U.S. Senate passes bill to modernize energy policy; New York commits $150M to clean energy; Community solar launches in New York; Siemen's new wind-to-fertilizer pilot project; Bayer backs new Israeli...
Making the Business Case For Early Stage CleanTech Investment, Deployment
Early stage cleantech developers face pitfalls that doom many nascent products from becoming commercially viable, driving the development of new financing and partnership models. Speakers at the ARPA-E's...
We take a look at some of the new technologies displayed at last month's ARPA-E Innovation Summit, as well as funding initiatives over the past year and some of the numerous companies that have leveraged...
Giving Your Building a Brain: Enlighted Brings Energy Efficiency And More
Enlighted has just raised $25M as it looks to expand its "energy savings as a service" model, which allows clients to get the company's energy sensors - and the software to help make lighting and other...
Norwegian Oil Company Launches $200M VC Fund for Cleantech Investments
Statoil's new fund just invested $3 million into a New York wind company and plans dozens more in sectors like solar, energy storage, and transportation. The Norwegian oil company's new fund joins similar...
Patagonia is expanding its brand as an environmental steward with a new fund to help install solar panels on 1,500 residential homes in eight states. This follows several strategic investments in its...
China committed to keep energy consumption within 5 billion tonnes of standard coal equivalent by 2020, according to a draft of its new five-year plan, and will invest $440B annually in green energy and...
Favorable economics drive large companies’ clean energy push; DOE's ARPA-E reaches "holy grails in batteries"; U.S. and Canada take unified stance to tackle climate change; South Korea’s LG Chem makes...
Experts from Goldman Sachs, RBC, Sindicatum and more share their thoughts and insights about what the historic climate change agreement will mean for clean tech and finance. Optimism abounds -- but a...
Transportation, agriculture and energy efficiency were hot sectors for investors last year. Corporate investors, meanwhile, are showing even greater interest in cleantech. Energy storage is perhaps the...