Today's Date:
Friday, May 16, 2008
Finance & Venture Capital
May 14, 2008
The company plans to begin taking orders for its electric ZeroTruck at the end of August or the beginning or September, and to deliver its first trucks this fall.
May 13, 2008
The Chinese solar company announces first quarter earnings and a continued squeeze on its margins, leaving investors to speculate when the company will get a break from its margin constriction.
May 12, 2008
Ernst & Young says greentech saw growth in VC investment during 1Q while overall VC investments declined. Meanwhile, cellulosic-ethanol developer Mascoma pulls in $61 million, barley-to-ethanol maker Osage Bio Energy harvests $300 million, Real Goods Solar doesn't have a real good IPO and more.
May 12, 2008
The company is showcasing a demonstration Prius using its nickel-zinc battery pack this week. It hopes to enter the automotive market in three to four years.
May 09, 2008
Five months after announcing it would restructure the company, Conergy posts a widening first-quarter loss.
May 09, 2008
The U.K.'s Technology Strategy Board and companies invest in 16 alternative-car projects this week, while RTEV has a second launch and Phoenix Motorcars partners with Electrovaya. All this experimentation is good news, an analyst says, unless it goes bad.
May 08, 2008
Shares of the Colorado-based residential solar installer fall during its Nasdaq debut as Akeena, one of the world's largest public installers, misses earnings and lowers its full-year forecast.
May 07, 2008
After nixing its support of the $1.8 billion FutureGen project earlier this year, the U.S. government announces $126.6 million for two other carbon-storage projects.
May 06, 2008
The cellulosic-ethanol company received $10 million in equity from Marathon Oil. But will companies like Mascoma suffer from the public backlash against other biofuels?
May 06, 2008
In an industry that has seen only a few exits, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association predict more IPOs and acquisitions next year. Meanwhile, they say venture investments grew 45 percent in 2007.
May 05, 2008
The ethanol company blames a long permitting process that delayed a project in Minnesota for more than a year. The story could become more common, as one analyst says public concern about biofuels is making permits harder to get.
May 05, 2008
Kleiner Perkins and Generation Investment Management close greentech funds, while SunRay, Sunovia, SkyFuel, Mascoma, Range Fuels and ReliOn – among others – score cash.
May 02, 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 02, 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.
May 01, 2008
Only a few months after partnering with cellulosic-ethanol startup Coskata, the automaker teams up with a Coskata competitor, Mascoma, and takes an undisclosed stake in the company.
April 30, 2008
The thin-film darling's shares rise 2% after the company beats first-quarter earnings expectations and raises its forecast for the full year.
April 30, 2008
With more than 700 megawatts of projects in its pipeline and at least $71.7 million in funding, Optisolar has big plans for thin film. So why have you heard so little about them?