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Today’s 10: Cleantech and green finance set to rake in $16.5 trillion

January 21, 2016 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

As the clean energy revolution gathers steam, the sector with attract trillions of dollars’ worth of investments, says S&P. GE got orders 20 new wind turbines last month; 2016 is the tipping point for SSDs; ARM’s new low-power chip can process 4K video; and Tesla is dead set on selling directly to consumers. Those stories […]

Filed Under: Business, Cleantech & Renewable Energy, E-Waste & Recycling, Green IT

Today’s 10: 2015 ‘shattered’ global temperature record

January 20, 2016 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Let’s dust this thing off… NASA and other climate scientists agree: 2015 was a scorcher. Sustainable electronics are gathering momentum; self-healing batteries may one day help EV owners brave the winter better; and GE’s move into Boston could mean good things for the area’s cleantech sector (yes, there is one). Plus, a leak in the Nest […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Green IT Tagged With: climate change, green it news roundup, Internet of Things, IoT, roundup

Used Chevy Volt batteries help provide power for GM data center

June 19, 2015 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

General Motors (GM) is recycling used Chevy Volt batteries and putting them to good use by providing renewables-sourced power for the company’s new data center at its Milford Proving Ground. GM’s June 16 press release explains: Because the Volt typically draws its power from a band of energy in the battery pack, there is a lot […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Data Center Tagged With: batteries, Chevrolet Volt, Chevy Volt, Data Center, general motors, GM, renewable energy

Amazon looks to the solar to power its cloud

June 10, 2015 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Some neat news from my colleague Jeffrey Burt over at eWEEK today… Amazon is working with Community Energy to build an 80-megawatt solar farm in Virginia to help power its Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in Virginia. Jeffrey writes: The solar farm—which will be built in Accomack County, Va., and will power up as early as October […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Cloud Computing, Data Center Tagged With: amazon, cloud, Cloud Computing, Data Center, renewable energy, renewables

Google embraces wind power for headquarter’s energy needs

February 11, 2015 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Apple isn’t the only tech giant making waves on the renewal energy front. Google is making a big commitment to wind power, enough to provide its Mountain View, Calif.-based headquarters with enough electricity for their operations. My colleague, Jaikumar Vijayan, over at eWEEK reports: As part of the agreement, NextEra will install new turbines at its […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Uncategorized Tagged With: Apple, Google, renewable energy, solar, wind, wind power

Smart grid investments top $140M in Q3: Mercom

October 20, 2014 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Venture capitalists are pumping money into smart grid startups. Mercom Capital, a cleantech and healthcare research firm, released a report revealing that VCs have poured $142 million into smart grid companies in 26 deals during the third quarter of 2014. By comparison, smart grid investments totaled 81 million across 13 deals during the second quarter. But funding is slightly […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Stats & Figures Tagged With: cleantech VC, funding, Smart Grid, startup, VC, venture capital

Must watch: Cosmos – Global warming case closed

June 2, 2014 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey — which follows in the footsteps of Sagan’s 1980 masterpiece — closed the book on the so-called “debate” on global warming. Point by point, he shot down each of the counterarguments for reducing carbon emissions… using SCIENCE! (Sorry for the all-caps.) Sunday’s episode, “The World Set Free” tackles climate […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: climate change, Cosmos, global warming, Neil deGrasse Tyson, TV

Fujifilm Recording Media USA goes solar

May 13, 2014 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Fujifilm Recording Media USA Solar Array

Exiting news out of Massachusetts today. Fujifilm Recording Media USA has cut the ribbon on a big rooftop solar panel installation located at its Bedford, Massachusetts manufacturing facility. The solar array, made up of 1,870 modules, will generate an estimated 644,000 kWh of electricity each year, resulting in a yearly carbon offset of about 444 metric tons of CO2. Columbia […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: Fujifilm, solar

Google snaps up Nest for $3.2B

January 13, 2014 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Google Acquires Nest

This is big. Google has acquired Nest Labs, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based maker of smart thermometers and smoke detectors for a cool $3.2 billion in cash, reports Chris Preimesberger over at eWEEK. “Google took another big step Jan. 13 in its quest to become a major player in the connected-home Internet of Things market,” he wrote. Agreed. […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: acquisition, Google, Internet of Things, Nest, smart home

2013 Rewind: The plummeting price of solar

December 14, 2013 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Solar Price Drop Chart 1977-2013

The following, not-so-new chart from Bloomberg and New Energy Finance has been making the rounds, and really, it speaks for itself. In the past couple of decades, the price of solar panels has dropped like a stone — particularly in the last few years. The cost of solar has fallen from $76.67 per watt at […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy

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