Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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ZigBee is a global architecture that creates wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced public availability of its ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile. ZigBee Smart Energy provides utilities and technology suppliers an easy-to-use wireless standard for developing products that improve energy management and ...
Posted in Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Environmental Finance, Environmental Sustainability | No Comments »
Friday, April 25th, 2008
The seasoned Silicon Valley venture-capital firm, Kleiner Perkins, is rumored to be planning a new "Green Growth" fund worth an estimated value of more than $400 million, according to reports in Venture Beat and PeHub. PE Hub describes the still-unconfirmed talk of a new fund:
"Al Gore is among those ...
Posted in Clean Tech Lifecycles, Environmental Finance, Hedge Funds, Industry News, Photovoltaics, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Silicon Valley, Solar Energy, Start-ups, Venture Capital, Water, green technology | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Clean Tech Group, a leading investment analyst in the clean tech sector, said it believed investment in ethanol and European wind power and solar thin film technology has hit a peak.
The company released new cleantech investment data yesteday, which appeared to show that a wave in U.S. ethanol and European ...
Posted in Advanced Biofuels, Environmental Finance, Hedge Funds, Industry News, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Solar Energy, Venture Capital, Wind Energy | No Comments »
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
U.S. manufacturers spent less that one percent of total revenue on pollution prevention and treatment in 2005, according to a new estimates released yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The manufacturing sector in the U.S. spent $5.9 billion dollars on capital expenditures and $20.7 billion dollars on operating costs ...
Posted in Carbon Capture, Climate Change, Environmental Finance, Environmental Sustainability, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research Trends | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Clear Skies Solar, has finalized a $20 million agreement with Power Cube, an energy company based in Utter Pradesh, India to develop and construct the first of several solar energy projects in India.
The project marks Clear Skies Solar's first foray into international energy markets. If the venture can successfully ...
Posted in Environmental Finance, India, Industry News, Solar Energy | 1 Comment »
