


Solar financing in U.S. going strong for now, but 2012 question looms

New gadgets take the traffic light approach to saving energy

Monsanto invests in Sapphire for algae, crops research

Biofuels to anti-age your face. Seriously.

Tesla’s Model S update: pricing and deliveries

On the GreenBeat: PlugShare app finds car chargers, Suntech beats First Solar in panel production

Global LED market surges, doubling last year

On the GreenBeat: Solyndra’s star fades, admits to mistakes; Khosla says new biofuel IPO coming

A sensor-driven life: IT companies wire up cities of the future

Making people happy about the smart grid: There’s (probably) an app for that

On the GreenBeat: Nexterra bags $15M for biomass power, Johnson Controls make $32.3M smart grid buy

Amprius raises $25M for breakthrough batteries from Kleiner, Google CEO

Electric car startups to square off against Big Auto competition

On the GreenBeat: Coda wants to sell 50,000 electric cars by 2015, Powerit raises $5M

How solar and oil can coexist in Saudi Arabia

On the GreenBeat: Warren Buffet, wind king? 1366 raises $28M; Soliant suspends operations

Greylock: $1 billion more and new fund for “winner’s circle”

Genomatica raises $45M for renewable chemicals

WeatherBill nabs $42M from Khosla, Google to help farmers cope with climate change

On the GreenBeat: Solyndra raises $75M credit facility, Reno’s wind experiment

DEMO: FaceCake offers Jetson-like future of fashion

DEMO: EcoATM makes recycling cell phones for cash easy and instant

DEMO: AboutOne creates a digital hub to organize families

More investors for renewables: BlackRock and NTR team up

Watch out, Tesla and Fisker! More luxury carmakers go electric

On the GreenBeat: Geothermal wins $96.8M loan guarantee, ethanol could suffer in national budget cuts

Do CFL lights suck? ‘Save the light bulb’ campaign has Ron Paul on board

Minus a partner, Accel puts energy in China cleantech

Silver Lake launches new cleantech fund with George Soros’s firm

A cheaper, greener fridge? Phononic grabs $10M for thermoelectric cooling

SmartSynch raises $25M for smart grid via cell phone networks, aims for $33M total

Toyota to launch home electric car charger, jumping into a crowded market

Backed by Google, Transphorm unstealths with plan to tackle billion-dollar energy losses

Google’s investment in Transphorm could be good news for electric cars

On the GreenBeat: Khosla strikes back at WSJ, Gevo served a suit by BP and DuPont JV

Solyndra and government support for cleantech under fire

Fisker to release Karma hybrid (finally), with an extra $150M and possible IPO

The curious story of electric cars and Texas
