The annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit is the seminal New York City environmental financial market event created by Peter C. Fusaro. This event does it all in 2 days covering carbon emissions trading and finance, renewable energy markets, cleantech VC, green hedge funds and energy efficiency financial markets. … wsgts Carbon trading finance cleantech [...]
It’s axiomatic among the cleantech community that energy efficiency represents the cheapest/easiest way to address our energy and environmental challenges….
President Bush has called for a 22% increase in federal grants for research and development of alternative energy. Unfortunately, the world thirst for oil is growing, not reducing. One of the major problems of transition to alternative energy is that higher oil and gas prices stimulate the economy through increased employment of industry workers and [...]
This past week I attended the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco and much of the discussions in energy efficiency focused on sensors, networks, data analysis, and other t…
Water analytics – yet another intersection of cleantech & IT. by admin on February 23, 2010. Energy efficiency is ultimately tied to understanding the absurdly played-down importance of water.
“All the cleantech conferences are efficiency, efficiency, efficiency,” said Surace….Venture-capital investment in energy efficiency hit a record in 2009: at least 115 deals worth nearly $1 billion, according to a preliminary tally by the Cleantech G roup and Deloitte. That’s up 39 percent from 2008….
In a nutshell, among cleantech deals, those focused on energy efficiency had almost doubled in Q4 2009 (up 89%) against Q3 2009….Young about trends in the Cleantech Venture Capital market….
“Consequently, we may see investor participation in cleantech broaden….Cleantech, and more specifically energy efficiency startups, could see even further growth in 2010 as venture capitalists are set to spend even more in the first p…Energy generation companies, Q3’s leading cleantech investment category at over $300 million, was dethroned in Q4 as they fell 62% to $118.
Going Green: Cleantech VC Funding Narrows Focus to Energy Efficiency http://bit….
In a new study released by Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureSource, cleantech startups focusing on energy efficiency raised more from venture capitalists in the last quarter …
