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

GreenTechMedia

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.

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Startup UtilityAPI raises $10M in Series A round

Smart Energy International

In 2014, Daniel Roesler founded the company to fight climate change by offering what it said is a simple, fast, automated solution for sharing utility customer bills and interval data, shared only with explicit customer consent, and revocable at any time. CEO Davin Hampton said his product lowers for deploying energy efficient technologies.

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An Inside Look at a Groundbreaking Solar-Storage Procurement in California

GreenTechMedia

Early this month, three community-choice aggregators and one municipal utility serving much of California’s San Francisco Bay Area launched a 30-megawatt distributed energy storage-plus-solar solicitation. Half of the new systems are to come from single-family homes, and the other half from multifamily and small commercial customers.

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A smart grid journey with Robert Denda of Gridspertise

Smart Energy International

Talking about his journey from planning a large-scale regional smart meter rollout in Spain, to leading a company that is fully dedicated to transforming power grids on a global scale. The Italian giant had in fact pioneered in Italy the first country-wide smart meter deployment in Europe and among the first globally. “I

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California and China Strengthen Cleantech Ties as Trade War Smolders

GreenTechMedia

Chengdu’s Tianfu New Area was approved in 2014 to serve as a model for sustainable urban development and a hub for strategic new industries. He added that in today’s globalized energy economy “strengthening dialogue is the only way to promote a win-win future.” Credit: New Energy Nexus).

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DOE Quietly Backs Plan for Carbon Capture Network Larger Than Entire Oil Pipeline System

DeSmogBlog

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2).