Cleantech fourth-quarter 2012 analysis

Summary:

The fourth quarter in cleantech saw attention paid to two prominent and publicly traded companies: EV maker Tesla and newly minted public listing SolarCity. It remains a transitional period for the sector as investment declines and investors look for value investments and give money to those companies able to scale with little additional capital.

  1. Executive summary
  2. SolarCity: finally some value in an IPO
  3. Tesla and the art of being a public company
  4. Low-power processors and the data center: AMD licenses an ARM core
  5. PTC for wind lives another day
  6. Cleantech investment figures
  7. Cleantech VC in 2013
  8. Key takeaways
  9. About Adam Lesser
  10. About GigaOM Pro