With the goal of advancing a U.S. Navy initiative to rely less on fossil fuels, the nonprofit CleanTech San Diego is hosting an event with the San Diego Military Advisory Council to bring together clean technology stakeholders and military brass. 

Energy Technology Ventures invested in San Diego-based On-Ramp Wireless, developer of wireless networks for energy automation, as part of the company’s Series C capital raise. 

Public comments on its initial report are in and the Unified Port of San Diego is now tasked with turning its Environmental Impact Review on the proposed Convention Center expansion into a final proposal. 

In less than three months, visitors and residents will have another open-space area along San Diego’s downtown waterfront, as the Port of San Diego has announced the grand opening date of its 18th park. 

The main characters in the 1997 Academy Award winning film, "Men in Black" (MIB), are two male members of an ultra-secret organization which is obliged to protect the planet and charged with “monitoring and policing extraterrestrial activities on Earth.” The MIB are fallible protectors of the public who make it all seem to happen invisibly, anonymously and against great odds -- sans all the fuss. 

The words community, choice and aggregation alone can apply to a countless number of things. Put together, they take on the meaning of how a local nonprofit hopes to change and influence the distribution of electricity in the San Diego region. 

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. 

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. 

Some people look at buildings and see a combination of wood, steel and mortar with a number of things inside to make them more comfortable and workable — lighting, computers and maybe a few windows, even if they can't be opened.