The largest home automation services company plans to add solar for its huge customer base, and Sumitomo takes a significant equity share of the biggest solar project in the US.
Siting CHP at industrial sites would provide energy less expensive than coal and prevent the need for new power plants.
The company is now Bloom's largest customer with almost 18 MW.
Offshore labs allow wave and tidal companies to test devices by plugging them into the grid.
As groups push for the subject to be discussed during the presidential debates, California passes laws on how to spend the billions in revenue from its cap-and-trade program.
The program is instrumental in creating 12,000 green jobs every quarter since April 2009.
The Federal Trade Commission updated its Green Guidelines, which aim to prevent deceptive advertising about the "greenness" of products.
Major new rankings identify promising companies in energy efficiency, water management and range of other green technologies.
New solar factories open in the US, Thailand opens its biggest; S. Korea opens it first big wind farm in the US; Obama decides Chinese firm can't buy four US wind farms, and more.
NY is beginning a second review process of fracking, as industry lobbying rises to record levels.