Apple is set to spend €1.7 billion ($1.93 billion) on two new European data centers, one in Ireland and one in Denmark. The Galway and Jutland data centers will each measure… Read more »
The fourth quarter in cleantech saw attention paid to two prominent and publicly traded companies: EV maker Tesla and newly minted public listing SolarCity. It remains a transitional period for the… Read more »
The Environmental Law Institute has put together an infographic showing the disparity between subsidies for fossil fuels, and those for renewable energy and nuclear. Fossil fuels took in $70.2 billion in… Read more »
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 »
One of the difficulties with investing in early-stage cleantech startups is that oftentimes the investors need to take a very long-term view of the companies they back: Many startups won’t mature… 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 »
After spending the better part of the last two years scrambling to survive the recession, the discussion has shifted for cleantech firms and companies are now trying to figure out the… Read more »
I’m a fan of automobile-computer analogies, and Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu came up with a dandy in a research note last week, noting that “sources” in Apple’s (s aapl) distribution… Read more »
It’s hard to ignore the massive growth of the wind industry over the past decade, but a German watchdog group says that’s just what the International Energy Agency has been doing… Read more »