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Rising Momentum for Sustainable Infrastructure Deployment in 2017

January 11, 2017

A wrap up of key developments that will drive the growth of sustainable financing and cleantech projects in 2017, including global policy developments, smart cities, new capital sources,...

Inst’l Investor Appetite for Clean Tech, Impact Investing Grows

August 31, 2016

Big institutional investors and foundations are stepping up their commitments to sustainable investing and clean tech, creating new sources of capital for startups, developers and...

Cities Get Smarter with Corporate & Startup Partnerships

August 31, 2016

Large companies including Google, Microsoft and IBM are helping cities achieve their sustainability goals. Cities are now key drivers of new clean tech projects as they strive to become...

Tax Credits, Storage, Community Solar and More Push Green Financing in 2016

July 22, 2016

CleanTechIQ attended the REFF- Wall Street conference in late June, where we learned about early stage project financing opportunities and the key technologies attracting interest...

Hawaii’s 100% Clean Energy Push Drives New Solar Plus Storage Projects

May 17, 2016

Since adopting one of the most aggressive clean energy policies in the country, Hawaii has attracted developers of new clean energy and smart city projects, including: Hitachi, Sunverge...

Making the Business Case For Early Stage CleanTech Investment, Deployment

April 9, 2016

Early stage cleantech developers face pitfalls that doom many nascent products from becoming commercially viable, driving the development of new financing and partnership models. Speakers...

New Technology on Display as ARPA-E Preps for Funding Surge

April 11, 2016

We take a look at some of the new technologies displayed at last month's ARPA-E Innovation Summit, as well as funding initiatives over the past year and some of the numerous companies...

The Paris Agreement: What it Means for Climate Finance

February 29, 2016

Experts from Goldman Sachs, RBC, Sindicatum and more share their thoughts and insights about what the historic climate change agreement will mean for clean tech and finance. Optimism...

What 2015 Means for Cleantech Projects and Financing in 2016

February 9, 2016

Battery storage costs declining, record global solar expansion, and the availability of project financing are the most important trends to watch for in 2016, says UGE International...

Solar-Data Startup Geostellar Wins Patent and $2M in Funding

July 30, 2015

Geostellar has received $2 million in angel funding at the same time it has patented an invention. The patent is for a system that programmatically places solar panels on rooftops.