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China's President Xi Jinping's Travels Highlight Numerous Cleantech Ventures, Opportunities

November 2, 2015

Sept. and Oct. were busy months for China's President. In addition to racking up travel miles for state visits to both the US and the UK, Xi signed off on major international joint...

CBRE Exec on Green Buildings: Financing, New Technologies, and New Trends

November 2, 2015

Buildings are becoming ever more efficient, due in part to advances in technology and to more stringent regulations, says Peter Scarpelli, CBRE's global director for energy and sustainability....

UK Government May Cut Budget for Anaerobic Digestion Industry

November 13, 2015

UK’s Anaerobic Digestion industry body said that the proposed changes in the government’s feed-in tariff incentive could have a devastating impact on the advancement of the fairly-new...

Roundup: Lithium-Air Battery Breakthrough, Cambridge Univ. Says

November 3, 2015

81 corporations signed the "American Business Act on Climate Pledge"; Toyota, Honda bet on hydrogen-powered cars; DuPont builds world's biggest cellulosic ethanol plant using corn...

The Four Top Northeast Cleantech Open Startups

November 2, 2015

Being capital-light and utilitizing creative business models helped four start-ups win a regional contest; they now advance to the Cleantech Open Global Forum finals later this month....

Resiliency Driving Demand, Financing for Smart Energy Storage

October 20, 2015

Green Charge Networks, Sunverge and NYSERDA officials discuss how energy storage is meeting customers' demand for grid resiliency. And Sunverge is raising capital to deploy its solar...

$470M Wastewater-to-Energy Project Opens in DC

October 20, 2015

An innovative new thermal hydrolysis wastewater sludge-to-energy and fertilizer plant, financed by green bonds, opens in DC, the first such technology in the U.S. Public and private...

For BioLargo, Impact Investors Prove More Liquid than Venture Capital Funding

October 20, 2015

Many investors agree that BioLargo, a sustainable water company that uses technology to leverage the natural disinfectant properties of iodine to decontaminate water cheaply, is on...

Steam Builds for ‘PACE’ Firms to Drive Energy Efficiency Retrofits

October 20, 2015

The Property Assessed Clean Energy financing model is gaining momentum as a key driver of energy efficiency retrofits in both commercial and residential markets, attracting financings...

GE Creates $1B Subsidiary Focused on Energy Efficiency

October 20, 2015

GE is combining several of its renewable energy, energy storage and energy efficiency-related business lines under one roof, forming a new unit called Current that springs into being...