Europe: VCs’ clean tech star

Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the best* at clean tech of them all? Why, it's little old Europe, says a survey by Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association. And the survey goes like this: According to venture capitalists, Europe is emerging as a new leader behind the U.S. for life sciences and clean technology…

ByThe Global ViewJune 6, 20080Comments

Energy

Masdar spends $2bn on new photovoltaic plant

More goings on at Masdar, the renewable energy company and bunch behind the oh-so-sustainable city set to be built in the Abu Dhabi desert. Masdar's decided that there just isn't enough investment out there in solar, so it's dishing out $2 billion to thin film photovoltaic solar technology with a plan that goes a little something…

ByThe Global ViewJune 2, 20080Comments

Smart Cities

Germany slashes solar grants for utilities

Can you really have too much of a good thing? In the name of science, Greenbang decided to find out. After watching three series of The A Team without a break, she can confirm yes, it is technically possible. The German goverment would doubtless agree. After subsidies helped Germany's solar panel market become the biggest in…

ByThe Global ViewJune 2, 20080Comments

Energy

Shell, CHOREN take wraps off “world first” biofuels plant

If Shell were a character in a US teen movie (bear with Greenbang here), it would doubtless now be the character at the end of the movie that whips off the braces and the glasses, gets a decent haircut and waltzes off to the prom to be roundly applauded by its peers. For Shell and partner…

ByThe Global ViewApril 22, 20081Comment

Smart Cities

Germany ditches biofuels petrol plan

If you're the type of person that biofuels are roughly level pegging with the feeling of stepping on a plug coupled with the sight of Jamie Oliver pulling the legs of a kitten in the evilness stakes, you might want to bust out the champagne right about now. According to reports, the German environment minister Sigmar…

ByThe Global ViewApril 7, 20080Comments

Smart Cities

German parliament switches to 100% renewables

Greenbang is a big fan of the Germans - a nation that has a love of unfeasibly large two pint glasses of beer, is rather partial to a bit of football and knows that their meat should come in large portions with some bread involved in there somewhere. If Greenbang needed another reason to love…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 26, 20080Comments

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Europe: VCs’ clean tech star

Masdar spends $2bn on new photovoltaic plant

Germany slashes solar grants for utilities

Shell, CHOREN take wraps off “world first” biofuels plant

Germany ditches biofuels petrol plan

German parliament switches to 100% renewables

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