Climatetech finance
Solar finance pioneer Jigar Shah to lead $40 billion DOE Loan Programs Office
“The technology will never be the bottleneck. The bottleneck is implementation and the ability to attract capital.”
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Energy storage
Massive energy storage system from Tesla and PG&E will use Fluence AI to optimize bidding and battery health
Fluence is bringing energy trading and renewable asset bidding into the 21st century to eliminate the traditional bidding method: human traders with spreadsheets.
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Energy storage
Swell Energy reveals 80-megawatt virtual power plant contract win with Hawaiian Electric
Swell Energy sells utilities a "virtual power plant in a box" built with customer batteries and solar.
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Fun stuff
It's good to be the first
The first edition of our newsletter features Tesla, Diablo Canyon, Times Square, RMI and more.
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Clean energy
California tees up 7.5GW procurement to replace Diablo Canyon. Is it enough?
Can solar and batteries, geothermal power and long-duration energy storage replace the state’s last nuclear plant by mid-decade without increasing carbon emissions?
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Corporate procurement
Corporate net-zero climate goals: 2030 game-changers or 2050 greenwash?
The world has about two business cycles to alter investment decisions that will make or break the battle against climate change.
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Grid edge
How distributed energy can harden the Texas power grid
Natural-gas microgrids and battery-backed solar can hedge against climate change risk — maybe even without major policy changes.
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Opinion
Confronting climate change with fiercely independent, data-driven journalism
We’re on the cusp of a life-threatening climate calamity, a massive disruption of the energy industry and a revolution in greentech jobs. But mainstream journalists are largely ignoring the enormity of the problem.
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Solar
Software will eat solar: Driving utility-scale solar prices below 1 cent per kilowatt-hour by 2025
Terabase Energy is on a mission to get utility-scale solar power prices below $0.01 per kWh by 2025 using software, as opposed to the DOE's hardware strategy.
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Solar
Tesla continues beta-testing on live homeowners, moves to fifth version of integrated solar roof
Elon Musk promised that 2019 was going to be the year of the solar roof. It was not. Neither was 2020, and 2021 doesn't appear too promising.