R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Last week’s article focused on the nine key elements of Joe Biden’s plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice. power sector by 2035. million new energy efficient homes.”. million new energy efficient homes.”. Energy efficiency will help, but in 2019 the U.S. power grid by 2050.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs. Since the IRA passed, 265 clean energy and manufacturing projects worth $100B+ have been announced. 💨 Private equity and O&G bet big on climate tech’s next frontiers: DAC and lithium. 👻 Spooky season for clean energy stocks. Send us a note ! 

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The Committee's overarching conclusion is both clear as day and extremely pertinent at the current geopolitical juncture: a net zero energy system is technologically, financially, and politically achievable within the 2035 timeframe, but the government simply cannot afford to waste anymore time in building it.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. (As Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. Storage is now largely being provided by lithium-ion batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

to meet the study’s assumptions of doubling its transmission network capacity and creating new interregional and cross-country links to shift clean energy from where it’s most efficiently generated to where it’s needed remains an open question. Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Energy & industry. Emerging climate technologies (ECT) – clean hydrogen, carbon management, and sustainable aviation fuels – experienced the highest Q4 growth at $4.3B, a 10X jump relative to Q4’22. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B of dollars put to work.  Manufacturing.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Credit: Rethink Electric Illinois Commits to 100% Clean Energy Illinois passed major climate policy in September, the first state in the Midwest to do so. Illinois joins more than a dozen other states that have legislated targets for 100% carbon-free energy, with several others who have put goals in place via executive orders.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

Post-Fukushima, governments cooled on nuclear energy, but recent shifts recognizing nuclear's role in achieving net zero goals have led to demand outpacing supply. At COP28 , 30 nations vowed to triple global nuclear energy production by 2050. More uranium deals were struck last year than in the past decade.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 5, 2020

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Hint: it is not sales. but is heartbreak inevitable?

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Saudi Arabian ACWA Power outlined a $4bn green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Egypt that could produce up to 600,000 tons of green ammonia per year. M&A Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) bought Fertiglobe for $3.6bn, the world’s largest maritime ammonia exporter, as part of its national green hydrogen strategy.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The United States can set a course to net-zero carbon by midcentury if it can radically overhaul its energy generation, transport, building and industrial sectors over the next decade, according to a major study from Princeton University. The Princeton study highlights the need for this kind of massive policy shift.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

utilities pledging to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, with a long-range plan that invests nearly $8 billion in renewable energy and accelerates some coal plant closures — although it will retain much of its coal fleet through 2040. Ameren has joined the ranks of U.S. Ameren joins a growing list of U.S. GW by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Duke Energy’s third-quarter earnings report on Thursday revealed success in managing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on its multistate utility operations. Historically, energy policy in North Carolina has moved in a bipartisan way," she said.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The pledge also calls on international banks to include nuclear in energy lending policies to help finance project-killing infrastructure expenditures. Nuclear is having its moment in the sun. Italy installed its National Platform for Sustainable Nuclear Power in September.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

Jigar Shah has decades of experience bringing clean energy technologies to commercial scale. As CEO and co-founder of SunEdison, he helped pioneer the solar power-purchase agreement (PPA) model now central to the industry. This week, U.S.

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