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Whatever Happened to the VC-Backed Startup Class of 2010?

GreenTechMedia

Remember 2010? venture capital firms were on the lookout for cleantech targets, drawn, not least, by the reassurance of a Department of Energy loan program that was busy dispersing $15 billion in loan guarantees. The company has since changed hands a couple more times, most recently landing with LS Power for an undisclosed sum.

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The US Residential Solar Market Is Set For Major Change in the 2020s

GreenTechMedia

Residential solar PV has had a remarkable decade. From 2010-2020, more than 2 million residential solar panels have been installed in the U.S., Unsurprisingly, this also means that to date, most growth in residential solar has been concentrated in a handful of state markets that offered additional incentives.

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New profiles to facilitate the roll-out of smart metering technologies worldwide

Smart Energy International

In order to give more flexibility to the Meters and More protocol standard, during the last years, new profiles have been studied by different working groups of the association’s committee for technical specifications (TCS), and thus included into the specification documents. Have you read? For that, the Radio Frequency has been chosen.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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BBOXX Lands $50M Led by Mitsubishi to Boost Off-Grid Solar in Africa, Asia

GreenTechMedia

BBOXX, a startup delivering pay-as-you-go solar PV plans to hundreds of thousands of African homes, has landed a $50 million investment led from Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi, marking another major funding milestone in the off-grid solar market. Overall, the solar home system market has raised more than $1.1

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Hanwha Q Cells to Buy Storage Software Startup Geli to Tackle C&I Market

GreenTechMedia

Over the past decade, Geli has seen its software put to use to design, install and operate megawatts of grid-connected and behind-the-meter battery and microgrid projects. In 2017, battery software startup Greensmith was bought by Wartsila and German energy storage software and project owner Younicos was bought by Aggreko.

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Top 10 Economic Benefits of Converting to Solar Energy

Sunrun

Here are 10 important benefits to home solar. Solar Controls Energy Costs 1. When you choose to install a home solar system and a battery, you can better control your average electricity costs over a year. If you can use energy in the morning or during the day, you’ll probably pay less.3 8 Solar Saves Lives 6.