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NREL Forum Talk
- 1. The story of the cleantech roller coaster ride And why you should still be excited about cleantech
- 12. John Doerr’s TED Talk 2007
- 13. Cleantech!
- 19. Recession
- 42. Tastes great, less filling
- 48. Advice wrap up: Capital lite Trust in the overall resource trends Business model innovation Clean Web Find solid customers – Internet companies Corporate partners China ARPA-E
- 52. How to get in touch with me: Email = katie@gigaom.com Twitter = @katiefehren
Notas del editor
- For full Biden GIF enjoyment put in slide show mode
- Alternative title
- Me, I get a growing number of readers from Twitter these days
- In 2006 I joined GigaOM as the first employee and for the first year I was writing about wireless technology and broadband.
- Example of a typical story of first year at GigaOM. Mountain View Google free WiFi network.
- Decided writing about wireless and broadband wasn’t all that satisfying in 2006. Looking for something new.
- Here’s the trends I saw in 2006. Despite dotcom bust, venture capitalists have money to spend and looking for the next big thing.
- CA AB 32, 2006. Schwarzenegger as the green governor.
- The Valley’s premier VC firm making major bet on cleantech.
- How I felt in early 2007, I’ve found it: cleantech.
- Launched GigaOM’s green channel.
- Cleantech startup and funding movement growing rapidly from 2006 to 2008.
- First wave of capital intensive cleantech startups. Electric car companies like Tesla and Fisker.
- Wave of thin film solar startups, like Miasole.
- Yikes.
- Recession hit some of these first wave, capital intensive, cleantech startups hard. Some survived, some didn’t
- Stimulus package enters to support cleantech.
- Cheap natural gas emerges and makes some clean power uneconomical as an investment.
- Dropping silicon prices upend solar industry, solar panels super cheap, but startups, like the first wave thin film solar startups, on the wrong side of cost curve.
- A bankrupt Solyndra sells this banner for $400 in an auction.
- Cleantech becomes officially politicized.
- Venture returns are not all that impressive for cleantech
- While many VCs betting on web and mobile are making tons of money.
- WTF
- But. . . .why you shouldn’t be so depressed about it.
- Climate change already happening
- Population boom in developing countries will be the future of clean power generation and also managing of resources efficiently in cities.
- Opportunity for entrepreneurs in India, China.
- Energy efficiency opportunities in China. Smart grid investment in China will be massive.
- China is starting to dominate clean power financing.
- And Chinese conglomerates making investments in low cost assets, or buying them outright (up until lately A123 and Wanxiang)
- One of the biggest opportunities in the U.S. is the rapid installation of solar panels.
- Capitallite and business model innovation is working.
- The Clean Web movement is emerging.
- Clean Web example.
- However, perhaps Clean Web will be cleantechlite. Won’t be as disruptive.
- Turns out Internet companies are great customers. They buy low power stuff and even clean power.
- Facebook’s energy efficient data center.
- Apple’s massive solar farm in North Carolina.
- Corporate partners, and also corporate investors, will dominate cleantech of tomorrow.
- ARPA-E seems like a good model. But tiny right now. Needs to be bigger.
- Advice for where to find money for cleantech startup.
- Whole idea of cleantech is changing. Not a cohesive vertical.
- One thing that can help public perception of cleantech: if extreme weather continues, public will demand action.
- Need success stories that are big wins, cool, good brands, make people money and employ people.