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Technology Trending: The metering edition – 100 million smart meters, smart meter data in Japan, Kaifa

Smart Energy International

100 million smart meters and counting by Gridspertise, a new era for smart meter data in Japan and Kaifa going OSGP and Sigfox are on the week’s technology radar. 100 million smart meters and counting by Gridspertise, a new era for smart meter data in Japan and Kaifa going OSGP and Sigfox are on the week’s technology radar.

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Span, Smart Electrical Panel Startup, Lands LG Chem as Battery Partner

GreenTechMedia

has a major new partner to bring its sleek, sensored and circuit-by-circuit remote-controllable electrical panels to market: lithium-ion battery giant LG Chem. On Thursday, LG Chem launched its new new " customizable backup ” solar-storage offering, which includes its RESU home batteries and a Span smart panel.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! The startup is participating in Go Build 2023.

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Schneider Electric Unveils the Energy Center for Distributed-Energy-Enabled Homes

GreenTechMedia

Homes need a lot more digital smarts nowadays to manage rooftop solar, backup batteries and electric vehicle chargers. It’s nice if those distributed energy resources (DERs) can be integrated with household electrical load controls via smartphone or Alexa or Google voice-activated devices.

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A Blockchain-Enabled Smart Meter for Clean Power Trading?

GreenTechMedia

Blockchain’s energy sector uses range from the highly speculative—think peer-to-peer energy trading using cryptocurrency raised in initial coin offerings (ICOs)—to more incremental efforts, grounded in real-world challenges of operating an increasingly decentralized power grid. are testing it out.

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Behind-the-Meter Battery Pioneer Stem to Take SPAC Route to Public Markets

GreenTechMedia

Stem, the decade-old behind-the-meter battery startup that was seeking a buyer earlier this year to bolster its growth ambitions, is now launching a plan to go public via a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) reverse merger. Friday’s announcement names Star Peak Energy Transition Corp. and abroad. and abroad.

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Span’s $20M Round Adds Alexa Integration to its Smart Home Electrical Panel

GreenTechMedia

Smart home electrical panel, meet voice-activated home controls. That’s the connection being made by San Francisco-based startup Span.IO Those include a subset of home energy management systems, such as smart thermostat provider Ecobee and wireless energy sensor startup Tado.