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…

How 24/7 Renewables Are Ending Fossil Fuel Reliability

IRENA analysis shows solar and wind paired with storage now deliver 24/7 power cheaper than coal and gas. As battery costs drop, renewables are replacing fossil fuels.

Anker fixes the two worst things about power stations
Anker fixes the two worst things about power stations

Anker’s Solix S2000 solves two major pain points with power stations: idle power draw that can leave a battery unexpectedly dead, and the large footprint required to hold so much energy. Impressively, it achieves this at an incredibly low introductory price that works out to just $0.29 per Wh. Unlike most other power stations in […]

Tackling Plastic Pollution With A Greener Alternative

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at a Korean solar billionaire and The Ocean Cleanup’s Boyen Slat on trash interceptors and Great Pacific Garbage Patch

UK startup Greenpixie raises £4.7M to cut AI and cloud energy waste for enterprises

Energy SaaS startup Greenpixie has closed a £4.7 million pre-Series A round to help the world’s largest companies cut millions of dollars in wasted IT spend. Created to provide a crucial layer of sust…