Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Our impressive group of 200+ startups is always hard at work scaling its climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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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. Additionally, the company invests heavily into R&D, touting its charge point reservation programme, allowing users to optimise their charging hours.

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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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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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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Leading this week’s Smart Energy Finances is pre-seed funding of half a million euros for Finnish startup Capalo AI, which will further develop its virtual power plant and market optimisation technology. The funding round was led by Finnish investment company Innovestor Tech Fund, with Inventure also participating. Essent has 2.3

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Have you read: Australian startup to scale graphite block storage technology Polish storage project bolsters grid flexibility. The report finds that the BESS market in the US is currently estimated at $1.3 billion, where the country currently accounts for a 27.61% share in the global market. billion in 2026 trailing a CAGR of 32.6%

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The trend for Silicon Valley startups applying advanced technologies to solve utility grid problems is clear — go big, or stay home. After a decade of eking out a niche in the world of advanced distribution grid power controls, Silicon Valley startup Varentec has sold its key assets for an undisclosed sum.

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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. Energy supermajor BP has been seeding investments in future mobility concepts. FreeWire went to market with a car-charging battery on wheels called the Mobi.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

There are many competitors in the DERMS space, ranging from grid giants such as Siemens, General Electric and Hitachi ABB Power Grids to startups AutoGrid , Enbala , Opus One, Smarter Grid Solutions and Alarm.com’s EnergyHub.

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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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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

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

Form Energy, the stealthy, Bill Gates-backed startup, has secured its first utility deal for a novel super-long-duration energy storage technology. The utility sought a resource that would ensure reliable power while achieving a high return on investment and low levelized cost of energy.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

They also need to carry enough computing power to support a growing array of prepay and pay-as-you-go options and diagnostic capabilities, all without reliable internet connectivity or the typical back-office utility IT staff and technical support that come with a full-scale utility deployment. SparkMeter, a Washington, D.C.-based

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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

JANUARY 27, 2021

The idea of utility-owned technology serving as a control point for customer-owned DERs may well spark suspicion from residential solar and storage providers, which are used to battling with utilities over net metering tariffs, interconnection policies and other aspects of how their systems interact with the power grids they’re connected to.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Climate Tech VC

JULY 27, 2023

Large companies looking to decarbonize have begun pushing for a cleaner grid , but today, most of them still need to buy renewable energy directly. Deregulation in the early 2000s led to the evolution of energy markets in the US, which maintain reliability of power grids and create economic incentives for buying and selling power.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

The good news is many of the biggest cloud computing and data center providers have continued to focus on improving energy efficiency alongside their investments in sourcing renewable energy. However, the company just secured its fifth patent for its Smart Response power management software. How much more efficient?

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He got his start in a 90s software startup that was not ultimately related to sustainability, but it’s clear from his ambitious business ventures that human sustainability has been his primary concern since at least his college years. Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room.

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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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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

” Bloom, a Silicon Valley startup that reached "unicorn" status with $1.5 Bloom announced its first fuel cells that can run on hydrogen in June 2019. Last summer it expanded its scope to making electrolyzers — essentially reversing a typical fuel cell’s conversion of hydrogen into electricity and water.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

The #1 thing keeping infrastructure investment dollars on the sidelines is uncertainty. Drought response investments that can help advance technologies that can replenish water without generating carbon emissions. While this gets us close, it doesn’t get us all the way to our target of 50% emissions reduction by 2030. CarbonCure ).

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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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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Just as the term “smart grid” has evolved to encompass different solution sets and services, so too will our evolving power grid require multiple forms of energy storage, from short (minutes) to long-duration (many hours). He also knows how difficult it is to be a startup in the energy industry. “A

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So, in 2021, NYCHA and its partners announced a $263 million investment in electric heat pumps. Two companies ultimately won the Clean Heat for All Challenge last year: appliance manufacturer Midea and San Francisco startup Gradient. Even so, it’s not just the technology that’s under scrutiny — it’s NYCHA’s ability to manage it.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2019

The deal brings to life the company's long-avowed wish to harness residential clean energy investments to help the broader grid run more efficiently. That structure works in Germany's deregulated power grid, but a startup can't simply show up in the U.S. The fleet of batteries will total 5 megawatts/12.6

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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.

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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. ” California startups meet with State Grid.

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