Archive for the ‘ Energy Infrastructure ’ Category

VC land a coup & A123 loses its CFO

Black Coral Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, Stata Venture Partners landed a coup when they announced that A123 CFO Michael Rubino was going to join their venture backed firm Digital Lumens. A123 – The consequence This move may be a blow to A123 but a great opportunity for Digital Lumens. We wrote about ‘The Past, the [ READ MORE ]

Tresalia Capital makes Artega Investment: Fraunhofer’s EV platform/ Electromobility concept

What do BMW, Aston Martin and Artega have in common? Its designer: Klaus Dieter Frers. He was instrumental in designing BMW’s Z8 and Aston Martin’s Vantage. The Artega GT was his latest work. Now Artega has been sold to Mrs Maria Asunción Aramburuzabala. She heads Tresalia Capital. Tresalia Capital is probably most famous for its interest [ READ MORE ]

Efficiency, the alternative Alternative

Earlier we wrote about the superior returns on investment efficiency plays offer when measuring reduced energy and emissions per dollar spent. Today we tackle the question- what does a region do that is renewable energy resource poor? What if there are no windy areas? When solar, biomass, geothermal and nuclear play a limited role- how [ READ MORE ]

CleanTech Skepticism

Most readers of this blog are likely those we could call CleanTech “early adapters.” People who are excited about a technological breakthrough, especially when it is also economic and profitable. The demand for energy is mostly inelastic- and usually the game is to figure out a way to produce it cheaper, cleaner and more efficiently. [ READ MORE ]

Batteries, Lithium Ion and the Automotive Industry

MEET (Muenster Electrochemical Energy Technology), Germany is getting ready to launch a new 2000sqm research hub focusing on battery technology, most likely a significant effort will go into lithium-ion. Professor Winter (recently at Graz, Austria) will chair the workgroup at MEET (homepage). Research-in-Germany.Org gives a summary of the plans and objective proposed by MEET. We [ READ MORE ]

The Great, Fake Lithium Supply Scare

“But there’s not enough lithium for all those batteries- and now you’ll switch dependency to a few lithium supplier countries!” That is the claim less informed journalists and hacks often make when they need a counter point to balance their first article on the emerging, electrified transportation sector. Why do we care? Because if true [ READ MORE ]

Clean Invest Poll

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Which way, Toyota?

If everything goes according to plan, Toyota will make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles available to private buyers within six years. The company that pioneered the hybrid, made it popular, economical and sexy- is now moving forward with fuel cell vehicles as well as a plug in version of the Prius. Is Toyota now advancing from [ READ MORE ]

CleanTech Investing in 2009 & 2010

356 investments in CleanTech occurred in 2009, a new high. However the dollar amount is down to $4.85B from $7.6B in 2008 over 350 deals comparatively, according to a new report from GreenTech Media. The downward trend over more deals may reflect the global capital markets as much as it does the CleanTech sector itself. [ READ MORE ]

Electrification Coalition | News

The electrification report (Nov 2009) published by the Electrification Coalition is very detailed; needs a few hours to digest the details. It appears to attempt to give a brief history of the sector and highlights challenges and potential road blocks ahead. In some areas it serves as a Primer. We see that Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins [ READ MORE ]

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