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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...
Tags: Battery, Clean Technology, A123, IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-09-24
Tech Roundup: Game Companies Hunt Pirates, Bad Oracle Consultants, Green Google Investments, and More
Activision Blizzard chases individual game pirates -- Clearly some in the gaming community have been watching the RIAA a bit too closely. Activision Blizzard has been suing individuals who have pirated its game Call of Duty 3. Out of six people so far pursued, three settled for $100,000, one for...
Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Piracy, Consulting, Clean Technology, Activision Blizzard, IPO, Games, Investment, Financial Services, Personal Technology, Finance, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2008-10-01
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...
Tags: First Solar Inc., Clean Technology, Optisolar, Investment, Finance, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-03-26
Despite Credit Crunch, Global Clean Tech Investment Up 60 Percent
The United Nations' Environment Programme UNEP last week released an exhaustive new report on global investment in clean energy showing that clean tech has the kind of momentum that not even the current recession or credit crunch can slow down. The report tallied up all investment activity for 2007,...
Tags: Clean Technology, BRIC, Wind Energy Investment, Investment, Finance, BNET Member Jeff Davis
Blog posts 2008-07-09
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...
Tags: Venture-capital Company, Recession, Clean Technology, Venture Capital, Transportation, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-09-30
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...
Tags: Manufacturing, Clean Technology, Transportation, Venture Capital, Finance, Financing Startups, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-07-02
Energy Roundup: Centrica Buys BE Stake, Cleantech VC Funding Tumbles, Chevron's PR Offensive, and More
Centrica buys 20 percent stake in nuclear company British Energy -- UK utility Centrica boosted its investment in nuclear power with its purchase of a 20 percent stake in EDF's nuclear unit British Energy. Centrica benefited greatly in this discounted deal by paying 6 percent less than the price paid by...
Tags: Centrica, Clean Technology, Chevron Corp., Public Relations, Venture Capital, Investment, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Finance, Financing Startups, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-05-11
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,...
Tags: Los Angeles, California, Clean Technology, Business Structures, Finance, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-04-18

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Pacific Growth Equities Expands Clean Technology & Industrial Growth Banking Team
Pacific Growth Equities, an investment bank specializing in and focused on emerging growth companies, announced today that Melody L. Jones has joined the Firm's Corporate Finance department as Senior Vice President focusing on Clean Technology and Industrial Growth. "Pacific Growth Equities is dedicated to the Clean Technology and Industrial...
Tags: Pacific Growth Equities LLC
Research articles 2007-05-08
Ten clean technology predictions for 2010
For several years now, as each year comes to a close, we've been issuing predictions for the coming one. While we certainly acknowledge we've not necessarily gotten each one right in years past, a great number of our predictions have proved prescient (see Eight cleantech developments to watch for in...
Tags: Clean Technology
News items 2009-11-30
Clean Sweep 65
A round-up of recent news in clean technology and cleantech investment.DealsCambridge solar tech start-up Enecsys has raised a £6m first round led by Wellington Partners. Denmark's BankInvest New Energy Solutions also joined the round.A spin-out from the University of Cambridge, Enecsys is commercialising a micro-inverter for solar PV modules. By...
Tags: clean technology, photovoltaics
News items 2009-08-10
California Clean Energy Fund Appoints New Director of Technology and Policy Development; Dan Adler to Bring Extensive Clean Energy Policy, Finance and Technology Experience to Advance California's Clean Energy Investment Agenda
SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Clean Energy Fund CalCEF, a $30 million public benefit investment fund created as part of the Pacific Gas and Electric bankruptcy settlement, today announced the appointment of Dan Adler as Director of Technology and Policy Development. In this role, Mr. Adler will be responsible for...
Tags: bankruptcy, Benefits, California, California Public Utilities Commission, finance, Litigation
Research articles 2005-07-28
Ultra Clean Technology Names New Quality Director and Finance Vice President; Clarence L. Granger increases focus on quality and financial strength
MENLO PARK, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 27, 1999-- Ultra Clean Technology, a pioneer in designing and manufacturing next generation gas delivery systems for the semiconductor capital equipment manufacturers, today announced organizational changes. The newly created position of Director of Quality and Vice President of Finance increases UCT's focus on the quality...
Tags: Ultra Clean Technology
Research articles 1999-07-27
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
ALL Fuels & Energy Engages Trinity Capital LLC, a Leading Investment Bank Focused on Renewable Fuels, to Negotiate and Finance Strategic Acquisitions
ALL Fuels & Energy (OTCBB: AFSE) is pleased to announce that Trinity Capital LLC ("Trinity"), a leading investment bank focused on the renewable fuels and clean technology industries, has been engaged to negotiate strategic acquisitions and facilitate the financing of those transactions. Trinity will execute the acquisition of the production...
Tags: Trinity Capital Corp.
Research articles 2008-04-01
Healthy rebound for clean energy
Investors in clean technology have more to smile about than most at the recent upturn in sentiment in stock markets. The diverse sector, which includes wind farms, electric cars, solar panels and composting, suffered badly during the financial crisis. After four years of stellar growth, new investment in clean energy...
Tags: sector, clean technology
News items 2009-08-18
Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman release framework for Senate climate/energy bill
by David Roberts Sens. Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman held a press conference today to discuss the framework they're developing for a clean energy bill that can get to 60 votes in the Senate early next year. (Audio here .) Obviously the event was timed to...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Carbon, Climate Change, Energy, Legislation, Lieberman Software Corp
News items 2009-12-10
New "Tri-Partisan" Climate Framework Aims to Clear High Senate Hurdle
Originally at the Breakthrough InstitutePromising "we can and will pass climate change and energy independence legislation this Congress," Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) unveiled a new framework intended to form the core of a "compromise" climate and energy bill capable of clearing the 60-vote...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Senator, John Kerry, Framework
News items 2009-12-11
Shell UK and National Grid join ScottishPower's CCS consortium
13-08-09 Energy giant Shell UK and National Grid have today (August 13) joined ScottishPower's carbon capture and storage consortium in a bid to help deliver the UK's first commercial-scale CCS system at a coal-fired power station by 2014. Energy company ScottishPower hailed the addition of Shell and grid and gas-pipe...
Tags: U.K., technology, emission
News items 2009-08-13
Ground-Breaking Clean Technology Sponsored.(government finance of Quantiam Technologies, Inc.)(Brief Article)
A Canadian consortium led by Quantiam Technologies, Inc. (Edmonton, AB) has received $1.2 million government contribution from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, to develop and demonstrate a technology for more efficient manufacturing of olefins - the single largest group of industrial petrochemicals worldwide. Quantiam, working with NOVA...
Tags: NOVA Chemicals Corp.
Research articles 2005-06-01
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