All Posts Tagged With: "cleantech"
Cleantech Open Entry Deadline Approaching
Participants chosen to compete get training, access to one of the world’s largest clean-tech networks, complimentary participation in events, and the chance to compete for
prizes at both the regional and national level.
A Shining Star of Bipartisan Cleantech Support
Amid all the negative publicity that Solyndra’s failure has brought to the Administration’s cleantech efforts, one program has received broad bipartisan support: the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency. It’s the one government initiative that can help seed the disruptive advances needed in our energy economy.
8Feb2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
A Cleantech Venture Who is Unconvinced of Man-Made Climate Change
Go ahead — call me a hypocrite. I claim to be a cleantech venture capitalist yet I tell you here and now that I am not convinced of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change (aka global warming). And I will audaciously tell you that my convictions on climate change in no way run contrary to my strong belief in the need for a cleantech revolution.
19Dec2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
CU Cleantech Program Selects Mentors
Six executives with business backgrounds have been selected by the University of Colorado’s CleanTech Program to help student entrepreneurs and federal researchers ready their projects for the commercial market.
3Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Feeling Blue About Green? Reasons for Cleantech Optimism
With the first high profile cleantech company failures, the euphoria of the cleantech bubble has burst creating pessimism about the future of cleantech as a whole. I say, hogwash! History says we have many reasons to be optimistic. Just because things look bad today doesn’t mean the world is coming to an end! We humans have a hard time stepping back and getting a perspective on things that span long periods of time and it’s easy to get lost in the fear and distress of the day. But as a cleantech venture capitalist, I am almost required to be optimistic. How else could I make high-risk investments in early stage companies?
18Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Obama Cleantech Stimulus: Bad Policy, Bad Politics and Bad for Cleantech
The Solyndra debacle is no surprise to this cleantech venture capitalist. The inherent conflict between trying to get money out of the U.S. Treasury as quickly as possible to stimulate the economy and, at the same time, have government agencies that are ill-suited at making business decisions do just that was nothing other than a recipe for disaster.
27Oct2011 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Creating Real Clean Technology Jobs in Colorado
After the failure of solar-panel maker Solyndra, it’s easy for pundits to generalize about the fate and reality of the clean technology industry in the United States. However, here in Colorado, it’s real and it’s here. Solyndra’s failure cannot be used as an argument that the solar industry is a pipe dream, since companies like Abound Solar, Solar City and First Solar are still adding jobs with business plans and technologies that can compete globally. And we’ll know soon if GE’s investment in Arvada-based Primestar Solar leads to successful results.
12Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Top 5 Things Cleantech Entrepreneurs Fail to Understand About Raising Venture Capital
Compared to traditional VC investment ecosystems, cleantech companies are much more likely to be led by first-time entrepreneurs who often struggle to create an ecosystem of experienced people around them.
Here’s what they need to understand.
Boulder Wind Power Gets Capital Infusion From Manufacturer of Rare Earth Oxides
“Linking such an innovative wind energy technology with U.S. sourced rare earth production creates many potentially powerful synergies,” said NREL’s Director, Dan Arvizu. “It promises to strengthen the ability of the U.S. to manufacture wind turbines domestically and compete globally.”
14Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado’s REAL Cleantech Strength
Brookings and Battelle did a good job of framing the importance of the clean economy and explaining the methodology for the report. But….the numbers didn’t do justice to Colorado’s clean tech industry. When we asked Mark Muro at Brookings to narrow the definition to “cleantech” and not just “clean”, Colorado’s ranking raised significantly to 4th in the country. What does that mean? Well, it means that very few states have the companies creating clean technology products and services that Colorado does.
3Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Metro Denver EDC Touts State’s Cleantech Growth
It was the only sector within the state to grow in 2010, with 1,600 companies employing more than 19,000 workers. “Colorado ranks fourth nationally in the total number of clean-energy jobs and we’re still growing and adding jobs,” said Tom Clark, Metro Denver EDC’s executive vice president.
23May2011 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Cleantech Investment Reached Record
$243 Billion in 2010
“Growth has been in fairly direct response to government intervention, whether in the form of cheap debt in China … feed-in tariffs for solar or a regulatory push for smart grids. The industry needs to continue to drive down its costs and reduce its reliance on this sort of support,” said BNEFchief executive Michael Liebreich.
21Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
You Call This “Cleantech”?
Invest in a solar, biofuels, or LED lighting company, and no one will question its cleantech pedigree. Invest in a manufacturer of network switch upgrades for telephone companies, then call it “cleantech” and you’ll see a lot of raised eyebrows. I know, because we did just that.
18Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Going ...
Lack of funding is a serious obstacle for implementation of audit recommendations. Even small rebates will have little impact ...
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