BusinessWeek's 25 energy startups to watch
Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:56 — system
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July 21, 2009.
I thought it would be very interesting to see which of the Business Week 25 energy startups to watch are hiring. If they're successful and growing, they should have plenty of jobs to offer!
Well, the job situation isn't great, but not too bad either... The bad? 10 of them are not hiring. The Good? The gold star goes to Silver Spring Networks with 31 jobs, the silver to Solyndra with 11 jobs, and the bronze to eMeter with 10 jobs. The other ones have only a few open positions.
In total, these 25 hot startups are offering 109 jobs. With the tens of millions of dollars in venture capital poured into them, I'm not sure it's a good job generation engine; but I'll let you be the judge...
| Achates Power | Job openings: none |
| AltaRock Energy | Job openings: none |
| BioFuelBox | Job openings: 3 green jobs |
| Bridgelux | Job openings: 7 green jobs |
| BrightSource Energy | Job openings: none |
| Clean Current Power Systems | Job openings: none |
| Coulomb Technologies | Job openings: 4 green jobs |
| eMeter | Job openings: 10 green jobs |
| Enphase Energy | Job openings: 7 green jobs |
| Fat Spaniel Technologies | Job openings: None |
| GreatPoint Energy | Job openings: None |
| GridPoint | Job openings: 1 green job |
| Ice Energy | Job openings: None |
| InEnTec | Job openings: None |
| Miasole | Job openings: 8 green jobs |
| Silver Spring Networks | Job openings: 31 green jobs |
| SmartSynch | Job openings: 2 green jobs |
| SolarCity | Job openings: 7 green jobs |
| Solazyme | Job openings: 4 green jobs |
| Solicore | Job openings: none |
| Solyndra | Job openings: 11 green jobs |
| Southwest Windpower | Job openings: 2 green jobs |
| Tendril Networks | Job openings: 8 green jobs |
| Verdant Power | Job openings: None |
| Verdiem | Job openings: 4 green jobs |
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August 4 update
On August 4, Bridgelux went to 6, down from 7; eMeter went to 4, down from 10, enPhase went up again, from 7 to 9. Silver Spring Networks still holds the top position, but went down 1, from 31 to 30. SolarCity went down from 7 to 5; Solarzyme went up 3 from 4 to 7; and Verdiem went down to 6.
July 30 update
On July 30th, Enphase's job count went up from 7 to 9, and Verdiem from 4 to 6.
The new total increases from 109 to 113.