Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2023, a challenging macro environment marked by higher interest rates and a cautious private investment market raised the hurdles for deployment. Download the full report and data (clients) Highlights 💰 2023 investment: Funding in 2023 totaled $32bn, down 30% from 2022, although CAGR remains high since 2020 at 23%.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Swiss tech major Hitachi Energy has acquired eks Energy in a strategic move to add power and electronics and energy management software to their ever-growing portfolio. Hitachi Energy called the move part of its strategy to meet global demand for battery energy storage solutions.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 9, 2023

100 million smart meters and counting by Gridspertise, a new era for smart meter data in Japan and Kaifa going OSGP and Sigfox are on the week’s technology radar. 100 million smart meters and counting by Gridspertise, a new era for smart meter data in Japan and Kaifa going OSGP and Sigfox are on the week’s technology radar.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The growth of Home Energy Management (HEM) has led to a burgeoning, heretofore fragmented market, within which rages a business battleground of players large and small. The key to winning, explains Yusuf Latief in Smart Energy International ’s Power Playbook column, will be ownership of customer confidence. billion in 2021.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

As I indicated in the previous article , BP has turned over publication of the annual Statistical Review of World Energy to the Energy Institute (EI). Today, I will cover the recently published 2023 report’s highlights. Primary Global Energy Consumption 2022 ROBERT RAPIER Global energy demand grew by 1.1%

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Celtic nation was one of the first in Europe to take green technologies seriously with the Centre for Alternative Technology opening and spearheading research back in the early 1970s. This culture of innovation continues today with companies like Riversimple springing up and making history with their hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and TAQA Geothermal have officially broken ground for the drilling of a shallow, 400-meter well in the KAUST campus as a test case for the monitoring and surveillance of future geothermal energy extraction in Saudi Arabia.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Following earlier announcements of new electricity, water and hydrogen meters another pair of new meters are launched and the US Department of Energy launches an office to focus on emerging technologies in the week’s technology radar. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2024

At the end of 2023, the UK government released the long-awaited Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation, which aims to introduce measures ensuring all new-build housing is ‘net zero ready’ by 2025. As we inch ever closer to 2035 and 2050 net zero targets, there is increasing pressure to decarbonise high-emitting sectors.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 3, 2022

AI to monitor bird interactions with solar PV, lithium iron phosphate battery production coming in Europe, a lithium mine for EV batteries and the energy infrastructure requirements in the Moon to Mars exploration are on the week’s technology radar. First lithium iron phosphate battery cell prototype in Europe.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 5, 2024

International engineering firm Zetcon has already moved into a finished office building just a few meters away from the drilling site. Two wells were drilled – a shallower well to a depth of 340 meters, and a deeper 820-meter well. Water-filled coal shafts can also be used for storage for solar thermal energy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2022

New investment will support Exagen's plans to develop, own and operate 5GW+ of generation and energy storage capacity over the next 10 years. The solar farms are currently in development, and are expected to come online in 2023. OEDP is targeting solar, onshore wind, and energy storage projects in the UK and the rest of Europe.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 24, 2024

Combined with a noticeable decline in political and economic support for the energy transition, the sector witnessed a standstill in the installation of new turbines, leading to financial losses, project cancellations, and auction failures. This achievement is nothing short of extraordinary, as wind energy generated nearly 2.5

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 1, 2022

ABB has announced delivery of electrical distribution and control systems for a 300kW future microgrid that engineering and management consultancy Tetra Tech is deploying for Oldham Council in Greater Manchester. The electrical control scheme is based on smart ABB Ability circuit breakers.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 13, 2023

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances leads with two stories on smart energy acquisitions, specifically Badger meter’s acquisition of Syrinix and TE Connectivity’s acquisition of Kries’ grid monitoring portfolio. Learn more: [link] pic.twitter.com/UbAIDqBu25 — Badger Meter (@Badger_Meter) January 5, 2023.

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Charged

JANUARY 31, 2024

Furthermore, the company draws a distinction between a battery-buffered solution, which needs the grid to operate, and a battery-integrated solution, which can operate on its own, and can be made bidirectional to send energy back to the grid in times of need. A battery-buffered system is just taking energy from the grid.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although the UK Government’s latest legislation solidifies their commitment to the smart meter rollout in the country, there are yet a number of issues with consumer perception and the performance of the technology that need to be ironed out, explains Michael Jary of Sense. billion ($7.1 7 million will lose functionality.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 25, 2024

The facility of Bosch under the Car Multimedia division in Braga, Portugal has installed a geothermal heating and cooling system as part of a wider initiative to eliminate the use of natural gas as an energy source at the site. Developed and implemented between 2022 and 2023, it is considered one of the largest geothermal plants in Portugal.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 18, 2022

Grid operator Liander and GIGA Storage, developers of large-scale battery systems, have started pilots in the Dutch cities Amsterdam, Alkmaar and Lelystad with large batteries to use the electricity grid more efficiently and give more parties access. The first results are expected in 2023.”. EASE recommendations on energy storage fees.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. The stakes are particularly high because India is the world’s third largest energy consumer.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

billion of sales in the year 2023/24, according to the broadcaster’s annual accounts. In recent months, the BBC has created content for a number of oil and gas companies, including the French fossil fuel company Engie, which owns a number of coal-fired power plants and relies heavily on gas for its energy production.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 29, 2022

GB network operator Western Power Distribution (WDP) has set out plans for the decarbonisation of heating in its service area. These include heat pumps, thermal storage, district heating, combined heat and power, solar thermal, waste heat recovery and hydrogen. Decarbonising heat: The hot topic we can’t ignore.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Aydin Investment Monitoring and Coordination Directorate (YIKOB) has approved Zorlu Geothermal’s request to convert the resource exploration licenses of Kuyucak and Nazilli geothermal fields in Aydin province into geothermal resource operating licenses. Zorlu Enerji has an installed capacity of 239.5

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

At a virtual event on Thursday afternoon, the president of Panasonic Industry Europe, Johannes Spatz, said fresh carbon footprint analysis had found that some 86 per cent of the firm's emissions in 2020 were the result of the transport and distribution of its goods to end consumers.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The rapid growth of renewables is key to unlocking a secure and affordable energy transition, but while we have seen investment in renewables nearly double since 2014, for grid modernisation it has barely changed , writes Matthew Boulton, Director of Solar, Storage and Private Wire at EDF Renewables UK. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2024

At the end of 2023, the UK government released the long-awaited Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation, which aims to introduce measures ensuring all new-build housing is ‘net zero ready’ by 2025. As we inch ever closer to 2035 and 2050 net zero targets, there is increasing pressure to decarbonise high-emitting sectors.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 25, 2023

Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS plc), an energy infrastructure company, has acquired the domestic services division of Manchester-based heat pump specialist Evergreen Energy, which imports and distributes European-made renewable energy products.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Britain’s EDF has acquired the Chorley-based solar panel and battery installer Contact Solar as part of its strategy towards net zero. With the acquisition, energy supplier EDF is positioning itself to meet the expected take-up of solar panels as the demand increases, with projections indicating an up to 75% increase by 2030.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To make the sports facility emissions-neutral, energy will be supplied 12,000 photovoltaic modules and 270 geothermal boreholes. The combined geothermal and photovoltaic system is expected to have an annual energy output of 4377 MWh. This is around 800 MWh more than the energy requirement of the stadium.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Krones , a global manufacturer of packaging for food and beverages, has officially broken ground on a combined solar and geothermal system at their production facility in Debrecen, Hungary. The installation of the photovoltaic system and the first phase of the geothermal system is expected to be completed by the of 2023.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A programme of works by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) to install technology that helps ‘self-restore’ electricity supplies has reached a major milestone. The Automated Power Restoration System (APRS) enables the electricity network powering homes and businesses to ‘self-restore’. million ($3.72

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 15, 2024

The Extreme E off-road racing platform has energy sustainability and emissions reductions as one of its key pillars. Extreme E was built on five pillars – environment, equality, energy, entertainment and emobility – and as its latest sustainability report seeks to show, it is achieving impacts in all of these areas. Have you read?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 19, 2024

Shallow geothermal energy specialist Celsius Energy has been engaged by banking group Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes (BPAURA) to implement a geothermal heating and cooling system as part of the modernization of the company’s 7680-sq. BPAURA will be undertaking other efforts to reduce energy consumption at the Corenc site.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This week’s iteration of Smart Energy Finances looks to partnerships and sustainability bonds announced under the Enel umbrella. Their partnership will thus allow the company to develop new solutions and assist with the complexity of the evolving electricity grid. Jungle AI raises €5mn to deploy tech in renewable energy.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

Investigating the possibility of putting data centres into space, LG’s ThinQ UP smart home appliance global launch and ‘circular’ farming with onsite methanol production and use for powering tractors are in the week’s technology radar. Task force to innovate space applications for energy Unlocking smart meter data for research.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

From clean energy and nature investments to phasing down fossil fuels, We Mean Business Coalition's Maria Mendiluce offers her take on what corporate climate leadership should look like over the coming year. With 2023 coming up, we have just seven years left to halve emissions 2030 in line with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

A cutting-edge hydrogen fuel cell-based power plant recently switched on at a Japanese manufacturing plant could provide a decarbonisation template for other industrial sites to follow. The resulting power plant, which also includes a hydrogen storage tank, covers the entirety of the fuel cell factory's power needs.

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