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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. Somerville, Mass., and Houston, Texas, Sept. Somerville, Mass.,

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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. Somerville, Mass., Somerville, Mass., NRG Energy, Inc. , a Fortune 500 company, brings the power of energy to millions of customers across the U.S.

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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.

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TotalEnergies Joins Greentown Labs as a Terawatt Partner

Greentown Labs

23, 2024 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech incubator in North America, today announced global multi-energy company TotalEnergies as its newest Terawatt Partner—the highest level of engagement with the incubator. With incubators in Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Jan. billion in funding.

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Santa Monica To Pilot Zero Emissions Delivery Zones

LA CleanTech Incubator

The city of Santa Monica’s main business district has been chosen as the pilot for the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator’s new Neighborhood Zero Emissions Delivery Zone.