Executive Q & A

eSolar Banking On Worldwide Partnerships For Deployment Of CSP Technology
Its first utility-scale plant, the 5-megawatt Sierra SunTower project in California, has only been in operation since August, but eSolar has 3,500 megawatts of global partnerships and projects and believes it will be deploying as much as a gigawatt of concentrating solar power in the next few years. With its proprietary combination of optics, software to focus its mirrors, and modular design and construction methods, eSolar is able to achieve economies of scale that overcome the main obstacles to large solar installations—price, scalability, speed of deployment and grid impact, said Robert Rogan, eSolar's senior vice president for the Americas...... Read More »

Movers & Shakers

DOE, EPA Fill Technology Positions
Dr. Karina Edmonds has been appointed the Department of Energy’s first Technology Transfer Coordinator, and Dr. James Johnson has been named chairman of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, an independent committee that advises the agency on a broad range of environmental policy, technology, and management issues...... Read More »

In a move to push for a comprehensive technology breakthrough that can be taken to commercial markets, the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has given DuPont a multi-million dollar award to develop a process for using seaweed in the production of next generation biofuel that will be commercialized by a DuPont-BP joint venture...... Read More »

Clean Energy Update

PR News Wire

• FPL Unit Buys Three U.S. Wind Farms From Babcock & Brown

• Sequoias Preserved In Largest U.S. Forest Carbon Deal

• Senate Climate Bill Unveiled; EPA Issues Greenhouse Proposals

• Cap and Trade Allowances: Windfalls Or Wind Farms?

• Administration Rolls Out $2.3 Billion In New Manufacturing Tax Credits

• Regulators In British Columbia Balk At Green Energy Plan

• EIA Sees Modest Economic Impacts From House Climate Bill

• Report: VC Cleantech Investment Up In Second Quarter, Rebounding Slowly

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Second-quarter U.S. venture capital investment in cleantech businesses showed significant improvement over the first three months of 2009, but is still way off the pace of investment in the same period a year ago.
 
Cleantech investment in the second quarter was $572 million, up 73 percent over the first quarter 2009, with 48 financing rounds—a 100-percent increase in number of transactions compared to the previous quarter, according to an Ernst & Young analysis issued Aug...... Read More »

America’s landscapes are increasingly dotted, arrayed and lined with renewable energy facilities at a scale once only dreamed of, and it’s clear that the newest utility-scale energy facilities are renewables, not conventionals. Whether this trend is fueled by renewable portfolio standards, desires to further develop domestic energy sources, environmental values, business decisions or some combination of all of the above, the growth is undeniable and has no obvious end in sight...... Read More »