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- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Solyndra Proves Creative Solar Designs Are a Hit With Investors
- An innovative rooftop solar design for that looks like a cross between a row of fluorescent tube lights and a traditional solar panel, made by a startup called Solyndra, is receiving an avalance of support from private investors, and marks what may be a big industry trend for the future....
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- First Solar Snags Rival Solyndra's Top Scientist
- Top panel maker First Solar just scored an important prestige hire, according to Greentech Media, luring away the chief scientist of Solyndra, a large startup with a different technology but similar market. The researcher, Markus Beck, helped create Solyndra's distinctive tube-shaped solar arrays. Both First Solar and...
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
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- Solyndra Chief Scientist Markus Beck Defects to First Solar
- Greentech Media submits: Markus Beck, the chief scientist at Solyndra, has defected to thin-film solar giant First Solar FSLR, according to sources. The loss of Beck is a major loss for Solyndra, according to solar execs who heard about the switch. As chief scientist, Beck oversaw projects for...
- External links 2009-01-15
- Energy Roundup: California Solar Plant, OPEC Freaks Out, Areva's Nuke Team-Up, and More
- Ausra opens first new solar thermal plant in California in 20 years -- In a ceremony presided over by California's action star Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ausra has commenced operation of its Kimberlina solar thermal energy plant in Bakersfield. It is the first new solar thermal plant built in the state...
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Energy Roundup: Obama's Oil Dilemma, Iraq's 'Nam Flashback, Ethanol in Peril, and More
- Fed to allow 1.9 million acres worth of shale development on public land… maybe -- It's a perfect illustration of the kind of dilemma that the incoming administration will face with energy policy, caught between the rock of energy independence and the hard place of environmental concern. On Monday the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Energy Roundup: Suncor Buys Rival Petro-Canada, Tata Unveils Nano, and More
- Suncor's purchase of Petro-Canada spurs oil sands consolidation debate -- Suncor Energy's plan to buy Petro-Canadafor $15.5 billion has sparked speculation and debate the deal will accelerate consolidation in the Alberta oil sands. The all-share deal -- the largest in the oil and gas industry since 2006 -- would create Canada's...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Can AQT Take a Thin-Film Solar Shortcut?
- Earlier this week, I spoke with the CEO of a thin-film solar startup called AQT Solar Applied Quantum Technology, which is slowly coming out of stealth. AQT is a little different from your average solar newbie; instead of claiming a technology breakthrough, the company says its main innovation is a...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Record 2008 for cleantech with $8.4B in investments
- The global cleantech sector pulled in $8.4 billion in investments in 2008, marking the seventh straight year of growth, according to a report released today by the Cleantech Group. While fourth quarter deals were down 4 percent from the same period in 2007 to $1.7 billion in 99 companies, the...
- News items 2009-08-07
- 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
- Solar Panel Maker Solyndra, Inverter-Maker Satcon Team Up
- Greentech Media submits: By Ucilia Wang Marriages between solar panel makers and inverters are becoming a common phenomenon. by Greentech Media
- External links 2009-05-01
- A Brief History of Nanosolar's Big Claims
- Nanosolar is one of the most fascinating solar companies out there. Founded in 2002, the company has laid claim to the highest cell efficiencies and the most private funding of any thin-film solar company for several years, sometimes suggesting that they can surpass market leaders like First Solar and badmouthing...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- 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
- The $100 Million Club
- How rare is it to land a $100 million round of venture funding? Well, Twitter just became the first U.S. based digital media company in at least two years to do it, according to the National Venture Capital Association. That’s not to say that no other companies have raised...
- External links 2009-09-25
- Solar homes go for high-tech and practicality
- Cornell University house chose to use three core ten steel silos to reflect their rural landscape of upstate New York.(Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNETWASHINGTON--If you designed a net zero energy home, would it be a science experiment or something you'd move into as soon as it was done?At this year's Solar Decathlon...
- News items 2009-10-10
- 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...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Venture Capitalist to Steer DOE's Energy Loan Program
- The Department of Energy has billions in loan guarantees to hand out to alternative energy firms and automakers. But the highly competitive process has been criticized as slow, unmoving even. What is a government agency to do? Hire a venture capitalist, of course. The DOE...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
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