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CALIFORNIA CLEAN TECH INVESTMENTS SHIFTING FROM R&D TO DEPLOYMENT — REPORT:

Clean tech investments in California over the past ten years have shifted from roughly half of more of annual investment going toward R&D to the majority of clean tech investments now going toward deployment — a shift indicating a maturing market, according to a report out today from Next 10, a nonpartisan group that focuses on California issues. “While this early stage capital is still critical for new companies and technologies, financing allocated to deployment is increasingly important to the expansion of the sector, such as funding to develop new utility scale solar or wind projects,” the report says. Read: http://bit.ly/190pdLi.