Bill Gates: New nuclear could be “energy miracle”
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is placing his chips on nuclear technology these days.
Khosla: Wood chips could be part of U.S. energy future
Vinod Khosla has seen the United States’ energy future, and it is wood chips.
Ceres goes public at $13
Ceres, the Thousand Oaks-based energy crop firm, has gone public on the Nasdaq priced at $13 a share, raising up to $65 million in the sale of five million shares. The stock was up nearly 15 percent to $14.90 in mid-day trading on Feb. 22. Ceres struggled to push through its deal. Initially slated to Read More →
Buffett plugs into SLO solar farm
The 550-megawatt Topaz solar project in northern San Luis Obispo County got a new owner on Dec. 7 when Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced it was acquiring the project from Arizona-based First Solar. The price was not disclosed, but the project is expected to cost about $2 billion. After a lengthy permitting process, First Solar Read More →
Transphorm gets $3.6M grant
Transphorm, the Goleta-based energy efficiency firm backed by $63 million from Google and other investors, has received a $3.6 million federal grant to improve solar panels. Transphorm’s technology uses a semiconducting material called gallium nitride to drastically reduce heat waste in electronic systems. The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy went to Transphorm in Read More →
NiMin drums up $4M
NiMin Energy Corp., an independent oil company based in Carpinteria, has raised $4 million in a private placement with an Australian bank. NiMin owns and drills onshore oil fields near Bakersfield and in Wyoming and southern Louisiana. It said the money will go toward developing its assets near Bakersfield. NiMin said it sold 2.7 million Read More →
NiMin reports $3.8M profit
NiMin Energy Corp. earned $3.8 million, or 6 cents per share, in the second quarter of the year, swinging back to black after a $2.5 million loss in the same period a year ago.
