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Continued Growth Expected in Clean Energy Despite Investment Slump in 2016

February 23, 2017

A quick look at the highlights of Bloomberg New Energy Finance's new data and analysis of the clean energy market last year, this year and beyond. Highlights include: offshore wind,...

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,...

Whole Foods' Solar Project Points to Benefits of PPAs

September 30, 2016

The grocery chain is putting rooftop solar on about 100 stores and warehouses. The company’s approach -- including PPAs and standardized lease language across all its stores -- is...

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...

ChargePoint Raises $50M Amid Growing Interest in Electric Vehicles

May 13, 2016

Former Kleiner Perkins partner Michael Linse's new investment firm takes the lead in the Series F funding round, which ChargePoint hopes will let it expand into Europe and China. Meanwhile,...