NW RE Events Picking Up
Nice to see Seattle and Portland starting to attract and create some quality cleantech, clean energy events. It starts next week with Oregon’s Green Advantage: Opportunities for Entrepreneurs, which...
View Article60,000 Green Jobs Projected for NW
A newly released report says Washington and Oregon states can assume leadership in five cleantech sectors with the potential to generate up to 63,000 direct jobs by 2025 (up from 11,000 today), and...
View ArticleCleantech Media Survey: 2009 is Policy, Blog Year
Media covering cleantech expect to pay significant attention to policy in 2009 and they also have declared it the year of blogging and video, according to results of my first Annual Cleantech Media...
View ArticleGo “Gig” or Go Home
At the launch of the Gigaton Throwdown in DC last week, entrepreneurs and investors adopted a new metric for cleantech businesses other than internal rate of return – something called gigaton scale....
View ArticleNew Energy + Mature Energy = Scale
Because of my work with PetroAlgae, SkyFuel, EarthTronics and other cleantech companies, it has become clear to me that the degree of success achieved by “new energy” technologies (wind, solar,...
View ArticleNotes from Renewable Energy Finance Forum
Some of the trends, information I found interesting at REFF-West (rather than Tweet all of them, I’ve just listed them here): Compared to REFF-West last year, the mood was considerably more positive....
View ArticleACORE offers dour view on bioenergy
The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) had this to say about the current state of affairs on bioenergy. Nice to see some realism out there: “The prospects for a successful green energy...
View ArticleRoundup: Cleantech Predictions for 2010
Based on the rash of predictions for cleantech in 2010 from investors, consultants and media (see the full list at the end of this post), I’ve pulled together a “trend of trends” list below that...
View ArticleClean Energy: Too Many Interests, Not Enough Group
There is a lot of interest in clean energy. Here’s just a partial list of the US groups out there: American Business for Clean Energy, Business Council for Sustainable Energy, Environmental...
View ArticleCleantech: Bright Spot In U.S.-China Cooperation
Despite heated rhetoric from protectionist corners that China and the United States must compete over the massive dollars associated with the clean energy industry, some signs are actually emerging...
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