Climatetech finance

Transmission

Newsletter: Texas outages made transmission upgrades look cheap

Can framing grid investment as a way to prevent disasters convince more people to support it?

By Julian Spector . 27 July 2021
Energy storage

Newsletter: The wait is over for Form Energy's secret recipe

Now we know the answer to one of the long-standing mysteries of the clean energy industry.

By Julian Spector . 26 July 2021
Solar

Newsletter: Nature abhors a vacuum, carbon accounting edition

Startups are jumping in to fill a policy gap when it comes to business-sector carbon tracking.

By Julian Spector . 21 July 2021
Grid edge

Why vertical farms could be the next big microgrid market

Building on-site power supplies is one way plant factories can manage their hefty electricity bills. Playing them into grid markets is another.

By Jeff St. John . 21 July 2021
Climatetech finance

Fossil fuels and climatetech finance digest

A roundup of recent energy and climatetech finance news.

By Eric Wesoff . 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
Climatetech finance

Veteran investor Ecosystem Integrity Fund raises $250M amid cleantech funding boom

The early-mover investment fund draws on a decade of experience to navigate a heady market.

By Julian Spector . 16 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
Climatetech finance

Yet another clean energy SPAC: Solar financier Sunlight lists on the New York Stock Exchange

It’s the first solar loan provider to go public via SPAC, joining a growing roster of clean energy companies taking that route.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant . 12 July 2021
Solar

Heliogen goes SPAC to revive concentrated solar power

Will an infusion of cash help the California-based startup resuscitate this neglected technology?

By Julian Spector . 8 July 2021