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Slater Reinvests in VCharge as Part of $1.9M Total Round December 5th 2011

Second Commitment Brings Slater's Total Investment to $250,000

"The members of the VCharge team are true thought leaders," said Thorne Sparkman, managing director of the Slater Technology Fund. "By adding a network-based layer of real-time intelligence on top of energy assets that have often been in place for decades, VCharge is fundamentally changing when and how electricity is bought and sold. Slater is pleased to reinvest, this time alongside a larger group of investors with expertise in the clean energy sector, to help the company ride its innovative technology to a market-leading position."

Renewable Energy Consumption Tops Nuclear for First Time August 16th 2011

According to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the consumption of energy from renewable sources recently topped both the current and the historical consumption levels for nuclear energy. The shift was immediately caused by nuclear outages that coincided with the high-water season for hydropower generation.

Venture For America Selects VCharge for Fellow Placement June 28th 2011

Venture for America (VFA), an organization that offers talented college graduates the opportunity to work for promising entrepreneurial companies, announced today that they had selected VCharge as one of their inaugural startup partners. The newly formed partnership will see Venture For America working to place one or more VFA Fellows at VCharge for two years, providing them the experience of working in a high-growth startup environment, and VCharge with access to some of the best young talent in the country. Venture for American is hoping to emulate the success of Teach for America - which has allowed teaching positions to compete for talent with investment banks and consulting firms.

"Venture for America is excited to place Venture Fellows at VCharge, an immensely promising sustainable energy company. VCharge represents exactly the sort of enterprise that will generate jobs and make our economy more competitive." said Andrew Yang, the President and Founder of Venture for America.

Venture for America will begin recruiting fellows from top colleges and universities in November, with the goal of placing them into a partner startup in mid-2012.

Slater Invests $150,000 in Energy Management Start-up May 9th 2011

The Slater Technology Fund today announced that it has committed $150,000 in seed-stage funding to newly formed energy management services company VCharge.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Proposes New Compensation Method for Regulation Services Feb 17th 2011

Today's notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) is all about performance, innovation, and efficiency. The Commission's aim here is to develop a mechanism to compensate resources providing frequency regulation in a way that rewards them for quickly responding to the needs of the system...

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