GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Batteries aren’t dead when they come to the end of their useful life in an electric vehicle. Reused or “second-life” lithium-ion batteries still have a lot of juice left in them, but so far the concept of using these batteries in stationary applications has yet to gain real market traction.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 11, 2021

Homes need a lot more digital smarts nowadays to manage rooftop solar, backup batteries and electric vehicle chargers. It’s nice if those distributed energy resources (DERs) can be integrated with household electrical load controls via smartphone or Alexa or Google voice-activated devices.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 22, 2024

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Department of Energy.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Climatetech startups receiving funding, partnering with key stakeholders, and deploying their tech around the world! Form Energy closed a $240M Series D , which will accelerate the market entry of its multi-day, cost-effective energy storage technology. American Battery Technology Company closed a $39.1M funding round.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

By Frank Jossi, Energy News Network. A wave of pilot programs by Minnesota electric cooperatives is saving customers money and providing useful data for larger utilities considering new technology and pricing models to encourage grid efficiency. Today, 44 member-owned electric co-ops serve about 1.7

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

rooftop solar installer, finalized two utility partnerships to turn home batteries into miniature power plants. Participants will receive $250 for letting Sunrun control their batteries based on signals from SCE. That’s a central proposition of visions for a decentralized, digital electric grid.

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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. Recent regulations have driven investment in space, air, and ground-based monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technologies. In January, Longpath secured a $189m conditional US Department of Energy loan guarantee.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. Photoncycle, a startup from Norway, is tackling interseason storage of solar energy, which could save the abundance of solar energy generated in sunny months to be used for heat and electricity in the winter.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sixteen startups joined our community Q4 2023, working on innovations as diverse as low-emission steel production, hydrogen electrolyzers, and lightweight, flexible solar panels. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! The startup was previously a Greentown Go Energize 2022 participant.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

Smart home electrical panel, meet voice-activated home controls. That’s the connection being made by San Francisco-based startup Span.IO Those include a subset of home energy management systems, such as smart thermostat provider Ecobee and wireless energy sensor startup Tado.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Why can’t you get an accurate, fact-based online quote for a rooftop solar system, backup battery or electric vehicle charger as easily as getting a quote on, say, a mortgage refinancing or home insurance policy? electric customers now have smart meters, which could open data-sharing opportunities across the country.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 6, 2020

Over the past decade, Geli has seen its software put to use to design, install and operate megawatts of grid-connected and behind-the-meter battery and microgrid projects. Batteries are becoming an increasingly valuable addition to distributed solar projects, and that's true both for homeowners and some commercial customers.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 18, 2020

In the first of a three-part series, Greentech Media's Julian Spector looks at implications and lessons from last year's APS battery fire. The McMicken fire set off a series of shadow investigations, as battery suppliers, developers and customers pieced together evidence to identify the risks posed by their own systems.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 4, 2020

Brooklyn startup David Energy on Wednesday announced a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round, as it looks to transform into an energy retailer that helps customers get more value out of their solar and storage systems. Lining up against the giants.

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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!

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

EDF Renewables has acquired PowerFlex Systems , a California startup with technology to manage one of the biggest challenges for scaling up electric vehicle charging: controlling the loads that lots of EVs charging at once can place on the power infrastructure of the sites hosting the chargers. European acquisition spree.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2024

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees three load shifting investments take centre stage as demand response becomes a more notable priority for utilities the world over. 120 million for Swell Energy’s VPP suite. 120 million for Swell Energy’s VPP suite.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2023

More and higher resolution data on Britain’s energy system is the demand of users of National Grid Electricity Distribution’s ‘presumed open’ datasets. In conjunction with the currently available data, data users were also requesting National Grid Electricity Distribution about making more data openly available. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

Sunrun is landing contract after contract to put solar-charged residential batteries to work serving grid needs. On Thursday, it picked Silicon Valley energy management software startup AutoGrid to help it optimize this growing fleet. ” Fleets of batteries, meet optimization software.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

#Greentown10 is a celebration of the startups, partners, ecosystem collaborators, and other climate champions who have worked together over Greentown’s first decade. Both startups and corporates have enormous roles to play in tackling the climate crisis, and their impact is most significant when they work together.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Iron flow battery startup ESS raised an additional $30 million to take its technology from pilots to commercial scale. Since 2011, the company has been developing a low-cost, nonflammable long-duration storage technology to compete across domains where the dominant lithium-ion battery chemistries are weaker.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

-based ConnectDER, is a meter collar adapter that plugs into the socket where electrical meters connect to buildings. Con Edison is in the final stages of deploying smart meters to its approximately 1.3 million customers, but those only measure net household loads, not what’s happening behind the meter.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And in energy circles, one of the biggest buzzwords in recent years is the virtual power plant, or VPP. But VPPs have really taken off in the last 10 years, not just as a concept but as something that a growing number of energy companies are creating, using and commercializing. Another difference concerns markets and regulation.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Berrien is from a small Pennsylvania town, where her family experienced energy poverty. As an adult, she went into the energy industry—a decision, she explains, that she didn’t realize was fueled by her previous experiences with energy. She worked for several utilities and then a few cleantech startups.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Span.IO, the San Francisco-based startup that makes a smart home electrical panel that can track and control behind-the-meter batteries, rooftop solar inverters, EV chargers and other key household loads via smartphone, has landed a $10.2 Leading U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Innovate UK KTN has chosen 13 startups to participate in its sustainability accelerator programme. All building innovation led companies to deliver profitable and equitable outcomes for our world. The 13 companies are: Achelous Energy – Generating 100% carbon-free energy, 24-hours a day, from fast flowing rivers.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 14, 2021

Ten years ago, Greentown began when four startups decided to split the cost of rent and resources. On Earth Day 2021, Greentown Houston opens its doors to a new ecosystem of entrepreneurs who are tackling our biggest climate challenges and shaping the energy transition. Electricity. Agtech + Water.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

’s novel approach to enlisting rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries, electric vehicle chargers and grid-responsive appliances as an integral part of its power grids. First, they’ve built up the technology to monitor and manage these distributed energy resources (DERs) at a large scale.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 21, 2023

Eighteen startups joined our community in the first months of 2023, working on innovations as diverse as an ammonia-based energy system, sneakers made from food waste, and nano-filters that reduce energy consumption in chemical separations. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

ConnectDER, a startup with a smart meter socket device that’s been deployed in the thousands by select U.S. utilities to support distributed solar, has closed a $7 million series B round round to help roll out a new version of its system targeting behind-the-meter batteries and plug-in electric cars.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As the energy transition and electrification of mobility drive the explosive demand for batteries, Christophe Mazeaud, director of Battery Industry Solution , Siemens Digital Industries Software, discusses the key role that a holistic quality program plays in scaling and stabilizing battery production.

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Charged

MAY 7, 2024

The Ram ProMaster is a Fiat design dating to 2014, but it now offers an up-to-date electric powertrain. In January, Stellantis said its Ram truck brand would start selling the ProMaster EV, a battery-electric model of the ProMaster van that it restyled and updated for 2023. Got all that?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Vermont utility Green Mountain Power not only verified the efficacy of residential batteries for meeting grid needs, it saved its customers millions of dollars with them. It already has not a couple hundred, but 2,567 utility-controlled Powerwall batteries sitting in customer homes, adding up to around 13 megawatts.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But a segment of the grid edge industry has been trying to achieve that for years, installing controllable devices at homes and businesses that can work together to help the grid. Though small individually, distributed energy resources are projected to grow to 387 gigawatts in the next five years , according to research by Wood Mackenzie.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Home battery storage has grown precipitously in recent years, but it still doesn’t match the scale and accessibility of a home appliance. Now, the Wyoming-based startup is preparing to ship its sleek, plug-in home battery panels in July for field tests in Australia, Europe and the U.K., A full U.S. A full U.S. kilowatts/2.2

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