GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

A German startup aims to sell a self-charging electric car covered in solar panels from 2022 after raising nearly $60 million in a recent 50-day crowdfunding campaign. The Sion will be powered by a 35-kilowatt-hour battery containing 192 prismatic lithium-ion cells with a nickel, manganese and cobalt ratio of 622.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Vermont utility Green Mountain Power not only verified the efficacy of residential batteries for meeting grid needs, it saved its customers millions of dollars with them. It already has not a couple hundred, but 2,567 utility-controlled Powerwall batteries sitting in customer homes, adding up to around 13 megawatts.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Unlike SaaS startups with predictable revenue cycles and low overhead, climate companies often require real capital outlays, rely on partnership dependencies, and have long-term investment horizons for returns. This is a non-exhaustive list of financing options available to climate startups.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Why can’t you get an accurate, fact-based online quote for a rooftop solar system, backup battery or electric vehicle charger as easily as getting a quote on, say, a mortgage refinancing or home insurance policy? electric customers now have smart meters, which could open data-sharing opportunities across the country.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 11, 2021

Homes need a lot more digital smarts nowadays to manage rooftop solar, backup batteries and electric vehicle chargers. It’s nice if those distributed energy resources (DERs) can be integrated with household electrical load controls via smartphone or Alexa or Google voice-activated devices.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 4, 2020

Brooklyn startup David Energy on Wednesday announced a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round, as it looks to transform into an energy retailer that helps customers get more value out of their solar and storage systems. Lining up against the giants.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 6, 2020

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. Batteries are becoming an increasingly valuable addition to distributed solar projects, and that's true both for homeowners and some commercial customers.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 18, 2020

In the first of a three-part series, Greentech Media's Julian Spector looks at implications and lessons from last year's APS battery fire. The McMicken fire set off a series of shadow investigations, as battery suppliers, developers and customers pieced together evidence to identify the risks posed by their own systems.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

Smart home electrical panel, meet voice-activated home controls. That’s the connection being made by San Francisco-based startup Span.IO Those include a subset of home energy management systems, such as smart thermostat provider Ecobee and wireless energy sensor startup Tado.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

2024 is here, and it’s full of promise for the climatetech industry. As analysts, investors, journalists, and other experts offer up their predictions for this year’s climatetech areas to watch, Greentown’s featuring just a sampling of our startup members innovating in these key categories.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

California is facing a major decision under a tight deadline — whether it should push for large-scale power plants and batteries to prevent a repeat of its August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer, or turn to behind-the-meter resources like batteries and demand response. 14 and 15 last year.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

Sunrun is landing contract after contract to put solar-charged residential batteries to work serving grid needs. On Thursday, it picked Silicon Valley energy management software startup AutoGrid to help it optimize this growing fleet. ” Fleets of batteries, meet optimization software.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Span.IO, the San Francisco-based startup that makes a smart home electrical panel that can track and control behind-the-meter batteries, rooftop solar inverters, EV chargers and other key household loads via smartphone, has landed a $10.2 Leading U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

ConnectDER, a startup with a smart meter socket device that’s been deployed in the thousands by select U.S. utilities to support distributed solar, has closed a $7 million series B round round to help roll out a new version of its system targeting behind-the-meter batteries and plug-in electric cars.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

By Frank Jossi, Energy News Network. A wave of pilot programs by Minnesota electric cooperatives is saving customers money and providing useful data for larger utilities considering new technology and pricing models to encourage grid efficiency. Today, 44 member-owned electric co-ops serve about 1.7

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Last month’s preventative power shutoffs in California highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to threats exacerbated by a changing climate. But what about the mobile battery packs carried in the hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles now on the road in California? kilowatt-hour nameplate capacity.

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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!

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

-based ConnectDER, is a meter collar adapter that plugs into the socket where electrical meters connect to buildings. Con Edison is in the final stages of deploying smart meters to its approximately 1.3 million customers, but those only measure net household loads, not what’s happening behind the meter.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Climatetech startups receiving funding, partnering with key stakeholders, and deploying their tech around the world! Form Energy closed a $240M Series D , which will accelerate the market entry of its multi-day, cost-effective energy storage technology. American Battery Technology Company closed a $39.1M funding round.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. Photoncycle, a startup from Norway, is tackling interseason storage of solar energy, which could save the abundance of solar energy generated in sunny months to be used for heat and electricity in the winter.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Electricity.

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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. First, they’ve built up the technology to monitor and manage these distributed energy resources (DERs) at a large scale.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Iron flow battery startup ESS raised an additional $30 million to take its technology from pilots to commercial scale. Since 2011, the company has been developing a low-cost, nonflammable long-duration storage technology to compete across domains where the dominant lithium-ion battery chemistries are weaker.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Home battery storage has grown precipitously in recent years, but it still doesn’t match the scale and accessibility of a home appliance. Now, the Wyoming-based startup is preparing to ship its sleek, plug-in home battery panels in July for field tests in Australia, Europe and the U.K., A full U.S. A full U.S. kilowatts/2.2

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 8, 2020

Atom Power has raised $17.8 million to boost production of its all-digital circuit breakers and panels for high-stress industrial and commercial settings, from factories and data centers to large-scale electric vehicle charging systems. Kennedy declined to comment on how Atom Power might work with its investors.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 14, 2021

Ten years ago, Greentown began when four startups decided to split the cost of rent and resources. On Earth Day 2021, Greentown Houston opens its doors to a new ecosystem of entrepreneurs who are tackling our biggest climate challenges and shaping the energy transition. Electricity. Agtech + Water.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 16, 2020

San Francisco-based startup Leap has raised $8.2 million in equity and debt, aimed at expanding its business of linking megawatts of flexible behind-the-meter load to grid market opportunities in California.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But a segment of the grid edge industry has been trying to achieve that for years, installing controllable devices at homes and businesses that can work together to help the grid. Though small individually, distributed energy resources are projected to grow to 387 gigawatts in the next five years , according to research by Wood Mackenzie.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2023

More and higher resolution data on Britain’s energy system is the demand of users of National Grid Electricity Distribution’s ‘presumed open’ datasets. In conjunction with the currently available data, data users were also requesting National Grid Electricity Distribution about making more data openly available. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 16, 2020

Canadian startup e-Zn has raised money to store clean energy far longer than currently available batteries allow, using cheap and abundant zinc. E-Zn used an earlier CAD $700,000 SDTC grant to build a demonstration that paired the zinc storage with a solar array. That builds on a CAD $3.4

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees three load shifting investments take centre stage as demand response becomes a more notable priority for utilities the world over. 120 million for Swell Energy’s VPP suite. 120 million for Swell Energy’s VPP suite.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 7, 2025

Investors are balancing their long-term climate goals with short-term realitiesfunding is harder to get, policies are shifting, and more than ever startups need to prove they can make money, not just make an impact. Startups that have tightened operations, focused on customer revenue, and pursued capital-efficient models are thriving.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2025

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their 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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

In the latest example , Emerson, one of the country’s biggest industrial, commercial and residential automation and HVAC systems providers, is acquiring OSI Inc. OSI’s DERMS is a utility-centric implementation, as opposed to systems built around fleets of DERs bidding their aggregated energy and flexibility into energy markets.

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CleanTech San Diego

OCTOBER 21, 2020

17 Southern California Energy Innovation Network Companies Will Present. SAN DIEGO, CA, October 21, 2020 – This November, the energy innovations of 17 regional cleantech entrepreneurs will be featured during a three-part Cleantech San Diego series showcasing startups in the Southern California Energy Innovation Network (SCEIN).

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