Martin LaMonica

Schneider Electric and the City of Boston find that the key to more intelligent, efficient cities starts with simple projects.

In the years ahead, will your company thank SolarCity for bringing down the cost of solar power? Here's a progress report on the state of innovation.

SolarCity is doing something few solar installers would ever dream of: it's going to make its own cutting-edge solar panels to lower solar energy costs.

Here's why flying robots have plenty of potential in agriculture, infrastructure monitoring and conservation. 

Turning everyday objects, such as thermostats and streetlights, into smart connected devices has lots of potential if businesses and cities can find the killer apps.

A key technology in smart buildings, demand response helps keep the grid balanced and saves energy with "negawatts."

Why all the buzz around microgrids? GreenBiz explains how distributed microgrids are transforming the energy system.

Distributed energy storage could fuel commercial solar while addressing emerging problems with the electric grid. 

Opower's CEO says utilities are well aware of shifting energy trends, with many investing in technology to change.

At the ARPA-E Summit, technologists and energy users made the case for innovation that makes the energy grid look like an "antiquated backup."