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Despite all the attention on battery technology for energy storage for the power grid in the latest round of smart grid stimulus funds , current battery technology is just too expensive to be mass deployed right now, according to analysts at Black and Veatch. “Unless battery technology ...
Stocks
Dan Black
Gartner
After you take time to appreciate your family and Thanksgiving feast, start easing your mind back into the world of renewable energy, climate change and green technologies with these ten things in greentech to be thankful for this year. In addition to these ten trends and events, of course, ...
Stocks
Sometimes a week in the fickle world of international climate change politics can deliver a whole new ball game. Last week politicians and pundits were decrying that the Copenhagen climate talks, which are now 12 days away, would not include a formal pact given the U.S. Senate had failed to ...
Government
Barack Obama
Stimulus Plan
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Solyndra, the well-funded maker of tube-shaped solar panels based in Fremont, Calif., has just scored a deal with Milan, Italy-based solar integrator Sun System. Under an agreement that Solyndra says could be worth up to $105 million over several years, Sun System will use the 4-year-old ...
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The second largest defense contractor Boeing was one of the few tech providers and the only defense firm that won grants in the $620 million round of smart grid stimulus funds announced yesterday (most of the winners, like in the $3.4 billion round of funding announced back in October , were ...
Stocks
Boeing
My article 5 Reasons Wi-Fi Will Take a Back Seat for the Smart Grid stirred up a lot of debate in wireless circles — while some agreed with it and some pointed out reasons they felt I’d overlooked, others flat-out disagreed with what I wrote. Among them was the Wi-Fi Alliance, the ...
Other
“Utter market failure.” That’s how Mark Cooper, research director for the consumer advocacy group Consumer Federation of America describes the U.S. vehicle supply. For the 2010 model year, just 44 models (4 percent of all EPA-rated vehicles for the year) get 30 MPG or more, ...
Government
Best Parts of the New Smart Grid Stimulus Awards: Smart grid analyst Jesse Berst sees three high points in the latest round of stimulus funding awards for smart grid projects: roughly 30 percent of the money went to long-overlooked utility-scale energy storage, much of the money went to ...
Stocks
Stimulus Plan
Gartner
In an interesting twist involving how the $4 billion in smart grid stimulus funds are being allocated, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu this morning announced that energy storage technology received 16 grants for a total of $185 million from the U.S. federal government. While the list of awards ...
Stocks
Stimulus Plan
Exchange-Traded Funds
Tesla Motors’ long-planned Model S electric sedan may finally get a home — that is, if property negotiations scheduled to take place tonight in Downey, Calif., go as planned. According to the town’s mayor, Mario Guerra, a deal that would see the electric car startup set up an ...
Stocks
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has just announced another $620 million in stimulus funds for 32 smart grid demonstration projects. As we explained this morning , this latest funding combined with the $3.4 billion in smart grid stimulus grants allocated last month, is delivering $4 billion to ...
Stocks
Stimulus Plan
CA Inc.
According to the trade group the GridWise Alliance, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is expected to announce another $600 million in smart grid stimulus funds today. Those are the funds for smart grid demonstration projects — which will enable utilities to test out next-generation digital ...
Stocks
Stimulus Plan
American Electric Power
Gartner
A new rule in California meant to help keep vehicles cool in the sun (and thus cut the need for fuel-chugging air conditioners) could interfere slightly with signal reception for GPS devices, but probably won’t block most mobile phone signals. Those are some of the findings in a report ...
Stocks
Garmin
Gap Inc.
Arbitron
Last Friday, buzz about an imminent IPO for electric car startup Tesla Motors hit the Interwebs , courtesy of two anonymous sources familiar with the plans who spoke with Reuters . As in several previous stories about its possible plans for a public offering, the company has declined to ...
Stocks
Retail Industry
Time for Contingent Climate Commitments: Should the Obama administration get out ahead of Congress, pledging to set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets that 67 senators may not be willing to ratify? — Grist
GM Marketing Volt to…Middle Schoolers?: “On November 30th, ...
Stocks
Thin-film solar PV maker First Solar has been aggressively buying solar projects, hoping to drive down project costs while spurring demand for its solar modules during the economic downturn. But First Solar isn’t in the business of holding onto these projects over the long term. In the ...
Stocks
Men's Wearhouse
So you think you’ve come up with the next game-changing greentech idea and now you just need to score some funding to get your new firm off the ground? Well, if you were eying the greentech bigwigs at Kleiner Perkins to back your fledgling startup, maybe you should rethink your strategy. ...
Stocks
Bill Clinton
So you think you’ve come up with the next game-changing greentech idea and now you just need to score some funding to get your new firm off the ground? Well, if you were eying the greentech bigwigs at Kleiner Perkins to back your fledgling startup, maybe you should rethink your strategy. ...
Stocks
Bill Clinton
The cost of solar equipment has been steadily dropping over the last decade, but as the economy hit the skids over the past year, the cost to finance solar projects actually increased. In other words it became more expensive for a utility or company to raise capital to build solar projects ...
