#ICYMI Cleantech News 2/26/16

Welcome again to our series of regular In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) cleantech news blog posts. These blog posts feature some of the most interesting, compelling and/or impactful cleantech news of the week.

This week’s highlights include the EPA asking Volkswagen to build EVs in the United States as a way to make up for its rigging of emission tests; long time sustainability investor, Andrew Chung, launching a new fund named 1955 Capital; and a Greentech Media feature on SolarCity’s home energy system made suitable for Hawaii’s Customer Self-Supply program.

Here are some of the top stories in cleantech this week:

· FUNDING: Long time sustainability investor, Andrew Chung, has launched a new fund named 1955 Capital and announced its first close totaling $200 million, reported TechCrunch’s Jonathan Sheiber.

· EVs: CleanTechnica’s Steve Hanley reported that the EPA has asked Volkswagen to build electric vehicles in the United States as a way of making up for its rigging of emission tests.

· SOLAR: Greentech Media’s Eric Wesoff took a look at SolarCity’s home energy system made suitable for Hawaii’s Customer Self-Supply program.

· WIND: Wind energy now provides 4.9 percent of U.S. electricity and broke records across the central U.S. in late February, reported Utility Dive.

· REBRAND: A Q&A with C3 Energy CEO and Chairman Tom Siebel and Fortune’s Andrew Nusca hit this week and discussed the decision to rebrand the company as C3 IoT.

· ENERGY STORAGE: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Norman Bay called energy storage a potential “game changer,” reported Fuel Fix’s James Osbourne.

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