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California’s Carbon Caps are Contentious but Coming

November marks a big date. It’s not just about a presidential election. It’s also about the kick off to California’s cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions. The Golden State, in fact, will be...

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A Glimpse of the Alternative Fuel Future

While a variety of new fuel technologies are advancing, policy makers can be assured that the internal combustion engine will remain dominant for decades, the National Petroleum Counciltold the...

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The Green Future Arrives In California As Utilities Hit 20% Renewable Energy...

While national renewable energy policies – or the lack there of – remain mired in Congressional election-year politics, the great green future has already arrived in California. On Tuesday, state...

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DOE funds 19 next-gen battery projects with $43M

The U.S. government continues to give small grants to early stage next-generation battery technology in an effort to boost innovation in the U.S., and provide energy storage for electric cars and the...

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Amid a Political Calm, a Tax Break for the Wind Industry Advances

It has been a tough year for companies in alternative energy. Ever since Solyndra, a solar module maker, cost taxpayers half a billion dollars when it went bankrupt last September, Republicans have...

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Shocking news: Oil industry touts study backing continued oil dependence

Recently, an oil industry trade group released a study that ran cherry-picked data through an untested economic model to calculate the costs of California’s clean energy standards. Not surprisingly, it...

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Mayor Lee announces cleantech initiative to grow jobs

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee Tuesday announced a city initiative to support the growth and development of cleantech businesses. Lee said the CleantechSF initiative will focus on three areas first: using...

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Mayor Lee Announces CleantechSF Initiative to Support Growth of Cleantech...

Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced the launch of CleantechSF – a new initiative to support the growth of the cleantech industry and cleantech jobs in San Francisco. CleantechSF has three key goals: (1)...

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$120 million DOE grant boosts California energy storage accelerator

CalCharge and Berkeley Lab included in national energy storage innovation project SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 3, 2012 – A new California innovation accelerator for energy storage firms is getting a “fresh...

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Garage Ventures Launches New Corporate Fund for Cleantech

“Fresh money coming into cleantech” Cleantech Venture Capital is having a rough go. Venture capital firms are pulling back from the greentech sector. The number of cleantech-focused VC partners is...

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The Cleantech Cliff: global venture capital investment plunged 33 percent in...

You could call it the cleantech cliff: Global clean-technology venture investment plunged to $6.46 billion in 2012, down 33 percent from the $9.61 billion invested a year ago, according to San...

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Solar Costs to Fall as REITs Emerge as Source of Funding

A San Francisco startup may win approval as soon as this month to become the first firm allowed to raise money for solar-power projects as a REIT, the financing vehicle used in $637 billion of U.S....

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Renewable Energy Industries Push for New Financing Options

For years, green energy industries like wind and solar have been telling Congress that they cannot yet compete with fossil fuels without hefty tax breaks intended especially for them. But with...

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Alphabet’s Silicon-Based Thermoelectric Tech Gets $16M in VC

Searching for breakthrough technology that will convert waste heat to power—efficiently   “Waste-heat recovery is the largest untapped potential for energy efficiency,” according to Alphabet Energy’s...

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New Fund Unlocks $150 Billion in Efficiency Savings

Innovative financing offers upgrades to 4 million small and medium properties; controls costs, cuts energy use, puts contractors to work   SAN FRANCISCO – March 13, 2013 – Manufacturers, schools,...

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Leveraging Impact Investment for Small- and Mid-Size Energy Efficiency Projects

Customers do not want to borrow, nor do banks care to lend for these relatively small projects (<$1.0 million).  Though banks are the most common source of funding in the commercial sector, they...

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Tesla sales beating Mercedes, BMW and Audi

You know the Tesla Model S, the $70,000 (and-up) electric car that “nobody can afford”? Well, evidently, more than a few people can afford it. In fact, in the first quarter of this year, more people...

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New Ohio Efficiency Resource Fund to Help Upgrade Buildings, Save Energy...

Now accepting applications from facility owners with efficiency retrofit projects costing less than $1 million   CLEVELAND – May 23, 2013 – Manufacturers, schools, churches, and clinics throughout the...

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California Energy-Storage Plan May Require $3 Billion Investment

Energy companies may invest as much as $3 billion on power-storage systems in California to facilitate wider use of renewable energy. Utilities owned by PG&E Corp. (PCG), Sempra Energy (SRE) and...

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