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With half a dozen renewable tax breaks slated to expire in three months, witnesses told a key House committee that simply letting them all die will cause “chaos” for the energy industry.

Virtually all today’s witnesses, speaking before a joint hearing of the House Ways & Means’ subcommittees on Select Revenue Measures and Oversight, favored phasing out current technology-specific tax credits, either as part of a full tax code overhaul or replacing them with technology-neutral incentive mechanisms. Keep reading →


The energy industry needs to achieve “escape velocity” with the help of entrepreneurial innovation, said one of Silicon Valley’s leading thought leaders said recently.

“If you think about the energy industry as an enterprise and we look at the entrepreneurial people involved, [they] are the energy mitochondria or the chloroplasts that are going to create the escape velocity,” Geoffrey Moore said to a conference audience gathered in California last week. Keep reading →