Avoiding rolling blackouts and solar shortfalls with real-time energy use data
Sense, a machine learning company, has found that a broader use of strategies for shifting home energy consumption can help alleviate grid strain, asserting that up to 55% of the electricity used in homes between 6-8pm is “shiftable.”
Secretive battery builder QuantumScape to go public via SPAC at $3.3 billion valuation
Aiming to win the EV battery race, the ten-year old solid-state battery builder has received more than $1 billion from investors including Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla and VW.
Slideshow: Crash course on US energy storage market, 168 MW of storage deployed in Q2
WoodMac’s Daniel Finn-Foley talks longer battery life and lower operational costs. According to the analyst’s most recent data, 168 MW/288 MWh of electrochemical storage was deployed in Q2.
Can community microgrids fill the gap in California’s plans for 100% renewable energy?
A 10 MW, 40 MWh storage project on the Southern California coastline could provide the first link for a string of community microgrids that, according to the Clean Coalition’s Craig Lewis, could show that high penetrations of distribution-connected solar are entirely doable.
Solar-centric and storage-centric approaches to DC coupling PV and batteries
Alencon’s new white paper outlines the differences between PV-centric and battery-centric coupling.
Morning Brief: ERCOT market excitement and price jump, McCarthy completes world-record 250-MW storage project
Also in the brief: Small modular nuclear reactors reach regulatory milestone, Alabama regulates against solar, impacts of FERC Order 841
Clean energy funding: Ex-Tesla CTO raises $40 million to recycle batteries, plus nuclear fusion and fission
Investors continue to invest and clean energy entrepreneurs continue to innovate — despite global setbacks. Here are five companies that have raised more than $60 million in funding in recent days — ranging across the cleantech spectrum from batteries to fusion to solar software for O&M.
Energy Jobs: JB Straubel’s battery recycling startup, Powerhouse, Total, Broad Reach Power, Span, Facebook, Clean Energy for Biden
Executive, career and boardroom moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities and energy VC — plus some select job openings.
EnerVenue looks to shake up the battery market with metal hydrogen technology
The company launched today with $12 million in seed funding, boasting advantages over lithium-ion in performance, price, operability in extreme weather and decades of use in the aerospace industry.
Morning Brief: SunPower and Maxeon are now independent companies, a battery can sell three types of products
Also in the brief: More financing news on Longroad’s 331-MW Prospero 2 solar project in Andrews County, Texas, Duke Energy storage projects abound, and solar on military housing.
