cleantech Archive
17 Jun 2013
The Week in Cleantech – June 10 – 16
By On 17 June 2013 In Cleantech Insights
Last week saw several significant deals in clean technology. First, it was revealed that Google had ultimately won the bidding war to acquire Waze, a Palo Alto, California-based developer of a smart phone app enabling crowd-sourced traffic
11 Jun 2013
The Week in Cleantech – June 3 – 9
By On 11 June 2013 In Cleantech Insights
Last week saw substantial activity in cleantech, with venture capital investments in areas like energy efficiency, oil & gas, and smart grid, as well as exciting news in public offerings and M&A. In venture capital, a regulatory
4 Jun 2013
The Week in Cleantech – May 27 – June 2
By On 4 June 2013 In Cleantech Insights
Last week we learned that EV battery swapping startup Better Place has elected to dissolve and liquidate its assets, unable to secure further private financing and amid the slow market adoption of standardized EV batteries that would
2 Jun 2013
Tesla, First Solar, Better Place and Comments on a Weird Quarter in Cleantech
By On 2 June 2013 In Cleantech Blog
Wow. This has been a really interesting few months in cleantech. First Solar announced a $ 0.99 cent/Wp target within 4 years for installed with trackers utility scale in its investor deck. That equates to around $
30 May 2013
One Bed, Two Dreams: The Critical Lesson From Our 2012 China Cleantech Tour
By Cleantech Reporter On 30 May 2013 In Cleantech Insights
同床异梦 The stereotypical view of China for a western technology company has typically been, and still is for many: this is a place where I can source low-cost goods, but this is also a place where I
28 May 2013
The Week in Cleantech – May 20 – 26
By Cleantech Reporter On 28 May 2013 In Cleantech Insights
Last week saw a few large venture capital rounds, and some very interesting M&A activity. Andreesseen Horowitz continued its cleanweb tear with a whopping $ 60 million investment in ride-sharing and unofficial taxi service operator Zimride/Lyft. The
24 May 2013
The Week in Cleantech – May 13 – 19
By Cleantech Reporter On 24 May 2013 In Cleantech Insights
Last week we saw a flurry of activity in cleantech, from venture capital to project finance and big M&A news. In the realm of distributed solar project financing, SolarCity, which held its initial public offering in December,
23 May 2013
Rising Cleantech Stars: The Race to the Global Cleantech 100 List is On!
By Cleantech Reporter On 23 May 2013 In Cleantech Insights
The nominations are flooding in! This is our fifth year collating the Global Cleantech 100 list and accompanying Summit and Gala, and it looks like 2013 will be the most competitive year yet. With input from the
14 May 2013
The Week in Cleantech – May 6 – 12
By Cleantech Reporter On 14 May 2013 In Cleantech Insights
Last week was not short on activity in venture-backed clean technology. Venture investment was led by one big deal: Bloom Energy, a maker of natural gas-powered solid oxide fuel cells for distributed commercial power generation that has
12 May 2013
Cleantech News Roundup
By Cleantech Reporter On 12 May 2013 In CleanTechnica
Below is some more cleantech news from the past week or so for your reading pleasure. However, this excludes some of our biggest categories — solar power, electric vehicles, and bikes. A couple roundups for those are