The utilities might not want to hear it, but rooftop solar power is saving everyone money. That’s what new research from Boston University found. In Massachusetts alone solar saved utility customers $184 million between 2010 and 2012. 

Earlier this week Apple filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to sell electricity from its solar farms at the Cupertino, CA, campus and at its Nevada datacenter. The filing also will allow it’s subsidiary Apple Energy LLC to sell power from its other energy generators around the country, including hydrogen fuel cells, biogas facilities, solar farms and hydroelectric plants. 

It’s been a busy week for Colorado’s Clean Energy Collective (CEC), one of the leading community solar power installers. In Colorado it announced a first of its kind partnership to bring the benefits of community solar to low-income residents in Summit County and it announced 21 megawatts of new community solar projects in Massachusetts. 

The first four months of 2016 are a triumph for the US solar industry. Fully 1.7 gigawatts of solar power came online in the first quarter—that’s not just 64 percent of all new electric generation in the country—it’s more electric generation than the combined total of coal, natural gas and nuclear that came online in the period. Only wind at 33 percent of new energy installations in the US, came close. 

Scientists at Harvard University have developed a ‘bionic leaf’ that uses artificial photosynthesis to convert sunlight into liquid energy at 10 percent efficiency—far more efficient than even the fastest growing plants. The device shows the potential of the technology to produce biofuels. 

“Renewables accounted for all of the growth in global power generation in 2015, and contributed 38 percent of world primary energy growth.” That’s a highlight from the 65th edition of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, which looks at the world’s energy supply, demand and usage. 

The U.S. and India have worked together to bring more solar power to India in the past and today (June 7) the White House announced that the two countries are deepening their partnership to help curb climate change and bring power to more of India’s citizens. The announcement came during President Obama’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House.

Toyota could claim to be one of the greenest large car makers, after all it introduced the first commercial hybrid, the Prius, in 1997. Now it’s moving forward, developing what might be the greenest, cleanest car headquarters in the U.S. at its new headquarters in Plano, Texas. 

Last week at the seventh Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) meeting a series of new partnerships and initiatives between business leaders and companies were made which will lead to $30 billion in research and development funding for clean energy annually. The agreements will also help increase the purchases of renewable energy, like solar power, from companies across the world.

Redstone Arsenal U.S. Army power in Alabama will soon be powered by the thanks to a new 10 megawatt SunPower array that is beginning construction in June 2016. The new project will provide energy security for the station as well as low-cost electricity.