GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Much like Duke Energy, however, Southern Company faces wintertime peak electricity demands for heating that are difficult to meet with lithium-ion battery-backed intermittent renewables. Department of Energy.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. growth in 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

From alkaline batteries for small electronics to lithium-ion batteries for cars and laptops, most people already use batteries in many aspects of their daily lives. For example, high-capacity batteries with long discharge times – up to 10 hours – could be valuable for storing solar power at night or increasing the range of electric vehicles.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

It argued that investments in renewables, energy efficiency, and smart grid solutions should be at the heart of any response to the crisis, noting how these green investments will enable nations to drastically reduce their reliance on polluting and volatile fossil fuel markets.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

The primary culprits that add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere are the coal, oil, and natural gas — the fossil fuels — we consume for energy. Natural gas and renewables complement each other well, because natural gas plants can be ramped up quickly to compensate for some of the intermittency of renewables like wind and solar power.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 30, 2024

With a background in chemical engineering and oil and gas research, EarthEn’s CEO and Co-founder Manas Pathak recognized a pressing need for innovation in this area: “It was obvious to me that the clean energy transition is happening, and the only nut uncracked in the transition from fossil fuels to solar and wind is energy storage,” he says.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

  🏠 Lightium , a Zürich, Switzerland-based thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) developer, raised $7m in Seed funding from Lakestar and Vsquared Ventures.  The funding will help strengthen US supply chains for critical components like lithium and cobalt, key to expanding renewable energy and electric vehicle adoption.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  💨 Private equity and O&G bet big on climate tech’s next frontiers: DAC and lithium.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

still obtained 63% of its electricity from fossil fuels. He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. Small modular nuclear reactors at half the construction cost of today’s reactors.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Compared with CIM’s previous analyses, the current clean investment boom indicates a disproportionately positive impact on underserved and historically fossil fuel-dependent communities.   Equity. Despite record investment, deployment is lagging behind. who are working towards a clean, green, and just future.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

Fossil gas power may still have a minimal role to play in 2035 However, it is important to note that while the CCC tested a scenario where the UK's power grid could operate entirely without unabated fossil fuels by 2035 and concluded it would be feasible, this was not the only option the report recommends.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In other news, BP abandons its decarbonization goals, chaos in cat bond markets, and Rio Tinto’s lithium play.   ⚒️ Lithios , a Medford, MA-based lithium extraction technology service, raised $12m in Seed funding from Clean Energy Ventures, GS Futures, Lowercarbon Capital, MassCEC 2030 Fund, and TechEnergy Ventures. 

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The current Haber Bosch process relies on fossil fuels (~ 70% natural gas, 30% coal) and emits 2.4 Also, Ammonia’s high toxicity has led to occupational hazard concerns for seafarers who would face prolonged exposure onboard ammonia-powered vessels and already experience dangerous working conditions. of global emissions. 

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Plus, Amazon has signed an MOU with Dominion Energy to explore building an SMR near the company's North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia. Amazon said it will deploy 5GW of nuclear power through SMRs by 2039. Amazon’s paying prime for next decade delivery particularly stands out.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

  In the US , a 2023 Pew Research Center survey shows 57% of Americans favor nuclear power, a 14% increase over 2020. Italy installed its National Platform for Sustainable Nuclear Power in September. For now, the swirl of COP nuclear activity represents a dip of the toe. Bekaert, and SAIC Capital.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The IRP’s base-case scenario, set to reduce emissions by 50 percent to 55 percent by 2030 through new renewables and retiring its roughly 10,000 megawatts of coal-fired power plants, can be done “under existing statutes,” Good stated. ” Duke's decarbonization plans haven't been embraced by all stakeholders.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 7, 2024

  🔋 Polarium , a Stockholm, Sweden-based lithium-ion battery energy storage developer, raised $49m in funding from AMF, Alecta, Harald Mix, Roosgruppen, and Vargas Holdings.  In parallel, Sweden is planning to start building a new nuclear reactor by 2026 as part of its long-term energy strategy.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The report lays out five alternative pathways to reaching its targets, ranging from those that rely on a complete shift to renewable energy and electrifying transport and buildings, to those that rely more on nuclear power, carbon capture and storage or biomass to decarbonize.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. The big question for studies like these is how their findings might be translated into action in expanding the U.S. transmission grid.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In deals, $542m across three new funds, plus $87m for lithium ion cells, and $82m for battery components. And while some VCs have been historically wary of it because it prolongs fossil fuel-intensive assets, more projects have been announced as of late. It’s not all doom and gloom.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The law will phase out fossil fuels in energy generation, provides additional funding for the construction of renewable energy projects, subsidizes some existing nuclear power plants in the state, and a host of other features.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

And some of those bets will lead to losses,” as with loans to bankrupt (and now reviving) EV maker Fisker Automotive and bankrupt lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123. In terms of technologies eligible for loans, roughly half of the more than $40 billion available is earmarked for advanced fossil fuel and nuclear power.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

°C goal is increasingly out of reach, hosting a climate summit that draws hundreds of industry lobbyists, in a nation whose president hails fossil fuels as a “gift from God,” alongside allegations of human rights abuses, has understandably sparked skepticism. With scientists warning that the 1.5°C

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is going all in on fossil fuels — i.e. "drill, baby, drill" It’s backing off on the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires federal agencies consider environmental consequences in project approvals. H2Global’s new €2.5bn tender fuels the hydrogen hype.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 21, 2025

In other news, the UK is investing more in nuclear fission and fusion; the first underground injection CCS permit in California; and big climate bond news. In deals, $7bn for EVs, $2bn in lithium extract across two deals, and $260m in sustainable space vehicle components. degree threshold for the first time last year.

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