Shayle Kann
Shayle Kann

Shayle Kann

Shayle Kann is a partner at Energy Impact Partners, the leading venture capital fund investing in companies shaping the future of energy and infrastructure, where he leads the firm’s investments at the frontier of climate tech. He is also the host of Catalyst, a podcast from Latitude Media that tackles big questions about how to decarbonize the planet.

Shayle Kann is a contributing writer to Latitude Media.
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Hydrogen
From biowaste to 'biogold'

How to make use of biomass — and biowaste — without impacting global food supply

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Hydrogen
TEA breakdown: green ammonia and synthetic methane

Shayle and his colleagues explore the challenging economics of two technologies — and what would have to change to make them work.

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Grid edge
U.S. market
Getting heat pumps right

How do we fix the sometimes frustrating customer experience of getting a heat pump?

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Global markets
Fixing the refrigerant problem

We need to prevent leakage and replace high-impact refrigerants with alternatives.

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Global markets
Why climate tech startups get this one thing wrong

Techno-economic analyses help investors and entrepreneurs answer the question of how a technology will compete.

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Research
The unexplored frontier of methane removal

A new National Academies report explores some uncharted questions around methane removal.

The complex path to market for low-carbon cement

What will it take to get buyers, developers, contractors, and others on board with low-carbon cement?

Battery materials at a factory in China
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STORAGE
Unpacking China’s cheap battery costs

There’s more to China’s manufacturing advantage than subsidies and cheap labor.

Catalyst
DAC’s bumpy road to commercial scale

Climeworks’ CFO Andreas Aepli on the challenges of scaling up DAC

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AI
Corporates
Can AI revolutionize materials discovery?

Google DeepMind’s Ekin Dogus Cubuk says AI may be more useful for optimizing existing materials than for discovering new ones.

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Emerging tech
The better mousetrap fallacy

Which industries need tech breakthroughs, and which need to scale existing solutions?

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VC
The rise of climate adaptation tech

A growing list of technologies could help us adapt to climate change — and potentially turn a profit, too.

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Emerging tech
Why are we still flaring gas?

Capturing natural gas from oil wells seems like a no-brainer. Why do oil producers still flare it?

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Hydrogen
Hunting for geologic hydrogen

Koloma CEO Pete Johnson says that geologic hydrogen, if proven out, would be “world-changing” for the energy transition.

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Nuclear
The cost of nuclear

Building reactors in South Korea is far cheaper than building in the U.S., but why?