clean technology
Google Invests in Offshore Wind Energy Network
10:39AM 10/12/2010
Google is taking an investment stake in the construction of a major undersea power network off the mid-Atlantic coast, the company announced Tuesday. The project is designed to deliver enough energy to power 1.9 million households from offshore wind turbines to the Eastern Seaboard.
Clean-Tech Investments Hit a High, With Solar Shining Brightest
10:00AM 7/02/2010
Global clean-tech venture investments rose 43% to $2 billion in the second quarter. Solar and biofuel startups garnered the biggest funding, while the IPO market for clean-tech was much hotter in China than the U.S.
How to Restart America's Innovation Engine
7:00AM 6/27/2010
The global economy is awash in venture capital seeking the next big thing. But if America is to create start-ups again like it did in the 1990s, Harvard Business School professor William Sahlman thinks two specific things need to happen.
It's Show-Time for Bloom Energy's Supersecret Fuel Cells
10:10AM 2/24/2010
After a long period of ever-escalating anticipation, the startup California cleantech company is finally unveiling its technology. Will the claims of breakthroughs in terms of efficiency, affordability and scalability get borne out at last? And how much will the long-term cost really be?
Solar glut is temporary, demand to catch up by 2012
7:00PM 11/14/2009
The oversupply problem plaguing the solar panel industry may be coming to a close. A glut of panels caused prices to plunge this year, calling into question the future of the industry, as well as the individual fortunes of manufacturers. An increase in demand from Germany is helping to consume the...
With income inequality at record levels, Bush's legacy lives on
9:20AM 9/29/2009
Income inequality pierced its previous record high in 2008 -- a fitting legacy for President George W. Bush. Fresh census figures reveal that the ratio of the incomes of the top 10 percent of Americans -- over $138,000 a year -- to those at the poverty level -- $12,000 -- was 11.4 times. (The...
With Thursday's successful IPO of A123 Systems (AONE) -- this lithium battery maker for electric cars saw its stock rise 50.4 percent on its first day of trading -- many clean-tech companies are now considering public offerings. Evidently, it does not take a profit to justify an IPO because A123 is...
If conventional wisdom mattered, super venture capitalist Vinod Khosla could not have picked a worse time to launch a massive venture capital fund focused on extremely risky green technology investments. Yet Khosla, a VC legend in Silicon Valley, not only pulled it off but ended up money away,...
Despite tumultuous global financial market conditions, private equity investments in the clean technology ("cleantech") space showed resilience last year. Investors are reconsidering their overall exposures to private equity -- and this includes cleantech -- but they are still operating in the...
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