photo: BrightSource Energy I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Some good news on the environmental front for a change: Global investment in green technology in the first quarter of the year spiked 52 percent compared to the previous quarter, to $2.57 billion. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by the [...]
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Powering up: Green tech investment surges in first quarter
Posted in alternative energy, biofuels, electric cars, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, green financing, renewable energy, solar energy, tagged Cleantech Group on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Green tech investment plummets, California hit hard
Posted in alternative energy, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, green financing, green policy, green tech, renewable energy, solar energy on October 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Friday, I write about a report showing venture capital investment in green technology companies nose-dived in the third quarter of 2010, with California taking a big hit: Has the green tech recovery stalled? Global venture capital investment in green technology companies fell 30 percent, to $1.53 [...]
Economy sags, green tech investment surges
Posted in alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, energy efficiency, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, green financing, green tech, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged BrightSource Energy, green tech investing, venture capital investment on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The anemic economic recovery may have hit the dog days of summer with consumer spending and factory orders slowing, but the new energy economy continues to surge, according to a report released Tuesday by Ernst & Young. Venture capital (VC) investment in [...]
Solar leasing startup SunRun raises $55 million in capital
Posted in alternative energy, energy, enviro capitalism, environment, green tech, SunRun, tagged Sequoia Capital, solar leasing, solar power, SunRun on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: SunRun In The New York Times on Tuesday, I write about SunRun, a San Francisco solar leasing company that has scored a whopping $55 million round of equity funding: SunRun, a San Francisco start-up that leases rooftop solar arrays to homeowners, said Tuesday it had raised $55 million from investors. The equity investment led [...]
David Gelbaum: California’s sun king
Posted in alternative energy, David Gelbaum, energy, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, green policy, green startups, green tech, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, sustainable agriculture, tagged Bill Gross, Cool Earth Solar, David Gelbaum, Entech Solar, eSolar, green technology, GridPoint, Rob Lamkin, Wildlands Conservancy on May 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody Green Wombat has been in transition so I’m a bit behind on posting. In case you missed it, in the Sunday New York Times on May 9, I wrote a profile of David Gelbaum, one of the nation’s biggest — and until now — most reclusive green technology investors and environmental philanthropists: [...]
An interview with eSolar’s Bill Gross
Posted in alternative energy, energy, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, eSolar, Google, green startups, green tech, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged Bill Gross, eSolar, green technology, solar energy, solar power plants on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
photo: Todd Woody In an interview I did with green tech entrepreneur Bill Gross for Yale Environment 360, Gross talks about the future of solar energy, his relationship with Google, and how to avoid battles over building large solar farms in the deserts of the Southwest: Bill Gross is not your typical solar energy entrepreneur. [...]
The new green wave: Sustainable surfing
Posted in corporate sustainability, enviro capitalism, green startups, green tech, tagged Action Sports Environmental Coalition, Frank Scura, Green Foam Blanks, Joey Santley, Lost Enterprises, Matt Biolos, Steve Cox, sustainable surfing on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In Thursday’s New York Times, I write about the latest trend to come out of Southern California — sustainable surfing: SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. A few blocks from the beach, the pungent smell of polyester resin wafts from the surfboard factories that crowd an alley known as the surf ghetto in this Southern [...]
From Motor City to Solar City
Posted in alternative energy, climate change, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, green startups, green tech, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged Cosma International, green manufacturing, Magna International, Skyline Solar on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Skyline Solar Silicon Valley startup Skyline Solar has joined other green energy companies beating a path to Detroit to take advantage of the down-and-out auto industry’s manufacturing might. As I write in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday: Skyline Solar, a Silicon Valley start-up, has become the latest green energy company to tap the [...]
Home market dead, desert developer goes solar
Posted in alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, climate change, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, green startups, PG&E, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, tagged BrightSource Energy, Coyote Springs Land Company, Harvey Whittemore, Nevada, solar energy, solar power plants on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: BrightSource Energy In today’s New York Times, I write about how Harvey Whittemore — one of Nevada’s biggest power brokers and a confident of Senate majority leader Harry Reid — has responded to the housing crash by leasing desert land at his mega-home development to BrightSource Energy for a 960-megawatt solar farm complex. What [...]
Vinod Khosla: Green tech must pass “Chindia” test
Posted in alternative energy, biofuels, climate change, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, green financing, green startups, renewable energy, tagged Calera, green tech, Khosla Ventures, venture capital, Vinod Khosla on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Ausra In my new Green State column on Grist, I sit down with legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla to talk about his approach to green tech. Khosla — who raised a record $1.1 billion for green tech investing earlier this month — believes that unless a technology can scale and be adopted [...]
