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Solar Startup SolFocus Builds Spanish Solar Plant - Phase 1

Focusing on photovoltaics and claiming to building the world’s first commercial-scale concentrating photovoltaic system, is owned by the Spanish Institute of Concentration Photovoltaic Systems (ISFOC), more...
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Zero Emissions Car Will Be Built In California

Tesla Motors is set to build their zero emissions cars in California, with the support of governor Schwarzenegger. more...
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15 Algae Startups Bringing Fuel from Pond Scum

Katie Fehrenbacher bring this story of 15 algae based biofuel startups that may not be hogging the headlines. These include: Solazyme, GreenFuel Technologies, Blue Marble Energy, Inventure Chemical, Solena, more...
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Solar Startup Stion gets $15 M

A $15 million Series B financing of Stion led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. General Catalyst Partners also participated, as did all three existing investors - Khosla Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures more...
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Firelake Capital Management raising $100M for cleantech investment

Cleantech is getting another shot in the arm with Firelake Capital Management starting the Strategic Technology Fund II dedicated to fostering the Cleantech sector. Based in Palo Alto, this company has more...
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Cleantech Startup Competition Winners Announced

The California Cleantech Open announced 6 winners in the categories of “Air,Water and Waste,” “Energy Efficiency,” “Green Building,” “Renewables,” “Smart Power,” and “Transportation.” more...
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Woburn Startup shows the Way to Cleaner Cars?

GEO2 Technologies in Woburn. The clean-energy startup has turned an industrial warehouse just off I-95 into a giant kitchen-laboratory, complete with giant microwave, for baking advanced diesel-exhaust more...
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Telecom Investors going green-tech

Luminaries who invested in Telecom earlier are now flocking the Green-Tech / Clean-Tech arena, says Om Malik. Vinod Khosla, Bob Metcalfe, Martin Varvasky and some others have already joined the party, more...
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