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Echelon Moves The Ball Down The Field For The Smart Grid

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Recent research from ABI Research forecasts that cumulative global investment in smart grids, including smart meter implementations as well as upgrades to the transmission and distribution infrastructure, will approach $46 billion by 2015. Transmission and Distribution (T&D) investments are expected to account for the majority of smart grid investments through 2015, according to ABI, compared [...]

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Global Smart Grid Federation Launches

Friday, September 17th, 2010

From The Gridwise Alliance: On Monday, September 20, leaders of seven world smart grid organizations will launch the Global Smart Grid Federation (GSGF), an international organization to promote best practices and to help accelerate the deployment of smart grid around the world, at a press conference in Washington, DC. In addition to working to provide [...]

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The Economist-InnoCentive Challenge For 10K: The Capture of Atmospheric Carbon

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

This is interesting. As part of The Economist and InnoCentive’s Challenge program for the upcoming Ideas Economy conference series, The Economist is seeking insights into the topic of the scalable and economical capture of atmospheric carbon to address climate change. The objective here is to identify promising new means of addressing the problem of climate [...]

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Top 10 Greentech IPO Candidates

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

More here, courtesy of Greentech Media’s Eric Wesoff.

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R&D Magazine Scientist of the Year Nominations Due Sept. 15

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Get your favorite scientist nominated! More information here.

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Cleantech: Venture firms invest $2 billion in second quarter

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

More here, courtesy of the San Jose Mercury News.

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Department of Energy Announces $24 Million for Algal Biofuels Research

Monday, June 28th, 2010

From the DoE… The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the investment of up to $24 million for three research groups to tackle key hurdles in the commercialization of algae-based biofuels. The selections will support the development of a clean, sustainable transportation sector—a goal of the Department’s continued effort to spur the creation of [...]

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LS9 Wins Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Renewable Petroleum™ technology efficiently converts renewable raw materials into low-carbon fuels and chemicals South San Francisco, CA – June 21, 2010 – LS9, Inc., the Renewable Petroleum Company™, today announced that it has won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) highest environmental honor for its revolutionary Renewable Petroleum™ technology that converts sustainable, plant-based materials into [...]

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23rd NREL Industry Growth Forum Accepting Applications and Going Green Top 100 Silicon Valley Private Company Competition Has Begun, and

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

For application information, deadlines and such relating to NREL’s 23rd Industry Growth Forum, click here. The Forum will be held in Denver, Colorado on October 19-21, 2010. The Forum features presentations from 34 emerging clean energy companies, panels led by thought leaders, one-on-one meetings, and organized networking opportunities. The best presenters are awarded cash prizes [...]

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The Artemis Project Top 50 Water and Water-Related Technology Companies

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

2010 Winners Profiles here. As background, per the organization’s website: The Artemis Project sponsored the first Top 50 Water Companies Competition to identify the leading game-changing technologies that provide venture grade investment opportunities in the water sector. The competition goes beyond identifying visionary or exciting technology to assess a company’s ability to become an industry [...]

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Clean Tech Open: Announcing the 104 Semifinalists for the 2010 Competition

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Per an email in my inbox this a.m. – – from the Clean Tech Open team: the list of semifinalists here. 10 Days Left for Conference Early Bird Pricing – On June 25 the Conference tickets go from $197 to $347. Keynote Speakers: Dr. Kristina M. Johnson, Undersecretary of Energy, Department of Energy Ron Gonen, [...]

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Lux Innovation Grid: Recovering Energy From Wastewater Sludge…

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Interesting post courtesy of Lux Populi this weekend: The Lux Innovation Grid: Recovering energy from wastewater sludge: How candidate technologies compare in technical value and maturity (see graphic below). Sewage sludge from wastewater has long been narrowly viewed as an expensive nuisance, fit only for treatment and disposal. Utilities, however, have increasingly begun to explore [...]

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Interesting note from Jesse Berst today on Smartgridnews.com…and on Lithium demand for transportation applications…..

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Entitled “The Smart Grid Threat You’re Not Worrying About (But Should Be)” – many of us have seen this coming for a long time, but for those not following smart grid news, this gives you a sense of the market transformation taking place. More here. And another market that’s going through some interesting gyrations…and will [...]

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Carbon Sciences Files Landmark Patent Application for Breakthrough CO2-Based Gas-to-Liquids Fuel Technology

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Got this in my inbox today… – Company’s Technology Poised to Eliminate World’s Petroleum Dependency by Producing Gasoline from a Combination of Natural Gas and Carbon Dioxide Santa Barbara, CA – June 7, 2010 – Carbon Sciences, Inc. (CABN), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform greenhouse gases into gasoline and other portable fuels, [...]

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Obama Live On The Oil Spill

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

UPDATE: President Obama ordered a halt Thursday to drilling operations at all 33 exploratory deep-water rigs in the Gulf of Mexico for as long as six months… More here.

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CTO 2010 Competition Deadline Tomorrow & Launch Silicon Valley Upcoming June 8

Friday, May 21st, 2010

From the CTO’s website: Get your applications in. And re. Launch Silicon Valley 2010 – more at the link. Deadline to submit applications has past. Note: Launch Silicon Valley 2010 will be held on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, CA.

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Tesla & Toyota Teaming Up To Build Electric Cars; Tesla Also Acquiring NUMMI Plant

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

From VentureBeat.

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From NRDC’s Kristin Eberhard: The American Power Act and California’s AB 32.

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Below is a new blog post by NRDC’s Kristin Eberhard about The American Power Act and California’s AB 32. The piece explains what APA will and will not do to the state’s landmark global warming legislation. This is a repost of Kristin’s blog. The American Power Act and California The fight over America’s energy future [...]

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Blue Tech Innovation Forum Upcoming…

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Blue Tech Innovation Forum. All about innovation strategies that address water scarcity. Should be very good. More here.

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UCLA engineer’s research on CO2 conversion gets boost from Japanese chemical company KAITEKI Institute to sponsor James Liao’s work with genetically modified algae

Friday, May 7th, 2010

I got this in my inbox this morning, and think I’m going to highlight a few more scientists in upcoming blogs. If you’re a scientist in clean tech, it’s your time to shine, so whatever you can begin today, do it. And here’s to the continued success of Liao’s endeavors – as well as those [...]

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