A new Greentech Media report analyzes the technologies, players and funding in the emerging ocean power industry that generates energy from waves and tides.

Last Friday afternoon, President Bush signed a bill to extend renewable tax credits after intense lobbying by solar, wind and other renewable energy advocates for more than a year.

Berkely is set to begin a $1.5 million program that allows property owners to finance solar power systems through their property taxes.

Southern California Edison plans to install 5.3 million electric meters between 2009 and 2012. The utility has signed a $480 million deal to buy most of the meters from Itron.

Gates' Cascade Investment has put money in Sapphire Energy, which has raised over $100 million since its inception.

Six companies plan to file a proposal to build 2,400 miles of transmission lines in Texas to support a growing number of wind farms in the state.