Circular manufacturing startup Molg announced that it has raised $5.5 million in seed funding, with proceeds aimed at scaling capacity for the company’s solution to tackle electronics waste. Founded in 2021 by CEO Rob Lawson Shanks and CTO Mark Lyons, Sterling, Virginia-based Molg provides circular manufacturing processes for electronics and electrical components, focused on robotics […]
Zap Energy, which is developing a commercially-viable fusion energy system, announced that it has raised $130 million in a Series D round, with proceeds to be used to advance the company’s efforts to build a commercial fusion power plant. The company also announced that it has begun operations of Century, its new high-rep-rate, liquid-metal-cooled fusion […]
Decarbonization technology company Paebbl announced that it has raised $25 million in a Series A funding raise, with proceeds to be used to scale up its technology turning captured CO2 to carbon-storing construction materials. Founded in 2021, Rotterdam-based Paebbl has developed a system to speed up the natural process of CO2 mineralization – where minerals […]
The UK government announced today the launch of a new scheme aimed at helping to build long duration energy storage capacity by enabling investment in critical infrastructure. Energy storage forms one of the major building blocks for the rapidly expanding clean energy transition, given the intermittent generating nature of many sources of renewable energy, such […]
Sustainable energy firm energyRe announced that it has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google, supplying the tech giant with 435 MW of renewable energy for its operations in the central U.S. from a new solar project.
Renewable power company BrightNight announced that it has closed a $440 million strategic equity investment from Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s alternative investments platform Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Initially announced earlier this year, the investment is aimed at supporting BrightNight’s independent power producer (IPP) business model and the buildout of its utility-scale portfolio across the U.S.
CDPQ and Nuveen Green Capital (NGC) have announced the establishment of a $600 million financing program for sustainable real estate investments. The program will combine senior and Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing, which enables property owners to finance the upfront cost for qualified energy, water, resilience, and public benefit projects.
Nachhaltige Gebäudesanierung – der Bedarf ist da, der Markt groß. Was haben die Proptech-Gründer von Purpose Green noch in ihr Pitchdeck geschrieben? Schaut es euch an.
Data center-focused cooling and automation solution provider Submer announced that it has raised $55.5 million in a new funding round, with proceeds aimed at supporting the copmany’s sustainable immersion cooling technology to help data centers cut costs and environmental impact. The financing comes as AI-driven growth is driving a rapid increase in data center power […]
3M announced a series of new and updated climate-related goals, including a new target to reduce absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 42% by 2030, on a 2021 basis.
The European Commission announced that it is proposing a one-year delay to the implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), a new law aimed at ensuring that products imported to or exported from EU markets no longer contribute to deforestation and forest degradation globally, which is currently set to apply to from the end of […]
The UK government announced on Friday that it will make up to £21.7 billion available over the next 25 years for the development of two new “carbon capture clusters” capable of removing and storing more than 8.5 million tonnes of industrial carbon emissions per year.
Energiespeicher. Das Schweizer Unternehmen Energy Vault und das Architekturbüro Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) wollen Schwerkraft-Energiespeichersysteme in Gebäude integrieren und damit die Art, wie Energieeffizienz in urbanen Umgebungen angegangen wird, revolutionieren.
Ein rheinischer Obstbauer will beides – Solarstrom und Äpfel ernten. Auf seinem Bio-Hof in Rheinland-Pfalz wachsen Gala & Co im Schutze eines Solardachs.
Kenia nutzt die Energie der Erdwärme und gilt als Vorreiter bei erneuerbaren Energien, von Geothermie bis Windkraft. Doch auch das hat Schattenseiten.
