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6 questions for DuPont’s CEO on startups, ethanol and solar (interview)
The fifth most powerful business woman in America according to Fortune, DuPont’s CEO Ellen Kullman, has spent the last few years restructuring the two century-old company around using science to help...
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There’s high trust in clean power despite the negative headlines
I just read a statistic that jolted me out of my cleantech hangover. Despite low cleantech VC funding, the limelight-hogging shale boom, and an avalanche of anti-cleantech advertising during the 2012...
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How energy data will impact the smart grid
The deployment of smart meters combined with the growth of cloud computing infrastructure has created opportunities to build business models around the volume of emerging energy data. Those who use...
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Video: The trends behind the year of clean energy turbulence
This week I attended Bloomberg’s annual energy conference, and the audience favorite seemed to be the keynote by Bloomberg New Energy Finance CEO Michael Liebreich. If you’re interested in the trends...
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How Nest and Opower quietly morphed into competitors
Energy startups Nest and Opower are members of an elite club: venture capital-backed companies that have managed to find some success building software and hardware around managing home energy...
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European RE.WORK summit aims to solve future problems through emerging tech
A new series of European conferences will begin in London in September, with the organizers hoping to put scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs in the same room to come up with fixes for some of...
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Europe wants to be big in chip manufacturing
Europe is not particularly known as a major hub of the semiconductor world, but – if the European Commission gets its way – it will be. The Commission has launched a major seven-year drive to stimulate...
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The Google-backed clean energy projects around the world [map]
Over the past at least six years Google has poured more than $1 billion into a Hoover’s Dam worth (2 GW) of clean energy projects, as well as funded a few early stage cleantech startups (and even...
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Scottish startup thinks whiskey can fuel more than an epic bender
That 15-year Macallan you’ve been saving for a special occasion has a dark side: It was extremely inefficient to produce. The Scottish malt whiskey industry currently disposes of 90 percent of the...
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Which US states are hot for solar power (map)?
Solar power technology is proliferating across the U.S. as costs drop and awareness grows. (Check out these charts to see solar’s amazing growth last year.) But the political atmosphere for solar power...
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New thermocell technique could harvest power from waste heat at power plants
When you drive past a power plant, you may see steam billowing out of its tall stacks. The steam comes from heat generated during the power production process. Lost heat can be thought of as lost...
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What mattered in cleantech in the second quarter of 2013
Implosions in the electric vehicle space dominated news in the cleantech area just as new EV darling Tesla became the first major success story. Solar, meanwhile, showed signs of a rebound and the home...
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What the next business model for EVs might look like
The electric vehicle industry has moved past the toddler stage (where companies that could not stand on their own have fallen) to early adolescence (where business models are taking shape and...
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What the internet of things means for cleantech
We’re entering the brave new world of the internet of things, but what does that mean for cleantech? It means the possibility driving greater efficiencies in areas ranging from home appliances to the...
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How turning manure into plastic could economize one type of energy production
Dairy is a big industry in Idaho. That brings certain byproducts, including manure. Lots of manure. While pursuing his PhD, University of Idaho civil engineering professor Erik Coats became interested...
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Generating electricity from a sheet of paper
E-paper displays like Kindles use an extraordinarily low amount of power; so low, it turns out, that brushing your hand across their surface could be enough to power them in the future. A team at...
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Sequoia not shy about investing in energy, transportation startups
Just don’t call it cleantech — that term has morphed into a dirty word for venture capitalists and the limited partners that put money into VC funds. But Valley leader Sequoia Capital has quietly been...
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Sponsored content: Why the smart home is finally ready for the mainstream market
Today a broad range of smart-home services is being marketed to consumers like never before. But if growth in awareness is to lead to a truly mass-market phenomenon, the connected consumer needs...
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Cleantech third-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
Cleantech continues to show slow but positive signs after a 2012 that saw a third drop in venture investing.Related research and analysis from Gigaom Research:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free...
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Why going “green” matters for high-performance computing
High-performance computing applications can help businesses take advantage of the lower energy costs a green data center offers, no matter where it’s located.Related research and analysis from Gigaom...
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