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Meta buys a nuclear power plant (more or less)
<p>Meta and Constellation Energy said the deal would help keep the Clinton Clean Energy Center running through 2047 without ratepayer support.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 33 min read
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Breakneck data center growth challenges Microsoft’s sustainability goals
<p>Microsoft’s sustainability goals are imperiled by its push into AI and cloud services.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 23 min read
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Trump administration to claw back $3.7B in clean energy and manufacturing awards
<p>Large corporations and growing startups were wrapped up in the latest move by the Trump administration to undo Biden-era contracts.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 302 min read
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Tesla alum’s Heron Power closes $38M Series A to transform key grid technology
<p>Heron Power is developing solid-state transformers, which promise to be more compact and responsive than the century-old analog models. </p>
Rahul Patil
May 291 min read
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Tesla pleads for Senate to spare its booming energy business
<p>If the Senate were to pass it with those repeals in tact, it could have a devastating impact on Tesla’s energy division.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 292 min read
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Volteras wants to connect to more EVs than anyone else
<p>Volteras has raised $11.1 million to expand its connected car offerings to automakers and companies that want to interact with EVs.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 293 min read
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Atomic Canyon wants to be ChatGPT for the nuclear industry
<p>Atomic Canyon raised $7 million in a seed round to expand its document search AI for nuclear power plants.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 283 min read
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Alt Carbon scores $12M seed to scale carbon removal in India
<p>From a struggling family tea estate to an innovative climate venture, Alt Carbon has raised $12 million in a seed round as it plans to scale its carbon dioxide removal work in the South Asian nation. The climate tech startup, which locks away carbon for thousands of years through enhanced rock weathering on farmlands, attracted […]</p>
Rahul Patil
May 224 min read
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Trump administration may sell deep-sea mining leases at startup’s urging
<p>Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to mine the ocean floor.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 212 min read
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SparkCharge raises $30M to help fleets electrify without commitments
<p>SparkCharge raised $15.5 million in equity and secured a $15 million loan to expand its fleet charging operations.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 203 min read
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Google inks another massive solar power deal to electrify its data centers
<p>The new deal covers solar and storage projects being developed in South Carolina by EnergyRe. </p>
Rahul Patil
May 191 min read
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Laser-powered fusion experiment more than doubles its power output
<p>The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 172 min read
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The Nuclear Company raises $51M to develop massive reactor sites
<p>The funding round arrives as tech companies and utilities are struggling to secure power for data centers.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 163 min read
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Fieldstone Bio is building microbes that can sense everything from TNT to arsenic
<p>Fieldstone Bio recently raised $5 million in seed funding.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 153 min read
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House GOP wants to cut parts of the Inflation Reduction Act while sparing others
<p>House Republicans’ axe has fallen in places both expected and surprising.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 132 min read
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GM’s new ‘manganese-rich’ battery promises cheaper EVs in 2028
<p>Lithium-manganese-rich (LMR) batteries should slash costs without sacrificing much range.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 133 min read
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Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor
<p>Realta hopes to build power plants cheaply enough to supply power as low as $40 per megawatt-hour.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 133 min read
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InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel
<p>The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 123 min read
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Google inks deal to develop 1.8 GW of advanced nuclear power
<p>Google is promising to add at least 600 megawatts of generating capacity at each of the three sites. </p>
Rahul Patil
May 92 min read
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Trump administration plans to shutter money-saving Energy Star program
<p>The program’s signature yellow labels appear on appliances and electronics for sale throughout the U.S.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 71 min read
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