Daily Sprout

Father of Energy Efficiency: The LA Times has an awesome profile of the 80-year-old Arthur Rosenfeld, who is retiring from the California Energy Commission, and which many call the father of energy efficiency — LA Times.

3i Going Fund Raising: London-based investors 3i, which have invested in a variety of clean power firms, are “planning to raise a 1 billion pound ($1.6 billion) fund to buy minority stakes in small businesses in a return to its investment roots, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.” — PEHub.com.

The Next Smart Grid Connection: Radio?: CleanBreak’s Tyler Hamilton looks at Toronto-based startup e-Radio, which uses FM radio waves for utility smart grid services. Hamilton reports that the company announced a deal with Canada’s national radio broadcaster, CBC Radio/Radio-Canada, “which would allow the use of its cross-country frequencies for smart grid control applications.” — CleanBreak.

CMEA Capital On An IPO Roll: CMEA Capital invested in A123Systems, Codexis and Solyndra, giving it a pretty good battery average for picking winners — Reuters.

Hybrids Not So Good At Cutting Fuel Consumption: “Hybrid cars may be as popular as ever, but they may not have much impact on the nation’s – or the world’s – oil consumption over the next two decades, according to J. Marshall Adkins and Pavel Molchanov, analysts for the financial services firm Raymond James.” — New York Time’s Green Inc.

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