Emerging tech
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At least six companies — including the latest, XGS Energy — looking to revitalize geothermal have closed financing rounds in the past six months.
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The new catalytic capital program promises to fill a financing gap for promising but unproven technologies and infrastructure projects.
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Energy Impact Partners’ Andy Lubershane on how to address the grid's twin challenges of booming electricity demand and stalling supply
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After a $244 million Series D, the enhanced geothermal company is looking to project-level finance. But first, it has to get institutional investors comfortable with the tech.
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The company hopes to make geothermal “geography agnostic” by using high-power microwaves to vaporize rocks.
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Our second installment with Nat Bullard about the biggest trends in climate tech.
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New cleantech projects across the U.S. will rely on project finance — but getting access to private capital requires checking some boxes.
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It’s the early days of research into reducing enteric methane emissions from cows and other ruminants, but there are promising solutions.
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Gas will make up part of the generation shortfall that the Mountain West power group faces after canceling its small modular reactor project.
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How robots, automation, and data are improving the performance of wind and solar.
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But the agency's new report finds we've got a lot of work to do to make extraterrestrial panels cost-competitive.
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New research finds major uncertainties in using solid particles in stratospheric aerosol injection.
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Developers are experimenting with automation and software to streamline their work.
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Before any novel technology can make it big, its very first project needs to be finished — and financed.
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What’s behind the recent troubles for nuclear startups? And can global nuclear capacity actually triple by 2050?