Today's Date:
Friday, May 16, 2008
In Brief
May 15, 2008
The electric sports-car company says it has only produced five Roadsters so far in two months – not the one per week initially expected – but plans to get back on track and produce 100 per month starting in November.
May 14, 2008
The Santa Monica, Calif.-based electric-vehicle startup plans to bring its highway-speed car to the market in the fourth quarter of next year, COO says.
May 09, 2008
Five months after announcing it would restructure the company, Conergy posts a widening first-quarter loss.
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
The electric sports-car startup picks Santa Monica Boulevard for its first store. But if it wants to do more than have some fun, it will need to make more cars -- and eventually expand its service centers, an analyst says.
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.
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
Startup Sungevity, founded by former Greenpeace manager Danny Kennedy, wants to make it cheap and easy for suburbanites to go solar.
April 25, 2008
The biofuel startup says it will locate its 40,000-gallon-per-year demonstration plant near Pittsburgh. The project will cost $25 million.
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 24, 2008
More than half of the staff scientists at the U.S. EPA say they have experienced political interference, according to a study from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Meanwhile, the California Clean Energy Fund opens a new center as its public policy arm.
April 23, 2008
U.S.-based Amyris, whose biofuel technology comes from its development of anti-malarial drugs, teams up with Brazilian ethanol distributor Crystalsev in a joint venture to make biodiesel.
April 15, 2008
Not really, but one nonprofit wants to use solar power to cut costs at schools and hospitals in low-income communities.
April 09, 2008
The small-wind turbine maker grabs $500,000 to get its spire-shaped turbines onto the market.
April 08, 2008
The Chinese solar giant will use money from convertible notes to support expansion plans and give investors first-quarter guidance.
April 04, 2008
News from the Photovoltaic Technology Show in Munich, Germany, is silicon heavy as analysts scour the announcements to assess when the multi-year silicon shortage will end.
April 03, 2008
Schuco, E.ON, China Stream Fund Solar Energy and XsunX push forward with their manufacturing-facility plans.
April 03, 2008
The Israeli solar company says "¡sí!" to manufacturing solar-thermal equipment in Spain.
April 01, 2008
AlternativeEnergy.com launches a new comedy series focused on renewable energy on April Fool's Day.
March 28, 2008
The ethanol producer sells $40 million worth of stock to Lyles United in a move that is expected to ease company woes.