Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex.   Wholesale power markets serve two primary functions: 1.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Grid technology company Reactive Technologies has launched Tradenergy, a software tool and analytics platform with the aim of providing short-term energy traders real-time insights into grid events such as generation or interconnector trips. This is driven by international gas shortages and reduced availability of French nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

will lay the foundations for a flexibility platform encompassing centralized and decentralized assets — the latest step in the country's push to enlist distributed energy resources (DERs) at grand scale to balance an increasingly renewable-powered grid. A new active network management project in the U.K. DNOs in the U.K.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

UK consumers are set to pay up-front for the construction of a fresh fleet of large-scale nuclear power plants through their energy bills under a new financing model unveiled by the government today, which looks set to provide a key building block of its plans to deliver a net zero energy system.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. Figure 1: U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

The government has set out the UK's plans to accelerate the charging network rollout to help transition to zero emission vehicles, committing to 300,000 public electric vehicle (EV) charge points by 2030. But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs? But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs?

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The real time energy monitoring app, which is provided by Finnish smart tech specialist Wärtsilä, reveals that Germany hit 58 per cent renewable generation throughout May as a share of total electricity supply, while the UK averaged a 48 per cent renewables share.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision. gigawatts by 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

Solar prices hit record-lows, firmly ousting coal as the cheapest source of electricity. The government held creative auctions designed to facilitate adding greater amounts of intermittent renewables on the grid. “All of this will require substantial investment in a modern, flexible electricity system.”

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

He said his administration would “build and install a network of 500,000 charging stations along our existing and new highways” so electric vehicles (EVs) can displace gasoline. This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric has asked California regulators to approve seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7 gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, to meet its share of a statewide procurement that must be brought online by late next year to assure statewide grid stability.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

National Grid's 7,660-kilometre transmission system plays a critical role in the UK energy landscape, transporting the gas needed to heat homes and power industry and electricity generation. In total, the firm estimates the subsea cable enables the UK to import enough clean electricity to power around one million homes. "By

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Their price will vary depending on international changes to energy supply and demand as well as major economic and political events. Russia is a significant producer and exporter of oil and gas, with 32 per cent of the EU's gas demand in 2021 having come from Russia.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid. Of that, about $7.8

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

But the Business Secretary emphasised that the Cumbria mine would produce coking coal for use in industrial manufacturing, and not for generating electricity from coal power plants, arguing steelmaking required coal in the short term and that it would be better for the climate to source such coal from the UK rather than abroad.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. The Biden administration’s goal is to have a carbon emissions-free grid by 2035. The foundation of this transition is a dramatic change in the electric grid itself.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

That is the headline finding from the latest edition of the Energy Climate and Intelligence Unit's (ECIU) Winter Power Tracker , which found that renewables have produced 2TWh more electricity than gas over the winter months to date. million homes' gas use for the entire winter, or 78 tankers of liquified natural gas (LNG).

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Energy giant Drax has long maintained that a proposed BECCS plant at its power station in North Yorkshire can play a crucial role in delivering on the UK's net zero ambitions by generating electricity with negative emissions. As a result, Drax is entirely reliant on public subsidy to operate."

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the critical lessons for business, investors, and the government if the UK is to build a decarbonised power system by 2035 When the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has something to say, it is usually well worth listening. The CCC's analysis tested the resilience of a zero carbon grid very strenuously indeed.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

electricity supply from solar by 2050. Robins Air Force Base Solar Project (Courtesy: E Light Electric). The 128 MW Robins Air Force Base Solar Project is owned by Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, and is located adjacent to the Robins Air Force Base. The project was Georgia power's sixth working with the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

transmission grid will play a key role in decarbonizing the country’s electricity system. wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. ” Breaking down transmission’s costs and benefits.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. What are the models for how behind-the-meter solar-battery systems can serve grid needs? It breaks ground on multiple fronts.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 11, 2022

million) for nine projects to oversee the digitisation and modernisation of Romania’s transmission network and power grid. The contracts were signed yesterday between the country’s Ministry of Energy and the national electric power transport company, Transelectrica SA. 9 grid modernisation projects. million ($411.8

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Energy Monitor Construction Nuclear Power Investment 52

Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

What the bill means for electricity providers. The bill provides a historic amount of money for climate change mitigation that is billed as helping electric utilities deliver cleaner energy including money for energy efficiency, electric vehicles (EVs), home and business electrification, plus tax credits for renewable energy developers.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis.”’ Many utilities began to lose natural gas supplies just as power demand was reaching record highs.

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Natural gas Demand Nuclear Power Batteries 148

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The catastrophic breakdown of Texas’ natural gas and electricity system last week lacks a single villain to blame for it all. Freezing instrumentation and cooling systems caused outages at coal plants and one of Texas’s nuclear power plants, as well as at natural-gas plants.

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Natural gas Power grid Retail Demand 130

Bidgely

MARCH 3, 2021

In the hours immediately following the power failure in Texas in which power grids operated by ERCOT, SPP and MISO were crippled, critics were quick to point the finger at renewable energy as the cause. DERs are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem. household for two days.

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Bidgely

MARCH 3, 2021

In the hours immediately following the power failure in Texas in which power grids operated by ERCOT, SPP and MISO were crippled, critics were quick to point the finger at renewable energy as the cause. DERs are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem. household for two days.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Inevitably, the Italian former politician's in-tray has been dominated by the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global energy system, and all at a time when the transition to cleaner sources of electricity has continued to gather pace. The fact is that new nuclear cannot be effective in this decade - perhaps later," La Camera said. "So

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. Nuclear power will receive $6.6 Another $2.36

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

A decade ago, Marc Andreessen shared his software-only approach, emphasizing “No clean tech, no rocket ships, no electric cars. Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including the Power Grid Failures Credit: Ron Jenkins / Getty Images People had a bad time in Texas when extreme weather created demand and supply shocks which led to rolling blackouts.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. Why winterization efforts have fallen short.

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