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Clean Tech Roundup: New Funding for SolarReserve, SoloPower, Poet
[Via  StrategyEye]: SolarReserve, a heliostatic solar thermal provider based in Santa Monica, Calif., has raised $140 million in a second funding round by Citi Alternative Investments, Sustainable Development Investments, Good Energies, US Renewables Group, PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund, Nimes Capital and Credit Suisse. SolarReserve says it will use...
Tags: Food, Biofuel, Clean Technology, SolarReserve, SoloPower, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Michael Mattis
Blog posts 2008-09-16
Energy Roundup: Reliant May Shut, StatoilHydro and Chesapeake Ink $3.4B Deal, and More
Will Reliant sell or just shut down? -- Energy watchers are asking the question, Will Reliant sell its commercial business or be forced to shut down? Last Friday the Texas energy utility stopped signing new contracts or renewing existing ones with large commercial customers, and has said that it is...
Tags: Biofuel, Acre, Renewable Energy, South Africa, Clean Technology, Chesapeake Energy Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Michael Mattis
Blog posts 2008-11-11
Khosla Raises A Cool Billion For Green Investments
Veteran cleantech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla will be announcing a pair of new funds to invest from today, according to a story in Forbes. If their sources are correct, it would make Khosla one of the few who has managed to get fresh money from investors during the recession. ...
Tags: Biofuel, Investment, Clean Technology, Khosla, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-07-21
Qteros, Applied CleanTech to Harness Power of Poo to Make Ethanol
Qteros and Applied CleanTech are giving new life to municipal wastewater solids -- a cleaned up term for what most of us call poo -- by turning it into fuel for cars. Yes, poo-powered cars may be in our future. That future may still be a ways...
Tags: Biofuel, Massachusetts, Valero L.P., Clean Technology, Qteros, Recyllose, Lignin, Biomass, Enzymes, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-10-07

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Energy Roundup: Biofuel Lab Opens, Obama Abandons Windfall Tax, and More
New biofuel research lab dedicated -- The new Joint Biofuel Energy Institute JBEI in Emeryville, California, has been dedicated. The institute, a joint project of Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, the Universities of California at Berkeley and Davis, the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Lawrence Livermore National...
Tags: Biofuel, Tax, Michael Mattis
Blog posts 2008-12-03
Roundup: The New Coda, Texas Kills Solar Bill, First Solar Investigated and More
Coda unveils cheaper electric car -- Cheap, when it comes to electric cars, is a highly subjective label. At a price of $45,000, the Coda, an all-electric car by an eponymous company owned by Miles Electric with a range of about 100 miles, will be half the price of a...
Tags: Car, Electric Car, First Solar Inc., Texas, Coda, Khosla, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-06-04
GM Providing Vehicles for Clarkson University Study on Biofuel
ENERGY RESOURCE-28 November 2006-GM Providing Vehicles for Clarkson University Study on BiofuelC2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com GS AgriFuels Corporation today announced that General Motors is providing a Chevrolet Silverado and a GC Sierra pickup truck to Clarkson University for renewable fuel research. The goal of the project is to fuel...
Tags: biofuel, Clarkson University, General Motors Corp., monitoring
Research articles 2006-11-28
Clean Sweep 68
A round-up of recent news in clean technology and cleantech investment. I've been laid up with a cold for the past week, so plenty to catch up on.DealsCellulosic biofuel developer TMO Renewables has closed a £11m round, with Presnow, Diverso and Libra Advisors joining existing investors Jupiter Asset Management, Noble...
Tags: Investor, clean technology, Clean Technology, Demeter LP
News items 2009-10-12
Algenol and Sapphire Energy Pursue Algae as Fuel
Using algae to produce fuel has turned out to be one of the most difficult technologies to advance. Decades of government study failed to perfect it, and dozens of startups have made big promises but little progress over the past few years. Yet there's still some progress, most notably from...
Tags: Biofuel, Sapphire Energy, Public Relations, Government, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-02-06
Biomass-based Gasoline, Clean Diesel and Jet Fuel for Cars and Planes
Until now, most biofuel discussions have focused on ethanol and biodiesel. Both those technologies show promise in freeing North America from foreign oil dependence, but both have hit some heavy obstaclesâ€"mostly arising from a lack of places to fill up. But what if we could make utterly conventional...
Tags: Car, Biofuel, Gasoline, Fuel, Rentech, Jim Motavalli
Blog posts 2009-07-13
Ethanol Makers Still Trying to Catch a Break from Banks, Debt Holders
The Burrill Report submits: by MARIE DAGHLIAN A combination of lower oil prices and challenging financial markets continues to spell disaster for U.S. ethanol companies, with another 10 providers of this first-generation biofuel going belly up in the first five months of 2009. Among the latest was Pacific Ethanol PEIX,...
Tags: Energy, The Burrill Report, Pacific Ethanol Inc., Verenium Corp.
External links 2009-06-07
NASA Takes a Crack at Algal Biofuel
The nice thing about having the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tackle algal biofuels versus a startup is that NASA refrains from making impossible claims. The space agency's Ames Research Center has come up with a technology that it says could potentially create aviation fuel, with the pleasant side affect...
Tags: Biofuel, NASA, Space Agency, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-05-14
Energy Roundup: Conduit Wins Peru Gas Concession, Solyndra Gets $600 Million, Drop in Solar Prices, and More
Conduit Capital wins $1.4 billion concession to build 700 mile Peruvian gas pipeline -- The private equity investment firm, Conduit Capital Partners has announced that subsidiary, Kuntur Transportadora de Gas, was awarded a 30-year concession contract by the Peruvian Government to build a 700 mile pipeline to carry natural...
Tags: Venture, Solar Panel, Concession, Solyndra, Sales Strategy, Sales, Michael Mattis
Blog posts 2008-10-08
Khosla Announces $1B in Funds, Partner from Facebook
What Forbes and others were reporting earlier this year is now official: This morning famed cleantech investor Vinod Khosla has officially raised $1 billion for two new funds largely from outside investors that will focus a substantial portion on cleantech startups. This is the first...
Tags: Investor, Clean Technology
News items 2009-09-01
Climate Change Bill Passes on Razor-Thin Margin, Tougher Battle Lies Ahead
Maybe it was Al Gore's effort via telephone or Nancy Pelosi's chocolate-covered Dove bars. Heck, maybe it was all of those last minute concessions to please lawmakers in farm states. After weeks of negotiations and compromises and nearly seven hours of debate on the House floor, the American Clean Energy Act,...
Tags: Biofuel, Renewable Energy, Climate, U.S. Senate, Grist, Peterson, Telecom & Utilities, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-06-27
MOU opens up collaboration on biofuels in China
A memorandum of understanding covering collaboration on a range of biofuels technologies and projects in China has been signed by the China National Petroleum Corp. and  UOP LLC, it was announced today (4th November). Under the terms of the agreement, announced at the 20th meeting of the China-U.S. Joint Commission...
Tags: collaboration, China, Biofuels Technology
News items 2009-11-04
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