World’s Cheapest Solar Panels Coming In Several Years?
California-based Siva Power believes claims to have developed a technology road map that will lead it to thin-film solar modules costing 28 cents per watt.
Nobel-prizewinning scientist Steven Chu
Clever Glass Inventor Wins $72 Million Loan Guarantee From Nobel Prizewinning Chu's DOE
Sage Electrochromics, Inc, a Minnesota-based inventor of an international breakthrough glass innovation – a window that can be switched on or off to reject up to 98% of the sun’s heat and light on demand – has received a financial shot in the arm from the Obama administration Department of … [continued]
Another Economy Might be Beginning Escape From Fossil Energy Dependence
Here’s some more good news about our renewable energy future. Another nation has reduced greenhouse gas emissions, while not taking an economic hit. Canada’s top 10 industrial greenhouse gas emitters reduced their emissions by 9% in a year, while the economy grew in the meantime by 0.5%.
$2.2 Billion IPO For China Wind Power Longyuan
In one of the renewable energy sector’s largest IPO’s ever, China’s Longyuan Power Group Corp, Asia’s largest wind power generator is raising money in a share offering this month that is expected to raise $2.2 billion, with trading scheduled to begin on Dec. 10. [social_buttons] Who’s buying? Billionaire Wilbur L. Ross … [continued]
China Now Spending $9 Billion a Month on Renewable energy
The US is falling behind in the clean energy race, Steven Chu told a Clemson University symposium, while visiting South Carolina on Monday. The University has just won a Department of Energy grant for wind testing at a world-class level, and will be testing wind turbines larger than ever before … [continued]
DOE Hires a VC for The Green FDR
Under the new Green FDR administration of President Obama, there has been such an increase in renewable technologies funding, that keeping up with qualifying and selecting the best of the best in innovative new renewable energy tech is overwhelming the Department of Energy. [social_buttons] So Nobel-prizewinning scientist Steven Chu of … [continued]
