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Greentown Labs, Saint-Gobain, and MassCEC Announce the Healthy Buildings Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

Enerbrain (Torino, Italy) develops a Plug&Play IoT solution ready for the market that monitors and controls heating, cooling, and ventilation systems in buildings to make them smarter, healthier, and more sustainable thanks to AI and IoT technologies. Somerville, Mass., 6, 2021; a recording of the event can be viewed here. . ###.

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Interview – Celsius Energy and decarbonizing buildings using shallow geothermal systems

ThinkGeoEnergy

Heating and cooling buildings accounts for about a third of the final energy consumption globally and 30% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. With global temperatures rising, the need for cooling is expected to increase dramatically in the next few years. Heating and cooling buildings is 80% of that energy used.

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DOE Clean Energy Programs Vital to American Innovation, Competitiveness?—?and Jobs

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

As Steve told me recently, the most energy efficient heating and cooling system known to exist are geothermal HVAC systems. He’s about to open a new headquarters building outside of Cincinnati to house current and future employees, creating some local construction jobs in the meantime. solar, energy efficiency, geothermal?—?to

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The 5 Most Promising Long-Duration Storage Technologies Left Standing

GreenTechMedia

The problem is, it’s extremely difficult to build new pumped-hydro storage plants, due to the permitting implications of large water-based infrastructure and recent difficulty in executing massive construction projects in general. The company’s mechanism cools down air and stores it in pressurized, above-ground tanks.

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? Macro market freeze chills climate tech: Venture funding down 40% in H1 2023

Climate Tech VC

ABB E-mobility and Zeekr are spin-offs and Northvolt was incubated by Vargas Holding. The Exceptions Growth funding in these mature verticals may have dropped off, but Transportation and Energy still dominate when it comes to megadeals. Of note, many of these giant deals went to companies that took a non-traditional startup development path.

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Houston’s Energy Transition Ecosystem Convenes for Climatetech Summit 2021

Greentown Labs

Five months after Houston’s climatetech ecosystem gathered to celebrate the Grand Opening of Greentown Houston, it reconvened for a deep dive into empowering the technologies of tomorrow that are being developed right at the incubator. Happening simultaneously at Greentown Houston, Greentown HQ, and via livestream on Nov.

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? Ammonia goes from fertilizer to fuel #180

Climate Tech VC

BYD began construction of the largest 30 GWh sodium-ion battery facility for small EVs in Xuzhou, China. Meanwhile, nuclear demand heightened with the UK Government laying out its plan to quadruple nuclear power by 2050 to 24GW and China approving construction for four new reactors. Wildfire smoke is killing killer whales.