I’m headed back East again next week, primarily to attend the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in New York City. I have to say that I love this event; everything about it is first-rate, starting with the venue (The Waldorf Astoria). …
Category: Renewables – Business
Climate Solutions Sounds Like a Good Group To Know
Class reunions are designed to reconnect old friends, and that’s what happened in spades when I returned to Trinity College for my 35th last weekend. But where some of these encounters were just opportunities to play a few games of …
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Getting To Know the 287 Private Equity Companies in the US That Focus on Energy
At any given moment in time, I support a dozen or so business concepts in renewable energy, electric transportation, and sustainability more generally. I arrived at this list by poring through on the order of 1100 business plans that have …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, energy, green energy, private equity, Renewable Energy
Following One’s Dream Often Entails Risk
Whenever possible, I like to take the train as opposed to renting a car. It’s normally less expensive, it’s more sustainable, and affords me the opportunity to read, write, and talk to people. On the train from Hartford to Philadelphia …
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Meeting a Renewable Energy Investor in Vermont
When I was a little boy, I recall a conversation with my father in which he told me his impressions about the characteristics of the people who lived in a few of the states within driving distance of us in …
Personal Connections May Be Good for the Renewable Energy Cause
As I hoped it would be, my college reunion was a feel-good mixture of nostalgia, immersion in some good thinking offered in a few seminars, and revelry with old friends. But it was also quite productive, from the standpoint of …
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Clean Energy Meetings on Both Coasts
Tomorrow night marks the start of a trip out of town for me. I’ll be headed to San Francisco for a couple of meetings, including coffee with my friend Fareed Sfard, CEO of solar thermal start-up Ahura Energy. Then it’s …
Teak Reforestation in Columbia
Every time I speak with the gentleman who runs the teak reforesting business in Columbia, I become more astonished at how safe, sane, and civilized that part of the world appears to have become. Here’s a video on investing in …
Investors in Clean Energy: A Different Breed
Here’s a report of macro-trends observed by venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins. To me, the most noteworthy thing about it is the concept that Kleiner managing partner Ray Lane explained in a conversation he and I had in his office …
2000th Blog Post on Renewable Energy
It is with great joy that I announce that this is our 2000th blog post. My profound thanks to our regular readers, whose enthusiasm for the subject and willingness to tell their friends has caused the site’s traffic to grow …
