Kachan & Co. sees corporations as the source of cleantech funding to watch most closely in the future. The firm expects corporate capital to outstrip the US$7.68 billion invested last year by venture capitalists very soon.
Cleantech Investment Reaches Record High in 2011 Q1, Apr 6, 2011
“You wouldn’t see wind being developed the way it is today if it wasn’t economical in terms of cost per kilowatt-hour. And it's continuing downward in price per kilowatt-hour with economies of scale and offshore manufacturing.”
Why Wisconsin’s ham-handed crusade against wind power blows, Mar 31, 2011
The technology "has real potential for generating base-load power in large cities at the convergence of fresh water and sea water," says Dallas Kachan, managing partner of Kachan & Co., a San Francisco consulting firm.
Tech to the Rescue, Feb 27, 2011
Kachan predicts a rise in "drop-in" biofuels, employing bacteria or yeast to make chemically similar diesel, jet fuel, butanol and bio natural gas that can simply be dropped into current infrastructure.
Cleantech Trends Strong for 2011, Feb 10, 2011
“Investing in this sort of truly game-changing technology is out of the comfort zone of conventional Silicon Valley venture capital companies.”
The Audacity of General Fusion, Feb. 7, 2011
Kachan & Co. refutes this and predicts 2011 to be a great year for the CleanTech industry.
2011: What is in Store for Cleantech?, Feb 2, 2011