Cleantech

Osmotic power is years from commercial scale, but a new report indicates that cleantech vendors believe it can provide thousands of terawatts per year of baseload electricity.

16 | June 9, 2010 7:41am | By Andrew Nusca

Electric vehicle manufacturer Proterra has won $20 million in funding from cleantech investment firm MK Energy and Infrastructure.

June 9, 2010 7:15am | By Andrew Nusca

Two updated funding sources support programs that address energy efficiency, climate change and sustainable living.

June 9, 2010 5:45am | By Heather Clancy

Energy management software company Carbonetworks changed its name to ENXSuite and installed former Oracle VP Beatriz Infante as CEO. Here's what she had to say about the future of corporate...

June 3, 2010 5:02am | By Andrew Nusca

Nearly 300,000 hybrid trucks and buses will be on the road in the next five years, according to a new cleantech report.

5 | June 2, 2010 7:50am | By Andrew Nusca

SmartPlanet is launching a new, occasional series aimed at dissecting some of the complex topics we cover on a daily basis. First up: wave power.

13 | May 27, 2010 4:00am | By Christina Hernandez

Which American cities will lead the nation into the next decade? Here's a list of the top 10.

May 26, 2010 9:15am | By Andrew Nusca

Roughly 4.7 million charging points for electric vehicles will be installed globally from 2010 to 2015, according to a report from Pike Research.

1 | May 25, 2010 5:33am | By Larry Dignan

Former British prime minister Tony Blair announced that he has joined Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Khosla Ventures to oversee its green portfolio.

3 | May 24, 2010 6:54pm | By Andrew Nusca

China is in the process of building the biggest solar energy production base in the world. Called "Solar Valley," it's the nation's answer to America's Silicon Valley.

1 | May 21, 2010 8:22am | By Andrew Nusca

China, the world's top polluter, has a reputation for producing smog and lead-tainted toys. But the eastern power is banking on cleantech as its next lucrative export.

1 | May 16, 2010 7:01pm | By Vinnie Mirchandani

According to eMeter CEO Gary Bloom, the growth of the smart grid echoes the Internet boom of the 1990s -- and efforts to scale face similar pitfalls as the dot-com era.

May 12, 2010 3:26am | By Andrew Nusca

Electronics giant Samsung said it will invest $20.6 billion in solar cells, batteries, LEDs and medical tech over the next 10 years.

May 11, 2010 12:02pm | By Andrew Nusca

Clean energy and the current older stuff have a common foe: NIMBY (not in my back yard) and you have to wonder how it all plays out as the U.S. tries to diversify its power sources.

10 | May 11, 2010 5:03am | By Larry Dignan

Germany is on a path to leapfrog the U.S. to dominate the cleantech industry. Here's how.

4 | May 6, 2010 5:55am | By Vinnie Mirchandani

At GreenNet '10 in San Francisco, California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown talks to Earth2Tech editor Katie Fehrenbacher about the skills he'd use to push clean-tech innovation. Brown says...

April 30, 2010 12:00pm

At the Nordic Green conference in Menlo Park, Calif., Olov Hemstrom of the Swedish Trade Council discusses the history of Sweden's drive to go green.

April 30, 2010 4:55am | By Larry Dignan

SmartPlanet has captured what thought leaders have to say about the cleantech industry. Here's a roundup of five recent cleantech talks you need to watch.

April 29, 2010 3:20am | By Andrew Nusca

At the Nordic Green conference in Menlo Park, Calif., Olov Hemstrom of the Swedish Trade Council discusses the history of Sweden's drive to go green. He says government and business officials...

2 | April 28, 2010 2:01pm

Federal regulators have approved the nation's first offshore wind farm, a project located off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachussetts.

April 28, 2010 9:50am | By Andrew Nusca