Smart Energy International

JANUARY 13, 2023

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances leads with two stories on smart energy acquisitions, specifically Badger meter’s acquisition of Syrinix and TE Connectivity’s acquisition of Kries’ grid monitoring portfolio. Learn more: [link] pic.twitter.com/UbAIDqBu25 — Badger Meter (@Badger_Meter) January 5, 2023.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Aydin Investment Monitoring and Coordination Directorate (YIKOB) has approved Zorlu Geothermal’s request to convert the resource exploration licenses of Kuyucak and Nazilli geothermal fields in Aydin province into geothermal resource operating licenses. Zorlu Enerji has an installed capacity of 239.5

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2024

At the end of 2023, the UK government released the long-awaited Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation, which aims to introduce measures ensuring all new-build housing is ‘net zero ready’ by 2025. As we inch ever closer to 2035 and 2050 net zero targets, there is increasing pressure to decarbonise high-emitting sectors.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 1, 2024

Decentralisation, blockchain and AI, the future grid and the space race are some of the areas in which numerous advances have been made in 2023 and are set to continue during 2024. Over the course of 2023 – and indeed since its start in mid-2022 – this column has not been short of possible new and future technology content to feature.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Britain’s EDF has acquired the Chorley-based solar panel and battery installer Contact Solar as part of its strategy towards net zero. With the acquisition, energy supplier EDF is positioning itself to meet the expected take-up of solar panels as the demand increases, with projections indicating an up to 75% increase by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2022

New investment will support Exagen's plans to develop, own and operate 5GW+ of generation and energy storage capacity over the next 10 years. The €220m fund has invested £35m in renewables developer Exagen, with the funds set to support the development of a range of renewable and battery storage projects.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 25, 2023

Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS plc), an energy infrastructure company, has acquired the domestic services division of Manchester-based heat pump specialist Evergreen Energy, which imports and distributes European-made renewable energy products.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Celtic nation was one of the first in Europe to take green technologies seriously with the Centre for Alternative Technology opening and spearheading research back in the early 1970s. This culture of innovation continues today with companies like Riversimple springing up and making history with their hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2024

At the end of 2023, the UK government released the long-awaited Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation, which aims to introduce measures ensuring all new-build housing is ‘net zero ready’ by 2025. As we inch ever closer to 2035 and 2050 net zero targets, there is increasing pressure to decarbonise high-emitting sectors.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The rapid growth of renewables is key to unlocking a secure and affordable energy transition, but while we have seen investment in renewables nearly double since 2014, for grid modernisation it has barely changed , writes Matthew Boulton, Director of Solar, Storage and Private Wire at EDF Renewables UK. Have you read?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Additional €100bn for renewables, heat pumps, energy efficiency, and biomethane needed as EU faces 'sterner' gas supply test next year, IEA warns. The additional €100bn the IEA said is required to bolster Europe's clean, efficiency energy sources in 2023 amounts to less than a third of that mobilised by EU member states so far this year.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A programme of works by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) to install technology that helps ‘self-restore’ electricity supplies has reached a major milestone. The Automated Power Restoration System (APRS) enables the electricity network powering homes and businesses to ‘self-restore’. million ($3.72

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

SSEF, an EU-focused fund backed by the EIB and advised by Solas Capital AG, has reached final close with investment commitments of €220 million ($228.4 The fund targets energy efficiency and Behind-The-Meter (BTM) renewable energy investments for projects in the public and private sectors.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

billion) of investment planned. billion) for its gigafactories in Sweden, Germany and Poland with major strategic investment from its customer base along the way. One component of the green steel business case is access to Sweden’s ample renewable energy resources. billion ($3.04 million) is ready to close.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 18, 2022

Grid operator Liander and GIGA Storage, developers of large-scale battery systems, have started pilots in the Dutch cities Amsterdam, Alkmaar and Lelystad with large batteries to use the electricity grid more efficiently and give more parties access. The first results are expected in 2023.”. EASE recommendations on energy storage fees.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

From clean energy and nature investments to phasing down fossil fuels, We Mean Business Coalition's Maria Mendiluce offers her take on what corporate climate leadership should look like over the coming year. With 2023 coming up, we have just seven years left to halve emissions 2030 in line with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 3, 2023

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution has reached an important stage in delivering 12 low carbon tech projects, worth a total £41 million ($49 million), across the north of Scotland and central southern England, aiding a green recovery. SSEN’s 12 green recovery projects include: A £2.7 million ($3.2 million ($3.2

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

Latest round of reports on long-overdue energy independence plan suggest Number 10 and 11 continue to be at loggerheads over the cost of actions that could protect consumers from record energy bills.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Much of the media coverage about heat pumps features Mike Foster, a former Labour MP and the chief executive of the Energy and Utilities Association trade body.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 5, 2023

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances – the first of 2023 – sees S&P Global downgrade Elia Group and Eurogrid’s outlook from stable to negative while Indian transmission company Adani Group announces BSML – a smart metering subsidiary. Adani launches smart metering arm. million prepaid smart meters, 4.9

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

In this edition of Smart Energy Finance (SEF) Weekly, the US Senate is set to pass a new clean energy bill that boasts $369 billion into clean energy and energy security. 369 billion into US energy security and clean energy programmes. 369 billion into US energy security and clean energy programmes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

With households, businesses, and the government facing a challenging 2023, evidence continues to mount that an accelerated net zero transition could reverse the UK's worrying economic trends. Rishi Sunak certainly has a job on its hands in 2023. If nothing else, it could certainly do with a positive story to tell UK plc.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

The global stampede to develop clean energy sources has prompted a demand for ammonia analysers from the developers of engines that will be capable of using ammonia as a fuel. In November 2021 the European Commission published a report entitled: ‘Hydrogen: Europe’s Industry rolling out hydrogen projects on massive scale’.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

Conservative Environment Network calls for expansion of schemes for energy efficiency and heat pumps, alongside longer-term clarity to encourage green investment. If we act decisively now, we can insulate hundreds of thousands of fuel-poor homes to lower energy bills permanently," he said.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 24, 2024

Combined with a noticeable decline in political and economic support for the energy transition, the sector witnessed a standstill in the installation of new turbines, leading to financial losses, project cancellations, and auction failures. This achievement is nothing short of extraordinary, as wind energy generated nearly 2.5

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This week’s iteration of Smart Energy Finances looks to partnerships and sustainability bonds announced under the Enel umbrella. Their partnership will thus allow the company to develop new solutions and assist with the complexity of the evolving electricity grid. Jungle AI raises €5mn to deploy tech in renewable energy.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

A cutting-edge hydrogen fuel cell-based power plant recently switched on at a Japanese manufacturing plant could provide a decarbonisation template for other industrial sites to follow. The resulting power plant, which also includes a hydrogen storage tank, covers the entirety of the fuel cell factory's power needs.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

A medley of milestones for climate tech startups Conversations on Twitter and in climate chatrooms continue to have a doomerism-meets-pessimism tone, but over the last two weeks some cold, hard progress from climate tech startups working on geothermal energy, SAFs, and decarbonized cement is cutting through the gloom.

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AutoGrid

MARCH 15, 2023

What is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP)? By Peter Asmus, Director of Strategic Marketing Buzzwords are popping up in the new energy landscape, and chief among them is the term “virtual power plant” or VPP. Back in 2012, most VPPs did not include energy storage whereas today, storage is often viewed as a fundamental building block.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

Consider this an important first, a base to build further disclosure mandates off of, and a harbinger of the increasing politicization of investing and climate.  In deals there’s $283m for electrolyzers across two deals, $16m for energy efficient processors, and $11m for DAC.    Thanks for reading!

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. And it includes a broader range of titles, including some cool ones.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 31, 2023

Electric truck maker Rivian will test out customer willingness to pay for clean energy to power their EVs with a new “green charging bundle.” Meanwhile, July 2023 is the hottest month ever recorded. Happy Monday! In deals this week, smart EV charging nabs $33M.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The electric competition is head and shoulders above the legacy automakers and scrappy startups racing to turn EV strategies into production and deliveries, and the trends of Tesla in the US and BYD in China illustrate some of the larger geopolitical tensions in the EV supply chain. Earnings are expected to slip substantially in 2023.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In funds, Active Impact Investments and Congruent both launch their third funds.   The pledge also calls on international banks to include nuclear in energy lending policies to help finance project-killing infrastructure expenditures. Nuclear is having its moment in the sun.    Thanks for reading!

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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