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Distributed Energy Storage Attracts Funding from Major Infrastructure Investors

August 31, 2016

Distributed energy storage has reached its deployment phase, with leading developers Stem Inc. and Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) having recently raised a total of $300M of project...

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...

Greensmith Energy Gains Utility-Scale Energy Storage Traction, Enters C&I Market

August 31, 2016

Greensmith Energy announced new grid-tied energy storage projects with AltaGas and E.ON, which invested in its Series C round, and is on track to install over 100MW of energy storage...

Wind Industry Makes Strides with Massive Project, Efficiency Gains

August 31, 2016

Dong Energy’s $8 billion offshore wind project was recently approved in the U.K. And greater turbine performance and cost declines is sparking further wind energy deployment in the...

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...

Corporate Actions Spark Financing for Renewable Energy

July 21, 2016

As more corporations purchase renewable energy, especially solar and wind, financiers are responding with more and more funding for such projects. It's a virtuous cycle that looks...

Companies, Countries Boost Their Clean Tech Spending Pledges

June 17, 2016

Government officials and clean tech companies came together in San Francisco earlier this month to discuss the next steps to meet the ambitious goals laid out at COP21 in December....

China Update: Cities Transform Sludge into Clean Energy

June 17, 2016

A growing number of Chinese cities are turning wastewater sludge into clean energy, according to an in-depth new report. In our regular look at some of what's going on in the Chinese...

Duke Energy, China, Others Turning Waste into Energy

June 17, 2016

Duke Energy is doing it. So is the Chinese megacity of Shenzhen, India's capital Delhi and a Canadian paper company. We take a look at the various entities that are turning waste --...