All Posts Tagged With: "cleantech"

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Cleantech Personnel Moves

Arvada-based SkyFuel, Inc., designer and provider of the SkyTrough® for the Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) industry, has promoted Alison Mason to Director of Marketing Communications. While UQM Technologies, Inc. in Longmont has named former Chrysler COO Eric R. Ridenour as its next CEO.

24Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Why is Dirty Energy Still So Cheap?

The clean tech sector has experienced remarkable success in the past few years, yet there still remains one huge roadblock from mass implementation – cheap fossil fuels. Some may think this is simply a matter of free-market capitalism at work. The real truth is that petroleum and coal industries continue to receive massive subsidies from governments around the world, while renewable energy firms receive only a small fraction of that amount.

23Aug2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Buyout Firms Wary on Cleantech Deals —
Want Government Assurance

Private equity firms want to invest in the cleantech sector but are holding back because a lack of regulatory control and government financial incentives makes it too risky, according to research released last Friday.

3Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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How Big Biz Will Drive Cleantech

Recognizing that I get into trouble for pitching the role of the world’s major corporations in driving cleantech innovation and - supposedly - ignoring the role of fledgling companies, let me show you how it’s working.

22Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Transportation, Energy Efficiency Dominate Q1 Cleantech Venture Capital Funding

The transportation sector led the way with a record $704 million, followed by significant investments in electric car and hybrid technologies. This sector stands to gain even more acclerated VC funding after Thursday’s vehicle fuel standards announcement by the Obama Administration.

1Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The Gold Standard –
Government Grants Leading Cleantech Astray

While the government has long had a role in advancing basic R&D, the concept that the U.S. will jump-start, let alone build, a sustainable energy economy through government handouts for implementation of manufacturing plants, production facilities or enhanced utility grids is, quite simply, ludicrous.

19Jan2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Cleantech VC Investment Jumps in Q2 —
Colorado Firms in Top 5 of New Energy Deals

Boulder-based Tendril, a manufacture of smart grid software, received $30 million in funding; and alternative fuels producer, Gevo in Englewood, was the recipient of $40 million. The deals put both start-ups in the top five reported venture-capital funding transactions nationwide for clean energy in the second quarter.

31Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Pike Research–
Renewables DG Market to Exceed $60 Billion
within Five Years

The Boulder-based market research firm says global system revenues for sub-utility scale Renewable Distributed Energy Generation (RDEG) rose 76% in 2007 and 2008 to an estimated $29.9 billion by the end of last year.

19Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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