Fuel for Discussion – Blog

Last month’s defeat of Proposition 23 highlighted public support for a clean energy economy, pushing clean tech investment back up the political agenda, not only in California but across the US.

During the recent recession, the cleantech and renewables sector weathered the stormy financial seas with relative robustness. However, as the fall out of the economic difficulties begins to affect public finances across Europe, the sector is experiencing some volatility.

Despite the turbulence of recent years, development dollars continue to flow into solar projects around the world. However, recent changes in the financing landscape have added fuel to the debate around the relative strengths and weaknesses of solar thermal versus solar PV.

“Curiouser and Curiouser” said Alice. I was pleased to see John Barber picked up, topically, on the analogies between Alice in Wonderland and the process of debate on the AIFM Directive at the Geneva Investors Forum last week.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, or finance a high growth business, move to France. 
A casual reader of the most recent EVCA benchmarking paper – published in 2008 – might be tempted to reach that conclusion.  The EVCA’s regular study aims to assess the extent to which European tax and legal environments favour private [...]