{"id":698792,"date":"2010-03-23T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7212"},"modified":"2010-03-23T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:43:55","slug":"vc-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/698792","title":{"rendered":"VC Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png?resize=8%2C8\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png?resize=8%2C8\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/solar.png?resize=8%2C8\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Solar\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calera, a developer of technology that turns CO2 into building materials, has received a $15 million private equity investment from coal producer Peabody Energy. The proprietary technology developed by Los Gatos, Calif.-based Calera converts CO2 released from power facilities, cement plants or refineries into carbon negative building materials. The Calera process also acts as a freshening system able to produce fresh water. The company recently completed a demonstration project near Moss Landing, Calif., which turns the emissions from a natural gas-fired power plant into\u00a0synthetic limestone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>HopeWell Junction, NY. SpectraWatt, which manufacturers photovoltaic cells for the solar industry, has raised $41.4 million in convertible debt to expand its manufacturing capacity. Investors included Goldman Sachs&#8217; energy subsidiary Cogentrix\u00a0Energy, Intel Capital and PCG Clean Energy &amp; Technology Fund, the cleantech-focused investment fund of\u00a0PCG Asset Management. SpectraWatt expects to ship it first batch of PV cells to customers during the second quarter of 2010.\n<p><span id=\"more-7212\"><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Boulder, Colo., TerraLUX, which makes LED solid-state lighting products, has raised $5.6 million in a first round of funding from Zurich-based Emerald Technology Ventures. Access Venture Partners was a returning investor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/TtShrJFfpSY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calera, a developer of technology that turns CO2 into building materials, has received a $15 million private equity investment from coal producer Peabody Energy. The proprietary technology developed by Los Gatos, Calif.-based Calera converts CO2 released from power facilities, cement plants or refineries into carbon negative building materials. The Calera process also acts as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VMQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}