Energy efficiency

Cleantech research gets a cash infusion

May 8, 2008 - Exclusive - Corporate and government backed funding flows to biofuel, carbon capture, marine power and fuel cell technology, with 18 deals spotted over the past week.Full Story »
Thomas E. Cain
Tom Cain of SAIL Venture Partners, one of the first energy VCs, reflects on his firm's investment criteria and portfolio companies.

Kleiner Perkins going greener

May 1, 2008 - Exclusive - The venture capital group forms a new $500 million cleantech fund, and we spot 13 other deals over the past week.Full Story »

Cleantech on display in Brussels

April 28, 2008 - Exclusive - Breathing buildings, environmentally friendly pavement, heat recovery and more at Cleantech Forum XVII.Full Story »

GMZ Energy gets thermoelectric

April 25, 2008 - Exclusive - New nanotech-based material could be used in cooling applications and to capture waste heat and turn it into electricity.Full Story »

Funding heats up for solar thermal

April 24, 2008 - Exclusive - Three companies aiming for utility scale solar projects pad their coffers, along with eight other deals we spotted over the past week.Full Story »

Wartsila to deliver jatropha-powered CHP plant

April 23, 2008 - News Brief - The 9 megawatt plant is expected to be the first in the world to produce both electricity and heat using jatropha oil as fuel.Full Story »

Excited about parking garages

April 22, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week

"Fat and sassy!"

— How California Lighting Technology Center Director Michael Siminovitch describes the market opportunity for self-dimming LED parking garage lighting (story »)

A look at U.C. Davis' cleantech R&D

April 22, 2008 - Exclusive - The University of California's central valley campus is emerging as a hotbed of energy efficiency research.Full Story »
Rafael Coven
Public cleantech companies tumbled this past quarter. But less so than other sectors, according to the manager of the CTIUS index.
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