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Green opportunities for storage-battery production

China Daily reports an interesting story on Energy Storage, aka Batteries, today. (see: Green opportunities for storage-battery production) According to the paper, China account for about 25% of global lead-acid storage batteries. These batteries are widely used in Electric Vehicles. The export growth has been a staggering 23% p.a. CEEIA estimates that annual growth is likely to [ 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

Green Investment Bank – Bob Wigley, Lord Stern to lead Commission

We keenly await further details coming out of the UK’s pre-Budget report on plans of creating a £2bn Green Investment Bank in the UK. The plan is to use £1bn of taxpayers money and marry it with private funding. No doubt, the question is whether this is only a starting point or ‘Is that all’? [ 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 ]

Efficiency, King of Power

A recent panel discussion with John Doerr (KPCB), Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) and John Holland (Foundation Capital) in the WSJ caught my attention. The lesser known of the three panelists, John Holland, had a quote I felt trumped his two better known colleagues when asked what is “hot” in the CleanTech sector. Mr. Holland:  “We’ve [ READ MORE ]

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