Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

New blockchain startup CarbonEnfo hits the market running, the ChatGPT fusion ‘ambassador’ and a graphene nanotube facility in development in Europe for EV batteries are on the week’s technology radar. To support it along the way, it has joined up as a validator to the Energy Web ecosystem. Have you read?

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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. These include the need for significant and urgent investments, in Europe for example an estimated €584 billion ($641 billion) by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at an investment round for Neara, an Australian company that has developed a platform that uses AI to help utilities design networks, enhance wildfire and vegetation management programmes and bring renewable projects online faster. million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. For the birds. Now with funding of $4.3

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. We already have demonstrated the efficacy of investments directed to electrical distribution, water, transportation and renewable energy.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 22, 2022

Have you read: Smart energy finance weekly European Investment Bank approves €4 billion in smart energy financing. 22m VC investment funnelled into Sympower. million) investment round from a group of five venture capital (VC) funds to finance growth in low carbon grid-balancing services. Image courtesy Powin.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 7, 2024

As part of its technology portfolio, Shell invests in net-zero-carbon and carbon-removal technologies to mitigate and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. We were introduced to the right groups to find near-term commercial opportunities and investment.”

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Topl , a Greentown alum, raised a $15M Series A for its blockchain ecosystem that helps companies track and monetize social impact initiatives. Energy Dome closed an $11M convertible round to accelerate the commercial development of its CO 2 battery. Department of Energy’s Battery Recycling Prize. Deployments + Partnerships.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 14, 2021

Eclipse Solar Projects finances, develops, owns, and operates utility-scale solar projects in North America through newly developed technology and potential battery storage operations. Black Mountain Metals is a global battery metals mining company, specifically focused on sustainable nickel and copper mining for lithium-ion battery cathodes.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

” In practice, a VPP can be made up of multiple units of a single type of asset, such as a battery or a device in a demand response program, or a heterogeneous mix of assets. Households taking part in the VPP experiment get a battery purchase rebate or are paid $20 or $40 a month for use of existing batteries.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Technology like artificial intelligence (AI), sensors and blockchain are enabling companies to provide cutting-edge products and services for consumers – from virtual gyms to smart water dispensers – and increase operational efficiency as they do. It’s changed how we communicate, shop, travel, to how we get the food on our plate.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

IBM has spent the past decade advancing smart meter and digital grid technologies around the world, including playing a key role in designing the "Smart Grid Maturity Model" that helped guide investment strategies for hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. GTM: What do you see as the biggest opportunities that will come out of this?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Arrival, Octopus Energy, ITM Power, and OVO have been named among the leading lights of the UK's most valuable tech start-ups in a fresh analysis released today by the government, which estimates the country's top 12 'impact unicorns' have together attracted £2bn in investment over the past year.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2020

One company, Delta Electronics, said it could run its operations off battery power in order to ease the strain on the grid. “The capital investment required for setting up VPPs varies with the primary use of assets that provide flexible capacity,” Andreoli explained.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 27, 2024

It envisions an ideal scenario in which the profits of Bitcoin mining are used to invest in clean hydrogen production and renewable energy. “It Bitcoin mines are data farms filled with specialized hardware that solve computational puzzles around the clock for a chance to validate new transactions on the blockchain.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Acelerex pairs clean energy and storage technologies with proprietary software innovations of AI, IoT devices, blockchain, big data, data mining, cloud computing, and real time optimization algorithms. Moment Energy provides affordable and reliable energy storage by repurposing retired electric vehicle batteries. Electricity.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2020

In this lab, innovative digital technologies for concrete applications in the energy industry will be tested through 2022 as part of the federal government’s blockchain strategy.”. In this case, particularly high investment costs have so far inhibited AI from contributing to an integrated and stable energy system.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As of December 2023, there are more than 150,000 EVs registered in Ontario, including both battery-electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). By 2030, there are expected to be more than one million EVs on the road in Ontario.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 11, 2021

Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! MANUFACTURING. ELECTRICITY.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A post-2025 market design consultation paper from the Energy Security Board (ESB) and the Coordination of Generation and Transmission Investment report from the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) are “important inputs,” said Energy Networks Australia.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Additionally: bp announces $60 million investment into an EV R&D facility; E.ON bp injects £50m into global battery R&D centre. bp has unveiled plans to invest up to £50 million ($60 million) in an electric vehicle (EV) battery testing centre and analytical laboratory in the UK. Courtesy bp.

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

January 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Cleantech Investor Trends |The Wide World of Electric Vehicles |Policy Targets and Bullseyes It’s a new year, but before we leave 2020 too far behind this month we’re touching on some data from 2020 on cleantech investing and on electric vehicle adoption. Let’s get into it! One interesting tidbit?—?their

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Charged

JULY 9, 2020

The emergence of non-utility market participants is being enabled by four forces that have begun to converge: advances in information and communications technologies; the movement towards sharing economies; new business models and ownership models; and blockchain-encrypted transaction systems. EV warranties could be cancelled by OEMs.

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

January Cleantech Roundup: Corporations Claim Their Carbon | How Public Chargers Influence Electric Vehicle Adoption | Investor Climate Initiatives Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Link Clayton Christenson. EV startup Arrival.

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Better Ventures

APRIL 21, 2020

Nan Li [link] When I first met Nan, I was impressed by the way his low key, youthful, self-effacing demeanor belies an expansive intellect, shrewd investment style and worldliness that’s rare in venture investing. In one breath he will reference topics from Blockchain to autonomous vehicles to Adam Smith.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Black Mountain Metals is a global battery metals mining company, specifically focused on sustainable nickel and copper mining for lithium-ion battery cathodes. Applied Bioplastics’ thermoplastic replacement displaces 30 percent of the petrochemical content, resulting in a noticeable reduction in carbon footprint.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

When deployed together with electricity storage systems such as uninterruptible power supply (UPS) batteries, organizations can further reduce facility operating costs and in some cases, earn additional revenue through participation in the energy market. Have you read? $38 ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 31, 2020

It will use blockchain technology to leverage photovoltiacs, batteries, electric vehicles and water heating in a micro-grid supplying 100% renewable power to a community of 36 homes. Australia is already a global leader in uptake of solar generation and battery storage. They are also doing well in smart city technologies.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In order to take advantage of dynamic grid fee models, the flexibility in the system must be increased, rewarding those that invest in renewable and especially flexible resources while providing a reasonable level of protection for inflexible consumers.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

“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.”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Less advertised around that time, the company unveiled details about its new modular vehicle platform and Ultium batteries , designed to lower EV prices and allow a 400-mile range fully charged. It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 Christophe Beck, CEO, Ecolab; St.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 30, 2018

This is my attempt at an "explainer" on blockchain, describing it as simply as I can, and exploring how it may help build the clean grid. Blockchain is everywhere — at least when you’re talking about media coverage. In short, in the words of a recent Wired overview of the technology , blockchain creates “tamperproof databases.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But as EV sales have begun to take off around the world, driven in part by more eco-minded consumers, so questions have increasingly been asked just how environmentally-friendly the supply chain, materials, construction, and use of battery powered cars really is.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Since then, we've gone on to become an important player in the UK renewables market, with a portfolio that includes wind, solar, grid-stability and battery projects as well as being the leading provider of short and long-term PPAs in the UK.". We plan for Fortress to play its part in helping to improve energy independence for the UK.".

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. We already have demonstrated the efficacy of investments directed to electrical distribution, water, transportation and renewable energy.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. We already have demonstrated the efficacy of investments directed to electrical distribution, water, transportation and renewable energy.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Conference Buyers Guide: An Introduction to Purchasing Carbon Offsets (Workshop):Offsets can help companies reduce their carbon footprints and drive much-needed investment to projects that lower emissions or draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But not all offsets are created equal. Yet forest projects come with challenges.

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