Two VC clean tech funds close with over $150 million
Two VC funds with their beady eye on the world of clean tech have this week announced they’re now
Investment
Spanish utility stakes €8.6 billion claim to US wind
In Europe, it’s clearly the season for billions. Greenbang supposes billions are a bit 80s-style knitwear, toy dogs and
Econcern to stump up €12 billion for green power
Utrecht may have the unfortunate curse of a name which sounds roughly the same as someone yakking up a stubborn
Google joins in Brightsource's $115m VC round
If Google was keen on finding a source of renewable energy, Greenbang would humbly suggest building a bonfire out of
Half of Climate Change Capital sold for £56 million
Four companies are buying half of low carbon investment bank Climate Change Capital Group (or CCC if you’re feeling
Dutch bank to pump £8.5m into clean-tech
Regular readers might recall that he asked you what your favourite oxymoron is. Greenbang rattled through a couple, finally deciding
VCs put $1.2bn up for grabs for start-ups
There are some eye-watering sums of cash being flung around world of green tech at the moment but every time
Broadwind raises $100 million for expansion plans
Greenbang’s always been fond of the story about Kerry Packer, the now deceased Aussie multi-billionaire, media mogul, inventor of
Clean tech gets $2.2bn VC bonanza
The likes of the National Venture Capital association and PriceWaterhouseCoopers have released a nattily titled report. It bears the title
eSolar Googles $130 million funding
If you take late nineties proto-rave band The Shamen’s advice, e’s are good. If you take the philanthropic
DoE gets smart with $50m grid handouts
How smart are smart grids? Could they do the super hard Sudoku in the Sunday papers? Do they have doctorates
Solar, ethanol investment bubble bursts?
Greenbang’s a bit, well, naive, which probably explains why she has always thought that the stock market works on