Climate crisis
Priming the pump for high-priced, high-promise carbon removal tech
South Pole and Mitsubishi want investors for $800 million worth of direct air capture, mineralization and biochar projects.
Jeff St. John is director of news and special projects at Canary Media. He covers the intersection of technological, economic and regulatory issues influencing the global transition to low-carbon energy in the electricity, transportation and building sectors. He is the former managing editor and senior grid edge editor of Greentech Media, and he previously reported for The Fresno Bee, the Tri-City Herald and the Anchorage Daily News. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife Tara Donoghue and his dog Lily, and enjoys hiking, gardening and playing guitar with his nieces and nephews.
His areas of expertise include renewable energy, smart grid, distributed energy resources, energy storage, demand response and electric vehicles.
He earned a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2001.
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Grid edge
Voltus raises $31M to go after the grid value of distributed energy
A VoltApp to aggregate DERs and a regulatory strategy to tap into new markets nationwide.
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Public transit
AlphaStruxure’s solar-powered, electric-bus-charging microgrid
A new county project in Maryland combines key decarbonization elements in a no-money-down package.
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Wind
Big win for US offshore wind: Biden administration approves $2B Vineyard project
The bureaucratic breakthrough signals renewed federal support for up to 30 GW of East Coast offshore wind by 2030.
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Fossil fuels
The Colonial pipeline ransomware shutdown: A wake-up call for energy cybersecurity
How digital hostage-taking can bring about the breakdown of fossil fuel networks — and threaten the power grid.
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Grid edge
Inside the GridWise Alliance’s plan for $50B in federal funding for the grid edge
Utilities and tech vendors target the gaps between large-scale clean grid investments and EVs, smart buildings and distributed energy.
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Electrification
California's proposed building code boosts all-electric, but it doesn’t stop natural gas
Heat pumps will be the baseline tech, but natural gas can still be in new buildings through mid-decade at least. Will city and county bans push past state codes?
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Electric vehicles
Nuvve plots V2G charging at multi-megawatt scale
With EVs on an explosive growth trajectory, vehicle-to-grid "transportation-as-a-service" markets may be ready to break open.
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EV charging
TeraWatt Infrastructure targets a nationwide charging network for electric vehicle fleets
Google’s former chief energy strategist plans a charging hub empire to meet gigawatt-scale electric transport needs, with $100 million in backing and sites in 18 states.
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Climatetech finance
Mainspring Energy raises $95M for linear generators to clean up the grid
The startup envisions its novel technology as a linchpin of a distributed, resilient and renewable power grid.
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