Finance News
- May 9, 2012
- First Real Partner for California’s Cap & Trade Program
- KQED, Craig Miller
- Quebec takes the plunge with California to swap carbon emissions permits Asif A. Ali / flickrMontreal at sunset: Quebec’s economy is about one-sixth that of California. Quebec has emerged as California’s first full-blown partner in the carbon trading program that ramps up later this year. That means that, pending ... more ›
- May 1, 2012
- Crossing the “valley of death”
- Renewable Energy Focus, Paul Frankel
- Part 2. Could a new type of insurance provide a helping hand for emerging renewable projects? The first article in this series presented the first portion of a new white paper from the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), outlining market need, and explaining how current clean energy insurance offerings are limited. ... more ›
- April 19, 2012
- California clean-tech industry a VC darling
- San Francisco Chronicle, David R. Baker
- Despite Solyndra’s spectacular collapse, a report issued Tuesday suggests that California’s clean-tech industry continues to thrive, soaking up more venture capital in 2011 than it did before the recession. The annual California Green Innovation Index from public policy group Next 10 tracks the green economy’s health, pulling together data on ... more ›
- April 9, 2012
- Greentech IPO Spring: BrightSource, Enphase, Enerkem, Luca Debut
- Greentech Media, Eric Wesoff
- Four greentech IPOs in biofuels and solar look to float in spring 2012. Four greentech IPOs are seemingly going to make it through the IPO gate in spring 2012. It’s the biggest flurry of greentech IPOs in memory and serves to show the diversity of the greentech field. It’s a ... more ›
- April 9, 2012
- Report: The clean power cash grant program was working
- GIgaOm, Katie Fehrenbacher
- A new report out of the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Labssays that the $9 billion clean power cash grant program (formally called the 1603 grant program), which expired at the end of 2011, was working and creating jobs and economic output. The report says that the program created up ... more ›
