Month September 2011

White House pressure for a donor?

Not Solyndra, but LightSquared, which is majority owned by major Democratic donor Phil Falcone. The Pentagon has worried for months that a project backed by a prominent Democratic donor might interfere with military GPS. Now Congress wants to know if…

Smart grid stuck in first gear

Instead, what we have are confusing, sometimes obstructionist regulations, utilities still wed to outmoded ways of doing things and, I think, no killer app – no compelling reason for consumers to demand it. Yet.