Climatetech finance

Climatetech finance

Jigar Shah on DOE's big new loan for a hydrogen plant and what's coming next

Plus, Monolith CEO Rob Hanson on building a first-of-its-kind, billion-dollar facility that produces ammonia and carbon black as well as hydrogen.

By Canary Staff . 11 January 2022
Long-duration energy storage

Goldman Sachs just made a record-setting investment in long-duration energy storage

The banking giant is betting $250M on Canadian startup Hydrostor and its novel underground system to store clean energy for the grid.

By Julian Spector . 10 January 2022
Solar

PosiGen raises $100M to bring solar and efficiency upgrades to lower-income Americans

The New Orleans–based company has a clever business model that upends industry assumptions — and savvy investors want in.

By Eric Wesoff . 10 January 2022
Energy storage

Grid energy storage surged in 2021, as we predicted

Your humble correspondent presaged 5 market trends, and they all came to pass.

By Julian Spector . 5 January 2022
Climatetech finance

DOE Loan Programs Office is back in action, plus the latest climatetech deals

Monolith is about to get a mammoth loan; NuScale is going public via SPAC; AES is buying Community Energy; and more.

By Eric Wesoff . 30 December 2021
Workforce diversity

Charging Up: Women’s climatetech career moves at Sunrun, Mosaic, Cypress Creek, Brookfield, Arcadia, LevelTen and more

Shaking things up from the boardroom to the C-suite and beyond.

By Eric Wesoff . 21 December 2021
Solar

The solar industry in 2021: Big, complicated and kind of weird

The top 11 solar power trends, from rising component costs (a first!) to online sales of rooftop systems.

By Eric Wesoff . 20 December 2021
Long-duration energy storage

Energy Dome is the rare long-duration storage firm that's moving fast

The Italian firm landed a deal for a 100MWh plant just two years after launch.

By Julian Spector . 9 December 2021
EV charging

BP is buying Amply, a startup that helps bus and truck fleets go electric

A European oil major stakes a claim in U.S. EV charging and software to lower the cost of electrifying fleets.

By Jeff St. John . 8 December 2021
Energy storage

Energy storage is booming — and flexing its political muscle

The folks storing clean power are flush with cash and winning in Washington.

By Julian Spector . 6 December 2021