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11/17/10 at 7:39pm
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Those of us who had lived through the dot com days know how quickly an investor could enter and exit. In some crazy cases during the peak, this could have been as low as a few days!

But renewable energy and cleantech are different beasts all together and investors pumping in money in these fields will do well to get their expectations on exit period rights.

Says this post on renewable energy exit strategy from the EAI Blog "In companies belonging to the cleantech industry, exits take longer than for companies in the software or Internet industries. It is tough to generalize, but VC exits in this industry could take 5-6 years and PE investments 7-10 years. Large PE investments (say, in sectors such as large hydro) could take well over 10 years to exit.

In terms of exit routes, I think most renewable energy startups / companies will favour the IPO route rather than the acquisition route. Acquisitions cannot be ruled out, as happened in the case of SunEdison, but I think given the nature of this industry, IPOs will predominate acquisitions.

What are your thoughts and perspectives on exit routes and exit time durations for the renewable energy industry?

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