Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
T. Boone Pickens has delayed work on a state permit to build 170 miles of transmission lines carrying enough wind energy to power 300,000 homes, raising concerns that the much heralded Pickens plan may not pan out as planned.
Earlier this year, Pickens ordered nearly 670 turbines for the ...
Posted in Electricity, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Wind-Power, Wind-Turbines, green-technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Under the ongoing global financial crisis, a lack of available credit is causing projects to be delayed or terminated, but the clean energy sector is continuing to attract substantial amounts of investment capital. Ernst & Young noted in early October that the global "clean technology" market is expected to garner ...
Posted in Climate-Change, Concentrated-Solar, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Finance, Industry-News, Nanotechnology, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Photovoltaics, Private Equity, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, green-technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
The good news is that solar energy will survive and flourish in the long term. The bad news it that it will be tough for many solar energy companies to survive the growing market glut, according to the new report from Lux Research entitled “Solar State of the Market Q3 ...
Posted in Concentrated-Solar, Electricity, Finance, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Research, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, green-technology | 1 Comment »
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 »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Asola & Yongsan Partner on Korean Solar Plant
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide said that its German partner, Asola Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH, has signed an MOU with the Korean firm Q&Tech/Yongsan to build a solar module plant in South Korea.
Q-Cells Agreements with LDK Solar
Q-Cells ...
Posted in Concentrated-Solar, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Finance, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, green-technology, law | No Comments »
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Posted in Climate-Change, Concentrated-Solar, Electricity, Energy-Storage, Finance, Graphic, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Research, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, green-technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Posted in Concentrated-Solar, Graphic, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Photovoltaics, Private Equity, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, green-technology | No Comments »
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
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Wind power is blowing up.
In 2007, the U.S. wind power sector added 5,243 MW of installed capacity, the largest amount ever added in a single year in the world. For the third straight year, wind power was the second largest ...
Posted in Finance, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Silicon Valley, Start-ups, Venture Capital, Wind-Power, Wind-Turbines, green-technology, law | 1 Comment »
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
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Clean technology venture investments soared in the second-quarter of this year, according to a new report by the Cleantech Group. The report says that investments in North America, Europe, China and India total $2 billion across 96 companies.
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