News
- April 10, 2012 |
- Policy
- Renewable Sources of Power Survive, but in a Patchwork
- New York Times, Diane Cardwell
- JUST a few years ago, the future of renewable energy looked as bright and shiny as a white turbine blade coming out of the mold. The federal government was handing out money under thestimulus package, states were approving clean energy mandates, young companies were racing ahead with promising new technologies ... more ›
- April 9, 2012 |
- Finance
- 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 |
- Finance
- 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 ›
- April 5, 2012 |
- Policy
- Energy Dept. to Revitalize a Loan Guarantee Program
- New York Times, Matthew Wald
- WASHINGTON — Six months after the expiration of a federal loan guarantee program that backed $16 billion in loans to solar, wind and geothermal energy projects, the Energy Department has decided to offer a smaller set of similar guarantees by tapping another pot of money appropriated by Congress last year. The department ... more ›
- April 5, 2012 |
- CalCEF Press
- Cleantech Risks Losses To Electronics In Energy Storage Quest
- AOL Energy, Felicity Carus
- Consumer electronics could be the winners in the quest for energy storage - cleantech’s holy grail – rather than electric vehicles or the integration of renewables. Dan Adler, president of the influential California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), told last week’s Cleantech Forum in San Francisco: “It is the holy grail and that’s why we ... more ›
