Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Since the IRA passed, 265 clean energy and manufacturing projects worth $100B+ have been announced. 🔋 Renewables + storage turned out to be price competitive against fossil fuels after Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Electricity analysis included intermittency costs for the first time. Come on in, the water’s warm!

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

All that is needed is more political urgency, policy clarity, and real world action to mobilise investment, drive clean tech deployment, accelerate the transition. The broad sentiment of the report is that the government's existing Net Zero Strategy is already moving in broadly the right direction.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Are fats and oils the key to the aviation fuels of the future? Envirotec writes Many are betting on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) as the pathway to meeting ambitious net zero targets in the sector, with 2040 and 2050 being oft-cited deadlines. Biodiesel production in the laboratory. What is SAF? Destined for a back seat?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Nick Mabey, chief executive of climate and energy think tank E3G, said: "This ground-breaking report has revealed that a five-fold increase in finance is needed to get the UK on track to net-zero, rising from £10bn to £50bn a year. The Treasury must urgently set out a detailed finance plan to make it happen.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency. We need an industrial strategy that removes barriers to investment.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Responding to the criticism, Johnson said: "If you attack my arrival by plane, I respectfully point out that the UK is actually in the lead in developing sustainable aviation fuel. ScottishPower said the project was the first of its kind in the UK and is set to provide enough green power for up to 15,000 homes. "I

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The $500 billion city — complete with flying taxis and robotic domestic help — is being built from scratch and will be home to a million people. And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The plant is powered by 4 gigawatts from wind and solar projects that sprawl across the desert.

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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 Happy Monday! 

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Backed by funding and support from Generation Investment Management and Google, the project has been expanded to cover not just power plants, but all major sources of greenhouse gas pollution, according to Climate TRACE.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Backed by funding and support from Generation Investment Management and Google, the project has been expanded to cover not just power plants, but all major sources of greenhouse gas pollution, according to Climate TRACE.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

In his speech yesterday, Sunak extolled the virtues of the growing green economy, setting out a vision of a "future economy" dominated by offshore wind power, carbon capture and storage, innovative clean technologies, and "decent well-paid green jobs". If we want a better future economy, we have to make it happen," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

energy sector pathway". Fossil-based hydrogen must turn to credible, independent lifecycle emissions monitoring and regulation to meet a "high burden of proof" for inclusion in 1.5C In the UK, the government is still mulling the use of low carbon hydrogen for home heating. climate scenarios, it stresses.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

As with the EU's, the UK's cap and trade scheme covers large power plants, heavy industry, and domestic air travel, amounting to roughly 1,000 intensive energy users and 140 aircraft operators. No decisions have been taken on the expansion of the scheme.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Bringing together a raft of existing commitments made over the past year and a sprinkling of new targets and policies, the roadmap provides a 350-plus page deep-dive into how the government aims to deliver a more sustainable future for the transport, heating, power, building, and industrial sectors. Could the Treasury be 'starting to get it'?

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

How to divert energy flows from fossil to renewable using electricity and biomass Summary - Up to 20% of our energy needs could be met by sustainably harvested biomass, in particular food and agricultural waste, as well as manure. In part II we learned that the world needs 435 TWh of energy per day. Or is there?

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

The firm also published research showing that while 56 per cent of businesses increased their focus on cutting carbon emissions in 2019, a third said cost is still more important than carbon when it comes to energy purchasing decisions.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

In addition to celebrating the bill’s clean energy cost-cutting measures and job-creating potential, we are providing a few additional considerations and themes that are relevant to our portfolio and systems change work. The #1 thing keeping infrastructure investment dollars on the sidelines is uncertainty. Allume Energy , Transcend ).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sought to press home that climate and the environment were top priorities, marking the beginnings of an ambitious green recovery plan for the EU Council to and Parliament to scrap over. So how green is Europe's recovery likely to be?

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An historic climate summit in Nairobi last week underscored the need for drastic changes in climate finance and clean energy development. Leaders sought to position the continent’s renewables potential and mineral resources as climate investment opportunities and get nations on the same page ahead of COP28.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Deals of the Week (9/11-9/17) Venture Fundings 🔋 Verkor, a Grenoble, France-based battery manufacturer, raised $907M in Series C funding, alongside $640M in debt support from the European Investment Bank, and $693M of French subsidies. 🚗 UNITI, a Stockholm, Sweden-based EV company, raised $1.5M in funding from ARC Group.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

UK Export Finance hails transaction as 'biggest single investment' to date in a hydrogen-focused company, as new report from Wood Mackenzie predicts demand for hydrogen will soar 223-fold by 2050. Under the terms of the deal, the firm's progress against these goals is set to be independently monitored by a third party.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2022

Bakeries are energy-intensive and create excessive amounts of waste during the packaging and baking processes. And lastly, monitor the sales of your products. Deerfields give their surplus baked goods to homeless shelters as well as nursing homes. billion tonnes of CO 2e annually (which is 19x the commercial aviation industry).

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. For example, the UK has the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Department. Why industrial strategy?

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

A breakthrough in next-generation geothermal, industry approval for emissions-free cement, and the start of construction on a first commercial sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant illustrate progress and put the focus on execution moving forward. Meanwhile, extreme heat boils over into labor issues.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

August 2020 Cleantech Roundup: EV Charging Investments | Why Were Californians in the Dark? | This month, we’re talking about partnerships between automakers and electric vehicle charging companies, the recent rolling blackouts in California, and why cleantech investing today may fare better than a decade ago. Well, yes and no.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. Our usage has jumped 62 per cent over the course of a few decades — up from 61.6 And can any drop in oil usage happen quickly enough? (5)

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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. Overall, it was more positives than negatives. And then there's the legal side.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

Let’s discuss the energy provisions in the bill. The combined investments are aimed at putting the U.S. They represent the single biggest climate investment in U.S. Before reading through the bill, I like to get a feel for the kinds of energy programs it addresses. Investments in American Clean Energy Manufacturing.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters.   In deals this week $145m for lithium extraction, $52m for methane emissions detection, and $40m for sustainable aviation fuel.   In January, Longpath secured a $189m conditional US Department of Energy loan guarantee.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

A government spokesperson said the situation was being monitored closely. "We Moreover, writing in a Twitter thread this morning, Richard Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit think tank and a long-time observer of UN climate negotiations, warned the UK could not unilaterally postpone the Summit.

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