I’m sitting in the hallway outside the fifth floor bathroom in the InterContinental trying to come up with a creative answer to this question. In about three and half hours I’m scheduled to talk at and moderate a panel on residential solar finance along with reps from Akeena, SunRun, SolarCity and SunPower, and I’m still [...]
Dr. Fred Morse believes the single biggest obstacle to the widespread deployment of CSP technology is the U.S. Congress. According to Dr. Morse, the American Southwest has a bigger energy potential than both hydro power in the Pacific Northwest and the oil under West Texas. This is a much more refined argument than the oft-repeated [...]
Greentech Media is coming live to you all week from Intersolar North America in San Francisco. We’re kicking off the week with a day long conference on concentrating solar technologies and markets, featuring industry leaders like Dr. Fred Morse from Abengoa, Travis Bradford, Hal LaFlash from PG&E, and Robert Morgan from Ausra. On Wednesday we’re [...]
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 [...]
Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers thinks about three numbers when he falls asleep at night: 3, 12, 41. His company is the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the country and number 12 internationally. If Duke Energy were a country, it would be the 41st largest emitter in the world. At today’s MIT Energy Conference [...]
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, MIT President Susan Hockfield, and Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environment Ian Bowles, were on hand at a press conference today to announce the beginning of a partnership between MIT and Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Citing the history of cooperation between Germany and Massachusetts on greentech, such [...]
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.
Buildings are the George Harrison of green tech. Usually, it's the first two guys--solar and biofuels--that come to mind when the green tech gets debated. ...
Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk is serious about getting beyond sports cars. At a press conference with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla co-founder and chairman Elon ...
Despite the near daily hum telling us that we're in big trouble, sometimes we read something that makes us think: wow, we're in big trouble. ...
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