Environmental startup Formative Labs launched a platform to help companies raise money for charities and promote sustainable living while boosting interaction among consumers.
The platform, called Double Impact, turns the act of charity fundraising into a social game for consumers, …
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a pair of loan guarantees to two solar thermal power companies that amounts to nearly $2 billion.
Abengoa Solar picked up a conditional commitment for a $1.2 billion loan guarantee for its Mojave …
ClearEdge, a manufacturer of fuel cells that run on natural gas, announced today that it has secured a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The grant will give ClearEdge working capital to produce and install fuel cells …
Search giant Google is investing $280 million in SolarCity, a company that leases out solar panels to home owners, bringing its total investment in the clean technology sector up to $680 million.
The investment creates a new fund for residential …
US company Nuvve will use Denmark as the first test market for a new technology allowing electric vehicle (EV) owners to sell energy stored in their EV batteries back to the grid.
The first pilot will consist of 30 cars. …
Proterra, a manufacturer of transit buses that use fast-charging electric batteries, announced today that it has raised $30 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and others.
The company uses a “FastFill” charging station that can charge the electric batteries …
The U.S. government will make $250 million in federal loans available to developers of smart grid technology.
The new loans will be doled out to companies that offer some new way to improve the electrical grid in parts of the …
Google is converting 5 percent of the parking spaces to electric car charging stations in an attempt to encourage its employees to use its Gfleet electric car sharing program or purchase their own electric cars.
Google is installing 150 110-volt …
JouleX, a company that creates software that monitors data center energy usage, announced today that it has raised $17 million from Intel Capital and a batch of other investors.
The company creates software that gives other businesses a way to …
General Motors has cut the price of next year’s model of its plug-in hybrid electric car, the Chevy Volt, by around $1,000 to $39,995 — bringing the car’s price closer to its now rival, the pure plug-in electric Nissan Leaf.…
Avantium just raised $43 million (30 million EUR) from a group of investors including Sofinnova Partners, Aster Capital and De Hoge Dennen.
Avantium’s YXY technology enables the cost effective production of a 100 percent plant-based, recyclable plastic called PEF. PEF …
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Several big players are vying for a piece of the home energy management market – a growing market estimated to be worth over 3 billion by 2015, according to Parks Associates. This market will continue to shake out, with utilities, …
Tesla Motors, the company building high-end electric vehicles such as the Roaster sports car, raised more than $200 million today in a follow-on public offering.
Much of the money is being used to help pay for development of its third …
Sigh. Here we go again.
It’s the first of the month, which means that auto journalists are scrambling to put together their monthly sales reports. Sales in May weren’t great, for a variety of reasons: higher prices and shortages of …
Oregon is the next state that will distribute electric car charging stations to alleviate some of the crippling range concerns that pure electric cars face when trying to attract mainstream car buyers.
The chargers are designed to be “fast-chargers,” which …
Oil and petrochemical giant Valero and existing investors have just dropped $60 million on Enerkem, a company that specializes in converting unusable waste into ethanol and other chemicals.
The company says it can convert household garbage, leftover debris from demolition …
Primus Power announced today that it has raised $11 million in its latest round of funding to finance its battery technology, which store energy and provide backup power for large power grids and “smart grids” — power grids that use …
Nissan has taken a potshot at General Motors by mocking its plug-in electric hybrid Chevy Volt in an ad for its pure plug-in electric car, the Nissan Leaf.
The ad mocks cars that use internal combustion engines and gasoline by …
Solar startup Morgan Solar plans to announce Thursday that it has raised $16.5 million in venture-capital funding. After declines in the second half of 2010, U.S. cleantech investment has been on the rise so far this year, with solar companies …
The U.S. government is purchasing 116 plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles for its vehicle fleet — and it is picking up a nice discount on General Motors’ Chevy Volt, the same company it made a significant investment in to …
