President Obama made waves this week with the announcement of his Climate Action Plan. The plan's implications for utilities and the National Advertising Division's concerns over Nest smart thermostats turned out to be the big attention-getters for the last few days.

Need a refresher to head into your weekend a little more informed? Check out the links below:

• SolarCity to demolish net metering with new battery storage bundle: Utilities battling net metering can rejoice at last.
• Renewables will surpass gas, nuclear generation by 2016, IEA predicts: Take a look at what that means over the next five years.
• Obama's new Climate Action Plan: 6 goals that will impact utilities: The plan announced Tuesday is wide-reaching, but the president raised a handful of issues that should get utility execs' attention.
• Are Nest thermostats all they’re cracked up to be?: The National Advertising Division takes aim at a slew of Nest Labs’ advertising claims.
• Xcel fights massive outages, ‘one of the highest we’ve every seen,’ officials say: Xcel restored power to 460,000 customers by Sunday, but 85,000 are still in the dark.

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