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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. Cheap electricity will increase access to clean water. Tom Baruch.

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Greentown Labs Announces Location of New Incubator in Houston’s Innovation District

Greentown Labs

North America’s largest climatetech incubator will expand to Houston’s Innovation District to accelerate the clean energy transition and reveals Microsoft, Rice Management Company, Saint-Gobain, Direct Energy, Naturgy, and FCC Environmental Services as additional partners. mixed-use space that anchors the Innovation District.

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3 ways companies are signaling for climate innovation

EDF + Business

Although the private sector’s willingness to act on climate has never been stronger, there nevertheless remains a sizable innovation gap in realizing the corporate commitments aligned with the Paris Agreement. Beta Technologies, one of their portfolio companies, develops electric aircraft technology for cargo and logistics.

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Greentown Labs Opens its Houston Incubator on Earth Day

Greentown Labs

Houston’s first-ever climatetech incubator hosts its outdoor, hybrid Grand Opening event and ribbon cutting ceremony featuring Houston Mayor Turner and other regional energy leaders. in the innovation district being developed by Rice Management Company, Greentown Houston provides more than 40,000 sq. Somerville, Mass.,

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Greentown Go Energize 2023 with Vineyard Wind and MassCEC Announces Startup Cohort with Innovations for Responsible Offshore Wind Development

Greentown Labs

and Houston, Texas, June 28, 2023 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech incubator in North America, and Vineyard Wind , developer of the first utility-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, today announce five startup participants for Greentown Go Energize 2023.

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Former Volvo Trucks exec launches electric truck startup

Charged

The new company, which is located at a business incubation center in Fairlawn, Virginia, offers customized engineering and manufacturing expertise for electric trucks. TrovaCV will offer its industrial model and manufacturing capability to other commercial vehicle OEMs, and also develop its own fully electric vehicle.

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The 5 Most Promising Long-Duration Storage Technologies Left Standing

GreenTechMedia

Long duration energy storage holds great potential for a world in which wind and solar power dominate new power plant additions and gradually overtake other sources of electricity. Wind and solar only produce at certain times, so they need a complementary technology to help fill the gaps. Pumped hydro. Stacked blocks.