Policy & regulation
Newsletter: Clean energy wins in Michigan and California
Start your Monday with two accounts of cleaner energy beating out dirtier options.
By Julian Spector .
Energy storage
Energy storage
Tesla’s battery business is booming
Though its EV business is contracting, the company’s energy storage segment is growing fast, helping it reap the benefits of surging demand for batteries.
By Dan McCarthy .
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Solar
California just OK'd a massive new buildout of renewables and clean storage
A plan to replace the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant with 11.5 GW of zero-carbon capacity — and no natural gas — will test the grid value of renewables and batteries.By Jeff St. John .
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Energy storage
ESS is betting the world is ready for a billion-dollar battery disrupter
The advanced energy storage company already has a working factory, putting it ahead of some recent cleantech SPACs.By Julian Spector .
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Batteries
Used EV batteries could get a second life storing clean energy on California's grid
A surge in retired EV batteries is helping to eliminate second-life EV battery storage hurdles, just in time to help meet clean energy mandates.By Elizabeth McCarthy .
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Batteries
Could installing batteries under solar panels kick-start the commercial building market?
Yotta Energy thinks batteries could become as common as microinverters on commercial solar rooftops, and has built in thermal safety features to win over skeptics.By Jeff St. John .
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Climatetech finance
Ikea and Rockefeller foundations pledge $1B to seed distributed clean energy in developing nations
The funding seeks to empower 1 billion of the estimated 2.5 billion who lack access to reliable electricity.By Jeff St. John .
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Climatetech finance
7 cleantech segments beyond wind and solar that are luring investors
Investing in wind and solar is all the rage. But what other cleantech categories are catching the eye of investors in 2021?By Jason Deign .
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Transmission
Federal plan for regional cooperation on transmission infrastructure could boost clean energy
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Policy & regulation
Illinois and North Carolina are hashing out the future of clean energy, and it's getting dramatic
Hope you had a restful weekend. Time to kick off the week with two states hashing out the future of clean energy.By Julian Spector .
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Grid edge
Housing developers and utilities join forces to create the next generation of microgrids
Sharing rooftop solar, batteries and grid controls between utilities and customers is a complex undertaking, but it could yield benefits greater than the sum of their parts.By Jeff St. John .
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