Zigging when most are zagging, ex-Meta CTO raises $250M climate fund

Mike Schroepfer’s Gigascale Capital has raised a large fund to back founders building climate-friendly solutions for the world’s energy and material shortages.

Robot Trucks Can Help Cut Fuel Consumption

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at an emerging market for electric tugboats and boom times for a solar panel maker that doesn’t use Chinese components

Why Sardinians Are Fighting the Renewable Energy Transition
Why Sardinians Are Fighting the Renewable Energy Transition

“Not in my backyard” is the rallying cry of citizens everywhere resisting projects proposed for their locality. Whether it’s affordable housing, a waste treatment plant, or a new data center, they may recognize the benefit of the activity. They just d…

How The Iran War Oil Shock Is Helping Launch A Market For Electric Tugboats

Arc Marine started out selling luxury electric boats. Now it’s chasing a bigger business: battery systems for tugs, barges and military boats.

AI Is Great At Analyzing The Past. Venture Capital Bets On The Future

AI dominates venture capital research and investments — but the next big startups often break the rules. Human judgment still matters.

Caudal Energy raises £4.3M to scale fin-inspired tidal power technology

Caudal Energy, a company developing a new class of predictable renewable power systems, has raised £4.3 million in funding, led by Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE) and Empirical Ventures, with partici…

How Big Pharma Is Turning Industrial Heat Into A Strategic Asset

AstraZeneca’s Clean Heat Program is turning industrial heat decarbonization into a hedge against energy volatility — and a core business strategy.

Boom Times For The Battery Energy Storage Market

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at Tesla’s reliance on California and a deal to supply clean hydrogen, generated underground, for buses and trucks

How Santa Marta Showed The World A New Way Forward

The conference in Colombia brought together a coalition of the willing wanting to protect nations from the economic, political and environmental impacts of fossil fuels.

REPS raises $23.6M to turn roads into power plants by harvesting energy from traffic

Tyrol energy generation startup REPS today announced a $23.6 million equity financing round to scale its Road Energy Production System, a patented “road power plant” that converts vehicle traffic int…