for distributed solar are infinitely lower.” California’s nuclear energy industry has received four times more federal support than the state’s distributed solar builders over a period six times as long,…

California’s nuclear energy industry has received $8.21 billion in federal subsidies over the last 50 years, while solar continues to struggle, receiving less support than nuclear did in its earliest years, according to a report released Monday by DBL…

Until now, there have been Lunchables and, well, Lunchables. The Kraft Food Group’s Oscar Mayer brand created the concept of prepackaged lunch meals for children in 1988 and has effectively owned that business ever since,…

Lately, it seems, just about everybody is becoming an impact investor. “All good,” one might say, for who wouldn’t want to rally behind those who strive to make a difference in the world while implementing…