Clean energy

Guest essay

Newsletter: Big Tech is coming for your carbon

Google, Facebook and other tech heavy-hitters are perfecting a bottom-up approach to large-scale decarbonization.

By Dan Finn-Foley . 29 July 2021
Climate justice

Newsletter: Want to pass a 100% clean grid law? Don't pick too many fights

Oregon built broad support for its clean grid law. Can other places learn from the example?

By Julian Spector . 28 July 2021
Transmission

New transmission can prevent power outages during extreme weather — and save tons of money

Transmission could have paid for itself in savings during big Texas blackout, a new report finds. But capturing that value is tricky.

By Jeff St. John . 26 July 2021
Clean energy

Camus Energy: Grid software for small utilities with big clean energy ambitions

A San Francisco startup with Google software talent is helping rural co-ops and municipal utilities make big gains in renewables and distributed energy — without the high-tech price tag.

By Jeff St. John . 20 July 2021
Climatetech finance

Newsletter: A win for the slow-and-steady school of cleantech investing

What's a decade of investing experience worth in today's heady market?

By Julian Spector . 19 July 2021
Hydrogen

Newsletter: The physical footprint behind the hydrogen economy hype

If the world goes big on green hydrogen, it would entail a massive buildout of wind and solar.

By Julian Spector . 14 July 2021
Climatetech finance

Newsletter: 3 more clean energy SPAC updates you should know about

Clean energy startups are going public at a rate I've never seen in my years covering this sector.

By Julian Spector . 12 July 2021
Clean energy

A microgrid powered only by solar and batteries points the way to bigger all-renewable grids

Australia’s Horizon Power and partner PXiSE showed they could power a town without generators. The implications for expanding renewable energy are massive.

By Jeff St. John . 12 July 2021
Climate crisis

How do you know if a climate policy is good? Here’s the test

Clean electrification at warp speed for the next decade is the most important thing of all.

By David Roberts . 9 July 2021
EV charging

EDF Renewables makes smart EV charging the centerpiece of its distributed energy strategy

Subsidiary PowerFlex makes software for EV fleets that enables on-site solar, batteries, energy management and microgrids.

By Jeff St. John . 8 July 2021