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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 ]

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 ]

Top 10 cleantech stories of 2009

In no particular order, here are my top 10 cleantech stories of 2009. Any other interesting stories that you think should be on this list? 1. Copenhagen Accord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen The widely anticipated UN climate talks at Copenhagen in Dec 2009 ended with a whimper. After spending much time haggling about the main [ READ MORE ]

Denmark leads the world in CleanTech

Using both wind and efficiency plays, Denmark leads the world in CleanTech on a GDP weighted ranking according to a recent report commissioned from the World Wildlife Fund and written by Roland Berger.  The ability to produce and sell products and services that reduce CO2 emissions is the key metric used to rank all 27 [ READ MORE ]

Brightsource announces new Partnership with Bechtel

Brightsource announced that they selected Bechtel as their Engineering firm of choice for their 2010 Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating System. The press release claims that the economic value of the Contract (and presumably the Plant itself) is some US$3bn. Only in December 2008, Brightsource announced that they contracted with Siemens (Siemens builds the largest Power [ READ MORE ]

Ramco Energy: Paradigm Shift – transforming to Wind Energy Pure Play

Ramco Energy (or soon to be SeaEnergy Renewables) provided an interesting news item. Per BBC Report, Ramco plans to sell off its Oil & Gas business to focus exclusively on Wind energy. Nothing to special here but Stephen Remp (Executive Chairman) laid out the rationale: “cleantech and green-focused investment funds were reluctant to invest in [ READ MORE ]

Pentair Analyst Day 2009

Last week, on 3 Sep 2009, Pentair had its Analyst Day 2009 in New York. I listened to it via webcast and I’ll highlight (in memo format) some of the points made during the presentation. You can view its presentation or listen to its webcast again (this time its presentation is available together with its [ READ MORE ]

The time for batteries is now…

Solar and wind energy are both experiencing tremendous growth rates and their investment opportunities are well documented. While much attention and capital is given to the CleanTech sector these days, how do investors know when we have saturated the best opportunities and begun chasing riskier firms? Which parts of the CleanTech sector have room for [ READ MORE ]

Israel – the Silicon Valley of the water industry?

There is an article in the November 2007 issue of Global Water Intelligence (you may need subscription) about Israel gearing up to be the “Silicon Valley” of the water industry. Here’s the list of Israel’s water technology VC investors, albeit an old list back in 2007: (In text: Arison Water Initiative, Aqua Agro Fund, IDB [ READ MORE ]

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