Two reports in the past month from Ernst & Young provide guidance on renewable energy hot spots and corporate sustainability payoffs. Could the two be related? That's up to you to decide, after reading Momentum Defined.

This month's compendium of business intelligence includes plenty of acronyms, among them GAO's analysis of DOE, USDA and DOD activity; new data at DSIRE; the Solar Decathlon choosing OCGP; a new address for the NEI; events and policy news in NYC; a new power generation siting study from EPRI; and new agreements from the DOI that mean oil & gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and wind permitting on the East Coast will not be DOA.