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Local Teams Do Well in Latest Pitch Contests

Oct 31, 2019

Last week there were two important pitch contests for cleantech companies and three of our local ones competed. On October 22, judging was done for CalSEED prototype grants of $450,000. Empow Lighting (a clever LED replacement panel for fluorescents in existing...

CVIE Forum Showcases New Companies

Oct 30, 2019

I recently had the pleasure to go to an event hosted by our partners at Fresno State’s Wet Center and BlueTech Valley. The Central Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (CVIEF) an event that people need to check out. In it’s fourth year this was a hidden gem,...

Building Energy Management—The Real World

Oct 29, 2019

Thursday Oct. 24, we had a full house at Hacker Lab to hear three very interesting talks on building energy management in the real world vs. what we think is going on. Kristin Heinemeier of Frontier Energy hit us with the reality that few of the fancy energy-saving...

Clean Tech Stocks Having a Great Year So Far

Oct 22, 2019

Check out two recent articles provide more detail. One is from Ron Pernick at Clean Edge. The other is from Timothy Smith at Investopedia. Results for the major clean tech stock indexes are blowing away the S&P 500. All of the four major indexes outperformed the...

Clean Tech Showcase Pictures

Oct 15, 2019

Recap of Event California Energy Commission Event Photos The Central Valley Clean Tech Showcase 2019 was organized by: 2019 Showcase Sponsors: Champion Level: Supporting Level Featured Level: Gold Level: ...