Bloom Energy Servers to provide 30% of Adobe HQ’s electricity.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Bloom Energy Corporation announced Tuesday they had completed the installation of the largest commercial Bloom Energy fuel cell array to date. (more…)

Today is time to take a moment to make a plug for a specific charity as I am about to write a check and you might want to as well. A bit of background first.

Even outsiders know that the solar energy industry has experienced huge growth during the past few years. This is particularly true of 2009, where solar energy prospered in spite of a worldwide recession. In the U.S., this prosperity is largely due to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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The rapid economic transition of China from an undeveloped nation to a country which now derives 50% of its GDP from industrial production created a series of negative side effects that has sown the seeds for China’s next wave of its economic journey; cleantech. In recent years it has been acting with vigor to create a sustainable economy and is now (more…)

Last week was an eventful one in venture capital clean tech funding, especially for California-based Solaria, Solazyme and Calisolar. Here’s a closer look at each of them, and what to look out for in the near future.

Solaria

HQ: Fremont, CA (more…)

Universities in the United States have led the world in scientific research for a century. Sometimes however, innovators, including universities, struggle to translate research ideas into technologies that satisfy real world needs. Universities across the country have embraced the need to address climate and energy challenges, and now we need to effectively harness the resources and intellectual capital of our world’s leading research institutions. The wealth of ideas originating from our university laboratories will help build innovative cleantech (more…)

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a branch of the US Department of Energy, has published a study relating feed-in tariffs (FIT) to the accelerating production of renewable energy.

According to the study, FITs are the most effective means of encouraging the (more…)

Climate change poses a great set of risks to mankind. Who knows better how to deal with, assess, and respond to risk than insurers? The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ClimateWise, the Geneva Association, the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) have teamed up to offer suggestions on how to better integrate insurers into efforts to adapt to (more…)

TD Canada Trust is doing what it can for Canada’s green economy.  The bank recently commissioned a poll of Canadian house owners to determine Canadians’ awareness of and attitudes toward green energy.  The survey, conducted at the end of July and into August, looked in particular at attitudes toward solar panels and found, among other things, that although a third of (more…)

Deere & Co., (NYSE: DE) the parent company of John Deere, said last week it would be selling off its energy division.

Deere said it will sell its wind power division, called John Deere Renewables, including all of its farms in eight states, to energy giant Exelon Corp (NYSE: EXC) for $900 million. The deal calls for $860 million now, (more…)