energy storage
Novel battery manufacturer EnerVenue is raising $515M, per filing
The company is in the process of building a gigawatt-scale factory in Kentucky to produce its nickel-hydrogen batteries.
Alsym wants to ‘light up homes for a billion people’ with its new battery
The battery startup has raised $78 million to bring its alternative to lithium-ion cells to everything from scooters to steel mills.
Photoncycle targets low-cost energy storage with a clever hydrogen solution
For years, the solar energy sector has grappled with interseasonal energy storage. The ability to harness the surplus solar energy of summer months for use during the winter has remained…
Three breakthroughs that earned Fourth Power its $19M Series A
A new type of thermal battery could store intermittent wind and solar energy. It forms the basis of a new company, Fourth Power.
Inlyte Energy reels in $8M seed round to revive a 50-year-old battery technology
With some tweaks, the company believes it can make cells while still maintaining the chemistry’s longevity and energy density.
Harvest Thermal taps $4M seed round to make heat pumps cheaper to run
The team came up with a system that integrated a heat pump and a hot water storage tank with a pod that turns the system into a thermal battery.
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Over 300 gigafactories will make tomorrow’s EVs. We mapped them all
Venture capitalists and private equity firms have invested over $40 billion into battery technology startups, and some of those investments are now coming to fruition.
Why so many gigafactories? It’s not just EVs driving demand
The automotive sector’s ups and downs can make big bets hard to place. And yet the money keeps flowing. What’s behind the bravado?
Electrification is poised to turn school buses into money-making arbitrage assets
A recent test hints at buses’ massive potential to stabilize a grid that’s increasingly threatened by extreme weather.
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Massive iron batteries could be key to displacing natural gas from the grid
VoltStorage recently raised a Series C worth $24 million from engine manufacturer Cummins. Its previous rounds included investments from SOSV and EIT InnoEnergy.
The world needs a climate tech startup that’s like an early-days Uber, a company that won’t take no for an answer.
Tesla solar sees best quarter in 4 years, but ‘semiconductor challenges’ spell trouble
Tesla’s mythical solar roofs may be on ice right now, but its conventional solar business is a whole ‘nother story. This afternoon, the automaker said the division notched its “strongest”…
Gridtential thinks the OG rechargeable battery chemistry is ripe for disruption
Silicon-lead battery startup Gridtential today announced partnerships with two players in the lead-acid market, Hammond Group and Wirtz Manufacturing.
The U.S. was delivered a setback in its efforts to mitigate climate change. Investors are dismayed but still optimistic.
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What’s the ‘secret sauce’ behind Croatian EV maker Rimac?
Rimac Group made headlines after raising a Series D round that valued the Croatian startup at $2.2 billion, prompting the question: How has it succeeded where so many other EV makers have struggled?
EV fleet management startup Synop steers its way to $10M seed round
Commercial fleets are poised for electrification, and Synop wants to give operators more control over their vehicles.
Oklo’s Caroline Cochran and Swell’s Suleman Kahn talk scaling alternative energy at TC Sessions: Climate
Stopping the dire pace and consequences of climate change requires a diverse range of climate technologies across multiple fronts, and alternative energies play an essential role. However, changing the way…
Porsche invests in German startup aiming to be a one-stop shop for carbon neutral homes
Porsche’s venture arm has taken a minority stake in 1Komma5°, a five-month-old German startup aiming to offer households everything needed for a carbon neutral home, including energy storage, charging infrastructure…
Climate in the last decade has been unprecedented in many ways, none of them good. Wildfires in California have consumed entire towns; thousands of miles away, New Yorkers inhale the…
Tesla’s battery-manufacturing ‘Megafactory’ breaks ground in California
Tesla broke ground on its “Megafactory,” a new production facility in California, so christened because it will produce the company’s large-scale battery system Megapack. News of the previously unannounced factory…
How to meet the demand of EV infrastructure and maintain a stable grid
A combination of a new blueprint for managing energy on the grid plus behavior change is needed.
EnerVenue raises $100M to accelerate clean energy using nickel-hydrogen batteries
In order to support a buildout of renewable energy, which tends to over-generate electricity at certain times of day and under-generate at others, the grid is going to need a…
EV charging solutions will become an asset, not a liability, to the grid
Although wireless charging is still relatively new to the market, the benefits are beginning to become glaringly self-evident.
Tesla’s solar and energy storage business rakes in $810M, finally exceeds cost of revenue
Small as it is, the division is selling more energy storage and solar. Revenue from this division grew 62% from the previous quarter and more than 116% from the same…
Widespread electrification requires us to rethink battery technology
The global transition to electrification has increased demand for longer-lasting and faster-charging batteries. But battery innovation hasn’t kept pace with society’s ambitions.
EU and Bill Gates make joint push for $1BN to accelerate clean tech
The European Commission has announced a partnership with Bill Gates’ sustainable energy funding vehicle with the goal of unlocking new investments for clean tech and sustainable energy projects totaling up…
Tesla has installed its 200,000th Powerwall, the company’s home battery storage product, the company said in a tweet on Wednesday. Tesla’s CFO Zachary Kirkhorn told investors during a first-quarter earnings…
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Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030
In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. The 20-year-old fusion energy technology developer TAE Technologies said its reactors could be operating…
Lucid Motors sees a second life for its EV batteries in energy storage
Lucid Motors has designed the battery packs in its luxury electric vehicle for two lives. The company, which is already experimenting with energy storage systems for commercial and residential customers,…
Unpredictability and complexity are quickening, and technology has its place, but not simply as an individual safeguard or false security blanket.
