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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. “I don’t think you can just deploy solar and solve everything,” he said. Demand for flexible, clean power spurs startup activity.

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

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Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of “storing clean power for when the sun isn’t shining.” This year, finally, big renewables projects with batteries attached closed deals and even entered operations. It serves clean power at night cheaper than incumbent fossil fuels.

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EDF Renewables Acquires EV Charging Startup PowerFlex Systems

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EDF Renewables has acquired PowerFlex Systems , a California startup with technology to manage one of the biggest challenges for scaling up electric vehicle charging: controlling the loads that lots of EVs charging at once can place on the power infrastructure of the sites hosting the chargers. European acquisition spree.

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New €2.5B Green Hydrogen Steel Venture Unveiled

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Strategic investors already secured include the EU-backed incubator and investor EIT InnoEnergy. The ambition is similar to that of Swedish greenfield battery manufacturer Northvolt. The battery maker has developed a full-scale greenfield manufacturing business in less than five years of operations. billion ($3.04

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The role of digital technology in the energy sector

Business Green

Digitalisation is still a novel concept to many industries as well as some areas of the energy sector. Unlike many, however, there is an aspiration to transition away from its legacy large infrastructure to a whole new era of plug-and-play, cutting edge incubation of new business models.

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Global Briefing: US Senate backs plan to make daylight saving time permanent

Business Green

Campaigners maintain the move could improve health, boost economic activity, and lead to lower energy demand and carbon emissions. European governments continued to ramp up their clean energy plans in response to the Kremlin's threat to EU energy supplies, with the Dutch government announcing it is to double its 2030 wind offshore targets.

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? Ammonia goes from fertilizer to fuel #180

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In other news, Hertz shifts gears on its EV strategy, Kerry steps down from his climate envoy post, and AI helps discover promising new battery materials.    In deals, $90m for animal-free dairy, $50m for fusion, and $30m for resi solar and storage.    Want more deals?