The Week in Cleantech: September 16-22
Cleantech celebrated the last week of the summer with a number of funding rounds and relationships sprinkled with a bit of bad news. Starting with the less than positive news, ECOtality, the California...
View ArticleThe Week in Cleantech: Oct. 7 – 13
Here are some of last week’s top stories: Achates Power raised a $35 million Series C round from existing investors to fund commercialization of its efficient opposed-piston combustion engines. Backers...
View ArticleThe Week in Cleantech: Oct. 14 – 20
There was a great deal of news pouring out of clean technology sectors last week. From the electric transportation market, Tesla Motors announced a partnership with AT&T in which the wireless...
View ArticleThere’s Still Hope in Solar
Solar might not be the most up-and-coming, high-growth sector today. However, there’s still hope for growth and innovation. Now that prices of solar panels have plummeted – panels are 70 percent less...
View ArticleThis Deal Matters: SolarCity Leads Market into New World of Solar Securitization
Despite its stock getting battered late in the week due to a bigger-than-expected third quarter loss, we believe hindsight will judge last week a good one for SolarCity. For us, the short-term whims of...
View ArticleThis Deal Matters: Khosla Places Big Bet on Thin Film Solar
Last week, Greentech Media reported on a deal that took place quietly back in October. In a letter to creditors and shareholders, a financial services firm representing Stion, one of the many...
View ArticleConsolidating Trends in Downstream Solar
Last week, Vivint Solar, a Utah-based developer of residential solar PV systems, acquired Solmetric, a CA-based manufacturer of PV installation tools and software products, for $12 million. The merger...
View ArticleElectrifying the Developing World: A Chat with BBOXX CEO Mansoor Hamayun
One of our sessions during the Cleantech Forum Europe that will be held in Stockholm (May 19-21) is titled the 10 Year Track – How we (can have) Impact. The theme is about how European companies are...
View ArticleDiscussing the ABB + Solar Impulse Partnership with ABB SVP Maxine Ghavi
Earlier this quarter, ABB announced their technology alliance partnership with Solar Impulse. We spoke with Maxine Ghavi—SVP & Head of the Solar Industry Segment Initiative at ABB—about the nature...
View ArticleRenewable Funding Goes Public
The Great Recession brought about large financial losses, caused the tightening of credit markets, and led to a general prevalence of tax write-offs as a result of the tanking market. Diminished access...
View ArticleSolar Industry Consolidates… Corporates Increase Involvement
2015 is off to a good start for residential and commercial scale solar companies. Dollars and partnerships are making daily news and one can easily notice the increasing consolidation of the sector. In...
View ArticleTechnological edge means business: why we’re adding patents to i3
Each investor, innovation executive or business unit manager has their unique process to discover and evaluate companies in a technology area. However, they all share one key criterion to set companies...
View ArticleAre we starting to see the end of the wave of major venture-backed solar...
By Simeran Bachra and Michele Parad Solar has strong head-winds right now, with the market forecasted to grow 25-50% in 2016 alone. We are seeing a rise in consolidation, and in both horizontal and...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Down Under: Where solar-plus-storage and utilities become...
In case you hadn’t heard, changes are afoot in our energy system. With previously preventative price points now falling rapidly, are we now seeing an opportunity for an accompanying change in the...
View ArticleCleantech’s Four $1,000,000,000 Sectors
Introduction Our Quarterly Investment Monitor has just been released, including a round-up for 2016 to help understand the trends driving the past year’s cleantech investments. For the first time since...
View ArticleRenewable Funding Goes Public
The Great Recession brought about large financial losses, caused the tightening of credit markets, and led to a general prevalence of tax write-offs as a result of the tanking market. Diminished access...
View ArticleSolar Industry Consolidates… Corporates Increase Involvement
2015 is off to a good start for residential and commercial scale solar companies. Dollars and partnerships are making daily news and one can easily notice the increasing consolidation of the sector. In...
View ArticleTechnological edge means business: why we’re adding patents to i3
Each investor, innovation executive or business unit manager has their unique process to discover and evaluate companies in a technology area. However, they all share one key criterion to set companies...
View ArticleAre we starting to see the end of the wave of major venture-backed solar...
By Simeran Bachra and Michele Parad Solar has strong head-winds right now, with the market forecasted to grow 25-50% in 2016 alone. We are seeing a rise in consolidation, and in both horizontal and...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Down Under: Where solar-plus-storage and utilities become...
In case you hadn’t heard, changes are afoot in our energy system. With previously preventative price points now falling rapidly, are we now seeing an opportunity for an accompanying change in the...
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