Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Katie Rae, CEO of The Engine
Plus, climatetech career moves at Nissan, Form Energy, VertueLab, Regrow Ag, Solarcycle, Spearmint Energy, Rhythmos and Gridmatic.
Eric Wesoff is the editorial director at Canary Media. He’s a prominent industry journalist, analyst, consultant, speaker and expert witness in the renewable energy field. He has expertise in clean technology investing and finance, utility structures and regulatory climate, solar power, energy storage, microgrids and the electrical grid.
He most recently served as senior editor for solar publication pv magazine. Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief at green technology market analysis and media firm Greentech Media. He has been published or quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Wired.
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EV charging
Startup Ample says it can swap an EV battery in 5 minutes
Can battery swapping for electric vehicles beat out real-time charging? This business concept has already led to one high-profile flop, but Ample is gearing up to make it work.
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Charlin Bodley of RMI’s Energy Transition Academy
Plus, climatetech career and board moves at Nextracker, Tesla, Arcadia, American Clean Power, The Engine, Kevala, The Guardian, sonnen and more.
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Solar
How robots could dramatically speed up solar farm construction
A number of companies are now using automation and AI to expedite utility-scale solar installations, ease labor shortages and protect workers from unsafe conditions.
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Wind
Chart: Wind turbine prices surged to decade high in 2022
Surging commodity prices have reversed a trend of falling costs, but wind power remains one of the cheapest — and cleanest — forms of electricity generation around.
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Jen Betz, CFO at Element Energy
Plus, climatetech career moves at Palmetto, Verne, Rewiring America, Vision Ridge, Tierra Climate, American Clean Power and more.
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Solar
Are new solar tariffs coming soon? Here's what you need to know
The House just voted to undo a pause on solar tariffs. If the repeal becomes law, tariffs would derail the U.S. solar rollout this year — but that's unlikely.
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Clean energy
Chart: Americans actually agree on supporting solar and wind power
But polling data shows a big partisan divide and age gap on the question of whether climate change is a serious problem.
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Nuclear
Avalanche raises $40M to pursue vision of tiny nuclear fusion reactor
The startup is spurning room-sized reactors in favor of a small, modular design. But it’s unclear when or if fusion technology — large or small — will pan out.
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Energy storage
Tesla's battery-storage sales are growing way faster than EV sales
Deployments of Tesla batteries surged 360% as the EV maker opened a factory for grid-scale batteries. Now it’s getting into lithium refining too.
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