Category Archives: cleantech
Solar Sails
10 years ago invested in an Australian company pioneering hybrid power systems for marine vessels, starting with ferries but ambitions much larger…like oil tanker large. A decade later they may finally have a customer: Roughly 50,000 ships carry 90% of the world’s trade cargo, and these ships tend to burn a heavily polluting oil known […]
Autodesk: Tools for Change
Cleantech Venture Investing Continues to Grow
Headed in right direction: Cleantech today posted yet another record-breaking investment quarter globally, with smart grid, thin film and algae biofuel technologies enjoying all-times highs in financing. But observers caution that economic friction is expected to make for headwinds in the next quarter. The third quarter brought in $2.6 billion across 158 companies in North […]
Getting Serious about Solving the Carbon Problem
Outspoken VC Vinod Khosla speaks at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference. Is the “the current green movement as more about style than substance”? I might not agree with all he has to say, but Koshla is one person worth following closely.
GreenPlumbers: The Future of Plumbing
I sat in on a presentation by Steve Lehtonen at PG&E this week and learned about a terrific new initiative: GreenPlumbers® was developed by the Master Plumbers’ and Mechanical Services Association of Australia. (MPMSAA). The enormously successful training and accreditation program is being introduced in the United States through an exclusive agreement between MPMSAA and […]
Google: “To help green technologies, amass scale.”
Ever wondered where your search requests goes when you hit the enter key? Read on… INDIAN WELLS, Calif., Feb 6 (Reuters) – Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research) is prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in big commercial alternative-energy projects that traditionally have had trouble getting financing, the executive in charge of […]
2007 New Clean Energy Investments
Wondering just how much money is flowing to clean energy? Over $100B according to a report by analysts New Energy Finance. The clean energy sector powered ahead in 2007, according to analysts New Energy Finance. In spite of difficult conditions on the credit markets, the amount of new money invested in the sector grew to […]
GE Energy Financial Services 2010 Investing Target: $6B
Cleantech growth continues at a pace: GE Energy Financial Services recently raised its 2010 renewable energy investing target by 50 percent to $6 billion. GE Energy Financial Services recently crossed the $3 billion mark with a $300 million investment in wind projects spanning four states. “Thanks to our strong customer relationships, our expertise, GE’s technical […]