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• NEC to buy energy storage firm A123 for $100m

  25 March 2014

  NEC Corporation is to acquire A123 Energy Solutions for $100 million, in a move the Japanese conglomerate said would make it a leader in lithium-ion energy storage systems.

• A licence to list?

  14 November 2013

  There has been a welcome increase in the number of renewables firms launching IPOs in 2013. But is this promising spate of activity a sign that investor confidence in the sector is finally growing, or will it prove a false dawn, asks Peter Cripps