Fundings+Deals

Doubts about alternative energy have driven cleantech venture capital into less capital intensive start-ups, such as software firms that help people conserve energy.

At the end of September, the U.S. Department of Energy closed deals with four start-ups to the tune of $4.7 billion in loan guarantees for solar projects.

Cleantech start-ups that received government loan guarantees only to turn around and file for bankruptcy have led to a series of embarrassments for the Obama administration and its...

Khosla Ventures closed a $1.05 billion fund, which ranks among the top 5 largest new venture funds this year, and plans to invest about half in clean technology.

China Merchants Bank Company and state-owned China Development Bank Company are providing as much as $10 billion in funding for three Chinese makers of solar equipment to build solar...

Bank of America invested $177 million in a tax-equity transaction associated with a wind farm developed by NextEra Energy Resources, LLC.

Bank of America invested $177 million in a tax-equity transaction associated with a wind farm developed by NextEra Energy Resources, LLC

Ethanol producer POET will receive $105 million in funding by the U.S. DOE to expand a factory that will make motor fuel from corn waste.

U.S.-based private equity firm FE Clean Energy Group Inc. bought a minority stake worth $40mm in Indian-based power producer NSL Renewable Power Pvt. Ltd.

First Solar Inc.(FSLR) has won a loan guarantee worth $4.5 billion from the U.S. DOE stimulus-funded loan guarantee program to finance renewable energy projects in California.