GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A few reasons: Battery materials are very valuable, and a lot of money is invested into pulling those metals out of the ground. After electric car batteries aren't very good at moving a car anymore, they can be taken and used for other applications, such as for the power grid, potentially for several years.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2024

The smart grid, of course, refers to any tech integrating into the power grid – a vast array of applications. EV charging is but one of these applications, clearly drawing in a significant amount of corporate dollars to boost its innovations.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 13, 2021

The modern, renewable energy-rich power grid is an increasingly complicated machine to model. That’s the genesis of Pearl Street Technologies ’ approach to analyzing the complexities of power flows and planning parameters for the transmission grid. The new investment will add to$1.8

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

Startup FreeWire Technologies raised another $25 million to commercialize its electric car chargers, which are designed to reduce the infrastructural costs of installation. BP Ventures led the round, which attracted new investors Energy Innovation Capital and ABB Technology Ventures.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex. In the UK, there is one main grid covering England, Scotland, and Wales.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

million) funding round adds new investors Shell Ventures and Japan’s Energy & Environment Investment Inc. Energy & Environment Investment, an investment fund backed by major Japanese utilities and manufacturers including Mitsubishi, opens the potential for partnerships in Japan, he added. million customers.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“We’re seeing the technology increasingly ready, and capital increasingly eager to invest in sustainability” via fleet electrification, Andy Darrell, EDF’s chief of global energy and finance strategy, said in an interview. ” Risk management, financing models for private-sector EV fleet investments.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Karine Kleinhaus and Andrew Howell, CFA Oil and gas companies, federal agencies, and ambitious start-ups are coming together around innovation in geothermal energy that could give it a foundational role in the emerging clean power grid. The FORGE initiative field site in Milford, Utah.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

’s novel approach to enlisting rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries, electric vehicle chargers and grid-responsive appliances as an integral part of its power grids. Opus One is also an existing partner in SSEN’s Project Merlin , a large-scale modeling of the economic impacts of DERs on future grid plans.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

Willis said that datacenters are the primary source of Microsoft’s emissions, but they have pledged to power their datacenter operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025. To address historical emissions, they launched a $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund that invests in global carbon reduction, capture and removal technologies. .

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric are expected to collectively spend more than $15 billion to reduce the threat of wildfires caused by their power grids through 2022. ” Here’s a look at five startups California is looking to for solutions to utility-caused wildfires.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 11, 2021

Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! MANUFACTURING.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A few reasons: Battery materials are very valuable, and a lot of money is invested into pulling those metals out of the ground. After electric car batteries aren’t very good at moving a car anymore, they can be taken and used for other applications, such as for the power grid, potentially for several years.

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Electric vehicle Batteries Electricity Recycling 28

Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Finally, more than a dozen entrepreneurs from our portfolio provide insight on how the bill will impact their businesses and shape climate tech innovation. The #1 thing keeping infrastructure investment dollars on the sidelines is uncertainty. Allison Wolff, CEO of Vibrant Planet. Ari Raivetz, CEO of Transcend. CarbonCure ).

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

It started in 2013 with a line-mounted device, the PowerLine Guardian, that proved it could throttle voltages in deployments with utilities on three continents — a useful task, but not the flexible power flow control it was aiming for. Over the past three years, utilities including National Grid in the U.K., million in 2015.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Using innovative approaches to old problems, ecopreneurs are looking for ways to capitalize on the environmental problems that our world faces. Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room. Finance and Startup Development. Who are these ecopreneurs? How did they get their start?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

They told Forbes, that, as a two-startup family, they decided at the beginning that only one of them would bootstrap a startup at a time, while the other worked at a steady job. Once the first startup reached stability, it would be the other’s turn. Jurich was part of the founding board of the Startup American Partnership.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

It got me thinking: Could we boost the carbon drawdown potential of clean technologies even further by supporting more women-led startups in the burgeoning climate-tech ecosystem? VC investment in climate tech is growing five times faster than overall VC, with a $60 billion increase in funding over the last seven years. Infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. The CCAs have set targets for at least 20 percent of this investment into DERs to be made in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 30, 2018

But big companies and startups alike are exploring how blockchain could change everything from contracts, corporate compliance, and auditing to digital identity and voting, supply chain tracking, and even building a smart, carbon-free electric grid. Or how to build a zero-carbon grid and tackle climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen have established themselves as epicenters for high-tech investment and innovation, the Chinese government has shifted its focus to building out a competitive technology ecosystem in this cloudy inland metropolis. Chang, who is American and previously worked on market expansion for U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Established automakers are playing defense against Tesla and other rising manufacturers, funneling billions of dollars in investments toward EV strategies while still trying to keep existing ICE business in the green. "We need the ICE business to generate cash and the EV business to focus on innovation," CEO Jim Farley said in March.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Participants at this conference come from the private and public sectors, utilities, solution providers, investors, and startups. We’ll explore the basics of the circular economy, from theory to action, from guiding principles to case studies spanning products, business models and system-level innovations. 400+ sessions.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

Consider this an important first, a base to build further disclosure mandates off of, and a harbinger of the increasing politicization of investing and climate.  ⚡ Gridcog , a London, UK-based power grid asset management platform, raised $4m in Seed funding from AlbionVC. Climate disclosure as fiduciary duty.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and the Energy Transition Credit: Poole Group This month, we’re covering the rush of investing into startups that quantify, manage, and verify carbon emissions reductions, Texas’ grid troubles, new research on transitioning fossil fuel workers, and more!

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