As I wrote in my piece on cleantech trends from 2014 and expected cleantech trends in 2015, the battery storage market is really blossoming. There are now quite a number of battery startups and battery departments within big corporations that seem to have promising products arriving on the market or soon to arrive … [continued]
There’s a reason we’re very careful when covering “potentially breakthrough” technologies — the large majority of them never make it to commercialization; or, if they do make it, they don’t necessarily come through with the disruptive cost they anticipated. We had quite a bit of hope for Envia’s potentially breakthrough … [continued]
The U.S. Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) this week announced that 17 projects it has helped jump-start have “demonstrated major technical successes and shown significant market engagement” in the past 4 years. Putting a dollar figure on that, the 17 projects “have attracted over $450 million in private sector … [continued]
