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The long-promised but perpetually fledging biofuel industry still remains a big focus of government support. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that it’s made a conditional commitment for a $232.5 million loan guarantee to ZeaChem to build the company’s first commercial-scale refinery to turn plants into fuels...
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The premise of value investing is to buy securities whose shares appear underpriced by some form of analysis. Warren Buffett is the strategy’s greatest adherent and also its greatest success story.
In the past six weeks, Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company has been on a renewable-energy investment spree, buying up...
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After a variety of strategies and around $100 million in funding, startup Tendril is now largely a software company, and on Tuesday at the DistribuTECH conference in San Antonio, Tendril announced a big partner in its play to provide the software layer for electric vehicles: BMW. Tendril says it will provide its software for a...
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This weekend in New York City, dozens of developers gathered together for the secondCleanweb Hackathon, where programmers spent the entire weekend building mobile and web apps around new ways to manage energy, water, food and fuel. As Sunil Paul, the founder of the event and a partner with Spring Ventures, put it in a short talk on...
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GTM Research profiles the leading 150 smart grid vendors in its latest market report.
GTM Research is pleased to unveil our latest research report, The Networked Grid 150: The End-to-End Smart Grid Vendor Ecosystem Profiles and Rankings.
This report represents the culmination of a GTM Research effort to profile the leading players...
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We live streamed the first Cleanweb Hackathon event in San Francisco last September, and now we’re very excited that once again we’ll be live streaming the second Cleanweb Hackathon that will be held in New York City, this weekend! The “Cleanweb” is the trend of using information technology — software, the web, social...
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Nanosolar, which has struggled for years to fulfill its promise as the next major thin-film solar manufacturer, announced Thursday it has a new CEO, again. Eugenia Corrales, who has been the startup’s head of engineering and operations, is taking over the chief executive post effective immediately.
The transition, though the...
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Despite Coda just going into production of its inaugural electric sedan, the startup will announce on Friday it’s launching a division that plans to sell its batteries and battery management systems to act as energy storage for the power grid. The idea has been in the works for years (former CEO Kevin Czinger told us about this...
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