
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.”
Climatetech finance
“The technology will never be the bottleneck. The bottleneck is implementation and the ability to attract capital.”
Energy storage
Fluence is bringing energy trading and renewable asset bidding into the 21st century to eliminate the traditional bidding method: human traders with spreadsheets.
Energy storage
Swell Energy sells utilities a "virtual power plant in a box" built with customer batteries and solar.
Fun stuff
The first edition of our newsletter features Tesla, Diablo Canyon, Times Square, RMI and more.
Clean energy
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?
Corporate procurement
The world has about two business cycles to alter investment decisions that will make or break the battle against climate change.
Grid edge
Natural-gas microgrids and battery-backed solar can hedge against climate change risk — maybe even without major policy changes.
Opinion
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.
Solar
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.
Solar
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.