Cleantech investment slows but many backers remain hopeful

Source: Contra Costa Times

of startups. Wind is dead in terms of startups," Lamond said. "Venture capitalists have to make money for their limited partners, and it's easier to make money in social media." The Brookings Institution last month warne ...
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A Fair Price For Energy In Europe ?

Source: The Market Oracle

FROM ZERO TO INFINITY One thing electricity consumers in Europe can expect, at latest by about 2017 but probably well before, is that power prices will be "highly variable". They will probably be higher than ...
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Smart grid China: Latest 5-year plan shows why China is pulling ahead

Source: Humanitarian News

China's 12th Five Year Plan recently released by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is, as we would expect, an ambitious initiative that affects several major industries and includes a commitment to several breakthroughs in key ...
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IEEE Technology Time Machine 2012: Siemens the Car Maker

Source: IEEE Spectrum

As far-fetched as the idea may sound, Gernot Spiegelberg, head of development electric mobility at Siemens, delivered a presentation at the symposium in Dresden that envisioned a whole new class of players vying for a piece of the electric- ...
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Nation's Largest Publicly-Owned Utility Approves Energy Efficiency Budget

Source: Natural Resources Defenses Council

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Sierra Club India: Revolution Brewing in Bihar

Source: Sierra Club Blog

Something's brewing in Bihar. After decades of being India's most notoriously 'backward' state, the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has tempered corruption, built roads and spurred development. Given the impressive achievements ...
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Whoa: Meet the new billion dollar cleantech fund Inerjys

Source: Earth2Tech

Part of the fund’s strategy will be to use funds to project finance technologies, which its equity arm also invests in, says the WSJ. So basically the firm will provide funds all the way from development stage to commercialization — which sounds like it ...
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New white paper discusses how to turn mobile workforce ?Efficiency Bleeds? into ?Productivity Gains?

Source: 24Dash.com

Bacton (Suffolk), UK – 21st May 2012. Wheatley Associates, the leading provider of mobile workforce scheduling and efficiency software solutions, has published a new white paper that discusses how to turn the ‘Efficiency Bleeds’ inherent in s ...
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Takhar kicks off construction season

Source: The Mississauga News

Ontario Government Services Minister Harinder Takhar will "kick off the construction season" this morning in Mississauga with an announcement about highway improvements. A media advisory from the office of the minister, wh ...
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