A colleague of mine recently told me of a conversation he had with a friend of his in the investment community. Greentech is more concept than reality, the investor said, and the market is bound for a drastic shift once investors figure that out. A lot of the focus in the greentech market is on [...]
This past weekend, I was talking about a tech company with a friend of mine. The company in question looked promising, but the exit strategy patently seemed geared toward a quick sale.
“It’s a burger,” he said. “Born to flip.”
That description will become more common in the world of biofuels. A whole raft of cellulosic [...]
The concept of the Prisoner’s Dilemma is pretty familiar to anyone who’s taken an introductory economics course in college. Briefly explained, two co-conspirators are arrested and interrogated in different cells. The police, who have incomplete information about the crime, tell each conspirator their night will end in one of three ways: (1) each conspirator can [...]
All three presidential candidates back some mix of carbon regulation and renewable energy market stimulation. The detailed proposals that have emerged, however, can charitably be called incoherent. Hillary Clinton, as SunEdison’s Jigar Shah noted recently, has commented approvingly on the success of Germany’s feed-in tariff in spurring job creation and building a renewables market. So, [...]
I talked a while ago about the elusiveness of the “Killer Amp,” and ended, perhaps in a cop out, saying there isn’t one for greentech, only the White House and Congress have the power to truly invigorate this market through policy, not a compelling new application at the consumer end.
But maybe I was going about [...]
A Congressional Budget Office report issued this month (pdf) at the request of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources found “[a] tax on emissions would be the most efficient incentive-based option for reducing emissions.” Metric ton for metric ton, an emissions tax would derive a higher marginal benefit and incur fewer regulatory costs [...]
Green Light is the traffic cop at the intersection of green technology, business and policy. We cover the highs and lows of the greentech market, providing news, commentary and analysis on the companies and personalities–-winners and losers alike-–driving its growth and evolution.
The possibility of Congress granting oil companies rights to develop offshore reserves in previously protected areas is one of the hottest topics going these days. ...
British Energy, the UK's nuclear power monopoly, will likely be sold to Electricité de France this week in a deal valuing the company at close ...
The new home of Other World Computing, a large computer dealer in Woodstock Illinois, is about as green as you can get. The building, which will ...
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