Clean Technology Blogs

Making clean tech cheap, as well as green

It’s called clean technology’s “competitive conundrum’’: how to get people to pay for cleaner energy when electricity produced from traditional sources like nuclear power, coal, or natural gas costs less. Today, several industry specialists plan to address that question at GoingGreen East, a clean technology conference designed to bring together executives from green technology companies with investors and other players. Organizers at the online media firm AlwaysOn Network expect to draw 4...

Clean-tech firms gird for funding gap – Globe and Mail

SHAWN McCARTHY OTTAWA — From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 2:36AM EDT GLOBAL ENERGY REPORTER Source Globe and Mail Investors are returning to the clean technology sector but with a sharper eye for risk and more demanding appetite for reward. But as private investors move back into financing for renewable energy, efficiency and pollution-abatement companies, money is running out at the federal g...