With Crowdfunding Legal, Incubators Are the New VCs
Let the speculation begin! With HR 3606, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) act, officially signed into law, innovative start-ups can now leverage crowdfunding to bring their ideas to market. So what does…
Fraunhofer Examines Facts and Future Trends in German PV Solar Deployment
Deployment of renewable energies technologies —especially solar PV —is advancing rapidly. As the world leader in installed solar PV capacity, Germany continues to offer an interesting role model to clean energy advocates and…
The 2012 Siemens Sustainable Community Awards
Yesterday, the Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) and Siemens announced the winners of the fifth Siemens Sustainable Community Awards, a program aimed at recognizing cities for their outstanding sustainability efforts….
Home Energy Management at IEEE’s International Conference on Consumer Electronics
At the recent IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics in Las Vegas, energy management was a major topic of discussion. As the session organizer and chair for home energy management, I wanted to…
Crowdsourcing for Cleantech?
These days, everything is being crowdsourced…or is it just that the definition of crowdsourcing is expanding? Is there a way for you to contract out small jobs inexpensively? Is there a way for…
Mass Clean Energy Center Visits Fraunhofer CSE
Our friends at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center came to visit on Friday, January 20, to tour our labs and hear about our clean energy R&D and initiatives. MassCEC is the Commonwealth’s agency…
Moral Licensing: Side Effects of an Efficiency Campaign
A recent field study I conducted with colleagues at Fraunhofer CSE showed interesting potential side effects of an efficiency / environmental program. Last summer, we carried out a water conservation campaign at a…
Fraunhofer CSE Receives Visit from Mass. State Legislators
Yesterday, we were honored to receive a visit from Senator Anthony Petruccelli, Senator Sal DiDomenico, Representative Tim Toomey, and Liam Holland of the office of Representative John Keegan. Our guests heard from Fraunhofer…
US DOE Innovation Ecosystem Initiative Catalyzes Growth, VC Funding for FirstFuel Software
[This post also appears on the US Department of Energy's blog.] Through the acceleration of high-growth entrepreneurship and adoption of innovative energy efficient technologies, the Energy Department is enabling significant improvements in the…
Growing the Clean Energy Sector in 2012
In his recent column on the Massachusetts clean energy sector’s prospects for 2012, Jon Chesto gets it right: “The truth is, the green energy industry is still thriving in Massachusetts” – Mass. Market…
