GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Stem, the decade-old behind-the-meter battery startup that was seeking a buyer earlier this year to bolster its growth ambitions, is now launching a plan to go public via a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) reverse merger. Friday’s announcement names Star Peak Energy Transition Corp. and abroad.

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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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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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And in energy circles, one of the biggest buzzwords in recent years is the virtual power plant, or VPP. But VPPs have really taken off in the last 10 years, not just as a concept but as something that a growing number of energy companies are creating, using and commercializing. Another difference concerns markets and regulation.

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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

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

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A $100 million investment in residential demand response is redefining what "infrastructure" can be. More recently, they have ventured into new items, like distributed batteries in commercial real estate, as with Stem and AMS. Home energy modulation as energy infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 10, 2020

Solar-battery systems may be useful for providing backup power during power outages. But many of the systems on the market today don’t pack enough punch to start up power-hungry air conditioner or pumps, or store enough power to run an entire home’s electricity load for more than a handful of hours at a time.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Batteries aren’t dead when they come to the end of their useful life in an electric vehicle. Reused or “second-life” lithium-ion batteries still have a lot of juice left in them, but so far the concept of using these batteries in stationary applications has yet to gain real market traction.

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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

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. are testing it out.

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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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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

DECEMBER 2, 2020

GreenCom Networks, the Internet-of-things platform provider that’s become a go-to for major European utilities to control solar panels, batteries, electric vehicle chargers and smart home energy loads, has landed another funding round with two new strategic investors that could open new markets. million customers.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Over the past decade, a new class of digital power electronics has emerged that can shape, shift and control the flow of electricity on the power grid in ways never before seen. Others have been forced out of business, as with startup Gridco last year. SP Energy taps Ermco, Gridbridge.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 13, 2020

Last year, we covered a pilot project from California community energy provider Silicon Valley Clean Energy and startup UtilityAPI, meant to make sharing smart meter data between customers and approved third-party companies as easy as a few clicks of a mouse, instead of the utility paperwork and waiting time-heavy ordeal it is today.

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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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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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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Now he's competing to build better home battery systems. Willson's San Diego-based startup NeoVolta emerged when a friend in the solar industry asked for his thoughts on the existing field of home energy storage systems. kilowatts of instantaneous power, also more than the mainstream competitors.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Can the lowly residential electrical panel become the hub of the solar-roofed, battery-backed, EV-equipped smart home? We’re re-architecting it from scratch, to be a much more capable device — not to be just a passive current protection device, but more of a multiplexer, an I/O for energy and data.

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Charged

MAY 6, 2024

The “house of the future” is a perennial American theme—from the Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition at the 1933 World’s Fair to The Jetsons, futurists have predicted a proliferation of labor-saving devices and home entertainment options. Nowadays, the focus is increasingly on the energy that these nifty gadgets require.

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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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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The grid outages hitting California this year gave the clean energy industry a chance to prove itself, to show that localized solar power and batteries really can help people ride through grid disruption. All those people cannot access the much vaunted benefits of cleaner, decentralized energy.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But that’s not the only clever synergy the smart home company has up its sleeve. The Nest Learning Thermostat may have grabbed all the headlines when it launched in 2011 and kick-started the current home automation trend. These two-in-one sensors monitor motion and contact, as Nest’s now-discontinued Detect sensors did.

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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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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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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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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

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. California leads the nation in putting batteries to work for a decarbonizing grid.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ice Energy filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in December, in a setback for small-scale thermal energy storage. Ice Energy wanted to extend it to small businesses and homes. Ice Energy filed for bankruptcy with the Central District of California on December 17; the filing scheduled a meeting of creditors for January 27.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Innovate UK KTN has chosen 13 startups to participate in its sustainability accelerator programme. 40% of the startups on the programme have a female founder, unusually high for an accelerator programme, and many are already highly experienced founders. Described by Google as ‘the next big unicorn.’.

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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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