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Why Can’t Cleantech Companies Get Funded When There is Plenty of Capital for Them

By Javier Herrero on November 23, 2010 1 Comment advisory firm, broker-dealer operations, clean energy sector, cleantech projects, development portfolios, Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Outlook 2010, electric transmission, Energy Capital Partners, Energy Capital Partners II, financial challenge, financial intermediaries, Goodwin Procter, Great Depression, Hovey Kemp, investment market, Lehman levels, M&A firms, management team, middle market businesses, New York Times, power generation, private equity, Private Equity Is Bullish on Clean Energy, renewable energy, renewable energy sectors, renewable energy transactions, specialized roadmap, specialty finance companies, The Wall Street’s Journal Private Equity Beat, Trends and insight from Dow Jones LBO Wire and Private Equity Analyst

Find out why it is so difficult then for renewable developers and cleantech companies to access capital and how to overcome the obstacles.

Clean Energy Sector Ups Spending on Lobbyists

By Tracey de Morsella on August 17, 2009 3 Comments A123 Systems, advocates, Algenol Biofuels, Amyris Biotechnologies, biofuel firms, Bracewell & Giuliani, Capitol Hill, Center for Public Integrity, center for Responsive Politics, clean energy, clean energy industry, clean energy industry expenditures, clean energy lobbyists, clean energy sector, Clean Energy Technologies, Climate Change, climate change lobbying, Democratic Congress, economic downturn, energy debate, energy sector, Environmental groups, environmental lobbyists, ExxonMobil, fossil fuel industry, GridPoint, Ice Energy, influence policy, Jeffrey Holmstead, lobbyists, Marianne Lavelle, marine power sector, New Energy Finance, next-generation biofuels, Obama administration, oil and natural, pre-earnings firms, Qteros, Saffire Energy, Senate Office of Public Records, solar modules, SolarCity, stimulus funds, Tessera, venture capital-financed start-ups, wind sector, Xunlight, Zeachem

A recent report from research firm New Energy Finance, spending on Washington lobbyists by the clean energy industry has accelerated rapidly in recent years, but still lags behind that the fossil fuel industry. Through the first six months of 2009, the sector spent an unprecedented $r12.1 million on lobbying, According the Center for Responsive Politics, During the same period, oil and natural gas spent $82.2 million on lobbying, with ExxonMobil alone contributing $14.9 million. That’s $2.8 million more that the entire clean energy sector.

Renewable Energy Investment Bounces Back in Second Quarter

By Tracey de Morsella on June 17, 2009 Comments Off on Renewable Energy Investment Bounces Back in Second Quarter clean energy sector, energy efficiency, Green Investment: Towards a Low-Carbon Energy Infrastructure, investment, New Energy Finance, stimulus, World Economic Forum

New investment in the worldwide clean energy sector in the second quarter of 2009 has already surpassed that in the first quarter by a third, with several weeks still to go in Q2, according to analysts at New Energy Finance. However, this is in comparison to a disastrous first quarter, which saw investment down 44% from the fourth quarter of 2008, and down 53% from the peak in the first quarter of 2008. Overall, new investment is expected to finish 2009 between US$95 billion and $115 billion, a drop of between 26% and 39% on last year’s total of $155 billion, says New Energy Finance.