Granholm Wakes Up DOE’s Loan Programs Office, Appoints Jigar Shah Jeff McMahon The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office “as of today, is back in business,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced this morning. The new head of the office, which offers loans to energy ventures deemed too risky to attract private-sector capital, is Jigar Shah, [...]
Executive Summary The transition to net zero—a target of completely eliminating additional greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—will require investment of over $100 trillion over the next three decades. Global efforts to address climate change are broadening, deepening and accelerating. Over 125 countries now have net-zero emissions commitments—including China, the European Union and Japan—and the Biden administration [...]
Henry Paulson Returns to Finance, to Run Climate-Focused Fund The venture aims to push climate-friendly businesses into the mainstream. By Andrew Ross Sorkin Jan. 6, 2021 This past fall, Henry M. Paulson Jr., the former Treasury secretary, got a call from Paul David Hewson, better known as Bono. The musician-activist-investor had an idea and “an [...]
JEFF QUACKENBUSH THE NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL November 10, 2020, 10:00AM --- While solar panels on California commercial buildings and homes is hardly novel, the way that they were paid for recently at North Bay office complexes is putting a clean-power twist on a longstanding petroleum industry practice of purchasing energy rights. Installation of over [...]
October 21, 2020 · 3 min read --- Energy-Producing Retail Realty, Inc. finalizes 150,000ft2 solar pilot program SANTA ROSA, Calif., Oct. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy-Producing Retail Realty, Inc. ('EPR2'), an investor in and developer of EPR/energy rights and a member of the REACH Commercial Class of 2020, has announced the completion of its EPR-Solar [...]
Oil Majors Led by Total, a number of oil companies are consolidating their positions in the still-fragmented global solar market. Jason Deign February 26, 2020 A spate of recent acquisitions has left European oil and gas majors poised to become leaders in the solar market — with offshore wind also a growing focus. The top [...]
With fresh investment, a new CEO and a supportive state policy environment, Dandelion is ready to expand in New York. Julian Spector February 17, 2020 Google spinout Dandelion Energy wants to push home geothermal heating to new heights in 2020. The company, which emerged from the X "Moonshot Factory" in 2017, has grown to around 100 [...]
Fifth Wall Ventures January 29, 2020 https://youtu.be/CtnVAyMEsnI Recently, we shared our plans to invest in innovative technology and business models aimed at helping the global real estate industry minimize, and ultimately eradicate, its greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint via the Fifth Wall Carbon Impact Fund (see coverage in The Wall Street Journal). Why are we [...]
The rise of renewable energy over the past decade has been staggering. Whereas ten years ago wind and solar were expensive niche players in the electricity mix, this year they could represent more than three quarters of new electricity generation capacity, due primarily to their newly superior economics. Despite much hand-wringing about the failures of [...]
Sarah Golden Friday, November 22, 2019 This article is adapted from GreenBiz's weekly newsletter, Energy Weekly, running Thursdays. Subscribe here. In mid-October, one week before more than 3,000 people descended on downtown Oakland, California, for GreenBiz Group’s VERGE 19 conference, an estimated 1 million people lost power in Northern California. On purpose. It was part of [...]
