April 16th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
The Green Transition Scoreboard, a time-based, global tracking of the private financial system for all sectors investing in green
January 10th, 2012 | by Stephen Lacey
As emerging clean technology companies reach stages of growth that require enormous amounts of deployment capital, investment figures for 2011 reflect that market dynamic. Last year, global corporate and venture capital investments in cleantech grew 13% over 2010, reaching almost $9 billion, according to preliminary figures released from the Cleantech Group. Most of those investments are going to companies that have already picked up one or more rounds of funding, with 85% of dollars flowing into Series B rounds or later. The most stunning increase in activity last year was in mergers and acquisitions, which grew by 154% in 2011. Because it’s often more attractive for cleantech companies to merge with a mature corporate parent rather than go public, the amount of exits in M&A have shot up dramatically.
January 6th, 2012 | by Andrew
China Development Bank is stepping up its international lending to leading Chinese solar power companies even as the industry is being rocked by a glut of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules and heightened uncertainty of government support in key markets. LDK and its US subsidiary SPI Solar announced CDB is providing them financing totaling $64 million to carry out solar PV project development in California and New Jersey
December 15th, 2011 | by Guest Contributor
With the spotlight on environmental issues, many investors have been looking into green stocks. Green stocks are businesses involved in
December 8th, 2011 | by Andrew
Investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and "smart" energy technology surpassed the trillion-dollar milestone recently, while investments in renewable energy power plants are surpassing that for their fossil fuel counterparts, according to the latest reports from Bloomberg New Energy Finance
November 4th, 2011 | by Stephen Lacey
A new debate is picking up within the clean energy industry: Is the sector facing a crisis? Or is it
October 10th, 2011 | by Elizabeth Smyth
Enlighted inc., a building sense and control company, announced the closing of a $14 million round of funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Draper Fisher recently
October 6th, 2011 | by Andrew
Clean tech investments rose 12% quarterly and 23% year-to-year in 3Q 2011, totaling $3.34 billion and 189 transactions. Slowing activity in major economies and the possibility of another breakdown in the global financial system hampered clean tech investment growth in 3Q, yet overall investment levels continued to exhibit strong growth, according to preliminary results of a Cleantech Group research report
August 11th, 2011 | by Silvio Marcacci
California’s Silicon Valley is known for launching the Internet revolution, but the region has also become the epicenter of America’s clean tech industry. Billions of dollars in venture capital funding to energy-related companies has helped the region weather the economic downturn by growing green jobs 109 percent over the last decade. energyNOW! correspondent Lee Patrick Sullivan visited Silicon Valley to find out how the region’s shift toward clean energy is empowering tech-savvy workers and entrepreneurs to take charge of America’s energy future.
July 19th, 2011 | by Elizabeth Smyth
Recent findings by Cleantech Group revealed that venture investments in clean technology were down 33% in 2Q 2011. Compared to the $2.75 billion across 174 deals in the previous 1Q11, global investments in the second quarter produced $1.83 billion across 161 deals. This total for 2Q11 is also down 10% from the $2.03 billion invested one year prior in
July 11th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Some more clean (& dirty) tech policy and politics stories from the last week
May 2nd, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
The recently released data reporting a substantial increase in overall Venture Capital Investment and, in particular, a near record increase for the cleantech sector, should come as encouraging news on the employment front. What is more significant than overall invested capital ($2.57 billion for Cleantech, up 52% from the previous quarter) is that the number of deals remained nearly flat, which means of course that the deal-size is up significantly. A closer look reveals that the majority of the dollars committed went to later-stage deals, many to fund scale up and commercialization phase activities, therefore driving job creation across a number of functions
March 12th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
OnGreen is a leading and fast-growing social marketplace for cleantech. Connecting the best cleantech ideas and entrepreneurs in the world to investors, highly-needed funding, and helpful professionals in supportive fields, OnGreen is offering a tremendous service greatly needed at this time
February 5th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Along with earlier wrap-ups of cleantech politics news and solar and wind energy news, here’s a wrap-up of some other
January 8th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Some clean tech news and views from around that we didn’t cover this week: Caltech Researchers Create Highly Absorbing, Flexible
