(May 7, 2012) Commissioner Carla Peterman discusses her work at the California Energy Commission, which is the state's primary energy policy and planning agency.

(June 4, 2012) Shawn Kerrigan discusses the advantages and challenges of solar energy when used for distributed generation.

(April 9, 2012) John Atcheson and Logan Green focus on the opportunities and challenges facing peer-to-peer sharing and offer a vision for a world in which every car is shared.

(April 2, 2012) Michael Dale analyzes the energy PV industry given historic and projected growth in capacity.

(April 23, 2012) Eric Stoutenburg discusses the synergy that one gets when one combines offshore wind and wave energy farms.

(May 21, 2012) Frank Wolak summarizes the results of a number of research projects for allowing electricity consumers to benefit from active participation in wholesale electricity markets.

(April 30, 2012) Yi Cui introduces some of the projects that The Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium selected to fund at various universities and laboratories.

(May 14, 2012) Balaji Prabhakar describes the use of low-cost sensing and networking technology for sensing individual behavior, and the use of incentives and social norming to influence behavior.