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Based in Berkeley, California, Chris Morrison is a freelance business reporter who focuses on renewable energy and cutting-edge tech. Until recently, he was a staff member at VentureBeat, a news site about innovation and venture capital, where he headed up coverage of clean technology. Chris continues to contribute to VentureBeat...- more about Chris Morrison »
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- San Jose's Cleantech Officer on Renewables, Recession and the Stimulus
- While San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom gets plenty of attention -- often national -- for his renewable energy initiatives, an equally large city just to the south, San Jose, has been outspoken in its own quiet way. What that means is that it often aims its message at businesses, rather...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Home Fuel Cell Maker Bloom Energy Raising Largest Round Yet
- Fuel cell startup Bloom Energy is a curious combination of high- and low-profile. As one of the first cleantech investments made by famed venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, it has been the subject of intense speculation for years, since it was first discovered operating as Ion America. But...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Optisolar is Dead For Now — Who's Next?
- Optisolar, a company that likely scored in the top five list of most promising thin-film startups for many solar industry watchers, appears to be out for the count. Having sold its project portfolio to First Solar, it has now closed its factories and settled back in hopes of attracting a...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- A Green Competition Shapes Up in California
- Los Angeles has its eye set on becoming the "global capital of clean technology" -- just don't tell the dozen or so cities that are well ahead of it. The LA Times reports that the West Coast's metropolis has put itself into the running with a partnership between local universities,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-18
- Iberdrola Renewables and Sempra Generation Each Planning 300MW of Clean Energy
- Another 600 megawatts of power from the sun and wind could be coursing through power lines by next year, if the plans of two major companies, Iberdrola Renewables and Sempra Generation, are successful in their plans. Iberdrola is suffering through a rough patch, having just told investors that its...
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Does JA Solar's Bounce Mark a Bottom For the Solar Sector?
- Following a reported loss yesterday of more than three times what analysts were estimating, JA Solar shot up almost 25 percent today on a lone analyst's upgrade from "Neutral" to "Buy", Forbes reports. The analyst, John Hardy of Broadpoint, thinks that the dismal demand levels that led to JA's loss...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Energy Roundup: Shell's Shakeup, Energy Use Rising, GE Adds to Cleantech and More
- Shell shakeup causes layoffs, efficiency measures -- New Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser will preside over a division of Shell's upstream business into separate Americas and international units, and see off hundreds to several thousand employees. Linda Cook, the gas and power chief passed over in favor of Voser,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Transportation Takes the Day in Cleantech Funding
- Maybe funding for cleantech companies is stabilizing -- or maybe there's just excitement over a particular segment. The latest report detailing cleantech fundings is out, and of its $1.2 billion in deals, up 12 percent over last quarter, almost exactly half went to companies in transportation. The...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- 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. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- A123's IPO Already Bringing Hope to Other Cleantech Startups
- Update: The IPO has come and gone, with A123's shares grabbing a 50 percent premium in their first day of trading. The results reinforce the points below. Hours ahead of battery maker A123 Systems' initial public offering, optimism is already running high that the company will crack...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Week in Renewables: Neglected Nuclear, Falling Winds, Solar Redemption
- Should, or should not nuclear energy be considered a renewable? That's more of a long-running question than a news item from this week, but Department of Energy head Steven Chu did take the opportunity last Friday to again throw his weight behind nukes, saying that the government...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Hobbled by Recession, Cleantech Still Takes the Investment Crown
- Venture investors love cleantech, to the point of investing more there than they do any other industry, including biotech and the internet. That's the latest word from the Cleantech Group and Deloitte, which track investments in the sector on a quarterly basis. Granted, the word "cleantech" has...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Week in Renewables: Glowing and Grim Reports, a New Bank, and Big Wind
- Start with a bang, end with a whimper. That was the story for green technology this week, after opening with a report that investing in the sector was up 10 percent over last quarter in what looked like the beginnings of a recovery. By the end of...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
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- FutureGen Clean Coal Project Revived, For Now
- All the talk about clean coal in the United States may finally get some action. The FutureGen project, a 275 megawatt coal burning plant whose carbon dioxide emissions will be captured and pumped underground, is back on track after being derailed by the Bush administration last year. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Real Enough to Investors: Clean Coal Startup Powerspan Raises $50M
- Clean coal technology is the political football of the day. As soon as one side claims it's absolutely necessary, the other says it doesn't exist -- or vice versa. But a consortium is ready to bet on the concept, with institutional investor AllianceBernstein, oil and engineering firm Fluor, legendary currency...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- New DoE Head, Illinois Line Up in Favor of Clean Coal
- The stars are aligning up once again for clean coal as Barack Obama approaches his presidential coronation. At both the Federal and state level, policymakers are talking about the technology. And sensing an inexorable change on its way, utilities and energy companies are duly lining up to help, albeit for...
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- Week in Renewables: Clean Energy Incentives and Brewing Political Storms
- With the United States' two major CO2-penalizing bills limping through Senate, new legislation and programs aimed instead at rewarding clean energy are popping up everywhere. Earlier this week I mentioned the European Commission's idea to invest almost $100 billion over ten years to research renewables. That's not...
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Week in Renewables: Obama vs. Public Opinion, and New Energy Bets
- To commercialize renewable energy technologies, must we first believe in climate change? The question deserves closer examination after this week's Presidential address and the concurrent release of a major study. "The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized,"...
- Blog posts 2009-10-25
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
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