Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Cerulean Ventures, a climate tech venture capital firm in Santa Barbara, Calif,, closed a $10 million pre-seed fund to work with founders in four startups focused on carbon removal, global renewable energy credits, sustainable supply chains and a global blockchain to protect endangered natural resources.

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Blockchain Startups Carbon Sustainability 135

GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

According to the 2020 Fashion Transparency Index survey, while 78 percent of brands have policies on energy and carbon emissions, only 16 percent publish data on the annual carbon footprints of their supply chain. Using blockchain and cloud-based technology, a number of startups are already laying the groundwork. .

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Technology Sustainability Fashion Energy Monitor 352

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When blockchain arrived on the energy scene three years ago, much of the discussion went straight to disruption and disintermediation. Still, progress has been slow and driven almost entirely by startups that either have limited funding or the ability to willfully ignore the range of regulations surrounding electricity markets.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Its allure has proven more durable than energy blockchain, and its commercialization is further along than super-buzzy green hydrogen. Why do we care about energy storage duration? Energy storage makes this power useful at other times. Long-duration storage occupies an enviable position in the cleantech hype cycle.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2021

The Greentown Labs community continues to grow and we’re excited to introduce you to the 16 climatetech startups that joined our Boston and Houston incubators in the first months of 2021! Meet these startups that are powering the climatetech revolution: Agtech + Water. Electricity. Manufacturing.

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Startups Blockchain Incubators Incubators 98

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. Agtech + Water. Manufacturing.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Pune, India-based Voltreum is set to launch its Volt-X blockchain-based peer-to-peer energy trading application. The company, which has been in development over the past year, has stated its goal as addressing “two of the most critical problems affecting humankind – increasing energy demand and climate change”. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Alternating direct current energy validated, blockchain-based data storage on the Moon and the SunnyApp solar PV cleaning bot are on the week’s technology radar. Alternating direct current energy validated Energy is traditionally either in the form of alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC). Have you read?

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Technology Blockchain Energy Energy 110

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! MANUFACTURING.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It’s been more than half a decade since grid watchers first began talking about the concept of trading energy with your neighbors across peer-to-peer platforms. In terms of real-world activity, however, peer-to-peer energy trading remains challenging in practice almost everywhere, and that's especially the case in the U.S.,

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Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Blockchain 130

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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Startups Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 98

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2020

Blockchain finally seems to have found a here-and-now application in the power market — and it isn’t energy trading. Instead, a select group of blockchain companies is finding success with a focus on certificates of origin, helping demonstrate the provenance of renewable energy supplies.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 30, 2018

This is my attempt at an "explainer" on blockchain, describing it as simply as I can, and exploring how it may help build the clean grid. Blockchain is everywhere — at least when you’re talking about media coverage. In short, in the words of a recent Wired overview of the technology , blockchain creates “tamperproof databases.”

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

New blockchain startup CarbonEnfo hits the market running, the ChatGPT fusion ‘ambassador’ and a graphene nanotube facility in development in Europe for EV batteries are on the week’s technology radar. To support it along the way, it has joined up as a validator to the Energy Web ecosystem. Have you read?

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Startups Technology Blockchain Lithium 64

Smart Energy International

APRIL 22, 2022

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has introduced a demand side response (DSR) energy reduction green technology to its London headquarters to mitigate their energy usage and emissions. It will automatically reduce non-critical electrical plant and equipment such as pump motors, fans and air conditioning chillers.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor IoT 98

GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

The beermaker’s 2025 goals pledge bold advances in water strategy, returnable or recyclable packaging, renewable energy procurement (its U.S. She's also in charge of the 100+ Sustainability Accelerator, dedicated to startups that can bring technology-enabled innovation to AB InBev's operations. It's an open platform.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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.

Energy Monitor 98

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Startups 98

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The accelerator will advance six startups’ climatetech solutions and foster potential partnerships with Shell in carbon utilization, storage, and traceability Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Oct. and Houston, Texas, Oct.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sixteen startups joined our community Q4 2023, working on innovations as diverse as low-emission steel production, hydrogen electrolyzers, and lightweight, flexible solar panels. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! The startup was previously a Greentown Go Energize 2022 participant.

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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. The term first started to be bandied about in the 1990s.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Twenty-two climatetech startups joined our community in Q3 2024, working on technologies ranging from a ring anchor for offshore wind turbines, to electric personal watercraft, to industrial power-to-heat solutions. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Startups Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 52

Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

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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Startups Plastics Innovation North America 98

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Our 180+ 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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Startups Technology Innovation Blockchain 92

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 22, 2024

Swedish startup Sourceful is proposing an ‘energy subnetwork’ within the Helium ecosystem to deliver what it claims is “the world’s first decentralised virtual power plant” (VPPs). Have you read? A viable concept? That is the theory but what about the practice?

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IoT Energy Energy Blockchain 59

GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

I have heard IKEA leadership referring to coming back stronger than ever and there is no question that its 2030 strategy is at the heart of it; with product circularity, renewable energy investment and taking care of workers as some of the key tenants, IKEA's stewardship continues to be part of its core business model. Devan Tracy (2018).

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Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Climate change 458

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Protecting satellite imagery from fraud Satellite imagery is becoming increasingly important as a source of data for energy and water utilities, as for other sectors also. Such climates generally have abundant sun or wind and are thus ideally suited to renewable energy production. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Register now

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Batteries Energy Monitor Technology Solar Energy Monitor 64

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 30, 2020

From building multiple startups to helping develop the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals to now serving as BASF’s director of sustainability, Toomey has seen the intersection of sustainable technology and business from many different angles. Earlier in your career, you helped build two startups.

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Sustainability Startups Innovation Recycling 89

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Duke Energy Florida is one of four Floridian energy companies to sign agreements and join as members of the Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM). Duke Energy Florida, JEA, Seminole Electric Cooperative and TECO Energy joined the expanded platform and expect active energy trading in mid-2023. SEEM trading.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Energy 52

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 14, 2020

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Sabur says he has been impressed by BASF’s demonstrated commitment to sustainability and engaging startups. Greentown Labs is home to more than 100 startups and has supported more than 230 since its inception.

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Startups North America Blockchain Plastics 84

EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Technology like artificial intelligence (AI), sensors and blockchain are enabling companies to provide cutting-edge products and services for consumers – from virtual gyms to smart water dispensers – and increase operational efficiency as they do. It’s changed how we communicate, shop, travel, to how we get the food on our plate.

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Michael Grossman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Here’s one from a startup pitch I sat through last year: Blockchain utility currency can ensure the security of transactions and can be used to securely purchase energy on the grid from any utility in North America. I’m just not moved by that pitch compared to the hundreds of other requests for my attention.

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Startups North America Blockchain Sustainability 130

Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Close to 80 per cent of the 1,000 senior executives surveyed in spring 2020 by consulting firm Cognizant indicated that sensors and the internet of things were important for achieving sustainability goals: 72 per cent pointed to artificial intelligence and 60 per cent cited big data initiatives and blockchain as instrumental. (

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If it weren't for conscious consumers actively trying to eat more sustainably, pushing companies to source better and more ethical ingredients, and striving to eat less meat and animal products, the sustainable food-tech startups that can scale massively to transform our food system would have a harder time getting off the ground.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Our startup members are the heart of Greentown Labs. Greentown Labs Houston will be the first climatetech-focused incubator in the city, aiming to serve as an on-the-ground catalyst for the energy transition in Houston. All of this is why we’re so excited to welcome our 16 inaugural Greentown Houston startup members.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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 ! Dash Clean Energy was awarded a $1.2M

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Startups Blockchain Patents Technology 52

Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 19, 2020

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash If you’re a frequent reader of the Clean Energy Trust blog, it’s a pretty good bet you are interested in other good sources for news and insight. So, we’ve pulled together this list of resources for news and perspective on energy, venture capital, and entrepreneurship more broadly.

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