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Greentown Labs Member Milestones — November 2022

Greentown Labs

Dandelion Energy raised a $70M Series B-1 round to install geothermal heating and cooling solutions. investment in its vegetation intelligence platform that helps utilities reduce the risk of power outages and wildfires. Department of Energy to extract nickel and magnesium from mining waste. Overstory announced a $5.2M

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Tech Talk | The AI energy challenge

Smart Energy International

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing raising questions and concerns about its energy consumption. For many ChatGPT introduced in November 2022 was probably their first ‘hands on’ experience. But now AI is entering the mass market with Samsung’s new S24 range of Galaxy mobiles full of AI-powered features.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Electricity Active Surfaces develops an ultra-lightweight, flexible solar technology for the built environment. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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Trends for Sustainable Home Improvement in 2024

Mosaic

Despite the headwinds of 2023, the US solar industry is expected to have grown 55% compared to 2022, amounting to nearly 33 GWdc of capacity. Energy efficient heating and cooling improvements are gaining in awareness and popularity. of $2,500 rebate for updated electric wiring and more. Additionally, 3.2

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Bosch Thermotechnology’s New Energy-Efficient Inverter Ducted Split (IDS) Premium Connected Available Now

Green Living Guy

The Bosch Inverter Ducted Split (IDS) Premium Connected delivers 20+ SEER efficiency and connects wirelessly for remote monitoring of energy usage, troubleshooting, and more. WATERTOWN, MASS.,

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Plugging into electricity’s energy challenge

Envirotec Magazine

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

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Adobe flips the switch on all-electric building

Business Green

The structure, certified under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, contains the largest all-electric commercial kitchen in North America - a 50,000-square-foot space equipped with induction cooking equipment and an all-electric pizza oven from Italy.