ACORE in the News

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama is considering a stimulus
package that will include a heavy dose of spending on environmentally friendly
projects aimed at creating “green-collar jobs” and saving energy.

While the package will focus on short-term outlays for traditional
infrastructure projects to jumpstart an economy now officially declared to be in
recession, it will also include longer-term measures to safeguard the
environment.

While long-term prospects remain strong, shorter-term funding for green companies is likely to decline during the coming months, according to a panel of VCs at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in Seattle on Tuesday.

I'm at REFF-West -- a clean tech conference in Seattle -- today. These conferences are a dime a dozen these days, so I probably won't bombard you with tons of posts. But as I was listening to Kostya L. Zolotusky of Boeing, I had a thought.

This morning, I stopped by the panel on venture capital in cleantech, at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum-West conference at the Grand Hyatt in downtown Seattle. Here are my quick Top 10 takeaways from the session.

At the American Council on Renewable Energy Conference in downtown Seattle, Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., told nearly 350 high-level executives, "America is on the cusp of another revolution."