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Behind-the-Meter Battery Pioneer Stem to Take SPAC Route to Public Markets

GreenTechMedia

Stem, the decade-old behind-the-meter battery startup that was seeking a buyer earlier this year to bolster its growth ambitions, is now launching a plan to go public via a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) reverse merger. ” Stem’s role in opening up the behind-the-meter battery market. and abroad.

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Treasury Department Announces Second Round of Section 48C Tax Credit for Clean Energy Manufacturing Facilities

38 North Solutions

Overview When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), it reinstated (and expanded) the Section 48C tax credit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. However, this would only apply to the facility in question, meaning a company could use 48Cfor one facility, and 45X for another.

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EDF charges up £110m Pod Point bid

Business Green

EDF Energy owns and operates a raft of energy assets in the UK, including a gas and coal power station and several wind farms, in addition to developing Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset in partnership with China's CGN.

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EDF snaps up electric vehicle charging firm Pod Point in £100m deal

Business Green

Founded in 2009, Pod Point has grown to become one of the UK's largest EV infrastructure firms, having rolled out 62,000 charge points in the UK and a further 6,600 in Norway. We set out in 2009 with the vision that travel shouldn't damage the earth and a mission to put a charge point everywhere you park," he said. "By

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A 21st-century reinvention of the electric grid is crucial for solving the climate change crisis

Renewable Energy World

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. AP Photo/Jim Mone.

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Like the solar transition, federal action is critical to launching the e-mobility economy

Renewable Energy World

In 2010, solar power was just 4 percent of new electric generating capacity and there was a patchwork of state solar policies and renewable portfolio standards. [1] The 2009 U.S. In the US, battery electric vehicles represent about 2.5 These dramatic changes did not happen in a vacuum.

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? Old nuclear, new-clear #161

Climate Tech VC

The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. Plant Vogtle began commercial operations from the first of two new reactors, but the over-budget and years-delayed project could be the last hurrah for big nuclear construction in America. Happy Monday!