Managing your energy consumption could be very challenging predominantly during present electricity tariff and escalation of oil & gas prices. With the increasing of other production cost such as raw material and labour, reducing the energy cost may the only way for the company to remain competitive and stay in the business. This blog discusses all related issues in managing your energy consumption efficiently and in a systematic way.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Green Investments: Intel, Islamic Capital


The world of cleantech investments is certainly becoming more diversified and interesting each day, here are some more ideas.
Intel Capital
Smart Grid has been an active investment sector in the cleantech industry, especially in the North American markets. Intel Capital, for instance, has made further investments into energy efficiency applications and smart grid technologies; it has been making investments into cleantech sectors consecutively last 12 months.
Over the past 12 months, Intel has made investments into solar energy, energy efficiency equipment, smartgrid and other renewable energy infrastructure projects; the investments has been made both within North America and outside North America. The company has also backed many green businesses as such as green websites and R&D opportunities, some at very early stages.
Islamic Capital as an investment source
Private equity firm Middle East & Asia Capital Partners Pte (MEACP) had introduced a sharia-compliant investment vehicle to its clean energy fund to attract Islamic capital.
This had been gradually expanded by different Islamic countries, to set up a specific vehicle to attract investments from Islamic capital.
MEACP, which set up a clean energy fund in 2008, would expand the fund to $500 million from $400 million upon the launch of the fund's sharia-compliant special vehicle sometime next year, he said.
 
Over the past few years, there has been a notable increasing investments from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait as well as Malaysia and Indonesia; all of them expanding their investments in the CleanTech areas: especially relating to Water Technologies; Soil remediation; also Green Building materials.
Check Out our Global Green Investors Guide with hundreds of investment firms investing in CleanTech & Renewable Energy sectors: http://researchwhitepaper.com


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