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Michael Kanellos

Carbon Counting Companies Get Cash. Can You Believe It? July 21, 2008 at 11:36 AM

It’s carbon week in clean technology.
CarbonFlow, a software company baking an application that can calculate carbon credits, has raised $2.9 million. Neal Dikeman, at Jane Capital Partners, founded the company with Karla Bell, a noted expert on emissions credits. Investors include Clean Pacific Ventures (which led the round), OVP Venture Partners and Meridian Energy Limited, [...]


Daniel Englander

RockPort Capital Closes Third Fund June 4, 2008 at 7:25 AM

RockPort Capital Managing General Partner Wilber James has just announced his firm has closed its third fund. James, speaking at a keynote session of the Boston CTSI conference, said VC investing in greentech is “taking more time and more money” than was expected and that his firm is launching the fund partially to speed [...]


Daniel Englander

Deathmatch: Battle of the “Clean Coal” Plants February 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM

We spend a lot of time here talking smack about FutureGen. And there’s no shortage of bad things to say about it. Whether it’s the outlandish cost, questionable technology, or true green value the “near zero emissions plant” never lacks for good comic fodder. But, just as in all things related to the U.S. economy, [...]


Daniel Englander

FutureGen Dies Quick, Painful Death January 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM

FutureGen, the much vaunted high-tech “clean coal” pilot plant slated for construction in Illinois, has been (un)officially blackballed by Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. The plant’s estimated costs jumped precipitously from an initial estimate of $800 million in 2003 to nearly $1.8 billion, causing officials in the DOE to balk at what many have already argued [...]


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