A new Kleiner Perkins fund closed at $525 million and will invest in early-stage consumer tech, enterprise tech, clean tech and life sciences companies.

A new study of public opinion by researchers at Harvard and Yale finds that people are willing to pay 13 percent more for electricity to move to cleaner energy.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a hotbed of energy storage and battery research, where its looking at underlying gaps in performance. Its partnership with the California...

The Energy Storage and Biofuels sectors are anticipated to have the highest number of IPOs in 2012, followed closely by the Smart Grid and Lighting sectors, according to a survey of...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to spend $800 million to make government buildings greener and reduce energy consumption by 20 percent over four years.

Solar panel company SolarCity Corp. has filed draft registration documents with the SEC, however it declined to name a specific time frame for its IPO.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System emphasizes solar and biofuels in its $1.2 billion investment in alternative energy venture capital, according to its new sustainable investing report. The fund also invests $500 million in publicly traded companies that emphasize energy efficiency, low-carbon energy production and carbon trading.

NanoH20, a water purification start-up, has raised $60.5 million in venture funding and bank loans. Investors see big opportunity in water as the world population grows.

According to a Civil Society Institute survey, 76 percent of Americans believe the U.S. needs to find a way to rely more on renewable energy sources and over 80 percent feel that water shortages and the availability of clean drinking water are key concerns.

First Solar Inc. lost $449 million in the first quarter as a result of a restructuring that cut 30 percent of its staff and closed a plant in Germany.