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Thursday
Friday
Cleantech investment in 2007 up 43 percent, tops $3 billion
Excerpt:
"The latest set of figures on cleantech investment in 2007 are out, compiled by Dow Jones VentureSource, showing a total of $3.04 billion in deals around the world with a solid 83 percent of all deals sourced in the United States.
The Dow Jones numbers look even more bubbly in some ways than the Thompson Financial / NVCA stats we reported back in November, which had cleantech investment for the first three quarters of the year at $2.6 billion. Dow Jones counts deals differently, and didn’t include some of the mega-fundings like the $500 million investment in Delta Hydrocarbon BV that Thompson factored into its total.
Instead, Dow Jones counted up dozens of small deals, painting a picture of rapid sector expansion. Deal volume in the United States alone was up 54 percent, with the category of alternative energy production notably ballooning to 76 deals — well up from the 2005 and 2006 numbers of 22 and 47, respectively. Th deal volume in Europe was almost flat, but investment rose 27 percent to €266 million."
http://www.theindustrystandard.com/news/2008/02/29/cleantech-investment-2007-43-percent-tops-3-billion
"The latest set of figures on cleantech investment in 2007 are out, compiled by Dow Jones VentureSource, showing a total of $3.04 billion in deals around the world with a solid 83 percent of all deals sourced in the United States.
The Dow Jones numbers look even more bubbly in some ways than the Thompson Financial / NVCA stats we reported back in November, which had cleantech investment for the first three quarters of the year at $2.6 billion. Dow Jones counts deals differently, and didn’t include some of the mega-fundings like the $500 million investment in Delta Hydrocarbon BV that Thompson factored into its total.
Instead, Dow Jones counted up dozens of small deals, painting a picture of rapid sector expansion. Deal volume in the United States alone was up 54 percent, with the category of alternative energy production notably ballooning to 76 deals — well up from the 2005 and 2006 numbers of 22 and 47, respectively. Th deal volume in Europe was almost flat, but investment rose 27 percent to €266 million."
http://www.theindustrystandard.com/news/2008/02/29/cleantech-investment-2007-43-percent-tops-3-billion
Saturday
Does going solar pay off?
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Does going solar pay off?
Excerpt:
"Even as states ramp up incentives, the payback for homeowners remains elusive....
Despite the minuscule amount of solar power generated today -- roughly one-thirtieth of 1% of all the electricity produced in the U.S. -- recent technological advances and a continued decline in the price of solar systems are prompting more homeowners to ask if this renewable energy source is now worth the investment.
Analysts say they are still crunching the numbers when it comes to deciding whether residential solar systems, also referred to as photovoltaic or PV systems, make economic sense. The answer hinges on how much and how fast solar can cut a homeowner's utility bills and thus how long it takes to pay off the initial investment to add solar panels to a home."
http://realestate.msn.com/Improve/Green/Article_mw.aspx?cp-documentid=3609262
Does going solar pay off?
Excerpt:
"Even as states ramp up incentives, the payback for homeowners remains elusive....
Despite the minuscule amount of solar power generated today -- roughly one-thirtieth of 1% of all the electricity produced in the U.S. -- recent technological advances and a continued decline in the price of solar systems are prompting more homeowners to ask if this renewable energy source is now worth the investment.
Analysts say they are still crunching the numbers when it comes to deciding whether residential solar systems, also referred to as photovoltaic or PV systems, make economic sense. The answer hinges on how much and how fast solar can cut a homeowner's utility bills and thus how long it takes to pay off the initial investment to add solar panels to a home."
http://realestate.msn.com/Improve/Green/Article_mw.aspx?cp-documentid=3609262
Monday
Gore joins major venture capital firm
Gore joins major venture capital firm
Excerpt:
"Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore announced Monday he's joining Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm to guide investments that help combat global warming.
Gore, an environmental activist who won an Academy Award for his global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as it and dozens of other venture firms headquartered in Silicon Valley expand beyond software, computer hardware, the Internet and biotechnology to so-called "clean-tech" investments worldwide.
Gore is expected to be a high-profile, active partner at Kleiner Perkins. He's already a senior adviser to Google Inc. and a member of the board at Apple Inc. Alliance for Climate Protection, the advocacy group he co-founded, is based in Palo Alto."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071112/ap_on_hi_te/gore_venture_capitalist_4;_ylt=Ao6X_r0camMt1hAUvS_69vgE1vAI
Excerpt:
"Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore announced Monday he's joining Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm to guide investments that help combat global warming.
Gore, an environmental activist who won an Academy Award for his global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as it and dozens of other venture firms headquartered in Silicon Valley expand beyond software, computer hardware, the Internet and biotechnology to so-called "clean-tech" investments worldwide.
Gore is expected to be a high-profile, active partner at Kleiner Perkins. He's already a senior adviser to Google Inc. and a member of the board at Apple Inc. Alliance for Climate Protection, the advocacy group he co-founded, is based in Palo Alto."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071112/ap_on_hi_te/gore_venture_capitalist_4;_ylt=Ao6X_r0camMt1hAUvS_69vgE1vAI
Wednesday
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