UK Innovation Investment Fund Launches £125m Environmental Investment Fund

The UK Innovation Investment Fund is off the ground with the first closing of the £125m Hermes Private Equity environmental innovation fund.
It’s taken only 7 months for UKIIF to launch the first of two funds, the Hermes Environmental Innovation Fund, which has already raised £125m and will continue to seek further funding from investors.


DOE Announces Clean Energy Projects for Low-Carbon Communities of the Americas Initiative

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In support of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas announced by President Obama at the 2009 Summit of the Americas, Secretary Steven Chu announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has selected three initial projects under the Low-Carbon Communities of the Americas (LCCA) – a program launched in June 2009 [...]