Cleantech Funding
Cleantech funding includes many ways to finance green technology, environmental sustainability, environmental research, and facility retrofits for energy efficiency. Cleantech funding also can be in the form of incentives, for example, through environmental grants and awards.
Fresh & Easy Adds Ryder Natural Gas Vehicles to Fleet
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market has announced the addition of 25 compressed natural gas vehicles to its distribution fleet as part of a partnership with ...
Renewables Briefing: Redskins, Marines, Air Products, U.S. Foodservice, Hiram Walker
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a $105 million loan guarantee to support the development of the nation's ...
Renewables Briefing: SunPower, Deepwater Wind, Paint-On Solar Panels
SunPower Corp. has begun construction on a massive, 1.1 million square-foot project on the roof of the Gloucester Marine Terminal's refrigerated warehouse in ...
Renewables Briefing: L’Oréal, Snyder’s-Lance, Cape Wind
L'Oréal USA is partnering with GeoPeak Energy in a purchase power agreement (PPA) to install a 1.4 MW photovoltaic solar system at L'Oréal’s ...
GE Ecomagination Awards $63m to Ten Energy Tech Firms
Hara and Viridity are among the ten energy tech companies to win $63 million of investments from GE and its venture capital partners in ...
Huge BofA Project to Install $2.6bn of Solar on Company Roofs Across U.S.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Prologis and NRG have unveiled a ground-breaking partnership designed to finance up to $2.6 billion of commercial ...
Enablon Raises $15m in Growth Capital
Enablon, a provider of sustainability management software, has received a $15 million investment from the Environmental Technologies Fund.
The financing will support the ...
GE's Ecomagination Spent $1.8bn, Launched 22 Products in 2010
GE spent about $1.8 billion on research and development of clean technologies and developed 22 new products as part of its Ecomagination initiative ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Ethanol Flip-Flop, EPA Rules 'Won't Cut Carbon'
The Senate Thursday made an abrupt reversal on ethanol subsidies, voting 73-27 to remove a major tax break for the industry. The measure by ...
Renewable Briefing: AstraZeneca, Bloomberg, UPS, Total, ClearEdge
Industrial solar power company Solar Trust of America breaks ground Friday on the Blythe Solar Power Project, expected to be the largest solar ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Obama's Cree Visit, Renewable Funding Cuts
President Obama is scheduled to meet today with his Jobs and Competitiveness Council, composed mostly of business executives, at the Durham, N.C., headquarters of ...
Q1 VC for Clean Tech Variously Pegged at $1.1bn, $2.6bn
U.S. venture capital investment in clean tech firms rose 54 percent to $1.14 billion in the first quarter of 2011, compared to ...
Waste Management Invests $22m in Plastic-to-Fuel Company
Waste Management has participated in a $22 million investment round benefiting Agilyx Corporation, a company that makes synthetic crude oil from waste plastic.
The ...
How Mount Hood Community College Funded Efficiency Improvements
This is a promo video from Johnson Controls, but it provides an interesting case study on Mount Hood ...
Siemens and Carbon Trust to Launch $890m of Energy Efficiency Loans
Siemens and the U.K.'s Carbon Trust have announced a finance program to cover the upfront costs that businesses face when switching to the ...
Raising Capital for Cleantech Means Proving Real-World Demand
Have you ever noticed that things “come in clumps?” You go for months without a certain experience, and then you have several such ...
GE Challenge to Focus on Home Energy Use
GE has announced the latest phase of its $200 million low-carbon innovation program, with a call for proposals on home energy management.
The new ...
Administration Gives Solar Industry Big Shot in the Arm
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced a comprehensive environmental analysis that has identified proposed ‘solar energy zones’ ...
Smart Grid Software, Data Mgmt Market To Hit $2.9 Billion in 2015
The current world market for Smart Grid software and data management applications is $1.4 billion in 2010, and it will grow to $2.9 billion in ...
Another Year in the Sun for Tax Grant Program 1603?
Extension of an $858-billion tax credit package, including the suite of renewable energy tax cuts and grants outlined in Department of Treasury Section 1603 tax ...
