Clean industry
G2 Venture Partners will invest $500M in companies cleaning up legacy industries
Buoyed by some initial exits, G2 now has even more money to work with.
By Julian Spector .
Julian is a senior reporter at Canary Media, where he covers batteries and emerging technologies to store clean energy and unlock a carbon-free grid. He also reports on the budding clean hydrogen industry, and chases down clean energy breakthroughs in far-flung locales.
Prior to the launch of Canary Media in 2021, Julian covered the rise of the grid storage industry for much-loved industry news outlet Greentech Media. Previously he covered clean energy and transportation for CityLab at The Atlantic, and conducted grant-funded climate journalism in Bangladesh. His stories have appeared in The Guardian, HuffPost, Al Jazeera America, and other outlets. He speaks regularly at energy-related events and on podcasts. He graduated from Duke University and still misses Carolina barbecue, but enjoys investigating local cuisine wherever his reporting takes him.
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Climatetech finance
Diamond List screens climate startups for angels, new sustainability investors
The freely accessible Diamond List includes 75 promising early-stage climate startups for investors to peruse.By Julian Spector .
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Climatetech finance
Newsletter: 3 clean energy SPAC stories you should know about
Wall Street's SPAC frenzy has given dozens of energy-related startups a fast track to public markets.By Julian Spector .
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Solar
Heliogen raises $108M for solar-powered industrial heat
The startup's machine-vision technology makes sunshine a viable alternative for carbon-intensive tasks like manufacturing steel and cement.By Julian Spector .
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Solar
Newsletter: Solar in space, solar on the ground, solar on the radio
We didn't foresee a track called "Solar Power" contending for Song of the Summer when we launched Canary Media in April.By Julian Spector .
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Energy storage
A power plant in Maryland ditches coal for batteries, a first for the US
Power producer Talen Energy is installing batteries at a retired coal plant near Baltimore.By Julian Spector .
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Solar
Newsletter: Solar power has a wildfire problem
Turns out solar panels are not great at coping with historic wildfires blotting out the sun with smoke.By Julian Spector .
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Batteries
A huge battery fleet is coming to the Philippines
Fluence is delivering 470 megawatts of grid batteries to bolster grid stability in just over a year's time.By Julian Spector .
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Politics
Newsletter: Biden wants to build batteries better
Batteries are quickly becoming crucial to the future of the grid and the auto industry.By Julian Spector .
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Nuclear
Newsletter: Which comes first, nuclear fusion or green hydrogen?
Sooner or later someone will ask you what's up with nuclear fusion or green hydrogen.By Julian Spector .
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