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This blog will provide updates on the CleanTech industry and on how policy, business and technological developments influence company strategies in the industry value chain.


 

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While the development of renewable energy technologies and electric cars gets a lot of attention, the issues of grid management and cost recuperation do less so, yet are the central to making this a reality. For example, a recent front-page story in the New York Times (8/27, A1, Wald) reports on "... the reality of a power grid that cannot handle the new demands." One problem with "clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not." Already the "grid's...
Policies are a key driver for adoption of CleanTech because they provide the incentives to create markets, remove business uncertainties, and regulate the cost of technology implementation. In 2007, the first US renewable tariff bill was introduced in the Michigan Legislature (Michigan Renewable Energy Sources Act), to encourage homeowners, farmers, and businesses to sell their renewable energy for a profit by allowing them to "feed" their electricity into the grid.

Many people call such...
I get asked a lot during my courses how consultants can take advantage of the CleanTech boom, since many engineers will not necessarily be involved in manufacturing and sales. A recent interview on the CleanTech Network’s site with Scout Boutwell, who provides technology commercialization and strategy services to IT and cleantech firms as well as to global Environmental Consulting and Engineering & Construction (E&C) firms sheds some strategic light on this issue. His blog covers anecdotes and...
WSJ - A French chemical industrial giant, Rhodia SA, is reaping a potential billion-dollar windfall under a United Nations program intended to spur climate-friendly investment in the developing world, highlighting the challenges of using market forces to tackle global warming.
The U.N. system is designed to use market mechanisms -- the trade in credits -- to curb emissions in the developing world without stunting those countries' economies. In the program, polluters in rich countries buy credits,...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Toyota Motor Corp, Nissan Motor Co, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and other Japanese companies will work together to set up common standards for lithium-ion batteries being developed to power next-generation cars, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.
Under the lead of an organization affiliated with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, nine car and motorcycle makers, six battery makers and utility Tokyo Electric Power Co will come up with a draft of the standards covering...

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