Primus Power Gets A $20M Jolt For Grid-Scale Energy Storage

By Jonathan Shieber.  New reg­u­la­tions in Cal­i­for­nia are set to open up the mar­ket for large-scale ener­gy stor­age and bat­tery tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­er Primus Pow­er has just raised charge into the fray. The […]

Can clean energy replace a shuttered nuke plant in California?

By John Upton.  Last year’s deci­sion to close the San Onofre nuclear pow­er plant in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia has cre­at­ed a chal­lenge for util­i­ties and util­i­ty reg­u­la­tors: How best to replace the facility’s 2,200 megawatts […]

Investing in Solutions: Leaders in Finance and Climate

By Alka Baner­jee, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at S&P Dow Jones Indices. This week, I par­tic­i­pat­ed in an event at the White House on Women Lead­ers in Cli­mate Finance and Invest­ment that high­light­ed the pio­neer­ing role […]

Madrone Capital Backs Glass Co. View With $100M

ByYuliya Cher­no­va.  Madrone Cap­i­tal Part­ners , an invest­ment firm affil­i­at­ed with the Wal­ton fam­i­ly, made an equi­ty invest­ment of $100 mil­lion in View Inc ., a man­u­fac­tur­er of elec­tron­i­cal­ly tint­ing glass for buildings, […]