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The New ‘Valleys of Death’ in Climate Investing

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” Then, they compare the climate tech world of today to 2014, a low point in the space when the Prime Coalition was started, examining some of the biggest changes: The influx of generalist investors. The explosion of corporate commitments, reflecting the growing demand for climate action from consumers, investors and the general public.

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Funding the Next Generation of Efficient, Electric, Grid-Interactive Communities

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homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. event hosted by the Electric Power Research Institute and utility Duke Energy.

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What’s the Role for New Nuclear Power in the Fight Against Climate Change?

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utilities such as Duke Energy and Southern Company that include SMRs in the longer-range suite of options to fully decarbonize their power grids by 2050. One example would be covering seasonal rather than daily mismatches between electricity demand and renewables production. Similar challenges have been leveled against U.S.

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Storage Supplier Fluence Acquires AMS for Power Market Dispatch Software

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In 2017, it pivoted to software to dispatch grid assets more profitably in competitive markets. The joint venture between AES and Siemens already provides software to its battery customers to govern system safety and performance, and to dispatch according to market rules and interconnection constraints. Going digital, going global.

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Grid Edge M&A Alert: Sentient Acquires Varentec for Dynamic Grid Control

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Last year’s acquisition of Sentient, which has deployed its wirelessly networked, self-powered sensors on overhead and underground grid circuits across the country, gave KES a “vertical into the power grid area,” Jim Keener, then Sentient CEO, told Greentech Media last year. The Santa Clara, Calif.

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Michigan’s Grid Is Not as Resilient as It Could Be. Energy Storage Can Help

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Instead, the greatest expansion in energy storage over the last decade has been in batteries. There has also been growth in the number of energy storage projects outside of lithium-ion batteries, such as compressed air energy storage and flywheel storage. Gretchen Whitmer and the MPSC of the MI Power Grid initiative.

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Why Flexible Gas Generation Must Be Part of Deep Decarbonization

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Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand.