Ignore the headlines. Now’s a great time to be a cleantech venture investor.

Early Silver Spring investor tells VCs to get smarter.

HarbourVest Partners hopes to take advantage of the capital shortage in the space with its 2nd cleantech fund of funds.

Clean energy companies added 110,000 new jobs in 2012, according to Environmental Entrepreneurs. California led the nation with 26,354 new clean energy jobs announced, followed by North Carolina with 10,867.

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Experts debate what its IPO means for the smart grid industry.

United States’ market share of the world’s installations increased from 5 percent to above 10 percent driven by cheap solar panels from China, says the Solar Energy Industries Association. The average cost of a solar panel has declined by 60 percent since the beginning of 2011. The utility sector had the biggest jump in solar installations, more than doubling compared with 2011. Meanwhile European markets, which used to drive global expansion, have pulled back from feed-in tariffs and stagnated.

Clean energy continues to expand as a major economic force, with an increasing focus on the scale-up of cleantech deployment by big investors and new funding sources, such as green banks, crowd funding platforms and the prospect of industry REITS and MLP’s. View Article

The claim that electric cars are “zero emission” vehicles and don’t contribute to climate change is false, according to an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal.

The smart grid IPO will be just the second in the energy technology sector this year.