So the fiscal cliff drama has resolved itself temporarily, with both solar and wind incentives living on for another year…
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So the fiscal cliff drama has resolved itself temporarily, with both solar and wind incentives living on for another year…
Topics: Federal Grants, Clean Energy grants
As we watch Europe’s financial system teeter on the brink, many are preparing for the US’s own unwelcomed, but necessary austerity effort. Yet with yesterday’s deadlock by the Super Committee, we’re all left wondering if our elected leaders have been watching too much ESPN, detailing the NBA’s own failure to come to an agreement, after over two years of negotiations.
Topics: Federal Grants, DOE Loan Guarantee, Clean Energy grants, Investment Tax Credit
In late 2008 George Bush’s $700 billion TARP investment put the US Federal Government into the private equity business.
Topics: Federal Grants, DOE Loan Guarantee, Stimulus
Today I attended the Clean Economy Network‘s first conference in Washington, DC, fittingly on the eve of President Obama’s State of the Union address.
Topics: Energy Efficiency, State of the Union, Federal Grants, Clean Economy Summit, Clean Energy grants, Sputnik moment
With last night’s tax bill passage by the House, the renewable energy industry has been given a wonderful holiday gift. But this toy’s battery only lasts one year and you might not be able to replace it.
Topics: Solar PV, Federal Grants, renewable grants, Section 1603, Renewable Energy
In my former life as a early stage venture capitalist I learned a traditional VC bias against investing in start ups where government subsidies were necessary to make the technology’s economic case work. Year’s later I’m scratching my head at how the VC market has thrown out this bias in cleantech investing, an example being their heavy investment in solar PV technology.
Topics: utility rebates, Rebates, Solar PV, Federal Grants, federal grant, incentives, Clean Energy grants, Investment Tax Credit
