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Solar Startup Solasta Seeks Next Round

The solar firm was founded in 2006 with A round funding from Kleiner Perkins and claims its process could increase the efficiency of conventional amorphous silicon PV by up to 150 percent.

Perspectives

  • Better Buildings: A Massive Opportunity Disguised as a Meltdown

    Nth Power and Fraunhofer affirm that innovation opportunities within Green Buildings have never been better – in fact, the market meltdown is a springboard for innovation.

    Green Building

    Nth Power and The Fraunhofer Institute November 2, 2009
  • How Do You Define Green?

    How do you divide up the green market? There are actually lots of ways.

    Finance and VC

    Michael Kanellos October 27, 2009
  • The Home Energy Challenge, Pt. 2

    A sustainable approach to reducing residential carbon emissions while creating jobs for American workers.

    Energy Efficiency

    Matt Golden October 23, 2009
  • The Path to Copenhagen 2009

    In which Copenhagen’s climatic present meets its dramatic past, and anagrams come to the rescue.

    Policy

    Nancy Pfund October 22, 2009
  • Smart Grid Stimulus: A Dead End Without Smart Pricing

    The promise of the smart grid is to move from demand destruction to value creation. But how do we get there?

    Grid

    David J. Leeds October 13, 2009
  • The U.S. Left Behind in Nuclear

    It doesn’t matter whether or not it’s green – nuclear is here to stay as a global energy source.

    Other Energy

    Eric Wesoff October 9, 2009
  • Greening the Supply Chain

    In this slideshow we present a summary of the findings contained in GTM Research’s new report Greening the Supply Chain: Benchmarking Sustainability Practices and Trends.

    Green Supply Chain

    Eric Klein, David Schatsky and Paul Baier October 5, 2009
  • A New Business Model for Electric Cars: Free!

    Companies that want to sell electricity to EV drivers may have to face off against services that give away the electricity for free.

    Transportation

    Michael Kanellos October 5, 2009
  • If Not in Your Backyard, Where?

    A look at how NIMBYs and politics might derail sustainable energy developments.

    Policy

    Brian Fish September 30, 2009
  • The Top Ten Acquirers in Greentech

    Face it. You won’t hold an IPO. Your company will be sold. Here’s who is buying.

    Green Supply Chain

    Michael Kanellos September 28, 2009
  • Will Samsung Be the Next Green Giant?

    The South Korean conglomerate has the technology and reach. More importantly, it loves trouble.

    Green Supply Chain

    Michael Kanellos September 24, 2009
  • 11 Great Things to Do With Sewage

    The material that dare not speak its name (except if you’re 11 years old) makes its mark in greentech.

    Biofuels

    Michael Kanellos September 21, 2009
  • The Home Energy Challenge, Pt. 1

    Sustainable Space’s founder Matt Golden presents a sustainable approach to reducing residential carbon emissions while creating jobs for American workers.

    Green Building

    Matt Golden September 16, 2009
  • The Real (and Potentially Minimal) Impacts of the Cash Grant Program

    This excerpt from GTM Research’s upcoming report United States Downstream PV Market: Opportunity, Strategy and Policy takes a look at the Cash Grant program.

    Solar

    Shayle Kann September 14, 2009
  • Bringing It All Back Home: PV Manufacturing in America

    As detailed in GTM Research’s recently published report PV Manufacturing in the United States, momentum for new plant construction is building rapidly, but will this be a short-term fad or a more sustained trend?

    Solar

    Shyam Mehta September 8, 2009
  • Letter From the Sunny North

    The Great Canadian Feed-In Tariff is weeks away from being launched. Can Ontario create something worth pursuing?

    Solar

    Ian Karleff September 2, 2009
  • Counterpoint: Why VC Funding Is Right for Green

    I’ve heard enough people say that VCs aren’t suited for green. Here is why you are wrong.

    Finance and VC

    Michael Kanellos August 31, 2009
  • VC Funding in Greentech Rocks On

    We’ve created a partial list of the VC and PE firms that have closed or are in the process of closing a fund over the last six quarters. The total is in the neighborhood of $5 billion for venture capital alone.

    Enterprise

    Eric Wesoff August 30, 2009
  • Walmart and CDP: Reaching the Tipping Point

    Walmart’s announcement of its Sustainability Index has created a common approach for greening the supply chain and supplier assessments.

    Green Supply Chain

    Paul Baier, Groom Energy Solutions August 24, 2009
  • What the DOE Wants in Smart Grid Grant Applications

    Given the current beltway brouhaha about whether the economy needs another multi-hundred billion dollar fiscal boost, the DOE will likely fund most of the $3.4 billion in SGIG grants sooner, not later.

    Smart Grid

    John Kelley August 20, 2009
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