The Electric Vehicle Market Accelerates with Innovation
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Despite Costs Challenges, U.S. DOE Makes $116M Tidal Power Push
Ocean Renewable Power, which won a recent DOE grant, connected the first U.S. underwater power project to the grid off the coast of Maine.
DOE Funded Charging Stations Go Under; EV’s on the Move with GM & VW; Google Lifts Solar Plane's Global Voyage; U.S. Grants LNG Exports
Cleantech relevant stories in the news this week.
Green Buildings: We Can Do This the Hard Way or the Easy Way
Bringing cleantech to buildings is notoriously more difficult than it seems. Four experts clear away the weeds and reveal the biggest opportunities for adoption in the green building...
Energy Efficiency Venture Investment Roundup: What’s Hot
Which energy efficiency startups are getting funded? Where are venture capitalists focusing their efforts? Everything you need to know about energy efficiency investments in one little...
Energy Efficiency Retrofit Market Set to Boom: Report
Although building retrofits offer a reported $279B investment opportunity, New World Capital's Silda Wall Spitzer explains that the biggest hurdles are the lack of available data,...
Hudson Clean Energy Joins Raft of Infrastructure-Focused Firms
The New Jersey-based private equity firm is the latest to launch a major fund devoted to cleantech infrastructure.
Are Wussy Investors Hurting America—and Themselves?
As investors of all stripes back away from cleantech, China says “Thank you!” Top investors reveal innovations that are getting funded and which LPs are giving new funds to VCs....
New Biofuel Company Using Palm Oil Seeking $10M Series A
NextFuels uses a process developed at Shell Oil to produce a biofuel with applications in the transportation and industrial sectors.
Silver Lake Cleantech Fund Raises $653M, Cuts Fundraising Target
Originally slated to raise $1.25B, the fund’s new SEC filing lists $750M as the target, and adds that it has 82 limited partners.