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Free Download: “The Tough Realities of Marketing and Sales in Green Tech Businesses”
I try tooffer my observations and opinions on the widest possible range ofsubjects within the technology and politics of renewables. But, sinceI’ve been a marketing consultant for more than 25 years – largely to the Fortune-sized tech and industrial companies of the world: IBM, FedEx,Xerox, etc. — I tend to see marketing issues everywhere I [...]
Tech Park to Host Solar Installation
The Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP) has found a location for itslatest solar power installation. By December 2010, when construction isexpected to conclude, the University of Arizona’s TechPark will playhost to a 1.6-megawatt (MW) solar energy system dually built by SOLONCorporation and TEP. There are two unique aspects to SOLON’s role in this project. One isthat [...]
Energy Tech Takes Center Stage in Annual Innovation Awards
TheU.S.Department of Energy funded a whopping 39 of the 100 awards given this year by R&D Magazine for outstanding technologydevelopments with promising commercial potential. The R&D 100 Awards are presented annually for exceptional new products, processes,materials, and software developed throughout the world and introducedinto the market the previous year. The awards went to the technologies [...]
America Needs to COMPETE in the Clean Tech Race
Although America once led the global race in clean tech innovationand investment, our country has been slipping behind the rest of theworld for quite some time. Last year, China surpassed the U.S. in cleanenergy investment by an almost two-to-one margin, according to a recent report from The PewCharitable Trusts. The other “Rising Tigers” in Asia [...]
Clean Tech Game Changers
Would you believe that the largest threat facing today’s word isthe energy crisis? And that energy, right up there with food, water and shelter, ranks among the top necessities for human existence? In aForbes.com article posted today, the energy crisis is credited with opening the door for a variety of alternative energy sources andcompanies, such as [...]
Partners Form Alliance Focusing On Solar Reforming Tech
Several industry, academic and governmentorganizations have formed an alliance to commercializetechnologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convertwaste CO2 into diesel fuel. The alliance team members includeSandia National Laboratories, Renewable Energy Institute International,Pacific Renewable Fuels, Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne (a United Technologies Division), Quanta Services, Desert Research Institute and Clean EnergySystems. In addition, commercial partners [...]
Top 10 Boston Clean Tech Companies Killing It on Twitter
Recently, I’ve been getting asked more and more who and whatcompanies to follow on twitter. So, I’ve decided to put together somelists. BEWARE, if you’re not familiar with twitter you may have no idea what I’m talking about. Today, I did my first #FollowFriday for my favorite green peoplearound Boston. It went something like this: [...]
Smart Grid Solar Tech
As solar technology evolves and improves, so does the necessity offinding efficient and reliable ways of getting the energy to the grid.Here’s a look at what’s being done. The Problem: At the end of the day, the eco-bling installations adorning the occasional neighborhood rooftop do nothave near the impact as large utility solar arrays feeding [...]
Promising Clean-Tech Trends for 2010 According to Clean Edge
In an attempt to assuage global economic concerns, Clean Edge Inc.’s latest reportpoints out promising trends in the clean edge industry for 2010. The 22 page report from the research and publishing firm, aptlytitled Clean EnergyTrends 2010 (pdf), focuses on "signs of hope" emerging from the clean-tech sector–namely that although venture activity was down in2009, [...]