Energy

Los Angeles wanted to become the "Solar Capital of the World." What happened?

Does energy conservation force people to reduce their standard of living? Richard L. Berke discusses the politics of power.

This week, San Francisco law makers announced a plan to develop the largest solar power network in the U.S.

Faced with a serious energy crises, Californians are learning to conserve.

A U.K. project to power a million households with wind energy will help the country meet its obligations to reduce global warming.

Wind energy is finally competive with conventional energy source and experts say the U.S. has the potential of being the "Saudi Arabia of Wind."

Environmental regulators' attitudes and incentives must change if new energy plants are to be built in the near future.

California's energy crisis creates some strange bedfellows in support of the Metcalf Energy Center near San Jose, California.

Facing an electricity crisis, the hottest California real estate market is suddenly power plants.

California may win 160,000 acres of Sierra Nevada wild lands and alpine lakes currently owned by PG&E and SCE.

Other western states have the same power needs as California and they fear that California will bleed them dry.

A water shortage seems likely to compound the state's crippling electricity shortage.

Amid California's power crisis, the battle over the new Metcalf Energy Center heats up.

Robert J. Samuelson argues that contradictions in the U.S. energy policy are responsible for California's energy crisis. "If you want to curb pollution and global warming, you can't have cheap power."

Alameda County, CA, wants to generate electricity by installing solar panels on housing units of the Santa Rita jail.

Los Angeles' Department of Water & Power is a poster-child of success while California experiences a full-fledged energy crisis.

State officials are trying to build one of the largest wind farms in the nation.

World's first commercial power station that generates electricity from ocean waves has been connected to Britain's national grid.