Archive for the ‘Private Equity’ Category
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 »
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Porous Power Technologies, a Colorado-based lithium ion battery company, has solved a major battery design dilemma by developing a new form of laminatable microporous battery separators. Here is a breakdown of the batteries more compelling attributes:
Twice the life and high-draw capacity of lithium-ion batteries
Minimal heat output
Batteries charge 50% faster ...
Posted in Batteries, Climate-Change, Electricity, Energy-Storage, Finance, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Research, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, materials | No Comments »
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Posted in Eco-Efficiency, Finance, Graphic, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, green-technology | No Comments »
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Transit agencies across the United States may need to find billions of dollars to repay investors as long-term financing deals disintegrate, a result of the global credit crisis that could eventually affect millions of commuters.
The recent collapse of insurance giant American International Group, which facilitated major financing deals between ...
Posted in Finance, Green-Cars, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Sustainability, Venture Capital | No Comments »
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Venture capital firms invested a record $1.6 billion in Q3 2008, up 55% from the previous quarter, in U.S. cleantech companies, according to a new analysis by Ernst & Young. A total of $3.3 billion was invested in the first three quarters of 2008, surpassing the figure for the same ...
Posted in Biofuels, Carbon, Energy-Storage, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Solar-Energy, Venture Capital, biomass, green-technology, law | 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 »
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
There is only one thing more frightening than the looming prospect of a deep global recession. A boom.
Posted in HydroPower, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Sustainability, Venture Capital, materials | No Comments »
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
The average price of oil, as reflected by the spot price of Brent crude, rose from $54.42 per barrel in 2005 to $72.47 per barrel in 2007, or an increase of 33% in nominal terms. In real terms, the price of oil rose at a slightly more modest 25% rate ...
Posted in China, Finance, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Research | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Map of Carbon Dioxide Flows in Mid-Troposphere
The image shows large scale patterns of carbon dioxide concentrations that are transported around the Earth by the general circulation of the atmosphere. The distribution of carbon dioxide in the mid-troposphere is strongly influenced by major surface sources of carbon dioxide and by ...
Posted in Agriculture, Carbon, Climate-Change, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Sustainability, biomass, green-technology | No Comments »
