Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Hudson Clean Energy Partners Acquisition of Helium Energy
Hudson Clean Energy Partners announced that it has acquired Helium Energy S.L.U., a renewable energy development company headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Nippon Oil and SANYO Electric Joint Company
Nippon Oil Corporation and SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. have reached a basic agreement to explore ...
Posted in Concentrated-Solar, Finance, Hedge Funds, Natural Resources, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Research, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Sustainability, Venture Capital, green-technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Many hedge funds are up to their ass in alligators with worries over the collapsing financial markets and the looming worry that they might be the next domino to fall. Sextant Capital Management is not one of them.
The Toronto, Canada-based firm’s Strategic Global Water Fund Offshore finished up 9.4% in ...
Posted in Canada, China, Climate-Change, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Finance, Hedge Funds, HydroPower, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Start-ups, Venture Capital, Water, Water-Filtration, green-technology | No Comments »
Monday, September 29th, 2008
T. Boone Pickens, the epic oilman turned hedge fund manager turned energy independence evangelists, has watched his hedge funds lose roughly $1 billion this year. Pickens has personally lost $270 million. The firm’s commodity fund, which started the year with $600 million, is down 84% through August, while its $2 ...
Posted in Electricity, Finance, Hedge Funds, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Wind-Power, Wind-Turbines, green-technology, law | No Comments »
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Two hedge funds have partnered in a project seeking to build a huge wind farm off Rhode Island that will provide 15% of that state’s power.
Deepwater Wind, which is owned by Ospraie Management, D.E. Shaw Group and First Wind, were chosen from seven groups that offered proposals to the Ocean ...
Posted in Finance, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Silicon Valley, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Wind-Power, Wind-Turbines, green-technology, law | No Comments »
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Between 1990 and 2004, an estimated $41 billion was invested in the water sector. By 2004, nearly half of these investments were either canceled or in distress. As a result, total investment in all countries has fallen substantially since the late 1990s. In addition, investment in middle- and low-income countries ...
Posted in Africa, Bahrain, Bioremediation, Finance, India, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Research, Silicon Valley, Sustainability, Water, Water-Filtration | No Comments »
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has expanded efforts to combat the spread of microbial contamination in water distribution infrastructure.
Revisions to a major regulatory rule will require systems with positive total coliform E. coli monitoring results to conduct an assessment to identify and correct any sanitary defects. The amendment to drinking ...
Posted in Bioremediation, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Water, Water-Filtration | No Comments »
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Many energy-related activities have a very precise relationship with economic growth. For example, consumption of electricity remained close to 0.45 kwh per constant dollar of GDP between 1973 and 2003. During the same time period, the number of miles driven by all vehicles was close to 3 miles per constant ...
Posted in Electricity, Finance, Graphic, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Research, Sustainability | No Comments »
Friday, September 26th, 2008
A wave of solar-energy companies are scrambling to adjust to the lingering credit crisis in capital markets. While investors and analysts are still bullish on the sector’s long term prospects, the next year or two could see a major shake up in the crowded solar energy space.
The looming threat of ...
Posted in Agriculture, Biofuels, Biorefinery, Climate-Change, Concentrated-Solar, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, algae, biomass, green-technology, law | 3 Comments »
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
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Envision Solar's "Infrastructure in A Crate"
Envision Solar International announced the launch of its latest product designed to integrate clean power into buildings and communities. LifeVillage is a modular self-contained "infrastructure in a crate" that can provide critical utilities even in the most remote areas.
REC Wafer Sales Contract with Neo ...
Posted in Batteries, Carbon, China, Concentrated-Solar, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Energy-Storage, Finance, Germany, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Research, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, green-technology | No Comments »
