A dozen investors provide $51.6m to Solopower, with Greentech Capital Advisors Securities as broker.

Qteros, formerly known as SunEthanol, nearly doubles its $25m B round with $22m initial close of its series C.

GE Energy Financial Services backs methane start-up Ciris Energy.

Henri Winand interview first published in the autumn edition of Lotus Engineering's proActive e-magazine.

Intelligent Energy shows it has the power to push forward in renewable energy with its fuel cells for multiple transport and other purposes.

Universal Commodity Exchange gains Rabobank among its investors

GreenVolts raises $22.4m from 19 investors out of a planned $38.8m round.

Before winning US Commerce Department award, Actacell raised $5.8m in July 2008 from Applied Ventures and venture capital firms DFJ Mercury and Good Energies as well as Google.org's RechargeIT programme to cut carbon dioxide.

Venture capital firm Energy Ventures joins Chesapeake in the $19.5m round for geological surveyor Wireless Seismic.

Mike Majors, an investment partner at Siemens Venture Capital, has joined the Encelium's board as part of its $11m round.