{"id":535631,"date":"2010-04-20T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2010-04-20T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:21:07","slug":"is-soros-still-planing-to-invest-in-cleantech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535631","title":{"rendered":"Is Soros Still planing to Invest in Cleantech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d0\/Soros_talk_in_Malaysia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"104\" \/>Yes, George Soros the activist billionaire is still panning to invest in cleantech, a spokesman tells G.E.R. declining to provide more details as to how and when that could happen.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-7723\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plans haven&#8217;t changed,&#8221; spokesman Michael Vachon tells us.<\/p>\n<p>Back in October Soros announced that over the next decade he would invest up to $1 billion in cleantech. At the time it was unclear if Soros would invest via\u00a0 a new greentech-focused venture fund or through his excisting\u00a0 Soros Fund Management.<\/p>\n<p>Is Soros close to announcing a first investment in the sector? Vachon declined to say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~3\/2009\/10\/details-emerge-on-soros-1bn-green-investment\/\" >What we know is that Soros will step-in as an early  stage investor<\/a>, backing companies that are profitable and  make a contribution to solving the [climate change] problem.<\/p>\n<p>Image: Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/10\/details-emerge-on-soros-1bn-green-investment\/\" ><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/5LJ7QBSt9L8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, George Soros the activist billionaire is still panning to invest in cleantech, a spokesman tells G.E.R. declining to provide more details as to how and when that could happen. &#8220;Plans haven&#8217;t changed,&#8221; spokesman Michael Vachon tells us. Back in October Soros announced that over the next decade he would invest up to $1 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}