Comments on: Beyond the Valley, GE is the Ultimate Green VC

By: nina

nina — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:10:31 +0000

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By: Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : GE: Sticking With That Old-Energy Religion

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : GE: Sticking With That Old-Energy Religion — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:42:32 +0000

[...] GEs Ecomagination unit gets plenty of attention for its push into green energy, and the conglomerate is the biggest U.S. maker of wind turbines. Its also leading the charge into new energy technology like the smart grid. But old energy is just as important for GE, from U.S. oil and gas production to oil-fired power plants in Saudi Arabia. [...]

By: Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie Fehrenbacher — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:06:37 +0000

Good point, though in such a difficult capital market companies would be really happy to get those funds.

By: Not so sure...

Not so sure... — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:00:27 +0000

I don't really agree that obtaining funds from GE is "like "winning the lottery." Large commercial investors like Intel Capital and GE often have diverging interests as the company grows, and it's not unheard of that corporate investors will block a later round of financing when the interests of the parties are no longer aligned.

By: Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Green Ink: Budget Battles and the Perils of Toilet Paper

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:22:20 +0000

[...] General Electric has become a green VC, channeling money from its Ecomagination unit into all kinds of clean-tech operations, at Earth2Tech: Were as hungry as weve always been, GE says. Now that energy-efficiency proponents have won the stimulus lottery, the trick will be to identify all the buildings that need to be overhauled, in the NYT. [...]