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 »
Recipe for U.S. solar boom: policy, money + a little sunshine
Posted in alternative energy, climate change, energy, environment, global warming, green financing, green policy, green tech, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged Bloomberg New Energy Finance on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The United States is on the verge of a solar boom that could provide 4.3 percent of the nation’s electricity by 2020, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. There’s just a 12-figure catch: Investors need to put $100 [...]
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 [...]
Silicon Valley: Prop 23 will kill off the Googles of green tech
Posted in alternative energy, environment, global warming, Google, green financing, green policy, green tech, tagged Bill Weihl, Google, Mary Nichols, Proposition 23, Vinod Khosla on August 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: eSolar I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. As the traditional Labor Day kickoff to the fall election campaign approaches, the battle is intensifying over Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative that would effectively repeal the state’s landmark climate change law. And thus the title of a gathering Tuesday at Google’s [...]
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 [...]
Google’s big green power purchase
Posted in alternative energy, energy, environment, Google, green financing, green tech, renewable energy, wind power, tagged Google, Google Energy, NextEra Energy, wind power on July 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Image: Google I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Google is officially in the green energy business. The search giant announced on Tuesday that its Google Energy subsidiary signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with NextEra Energy. Google will begin buying 114 megawatts of electricity from an Iowa wind farm on July [...]
Stalking the slow fat rabbit: GE’s bid to make the dumb grid smart
Posted in green financing, green grid, green tech, smart grid, tagged GE, General Electric, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Rockport Capital Partners, smart grid, venture capital on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: GE In my Green State column on Grist on Thursday, I write about General Electric’s $200 million contest to find ideas and technologies to accelerate deployment of the smart grid: Got a killer smart grid idea? General Electric has $200 million to spend. Jeff Immelt, chief executive of the industrial conglomerate, flew into San [...]
Treasury Department piles on PACE solar loan restrictions
Posted in alternative energy, green financing, green policy, renewable energy, solar energy, tagged energy efficiency, Fannie Mae, FHFA, Freddie Mac, PACE, Property Assessed Clean Energy, solar energy, solar loans, Treasury Department on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Sungevity I wrote this post for Grist, where it first appeared. On Tuesday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency effectively shut down an innovative green financing program called Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, by restricting the ability of homeowners to take out loans to install solar panels and make other energy efficiency improvements. Now [...]
Partying like it’s 2008: Green tech investment surges
Posted in alternative energy, corporate green, environment, green financing, green tech, solar energy, tagged China, Cleantech Group, solar energy, venture capital on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This post first appeared on Grist. Green tech is back in the green. Global venture capital investment in green technology companies reached $4.04 billion in the first half of 2010, exceeding – slightly — the record set in the boom year of 2008, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the Cleantech Group and [...]
