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10 Victories for Virtual Power Plants in 2020

GreenTechMedia

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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Using Solar to Displace Fossil Fuels for Process Heat in Industrial Facilities

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Industrial facilities will be among the most difficult emitters to decarbonize. The industrial sector — everything from factories to food producers to oil refiners — accounts for one-third of U.S. primary energy demand, according to the Department of Energy. industrial sector primary energy consumption.

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Canada’s e-Zn Raises Millions to Commercialize Long-Duration Zinc Energy Storage

GreenTechMedia

Canadian startup e-Zn has raised money to store clean energy far longer than currently available batteries allow, using cheap and abundant zinc. E-Zn used an earlier CAD $700,000 SDTC grant to build a demonstration that paired the zinc storage with a solar array. That builds on a CAD $3.4

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Will Your EV Keep the Lights on When the Grid Goes Down?

GreenTechMedia

Last month’s preventative power shutoffs in California highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to threats exacerbated by a changing climate. But what about the mobile battery packs carried in the hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles now on the road in California?

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Can EDF Make Big Money in Small-Scale Renewables?

GreenTechMedia

The world’s leading nuclear power generator is betting big on a future of small-scale, distributed energy. How it fares in the distributed space will be of great interest to other 20th-century energy giants feeling their way toward a transformed, low-carbon future. nuclear plants that it's now moving to sell.

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This is climate tech

Business Green

The stunning array of technologies emerging to decarbonize the world and make it more habitable for flora, fauna and humans goes far beyond cleantech 2.0. economy, more than 200 US startups have cut thousands of jobs. Since mid-March, as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic infected certain sectors of the U.S.

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? Climate highs and lows #167

Climate Tech VC

Drought conditions are causing saltwater to creep into the drinking water of communities along the Mississippi River, and the DOE puts $325M toward long-duration energy storage projects. Sunak also disbanded the home Energy Efficiency Taskforce , created earlier this year, which was designed to hasten home insulation and boiler upgrades.