Posts Tagged ‘ US ’

The economics of Water

Why do we worry about water so much? Even in the UK we talk about droughts a lot – just to get news on historic floods a day or month later. Isn’t water really a regional issue or should we trade water cross border thus water rich countries helping water scarce economies? We are positive [ 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 ]

Kleiner makes first water investment

According to VentureBeat’s report on 31 Jul 2009, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has backed its first water-related cleantech company, Applied Process Technology (APT). This is a significant milestone for the firm and a sign that floodgates may finally open in water investing in the US. APT makes water remediation technology that removes agricultural nitrates [ READ MORE ]

The Electric Drive Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative

“I don’t want to have to import a hybrid car. I want to build a hybrid car here.” – President Obama in Warakusa, Indiana, 5 Aug 2009. On 5 Aug 2009, the Obama administration announced the recipients of the grants for the electric vehicle industry, i.e. the $2.4 billion Electric Drive Battery and Component Manufacturing [ READ MORE ]

US cleantech investments move to smart grid and energy storage

A Reuters article on 18 Aug 2009 wrote that the US greentech sector, which suffered a drop in funding early this year, is seeing renewed interest with venture dollars flowing in once again to promising startups and some companies looking to resurrect public offerings that had been set aside. Investment is seen shifting from capital-intensive [ 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 ]

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was recently enacted in Feb 2009. The economic stimulus package is worth about $787 billion; just slightly more than the $700 billion TARP. About $60 billion is dedicated to clean energy investments. To understand what the Obama administration is doing about the energy & environment issues, I looked at [ READ MORE ]

GE predicts tide coming in for water business

Reuters reported on 11 Aug 2009 that General Electric Co predicted water purification could grow from a drop in the corporate bucket to a major growth driver within years, just as its wind unit did. With an estimated $2.5 billion in revenue, the water business remains a sliver of the $156 billion in sales expected [ 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 ]

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