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The Next Big Step For Renewables: Energy Storage

by Robert Freedman - Partner at Tharpe & Howell,... on 9/17/2012

The promise of renewable energy has been partly realized as renewables, including wind and solar, have attracted significant investment over the years and now generate output that comprises a useful contribution to our...more

Episode 61 – Greenstart Helps Start-Ups Solve Cleantech Problems

by Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP on 5/9/2012

In Episode 61 of The Wendel Forum (originally aired on May 5, 2012, on 960 KNEW AM radio), show moderator Dick Lyons, co-founder of Wendel Rosen’s sustainable business practice group, welcomes Rachel Barge, a partner at...more

Cleantech product development: Are strings attached to Recovery Act Funds? By Daniel Yannuzzi and Christopher Noon

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/22/2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 appropriated nearly $800 billion to stimulate the U.S. economy out of recession. Included in the Recovery Act is billions of dollars for cleantech, including $16.8 billion...more

From Chicago Lawyer: How Software as a Service and the Cloud can Help Lawyers Go Green

by Rocket Matter on 7/8/2009

Chicago law firms, like the rest of the country’s businesses, are hopping on the green bandwagon. The benefits of an environmentally friendly business can be both altruistic and economical, allowing firms to practice...more

Protecting Innovation: Cleantech and Patents Are Natural Allies

by Fenwick & West LLP on 4/15/2009

In recent years, the private sector’s efforts to develop responses to environmental challenges have focused strongly on technological solutions. For many businesses in this field, patent protection for innovative technology...more

Consolidation in cleantech by Stephanie S. Brecher

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/3/2009

Is a rollup wave coming? Cleantech companies will be looking for market share in 2009. Despite record high investment in the cleantech sector -- $4.1 billion in 2008, up from $1.4 billion in 2006 -- the credit market...more

Opportunities for Venture Capitalists at Department of Energy Laboratories

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 12/1/2008

The Department of Energy (“DOE”) is seeking to partner with leading Venture Capital (“VC”) firms in an effort to accelerate the deployment and commercialization of advanced clean energy technologies from DOE National...more

International Smart Grid Regulation

by jeremy barnett on 12/31/1969

This is a presentation given to the Sino British workshop in Beijing. May 2011 on the future of energy storage technology and policy. This was a joint seminar between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of...more