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Sense Delivers Insight into Home Energy Usage

Greentown Labs

If your house could talk to you about your energy usage, what would it say? The creators of Sense think it would say you could reduce your energy usage by at least 20 percent—and tell you how. Sense is a home energy monitor that gives real-time insight into your home’s energy usage.

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ConnectDER Draws Investment from Avista in Latest Funding Round

GreenTechMedia

ConnectDER, a startup with a smart meter socket device that’s been deployed in the thousands by select U.S. utilities to support distributed solar, has closed a $7 million series B round round to help roll out a new version of its system targeting behind-the-meter batteries and plug-in electric cars.

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US Storage Industry Achieved Biggest-Ever Quarter and Year in 2019

GreenTechMedia

energy storage industry capped off its biggest year of installations with its largest single quarter in Q4. energy storage installation topped 522.7 megawatt-hours in the fourth quarter, according to the newly released Energy Storage Monitor , produced by Wood Mackenzie and the Energy Storage Association.

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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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Via Separations Tackles Manufacturing’s Exorbitant Thermal Energy Usage

Greentown Labs

The longer it takes, the more energy it uses. Filtration membranes aren’t sturdy enough for chemical separations, so immense amounts of thermal energy are used. Build a better membrane. Plastic and paper and fertilizers aren’t going away, and the embodied energy and embodied emissions for that are really significant,” she adds.

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Innovative sanitation solution is crowned winner of VERGE Accelerate contest

GreenBiz

On the last day of VERGE 20, five startups that won lightning-round pitch sessions during the Food, Carbon, Circular, Energy and Transport conference competed for the vote of the viewers. Industry experts break with audience choice. The non-incubated male eggs can be sent to market. Myisha Majumder. Thu, 11/05/2020 - 01:00.

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A look to the future with National Grid Partners’ $450m project portfolio

Smart Energy International

On the heels of a key funding announcement from National Grid Partners (NGP) , Yusuf Latief looks into the company’s project portfolio in this edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook. Two weeks ago, an announcement caught my eye from Silicon Valley’s National Grid Partners. Let’s start with the latest.