26 July 2010 DEALS NEWS… Marine Current Turbines gets £250,000 UK grant to develop SeaGen ‘underwater windmill’ UK government’s Technology Strategy Board invests £350,000 in AWS Ocean Energy to spur development SynGest hopeful to receive $2.5m grant to develop bioammonia production technology China Guodian’s wind subsidiary GD Power Development expects …
IISD & G SI paper on subsidy estimation: Measuring price subsidies using the price-gap approach: What does it leave out?
In the wake of India ’s move in June to reduce its fuel subsidies, and the IEA’s announcement that US$ 557 billion was spent on fossil-fuel subsidies by 37 of the world’s economies in 2008, the measurement of subsidies is a pressing and sensitive issue – what does it include …
Why Stewart Brand is wrong on nukes—and is losing
July 25, 2010 Stewart Brand has become a poster boy for a “nuclear renaissance” that has just suffered a quiet but stunning defeat. Despite $645 million spent in lobbying over the past decade, the reactor industry has thus far failed to gouge out major new taxpayer funding for new commercial …
Record investor approval for US 2010 social shareholder resolutions
July 29th, 2010 RI News Alert: › Record investor approval for US 2010 social shareholder resolutions › ISS wary of disclosing voting recommendations Click here to read the newsletter.
SJF Bulletin: eRecyclingCorps Investment; Recent Exits; Cleantech Mentorship, Summit & Portfolio News
SJF Invests in eRecyclingCorps SJF announced that it has invested in eRecyclingCorps, a company that is transforming the wireless device ecosystem by working with tier-one wireless carriers to establish comprehensive large-scale consumer buyback programs. eRecyclingCorps enables carriers to buy back used handsets from consumers and ensure they are resold or …
Interesting Items from Barry Ritholtz and The Big Picture
Grantham: Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming in 5 Minutes Posted: 22 Jul 2010 02:30 PM PDT Jeremy G rantham, who has long had investments in Timber and Natural Resources, puts a surprising smackdown on the G lobal Warming denialist crowd. In the updated version of Bailout Nation, …
Providing a ‘guaranteed income’ to the poor: an idea whose time has finally come?
“A quiet revolution is taking place based on the realization that you cannot pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots,” the book says. “And giving ‘boots’ to people with little money does not make them lazy or reluctant to work; rather, just the opposite happens. A …
Solar company Spire to receive US energy grant
22 July 2010 DEALS NEWS… Solar company Spire to receive US energy grant Meyer Burger supplies equipment to Korean solar wafer manufacturer Nexolon under €44.5m contract Vestas increases international expansion with Chile office and Chinese deal US Geothermal contracts TAS Energy to construct first phase of San Emidio project under …
Top Five Players in Demand Response – GTM Daily
The Secret Sauce of the Nordic Nations Why Denmark , Norway , Sweden , Finland and Estonia have carved out a lead in greentech — and how that might affect how the business operates in America . Congressional Budget Office Paints Dismal Portrait on Ethanol Subsidies Horse-trading continues on whether …
At The Brink Of The Energy Bill Fight
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ * Today’s Headline: At The Brink Of The Energy Bill Fight * Quick News, 7-22: Google’s Big Wind Buy; Big Sun Build For Tennessee; Virginia Is For Offshore Wind Lovers; Sunrise For Socal Grid Yesterday * Headline: What A Utility Can …