Cox Communications and The Trust for Public Land have begun accepting nominations in an annual competition aimed at finding the past year's top environmental volunteer.

Infraestructura Energetica Nova SAB, the majority-owned Mexican unit of U.S. utility Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), agreed to sell half of a wind project in the Latin American nation to closely held InterGen NV.

Automakers love concept cars and, as usual, you would find an oddity or two at this week’s New York International Auto Show. Of those concept vehicles, few are unlikely to ever get off, or rather on, the ground.

San Diego County's solar energy financing program for commercial properties known as property assessed clean energy, PACE, will be extended to homeowners after approval from the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

Canada's Conservative government has long made sound economic management the centerpiece of its claim to office.

The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority announced Wednesday that the U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the airport two separate certifications for its Terminal 2 expansion.

It's a given that a solar energy system will allow you to slash your monthly electric.

As November’s general election creates numerous possibilities for policy change both in San Diego and across the country, a group of executives from companies and groups involved in the expansion of solar energy systems discussed the state of their economies at a Daily Transcript roundtable.

In the aftermath of the summer bankruptcy of the government-backed California solar panel maker Solyndra, expectations among renewable energy wonks, who describe the company’s failure as an outlier among many successes, remain generally high. But some policy research analysts are more skeptical — not doubtful, but still skeptical.

Working in the energy business was never a goal for Lee Krevat, now the director of smart grid and clean transportation for San Diego Gas & Electric, and in fact was the result of a begrudgingly made career switch from Silicon Valley at the behest of his family.

When entering San Diego's business community about 30 years ago, Clint Walker’s aim had nothing to do with being in the solar business. His success as the co-founder and president of Southwestern Solar Systems since his entrance to the business in 2009 came about in much the same fashion his other major endeavors have.

When Cecilia Aguillon, director of marketing and government relations for Kyocera Solar Inc., immigrated to the United States from El Salvador as a teen, she grew into a young adult with a lofty goal in mind: to save the world.