Week of June 1 – to – June 4, 2010 The first week in June could well go down in history as the moment energy and climate legislation in the U.S. reached its tipping point. President Barack Obama, speaking at Carnegie-Mellon University in …

Tags: AltEnergy Tres Amigas, American Prospect, Attorney General Eric Holder, BP, BP oil spill, Canadian Solar, Chantal Ramsay, Compact Power Motors, Docea Power, Environmental Technologies Fund, Green Biologics, Green Energy Act, Husk Power Systems, Kerry - Lieberman, Manoj Sinha, New Mexico Tres Amigas, Ontario, President Barack Obama, SEC, SEC Canadian Solar, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator John Kerry, Tim Fernholz, Top Kill, Tres Amigas

4 June 2010 6:15 AM EDT

Week of April 12 – to – April 16, 2010 This week, industry groups released a slew of optimistic reports that highlighted the robust health of the U.S. clean energy sector. In 2009, U.S. solar capacity grew by 29 percent, according to the Solar …

Tags: AWEA, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Center for American Progress, cleantech investments, Climate Progress, Craig Wellen, Eka Systems, Element Partners, geothermal energy, Greentech Capital Advisors, Husk Power Systems, Joe Romm, Michael Zimmer, National Venture Capital Association, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator John Kerry, Senator Lindsey Graham, solar capacity, Solar Energy Industry Association, Sujit Banerjee, Teridian Semiconductor, wind capacity

18 April 2010 6:15 AM EDT

For cleantech companies Washington has become a crucial financial partner. In the post-Lehman/global financial meltdown era it’s been repeatedly said that the money power has left Wall Street for the shores of the Potomac in Washington. This is not just a talking point, …

Tags: Austin, Bloom Box, Bloom Energy, BrightSource $1.37 billion loan guarantee, BrightSource Energy, China solar, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fuel cell Bloom, German solar feed-in tariffs, Germany, Husk Power Systems, Inel, Intel $3.5 billion, Invest in America Alliance, Ivanpah Solar Power Complex, Jefferies & Co. China, Lisa Jackson, loan guarantee, Morgan Stanley, Overseas Private Investment Corp, Renewable Energy World conference, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Shell Foundation, Silver Spring, Silver Spring IPO, Todd Woody

27 February 2010 6:15 AM EDT

In the post-Lehman/global financial meltdown era it’s been repeatedly said that the money power has left Wall Street for the shores of the Potomac in Washington. This is not just a talking point, but a stark reality for whole industries — the renewable …

Tags: Austin, Bloom Box, Bloom Energy, BrightSource $1.37 billion loan guarantee, BrightSource Energy, China solar, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fuel cell Bloom, German solar feed-in tariffs, Germany, Husk Power Systems, Inel, Intel $3.5 billion, Invest in America Alliance, Ivanpah Solar Power Complex, Jefferies & Co. China, Lisa Jackson, loan guarantee, Morgan Stanley, Overseas Private Investment Corp, Renewable Energy World conference, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Shell Foundation, Silver Spring, Silver Spring IPO, Todd Woody

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The theme of this year’s Renewable Energy World Conference in Austin, Texas, which we’re attending, is: “Power Shift.” And indeed, over the past three-to-five years, a shift has occurred in the energy sector as renewable energy?has evolved from a lifestyle into a growth …

Tags: Austin, Cindy Thyfault, Husk Power Systems, Lynn Tabernacki, Lynn Tabernacki OPIC, Mark Crowdis, Mark Crowdis Think Energy, OPIC, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, project finance, Renewable Energy World, rice electricity, Texas, Think Energy

24 February 2010 6:15 AM EDT