Sunday, May 27, 2012

Clean Tech Industry Needs Federal Cash due to Lack of Private Investors

Clean Tech Industry Needs Federal Cash due to Lack of Private Investors

The US government must step in to finance clean energy research and development as the private markets continue to shy away from such investments, experts said.Energy innovators are being thwarted by a lack of financing at key stages of development, finding themselves in the ‘valley of death’, said Norman Augustine, the retired chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin based in Bethesda, Maryland and a member of the American Energy Innovation Council, a coalition of seven business leaders that recently put out a report about the government’s…Read more...

Federal Support needed as Consumers want Clean Energy without the High Prices

Clean energy is something everyone is ‘for’.  Few people are in favour of dirty energy.  But the problem is the definition of what is clean depends upon who you ask.  We will say we are in favour of clean renewable energy, when polled, until a wind producer tries to site a wind turbine near us, or spreads out a sea of photovoltaic panels across the desert—or worse says a high voltage transmission line is needed to bring that clean, renewable energy from its remote location to serve demand in the load centres of…Read more...

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