GigaomWarren Buffett and the true value of solar
Did the Warren Buffett investment machine see some seriously undervalued assets in solar, even as most investors have recently viewed the solar industry as a train wreck? Read more »
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Did the Warren Buffett investment machine see some seriously undervalued assets in solar, even as most investors have recently viewed the solar industry as a train wreck? Read more »
In the past six weeks, Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company has been on a renewable energy investment spree, acquiring another wind project along with Topaz Solar Farm and the Agua… Read more »
The fourth quarter also saw a first glimpse of how well the electric vehicle (EV) market is doing. So far it’s pretty tepid, with Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt sales figures… Read more »
The jockeying is beginning to call the bottom of the solar market. After an awful 2011, Gordon Johnson, an analyst at Axiom Capital who foresaw in 2010 some of the troubles… Read more »
The Cleantech Group released data yesterday on fourth quarter VC as well as 2011 total VC for cleantech. Overall VC was up to almost 9 billion for 2011, a 13 percent… Read more »
On New Year’s Day, Ginny Rometty took the reins at IBM. Big Blue is on a roll: its stock outperformed Google and Apple this year, and Warren Buffett is a fan… Read more »
The solar industry still manages to find investors, despite this year’s carnage (Earth2Tech has a good table outlining the 8 solar companies that have become insolvent, filed for bankruptcy or exited… Read more »
While 2011 will be remember as a troubling year for solar manufacturers, it also is a year when major U.S. power companies such as Duke, MidAmerican and Exelon took a plunge… Read more »
The news that Berkshire Hathaway owned MidAmerican Energy is spending $2 billion to buy the Topaz Solar Farm in Central California is the first whiff of good news for the solar… Read more »
The newspaper industry is savoring some good news with the announcement that Berkshire Hathaway is taking over the Omaha World-Herald Compan… Read more »