EnOcean GmbH, recently announced successful completion of a new round of financing. The company will devote eight million Euro in new funding to leveraging the development of energy-autonomous wireless technology and expanding its international market presence. Two new capital providers – SET Venture Partners and the Kathrein group – join existing investors to finance future [...]
Viridity Software is a company to watch in 2010. The company recently revealed its roadmap to deliver the industry’s first application driven approach for data center energy management and asset optimization. Its unique methodology will be focused around tracing energy consumption through the application and IT equipment layer, performing a thorough analysis of the findings, [...]
The first week of 2010 saw some major funds being invested in greentech startups!
Wind turbine maker Nordic Windpower, biofuel maker Solix Biofuels, and PC energy management firm Verdiem, all filed fund raising documents immediately after the holiday weekend. Smart thermostat maker EcoFactor also filed fundraising documents later in the week. Together the four companies have [...]
Happy New Year! If companies make good on their promises for 2010, it could be a very good year for the cleantech industry.
Cleantech Group LLC has collected information from high-profile clean technology vendors, which range from small startups to billion-dollar corporations, and put together a list of 10 of the most interesting developments to watch [...]
The Department of Veteran Affairs has awarded more than $7.8 million in solar power contracts to SunWize Commercial Power Systems, the nationwide commercial installation division of SunWize Technologies, Inc.
According to SunWize officials, the contracts consist of 10 solar hospital projects to be installed in locations across the country. The diverse set of rooftop and carport [...]
Second Wind, a Massachusetts-based wind energy company, is making it easier for businesses, consumers and utilities to capture wind data for the purpose of maximizing the ROI in wind turbines. Based on an innovative approach to using sodar (sonic detection and ranging), Second Wind provides a solution that sidesteps the burdens and costs associated with [...]
SageQuest, a GPS fleet tracking and solution provider based in Solon, Ohio, has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of how its solution reduces environmental impact in addition to reducing costs and improving productivity .
The campaign includes a new carbon footprint report available inside its “Mobile Control” product, along with a new whitepaper resource [...]
Residents in Florida — the fourth most populous state in America – are finding themselves in the midst of an energy crisis. With the demand for energy quickly outpacing the capacity to create it, researchers at Florida Atlantic University are turning to an alternative source – the ocean.
Scientists say the energy within the Gulf Stream’s [...]
It’s well known that the race is on to create viable sources of alternative-energy and a serious player in this sphere is the U.S. military.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – the Defense Dept. agency that helped invent the Internet – is setting its sights on cleantech by trying to change how both the [...]
This month, GreenTechMedia highlighted obsolete greentech concepts that are making a go of it…again.
In this really cool list, GreenTechMedia features sixteen ideas that are centuries old, but are experiencing a re-birth in today’s green technology startups. The old-school concepts include:
1. Mashed Earth (www.integrityblock.com)
2. Solar-Thermal Water Heaters (www.mondial-energy.com )
3. Solar Lighting (www.sunlight-direct.com )
4. The Opposed Piston/Opposed Cylinder Engine (www.achatespower.com , [...]