We analyzed CB Insights private company financing data to identify 2014′s largest renewable energy financings. These 22 financings have raised more than $2.5B, and include companies that that produce energy using solar, wind, and biofuel among others.

The world is on the cusp of a resource revolution. As our colleagues Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers argue,1 advances in information technology, nanotechnology, materials science, and biology will radically increase the productivity of resources. The result will be a new industrial revolution that will enable strong economic growth, at a much lower environmental cost than in the past, thanks to the broad deployment of better, cleaner technologies and the development of more appropriate business models.

It should come as no surprise that sentiment is important in the investment world. Just ask any entrepreneur trying to raise money for their daily deals company or a hyperlocal news startup.

But perhaps no industry has been maligned as much as clean tech. The nadir seems to have come recently when 60 Minutes dove into the industry in their “The Cleantech Crash” feature.  Vinod Khosla who featured prominently in the segment actually lashed back with a lengthy defense after his appearance.

Cleantech INNvest es una red de inversión y financiación de proyectos innovadores de tecnologías limpias (“cleantech”), de alto potencial de crecimiento global, que forma parte de Southern Europe´s Cleantech Hub, impulsado por Innobasque.