It’s the time of year when most people are evaluating recent trends and planning expectations for the coming quarters. It makes sense that we take a quick look, too, at the events unfolding in the broad, but increasingly popular, cleantech segment, which encompasses everything from smart meters and electricity grids to renewable energy and electric Continue reading →
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It’s the time of year when most people are evaluating recent trends and planning expectations for the coming quarters. It makes sense that we take a quick look, too, at the events unfolding in the broad, but increasingly popular, cleantech segment, which encompasses everything from smart meters and electricity grids to renewable energy and electric Continue reading →
Just before Christmas, I wrote a piece on three smart-grid trends I’ll be watching in 2012 and touched on microgrids as one of them. Lo and behold, cleantech research firm Pike Research is out with a new report this week suggesting that microgrids are poised for a breakthrough year. via Market dynamics driving more companies, Continue reading →
Let’s face it: For cleantech, at least in the U.S., this year was kind of a bummer. I just read MIT Tech Review’s Year in Energy post and I got depressed. But that’s what New Year’s resolutions and wishes are for: turning a new page when the year starts over. via 10 things I want Continue reading →
The global microgrid market is growing up, according to cleantech research firm Pike Research. According to its new tracker report, pilot projects are fading and deployment of full-scale commercial microgrids is accelerating quickly – so much so that three subsegments in the remote microgrid market (village power systems, weak grid island systems and industrial mine Continue reading →
It’s been a year since the Sanyo Kasai Green Energy Park opened as “a massive testing site and showcase for the cutting-edge environmental technology of the Panasonic Group.” So how’s it doing? Great – even better than expected, according to the company. Panasonic said that the extraordinary breadth of cleantech systems and technologies at the Continue reading →
Trilliant, a global Smart Grid communications and solutions leader today announced it was named in the prestigious 2011 Global Cleantech 100, produced by Cleantech Group, a leading research firm focused on global cleantech innovation. The Global Cleantech 100 program is produced in collaboration with the UK’s Guardian News and Media. via Trilliant is Named in Continue reading →
A new report by Pike Research forecasts that utilities will invest $4.1 billion in cyber security for industrial control systems (ICS) between now and 2018. The cleantech market intelligence firm also expects those investments to grow at a steady rate, from $309 million in 2011 to $692 million annually by 2018. via Smart Grid: Utilities Continue reading →
The U.S. government is growing into one of the most important cleantech customers. It’s been investing and proselytizing the value of clean power, biofuels and energy efficiency products and services for job creation, energy security and (insert your favorite cliché here). And it’s a natural extension that it also should set an example as a Continue reading →
Devashree Saha is a senior policy analyst in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. Earlier this year she co-authored a report on the clean economy. Over email, she tells the New York Forum why this industry matters, and — with China and Germany taking the lead — ponders its future in the US. NYF: Hopes Continue reading →
In Q2 2011, equity financing and M&A in the energy efficiency / demand response sector were healthy, although down from the previous quarter. Q1 had been a strong “bounce-back” quarter as deals expected to close in Q4 2010 slipped into Q1 2011. In Q2, money rotated into the sector. It left capital-intensive sectors such as Continue reading →
The network of the smart grid is taking its sweet time to get deployed, but we still need smart applications to run over, and at the edges of, these networks once they are fully installed. At the business competition the Cleantech Open this week, there were a dozen or so entrepreneurs looking at energy applications, Continue reading →
Google officially shuttered its web energy tool PowerMeter Friday after the application failed to bring in enough users. For those who have watched PowerMeter’s slow slog over its two-year lifespan, the move to kill it isn’t all that shocking. But the application, which enabled people to monitor and manage their home energy consumption, does have an Continue reading →
With all the discussion of grid based energy storage for renewable energy integration, the two cheapest and most mature solutions are overlooked. They are also the solutions most often overlooked by investors captivated by the story of clean technology. via Inexpensive Grid Stability Solutions – Tom Konrad – Green Stocks – Forbes.
Trilliant has been named the 2011 Smart Grid award winner in the San Francisco Business Times Cleantech Awards. Trilliant, a Smart Grid communications company that delivers solutions to enhance energy efficiency, utility operations, and renewable resource integration, was honored in an awards ceremony that took place on Thursday, June 16, in San Francisco. The 2011 Continue reading →
Sheboygan Falls, a modestly-sized city of about 7,600 residents in northeast Wisconsin, is not commonly considered to be a hot-spot for clean-technology start-ups or a haven for green-minded consumers. And yet Sheboygan Falls boasts the single largest ‘operational’ smart-grid program operated by an electric utility in the United States, according to the results of the Continue reading →
To those of us working in the cleantech sector, it’s a familiar storyline: A new technology comes to market that increases productivity and changes business models, and, before long, it’s met with opposition. Cleantech and smart grid technologies are inherently disruptive. via Cleantech: Benefits of a disruptive technology – Mass High Tech Business News.
Investors were still pouring money into solar power ventures in April — with about 45 percent the $330 million invested in clean technology ventures pointed toward solar power startups. Wind power ventures were still able to attract nearly $45 million, or 14 percent of investments made in clean technology in April, despite the technology already Continue reading →
It seems every day that another company is making claims about going “green.” Are they just following the Hard Rock Café motto and trying to save the planet? Or is there more to it? “Cleantech” is a broad term that applies to a diverse industry, including renewable energy solutions, technologies for efficient products, carbon capture Continue reading →
More and more consumers are raising concerns about rising energy prices. And about the cleantech incentives that exacerbate those price jumps. This anxiety is spreading to investors, who are moving to limit exposure. They are concerned about sudden policy changes such as the one in France. A recent moratorium there on solar feed-in-tariffs has brought Continue reading →
