Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Meta-Headlines of 2023 As our beloved industry matures, our hope for when climate tech grows up is for it to “become boring.” Should we call 2023 the Year of IRA deployment? conditional commitment to Ford’s battery manufacturing program. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. In New York City, the biggest battery is the 4.8

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Those include solar paired with batteries to shift its daytime output to late afternoon and early evening, when California faces its steepest demand peaks, and demand response that shifts energy consumption away from those critical hours. gigawatts by 2023, including the retirement of OTC capacity. gigawatts by 2022. gigawatts by 2022.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

France, Italy and Spain — will get the majority of their power from wind, solar and other variable renewable energy sources as early as 2023, WoodMac says. Most of that will come from front-of-the-meter battery systems. Coal and nuclear power will be the biggest losers in Europe's energy system by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Two more utilities in Arizona and Colorado are moving to accelerate closure of coal plants and replace them with renewable energy backed by batteries, joining a broader push in both states to shift to more cost-effective clean energy options even in the absence of state mandates. Colorado utilities moving toward 100-percent clean energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

In power and transport, it assumes that the future fuel mix does not evolve from 2023 (2027 in shipping). Clean power’ includes renewables and nuclear, and excludes CCS, hydrogen and bioenergy, which are allocated to their respective categories. “Our

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023. gigawatts by 2023. The CCA is now responsible for about 14 percent of load in the region, and will be responsible for 357 megawatts of procurement by 2023. Five other, much smaller CCAs will each need to procure between 5 to 17 megawatts apiece by 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The ITC will fall to a 22 percent rate for projects that begin construction by the end of 2023, and then fall to 10 percent for large-scale solar projects and to zero percent for small scale solar projects in 2024. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power. Nuclear power will receive $6.6

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge. ROOT CAUSES.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

In other news, Hertz shifts gears on its EV strategy, Kerry steps down from his climate envoy post, and AI helps discover promising new battery materials.  Join us for a webinar Jan 25th on Sightline Climate’s 2023 investment trends, insights, and discussion. in Seed funding from NextGen Battery Chem Ventures.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Joe Biden visits the Cummins Power Generation Facility in Fridley, Minnesota, on Monday, April 3rd, 2023. When the government incentivizes, let’s say battery electric vehicles, a consumer of electricity, it does not require that new power generation must be built to support that vehicle,” Bekemohammadi said.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The report lays out five alternative pathways to reaching its targets, ranging from those that rely on a complete shift to renewable energy and electrifying transport and buildings, to those that rely more on nuclear power, carbon capture and storage or biomass to decarbonize. In the U.S.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Renewables has overtaken gas to become the biggest single source of power on the UK grid so far this winter, with power generated by wind, hydro and solar reaching a record 34TWh from 1 October 2022 to 13 January 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. Larger-scale transmission projects aimed at carrying Canadian hydropower and wind power downstate, such as the $2.2

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

Join us for a discussion and live Q&A this Thursday, Jan 25th on Sightline Climate’s 2023 climate tech investment trends and the outlook for 2024.  No shortage of shortages Upward uranium price pressure built throughout 2023 due to diminished global mining productivity, geopolitical unrest, and increased commodities trading. 

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. The EV supply chain dominated, with critical minerals, batteries, vehicle assembly and charging equipment making up 84% of Q4 investment. Total 2023 investment was up 133% compared to the prior year.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

  In news, COP28 goes nuclear with a commitment to triple nuclear capacity and pursue fusion R&D, echoing a broader global sentiment shift towards nuclear.    In deals, major funding for battery recycling and dry electrodes, and additional late-stage funding for forestry projects and precision weed control.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. Dominion Virginia is also seeking bids for up to 250 megawatts of energy storage projects, either paired with renewable projects or stand-alone, for delivery by 2023.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

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!

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

“In 2006, we had a lot more capacity on the system,” including the now-closed San Onofre nuclear power plant and thousands of megawatts of natural-gas plants that have since closed. But “batteries [alone] won’t fix this problem,” he said, since they can’t generate their own power.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As a result, it urges the government to rethink plans to enable billions of pounds of investment in new gas power plants when seeking energy supply capacity to replace the coal and nuclear power plants that are slated to close over the coming decade. It also relies on assumptions about increased energy efficiency.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Moreover, an analysis earlier this week by the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated that global greenhouse gas emissions could reach yet another record high in 2023 unless urgent action is taken worldwide to ramp up investment in green infrastructure. Hydrogen, CCS, and nuclear.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

In the power sector, coal's fortunes continued to decline as the UK pressed on with efforts to phase out the carbon intensive power source altogether by 2023. Electricity generation from natural gas fired power plants also fell back slightly by 2.2

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Only existing state laws and regulations as of January 2023 are included in the model. A Clean Electricity Standard requires retail electricity utilities to meet electricity sales with qualifying clean electricity sources, typically solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear power.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

in 2023, compared to the 1.4% Increasing nuclear capacity is vital to meet our net zero obligations, so to encourage private sector investment into our nuclear programme, I confirm, subject to consultation, nuclear power will be classed as environmentally sustainable.” predicted in November.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Zambia produced 760k tons of ore in 2023. As shown in the chart, we wouldn’t have the grid, solar, wind, EVs, or batteries without copper. It’s a superior electricity conductor, which makes it fundamental to power cables and wires, transformers and inverters, electrical motors, and photovoltaic cells.  

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII): Adopted in 2021 through the IMO , these measurements build on prior standards and became mandatory beginning Jan 1, 2023. Technologies like hydrogen and batteries don’t have a high enough energy density to volumetrically power vessels.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

link] pic.twitter.com/GQK8DFcWoc — ExxonMobil (@exxonmobil) January 12, 2023 ExxonMobil says its carbon capture facility in Wyoming has “captured the most CO2 emissions on Earth to date.” Hear from our safety and environment supervisor, Anne Guinard ‍, on the exciting work being done.

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