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Investment Dollars Flow to Green Energy Start-Ups –
veebruar 4, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

Green transportation is the hottest trend among investors in 2009.

Last year was “a very good year to be an electric car company,” said Dallas Kachan, managing director of consultant Clean Tech Group. The U.S. government was generous with grants and loans to this sector.

Tesla Motors Inc., a maker of high-end electric sports vehicles, secured $83 million in venture capital funding and $465 million in low-interest loans from the Energy Department last year. It is expanding its line to include a family sedan.

Another effort drawing interest from investors, in part for the mystery surrounding it, is V-Vehicle Co. It secured about $100 million in venture-capital financing last year and is currently expanding a facility in northern Louisiana to build a 725,000-square-foot plant.

Wall Street Journal

=> Investment Dollars Flow to Green Energy Start-Ups – Wall Street Journal.

FULL TEXT:
Start-ups developing products aimed at wringing every last drop of efficiency from green technologies have become the standouts in the increasingly crowded field of renewable energy.

These companies are gaining favor, in part because they don’t require a lot of cash to bootstrap, a big draw at a time when there’s not much financing available.

Other winners in the investor sweepstakes are companies seeking to replace existing power grids to allow utilities to interact with home appliances, turning them on when power demand is low and electricity is cheaper. Makers of more efficient electric cars are also getting cash, with the U.S. government providing large loan guarantees.

[CLEANTECH]Meanwhile, investor interest in turning inedible plants into liquid fuels has cooled. Building biorefineries can cost well over $100 million and venture capitalists aren’t ready to underwrite these experiments after some high profile crashes triggered in part by falling oil and natural gas prices.

Two big deals worth a combined $500 million highlight the changing sentiment. Industrial conglomerate United Technologies Corp., best known for its helicopters, jumped into the wind business. Another deal brought chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. into solar.

In the third quarter of 2009, clean energy received 19% of venture capital investment in the U.S., second only to biotechnology, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.

“There are multiple drivers,” said Neil S. Suslak, managing partner of Braemar Energy Ventures. Among them: a desire to cut greenhouse gas emissions, upgrade aging power systems and find domestic sources of energy.

Here’s a look at key sectors and companies in the clean-energy industry.
Energy Efficiency

Using technology to reduce energy consumption is by far the hottest sector right now. A big reason is that the companies behind this approach promise a shorter path to profitability.

Start-ups can move quickly to a revenue-producing business, said Joe Muscat, Ernst & Young’s Americas cleantech director, “so that has attracted a lot of people to that sector.”

In the public markets, companies such as energy-management firm EnerNOC Inc. and low-energy LED lighting specialist Cree Inc. were darlings last year. Both stocks more than quadrupled in 2009. Cree emerged as a leader in low-energy lighting as interest in replacing incandescent bulbs soared. EnerNOC sells low-cost ways to cut corporate power bills.

Private start-ups may have been even hotter among venture capitalists and private equity investors. One that has drawn a buzz from investors is Serious Materials Inc. It sells energy-efficient windows and later this year will add a type of drywall that emits less greenhouse gas during manufacturing than gypsum. Growing interest in “green” buildings has helped boost revenue.

Also triggering a lot of interest are companies such as Powervation Ltd., which is working on power-saving semiconductor chips and software to run computer servers and networks.
Solar

Some industry observers believe solar power is ready to rapidly mature and expand. But the sector faces challenges, including a glut of solar panels driving down prices and cutbacks in government subsidies.

None of this stopped Solyndra Inc. from filing in December for an IPO. It makes cylindrical solar-power generating tubes for commercial rooftops such as warehouses, a design it says offers a low installation costs and high electricity production per square foot.
Smart Grid

Improving outmoded electricity-delivery systems is a top priority for governments. Swiss-based Landis+Gyr AG raised $100 million last year to expand its smart-meter business.

Silver Spring Networks Inc. builds the networking equipment to enable smart meters to communicate with utilities. It also sells software and services to power utilities to manage all this data and make sense of it. The company is believed to be contemplating an IPO this year. Tendril Inc., a Colorado start-up that raised $30 million last year, is focused on energy-management equipment for home owners. “Most of the people we are working with are convinced that some form of carbon [emissions] cap or tax is coming,” said Chief Executive Adrian Tuck.
Wind

Turning the earth’s winds into electrical power is the most mature and well-developed renewable energy. Many of the companies in the sector are already quite large, such as Spanish wind farm developer Iberdrola Renovables SA and turbine maker General Electric Co.

This sector also hosted the largest renewable energy IPO last year. That was China Longyuan Electric Power Group’s $2.2 billion debut on the Hong Kong exchange. (The second largest was a $380 million offering by Boston-based A123 Systems Inc., a leader in the development of batteries for electric cars and hybrids.)
Transport

Last year was “a very good year to be an electric car company,” said Dallas Kachan, managing director of consultant Clean Tech Group. The U.S. government was generous with grants and loans to this sector.

Tesla Motors Inc., a maker of high-end electric sports vehicles, secured $83 million in venture capital funding and $465 million in low-interest loans from the Energy Department last year. It is expanding its line to include a family sedan.

Another effort drawing interest from investors, in part for the mystery surrounding it, is V-Vehicle Co. It secured about $100 million in venture-capital financing last year and is currently expanding a facility in northern Louisiana to build a 725,000-square-foot plant.
Biofuels

Once a red-hot sector, interest in turning plants and waste into liquid fuel has waned recently. The cost of building a commercial-scale biorefinery—needed to test novel approaches—is in the neighborhood of $100 million. Companies have found it hard to get support in the current economic environment.

One of the exceptions is Canadian Enerkem Corp. In December, it received a $50 million grant from the U.S. government to build a waste-to-ethanol facility in Mississippi. It is also building a biorefinery in Edmonton, Alberta.

Rubriigid: Ärimudelid
Sildistatud: Investeeringud
365 Energy Enables Cross-border Billing and Roaming for EV Users in Amsterdam and Bochum
veebruar 2, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

365 Energy and the cities of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Bochum, Germany have started operations of a cross-country billing and roaming system for EV charging. The platform allows for electric vehicles (EVs) to be charged in various European cities by using a single customer ID card issued by the municipalities.

With the networked billing and roaming, EV users will not only be able to access ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations in Europe with the same ID, they will also receive an integrated invoice at the end of each billing period.

There will be no extra charge for roaming, since these cities open their ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for each other. In the near future, this will enable EV drivers to buy the electricity from their preferred provider.

The city of Amsterdam and the city of Bochum’s public utility company Stadtwerke Bochum GmbH have been the first to install ChargePoint charging stations in the Netherlands and Germany, respectively, and are again front-runners to offer EV users this service. Other European cities, such as London and Lisbon and Milan are expected to follow.ChargePoint Networked Charging Stationsare developed by US-based Coulomb Technologies and exclusively marketed in Europe, the Middle East and Africa by 365 Energy. The ChargePoint Network is open to all drivers of electric vehicles and provides authentication, management, and real-time control through multiple web-based portals for hosts, fleet managers, drivers, and utilities.

365 Energy is the international partner of Coulomb Technologies and an investment management company belonging to Estag Capital AG in Berlin.

Green Car Congress

=> 365 Energy Enables Cross-border Billing and Roaming for EV Users in Amsterdam and Bochum.

Rubriigid: Ärimudelid
Sildistatud: 365 Energy, Coulomb
Better Place Secures $350M Series B Round led by HSBC Group
jaanuar 29, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

Better Place, the global provider of EV networks and services, has signed an agreement with an HSBC-led investor consortium for new equity financing of $350 million. The deal marks one of the largest single clean tech investments and values Better Place at $1.25 billion. The announcement comes almost two years after Better Place announced its first car partnership and its first country deployment in Israel.

The capital will have three primary uses, said Shai Agassi, Better Place CEO, in a webcast of the announcement this morning: (1) to complete the R&D on the solution, the trials and development effort to get the system up and running by the middle of next year; (2) Better Places’ contribution toward its operating companies in Israel, Denmark and Australia; and (3) opening up new markets and new countries, with a focus mostly on Europe and Asia.

Green Car Congress

=> Better Place Secures $350M Series B Round led by HSBC Group.

Rubriigid: Ärimudelid
Sildistatud: Better Place
Toyota won’t sell upcoming EV; lease or car-sharing options available instead
jaanuar 25, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

Toyota FT-EV II concept – click above for high-res image gallery

Toyota plans to go with a pay-per-use type model, leasing the car based on how much it is driven. Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has implied that his companies intend to do something similar after launching a range of new EVs over the next several years. This may actually be a good idea since it takes into account some of the limitations of EVs.

AutoblogGreen

=> Reinert: Toyota won’t sell upcoming EV; lease or car-sharing options available instead.

Rubriigid: Ärimudelid
Sildistatud: Toyota
Smart Grid, Electric Autos and Batteries – Ecosystem Investment Strategies
jaanuar 22, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar
By Cynthia S. ArtinManaging Director, Auster Capital Partners

Raising new and growth capital may remain a challenge for some industries in 2010, but for “clean and green” investors, the stockpiles of cash are mounting.

via http://smart-products.tmcnet.com/topics/smart-products/articles/72913-smart-grid-electric-autos-batteries-ecosystem-investment-strategies.htm

Rubriigid: Ärimudelid
Sildistatud: Fisker, Tesla

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