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A Blockchain-Enabled Smart Meter for Clean Power Trading?

GreenTechMedia

Blockchain’s energy sector uses range from the highly speculative—think peer-to-peer energy trading using cryptocurrency raised in initial coin offerings (ICOs)—to more incremental efforts, grounded in real-world challenges of operating an increasingly decentralized power grid. are testing it out.

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A Vibrant Cleantech Startup Ecosystem Takes Root in India

GreenTechMedia

Several floors below the firm’s balcony, power lines crisscross over piles of garbage, a fleet of rickshaws and cow patties on a rooftop, being dried for cooking fuel. ” Rapid growth in India’s renewable energy sector is driving demand for new technologies to modernize the country’s power sector.

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Smart Energy Finances: Glasgow’s SMS acquires heat pump specialist

Smart Energy International

Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS plc), an energy infrastructure company, has acquired the domestic services division of Manchester-based heat pump specialist Evergreen Energy, which imports and distributes European-made renewable energy products.

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The Rules for Early-Stage Cleantech Venture Capital Investment in 2021

GreenTechMedia

Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation. billion according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance to $16 billion, according to PwC. ” Bring incremental improvements to fast-growing cleantech sectors.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

Charged

Public charging is expected to be a low-margin business, and this makes it even more important to manage the network in an efficient way once they emerge from “land grab” mode and start focusing on profits. These might be utilities, system integrators, or electrical installers and contractors.

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Clean cooking: Gold Standard verifies world's first clean cooking carbon credits in Africa

Business Green

The new project will help African families to switch from unsustainable wood-based fuels to zero-emission electric cooking Ugandan social enterprise UpEnergy has announced it has issued the world's first ever carbon credits linked to emissions savings from the use of electric and clean cooking devices which will be verified by The Gold Standard.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Clean energy for Native American communities. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. GreenBiz Editors.