Posts Tagged ‘ China ’

Water – Where is the money?

Deutsche Bank’s piece on the Water sector (World Water Markets, pdf) presents an interesting read. Following on from our research Water Scarcity – An investment Opportunity, Deutsche Bank echoed some of our thoughts. In particular, two areas stand out. First, the agriculture sector plays a vital part within the water value chain. We maintain our [ READ MORE ]

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Instead of Clean Technologies- let’s talk oil. Why? Because oil competes with clean technologies, affects government and consumer choices and in large part determines the success or lack thereof of much of what we discuss here. Consumers are much more willing to pay premiums for electric vehicles, biofuels or renewable energy if it does not [ 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 ]

China- Cleantech Update

DLA Piper and PwC held a webinar recently to give an update on the state of the cleantech market within the PRC and to elaborate on their core findings. The full report can be found here[ READ MORE ]

China the New OPEC for Rare Earth Elements?

If it is a daunting thought that the OPEC controls 40% of the world’s crude oil supply, think again. China has 95% of the world’s rare earth elements (REE) leading the late Deng Xiaoping to presciently remark that “the Middle East has oil, but China has rare earths.” While oil gets a lot of attention, [ READ MORE ]

China and India should not follow the West?

A new level of Sino-Indian relationship has taken place in the arena of environment. In Apr 2009, India and China told the UN a climate change agreement that slows down their economic growth and locks them into poverty is unacceptable to them. Both countries have taken a series of “ambitious” domestic actions to combat climate [ READ MORE ]

FT: Which country has the greenest bail-out?

There is an interesting interactive graphics posted on FT (Mar 2009, updated Aug 2009) about the countries with greenest bail-outs. It reported that governments around the world have committed over $512bn of the global economic stimulus outlined so far to green projects, with 22% to be spent in 2009, HSBC estimates. While we know that [ READ MORE ]

Top PV Companies in the world

The following table is the top 10 photovoltaic device suppliers in 2008: Another research firm, iSuppli, ranked the top 20 global solar companies in Q1-2008 by production in 2007 and by announced production capacity 2010: Top 10 Suppliers of PV Manufacturing Supplier in 2008 by VLSI Research: The following is summarized from IC Insights Research Bulletin [ READ MORE ]

First Solar Downturn?

In this Jan 2009 article, it mentioned that Palo Alto-based Ausra had laid off about 10 percent of its staff and planned to focus on being a technology and equipment supplier instead of independent power producer to begin immediately generating revenue. The solar sector has seen widespread layoffs recently. Jiangsu-based PV manufacturer Suntech Power (NYSE: [ READ MORE ]

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

About: Since its founding in 1972, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has backed entrepreneurs in over 600 ventures, including AOL, Amazon.com, Citrix, Compaq Computer, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Genomic Health, Google, Intuit, Juniper Networks, Netscape, Lotus, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Verisign and Xilinx. KPCB portfolio companies employ more than 250,000 people. More than 150 of the firm’s [ READ MORE ]

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