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Sense Delivers Insight into Home Energy Usage

Greentown Labs

If your house could talk to you about your energy usage, what would it say? The creators of Sense think it would say you could reduce your energy usage by at least 20 percent—and tell you how. Sense is a home energy monitor that gives real-time insight into your home’s energy usage.

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GreenCom Lands Funding to Expand IoT Home Energy Controls in Europe and Beyond

GreenTechMedia

GreenCom Networks, the Internet-of-things platform provider that’s become a go-to for major European utilities to control solar panels, batteries, electric vehicle chargers and smart home energy loads, has landed another funding round with two new strategic investors that could open new markets. million customers.

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ConnectDER Draws Investment from Avista in Latest Funding Round

GreenTechMedia

ConnectDER, a startup with a smart meter socket device that’s been deployed in the thousands by select U.S. utilities to support distributed solar, has closed a $7 million series B round round to help roll out a new version of its system targeting behind-the-meter batteries and plug-in electric cars.

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A Vibrant Cleantech Startup Ecosystem Takes Root in India

GreenTechMedia

Several floors below the firm’s balcony, power lines crisscross over piles of garbage, a fleet of rickshaws and cow patties on a rooftop, being dried for cooking fuel. ” Rapid growth in India’s renewable energy sector is driving demand for new technologies to modernize the country’s power sector.

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Via Separations Tackles Manufacturing’s Exorbitant Thermal Energy Usage

Greentown Labs

The longer it takes, the more energy it uses. Filtration membranes aren’t sturdy enough for chemical separations, so immense amounts of thermal energy are used. Plastic and paper and fertilizers aren’t going away, and the embodied energy and embodied emissions for that are really significant,” she adds. Build a better membrane.

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What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019

GreenTechMedia

Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of “storing clean power for when the sun isn’t shining.” A few states that wanted to incubate storage industries of their own proved that sharp policy really can create new markets in relatively short periods of time. Storage comes to the South.

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Petroleum Engineer Turned Climatetech Founder’s Take On the Energy Transition: ‘All I See is Opportunity’

Greentown Labs

She persevered through college while running a chocolate business to support her family, and went on to spend 25 years in the energy industry, working her way from a drilling engineer at bp to various positions at Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, and Halliburton before becoming president and CEO of Evaluation & Optimization at GE.