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Wind power start-up closes £7m investment round

Wind power start-up closes £7m investment round(0)

September 4, 2008

Quiet Revolution, a UK based renewable energy company, is receiving a capital injection to the value of £7m GBP. RWE Innogy GmbH based in Essen, Germany and part of the RWE Group has invested £6m and £1m has come from private investors.”We are delighted to be working with RWE Innogy to deliver efficient local wind […]

Wind power start-up closes £7m investment round
Google invests in electric car Aptera

Google invests in electric car Aptera

If you thought green tech was shaping up as the next dot com, then this investment seems to confirm it. Aptera Motors, the California based electric car start-up, has secured funding from Google.org on Tuesday this week and sealed a $24 million series C financing round by Thursday.
Aptera, which plans to use the capital for […]

Thin film solar investment takes off in Wales

Thin film solar investment takes off in Wales

The investments in thin film solar keep coming. U.K. based solar thin film manufacturer G24 Innovations said today it has raised $30 million from renewable energy fund 4RAE.The company 4RAE will take a seat on the G24i board and will be represented by former ABN Amro chief executive and chairman Rijkman Groenink.
G24i will use the […]

Intel leads $135m Sulfurcell deal

Intel leads $135m Sulfurcell deal

Sulfurcell, the German thin film solar panel manufacturer, announced it has secured EUR 85 million (US $135 million) in equity funding for a significant expansion of its manufacturing with a new plant in Berlin, Germany for the production of CIS/CIGSe based thin-film solar modules. The new plant will have an annual capacity of 75 megawatts […]


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