When you think of energy storage, you think of lithium ion batteries. But Antora Energy has developed a zero-carbon thermal battery that is safer, longer-lasting, more efficient, and cheaper than anything available today. Antora turns wind and solar into 24/7 power and heat and sets industry on a course to Read more…
How do we achieve the energy transition at terawatt scale? Nuclear fusion is one answer, and supercritical geothermal is the other. Turns out the clean energy we need is sitting right below our feet - as long as you can drill down deep and hot enough. With a fresh $40m Read more…
Despite our strong affinity for stacked bar charts and running the numbers every week, the genius animating climate innovation today is the many individuals shaping the world through their work day in, day out. We collected a breadth of perspectives on this year, next, and the many people and things Read more…
What’s new about solar? The largest manager of community solar subscriptions in the US has never built a solar project themselves. Arcadia plays software in a sea of hardware, and is following the fintech neobank model in pushing things customer and data first. Since 2013, Arcadia has been connecting customers Read more…
We Zoomed in to Houston, TX to catch up with the founders of Solugen, Gaurab and Sean, during the crowning of climate tech’s newest unicorn. Solugen announced a $350m Series C at a $1.8b valuation from a roster of legacy private equity investors. The company’s chemienzymatic platform makes the Read more…
At some point in their lifecycle, 70% of the goods in the US are loaded onto one of the nation’s 2 million semi-trucks. This single form of transportation contributes to 5% of the US’ entire carbon footprint. Semi-trucks are notoriously gnarly to decarbonize - batteries are too heavy, H2 too Read more…
Everything seems to be in short supply these days, especially batteries. This week, Biden announced an Executive Order to “shore up” battery supply chains, as batteries play a critical role in the energy transition. In the same week, we sat down withDoug Johnson-Poensgen, CEO of Circulor, about his vision Read more…
This week we sat down with Kameale Terry, the CEO of ChargerHelp, to learn about their industry-leading workforce development program for recruiting and training EV charging technicians. ChargerHelp closed a fresh $2.75m Seed investment this week from Trucks VC, Energy Impact Partners, Kapor Capital, JFF, and The Fund. Let’s Read more…
Last week we spoke with Patch about their plug and play solution for carbon removals. This week we hone in on the other side of the corporate net zero equation - decarbonizing operations and supply chains. Watershed raised a much hyped Series A round which brought together Sequoia’s Michael Moritz Read more…
We caught up with Brennan Spellacy, CEO of Patch, about the platform for negative emissions which just became Andreessen Horowitz’s latest climate investment. Brennan explains how Patch removes companies’ carbon with just four lines of code, and the company’s perspective on how carbon offsets complement - don’t detract from - Read more…