Today's Date:
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Energy Efficiency
July 16, 2008
A solar-cell developer and a thermal-cooling startup received money from Advanced Technology Ventures and other investors.
July 14, 2008
Greentech investments shot up to $1.3B during Q2, thanks to investors' confidence in the solar-power market. To wit: Sulfurcell raised $134.15 million.
June 30, 2008
Many public companies have yet to make enough money to expand without borrowing money or selling shares.
June 26, 2008
The Air Resources Board proposes a plan aimed at cutting greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 – including a cap-and-trade program.
June 24, 2008
Memory chipmaker Spansion, along with startup Virident, have developed a set of hardware and software that could replace DRAM in data center servers and make them run more efficiently.
June 16, 2008
Startup D.Light wants to give customers in developing countries a safe, cheap and modern-day lighting solution to the kerosene lantern.
June 12, 2008
A quarterly report on cleantech patents shows a drop in solar, electric car and biofuel segments. Fuel cell patents are highly sought after.
May 21, 2008
San Francisco is notorious for high home prices, but Zeta Communities says it can whack those prices way down by making green homes in factories.
May 2, 2008
If you're like most office workers, some 20 percent of the pages you print end up in the recycling or waste bin the same day. Xerox researchers have invented an erasable paper that fades after a day so it can be reused again and again.
May 2, 2008
The Palo Alto Research Center plans to launch a venture-capital-backed company that can improve solar cells' efficiency with thinner electricity-conducting grid lines. The center also hopes to commercialize a low-energy water-filtration technology, reusable printing paper and energy-management software for data centers, all in the next year.
April 30, 2008
Startup Sungevity, founded by former Greenpeace manager Danny Kennedy, wants to make it cheap and easy for suburbanites to go solar.
April 24, 2008
The state has designated 1,100 plus acres of switchgrass for the production of cellulosic ethanol -- but does the environment benefit?
April 21, 2008
Solar-thermal developer eSolar snags $130 million while competitor Stirling Energy Systems gets $100 million, and the U.S. Department of Energy spends up to $86 million more for biofuel demonstration projects.
April 17, 2008
The Clean Energy Council launches a fellowship program in the hope of moving 25 experienced executives into greentech each year.
April 17, 2008
The greentech market is moving ahead. These are the companies leading the way.
April 14, 2008
Recent reports show that cleantech investments in ethanol, wind and solar are slowing down, though heavy investment this week shows the sector is still going strong.