Riversimple Aims to Launch Open Source Hydrogen Car: Riversimple will make engineering designs for the hydrogen car it unveiled today in London available online in order to allow local manufacturing in small plants. — BBC German Solar Firms Eye North African Solar Project: A consortium of … Read More »
Electric car startup Tesla Motors saw 2,500 of its shares trade yesterday for $10 apiece, valuing the company at $1 billion. No, Tesla has not gone public. Rather, it’s the first private company to have its stock sold in a new — and at this point … Read More »
Companies are building out the smart grid with various broadband technologies — cellular, WiFi, WiMAX — so why not good ol’ DSL? For non-network geeks, that’s the high-speed broadband that your phone company offers over copper wire. This morning, smart grid sensor and … Read More »
The federal tax credit for plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles in the U.S. — $7,500 — is just enough to let Tesla Motors tout a sub-$50,000 base price for its planned Model S electric sedan. But is the credit, and other incentives now coming into … Read More »
Carbon management software is like a sophomore on the cleantech campus: it’s been around for awhile, but it’s just now starting to get noticed by the senior class. This month SAP took over Clear Standards, a carbon management startup that raised $4 million last fall, … Read More »
When you fly into a city at night, most of the lights you see through the window are high-intensity discharge (HID) lights used in stadiums, factories, airports and street lights. HID lighting makes up a $10 billion global market annually, with some 120 million HID lamps … Read More »
Last year, our parent company, the GigaOM Network, held its first Structure conference looking at the future of cloud computing and how on-demand computing infrastructure will change web businesses. This month, Structure’s back and will be featuring awesome speakers like Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff … Read More »
As far as regional rivalries go, competition among U.S. states to lead the way on clean energy, efficiency and smart grid tech could be one of the more productive ones. Today the Obama administration gave a few points to states on the Western team, opting to … Read More »
South Korea’s ability to use government funds to boost the country’s broadband industries has long been hailed as a savvy move that reinvented South Korean industry and identity as a country. Now the country that led the broadband revolution is looking to create a new … Read More »
Algae-based biofuels hold enormous promise as an alternative transportation fuel, but investors had better have patience. Fuel made from algal feedstocks is forecast to reach commercial availability by 2012, according to a report released today by Pike Research on the global biofuels industry, but isn’t … Read More »
Evolution Solar Shopping for Startups: Evolution Solar has announced that it is searching for a suitable acquisition of an existing solar company, preferably one that’s involved in sales and distribution, but which lacks an expansion plan. — PV Tech AEP Signs Up for Solar: Ohio utility … Read More »
The Urban Dictionary, the user-generated slang web site, recently had a word of the day which I thought was particularly fitting for cleantech companies and entrepreneurs: the chronoptimist, someone who constantly underestimates the time it takes to complete a task (chronologically optimistic.) While entrepreneurs … Read More »
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