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Raphael Rosen, co-founder of cleantech startup Carbon Lighthouse, offers his insights on growing a company in Silicon Valley during the recession.  Carbon Lighthouse’s energy efficiency blog can be found here: http://www.carbonlighthouse.com/blog/ As a cleantech entrepreneur, I’m often asked what it’s been like starting businesses the past three years.  In those three years alone we’ve gone [...]

As utilities have used cost cutting as the primary method for boosting earnings during the recession, they continue to look for new ways to shed expenses.  By merging with competitors, utilities create efficiencies through increased market share.  In the first quarter of 2011 alone, three blockbuster M&A announcements were made in the utility sector, with a [...]

On March 29, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service issued Revenue Procedure 2011-26, which provides guidance concerning the first year depreciation deduction for new assets (“Bonus Depreciation”). The guidance clarifies various issues related to the Bonus Depreciation, particularly the criteria for qualifying for the temporary expansion of the Bonus Depreciation from 50 to 100 percent, and offers significant benefits to investors, developers, manufacturers, and other participants in the energy sector.

We don’t usually re-post previous articles, but in light of this week’s announcement that Earth Aid raised $4 million in Series A funding from Point Judith Capital, the Clean Energy Venture Group and Capital-E, below is our article that originally ran on January 10, 2010: Earth Aid Takes Energy Efficiency Mainstream The International Energy Agency [...]

The current tensions in the Middle East underscore the need for boosting a cleantech sector that can serve not necessarily as a substitute for petroleum, but as a way to satisfy increases in energy demand while hedging against similar political scares that will inevitably impact future global oil supply.

The PACE program could become a significant way to translate economic and environmental goals into reality – if only the FHFA were to agree.

Earth Aid, a Washington, D.C. start-up, enables households to track their usage online, compare to friends and neighbors, and earn rewards for saving energy–and in so doing, is taking energy efficiency mainstream.