Archive for the ‘ Clean Technology ’ 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 ]

Clean.Invest – RSS Feed for our Cleantech & PE/VC Fund and Company Blog

We have reached 50,000 readers on our blog – we are surprised about the level of interest and like to thank our readers for the continued support. If you haven’t subscribed to our RSS feed yet, you may want to consider to add http://cleaninvest.wordpress.com/feed/ to your RSS feed either in MS Outlook, netvibes.com or any other [ READ MORE ]

SEC proposes definition of Venture Capital Fund under Dodd-Frank

We thought we share this SEC update. The critique is provided by our colleagues at Venture Best. SEC PROPOSES DEFINITION OF VENTURE CAPITAL FUND UNDER DODD-[ READ MORE ]

Liquid Assets – Media Update

We just saw CNBC’s Liquid Assets – Big Business of Water (opens CNBC video, 42:43min). Although very US centric, the overall message is pointing in the right direction. The cost of water is simply too low. As Peter Gleick puts it: “An oil tanker filled up with oil may be worth $200m – $300m. The [ READ MORE ]

Chinese 12th 5-year plan – New Energy, New Energy Cars

Are the days counted for China’s top-down macro economic decisions and for its state-owned monopolies? The next 5-year plan proposed by the Chinese Government focuses its attention on new energy and clean-energy cars. According to China Daily the government intents to ‘speed up new energy development and promote clean and efficient use of traditional energy, develop [ READ MORE ]

Surprise development between Tesla and Toyota

Two forces we follow closely on the blog have decided to join teams, while another partner looks on from the sidelines. No, we are not referring to Elon Musk’s wife and girlfriend, where ongoing divorce proceedings may or may not affect a Tesla IPO, but instead a partnership between Tesla and Toyota, with Daimler playing [ 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 ]

The cost to own a next gen car

A recent web based calculator from our friends at Project Get Ready (led by the Rocky Mountain Institute) will calculate the cost to own a variety of vehicles for you and compare it to similar vehicles. The initiative aims to prepare cities for the deployment of plug in and full electric vehicles. A very cool [ READ MORE ]

Incandescent lights to start dimming

On the continued theme of the superior value of efficiency plays, news breaks out just this week that Toshiba will halt production of their incandescent lighting business, a product they have sold since 1890. The company will now focus on LED lights instead. For reasons of: consumer preferences, government legislation and frankly, common sense, the [ READ MORE ]

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