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Seattle Week in Review: Tradeoffs in Wi-Fi, Solar, Self-driving Cars
Sneak out for a run on one of the first springlike days of the year, or stay inside and finish that project? Connect via Wi-Fi or save your phone’s battery? Own your own self-driving car or join a...
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New UniEnergy Investor Bullish on Storage, But Prices Must Drop
UniEnergy Technologies (UET), the grid-scale battery maker based north of Seattle, began 2016 with a fresh $25 million funding round from investors including Orix, a Japanese financial services firm...
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Next Step Living, Once a Promising Energy Startup, Shuts Down
Next Step Living, one of Boston’s biggest bets in energy efficiency, has shut down. Greentech Media first reported the news Thursday, and Next Step Living confirmed on its website that it is ending...
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Soul-searching in Houston on Energy Innovation as Surge Closes
Houston — Since Surge Ventures closed its cleantech/energy venture accelerator last week, the question lingering has been, If a Surge can’t succeed in Houston—the energy capital of the world—then...
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COP21—The Road Ahead for Sustainability
Last week’s signing of the Paris climate accord successfully returned international efforts on climate change to the media spotlight. As private investors in cleantech startups since 2006, Element 8...
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Seattle Week in Review: Don’t Sleep on These Techstars
This week, we’re reviewing the latest batch of startups to emerge from Techstars Seattle; an ambitious renewable energy commitment from Microsoft; an artificial intelligence-powered legal research...
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Seattle Week in Review: Alexa, Rosetta, Alaska Airlines, Cuba
The deep freeze is forecast to relent this weekend, just in time for playoff football. Go Seahawks! Today we’re looking back at stories on Alexa, Amazon’s voice-activated, cloud-connected personal...
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UW Testbeds Touted as an Asset to Northwest Cleantech Innovators
Behind the tony shops of Seattle’s University Village, clean energy researchers are preparing to install one of the world’s most advanced machines for printing novel thin-film electronics. The...
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TX Roundup: New Funding, MD Anderson, Carolyn Rodz, 1PlanetSol, Dell
Let’s get caught up with the latest innovation news from Xconomy Texas. —An Austin social venture company, 1PlanetSol, is among a group of ventures competing in the US Department of Energy’s Solar in...
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Akamai Invests in Wind Farm as Tech’s Renewable Energy Demand Grows
Akamai Technologies, a content delivery network and cloud computing services provider, has invested in a Texas wind farm as it attempts to fulfill a promise to use renewable energy to power half of...
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Why Pay Retail? Griddy Says It Offers Wholesale Electricity Prices
Houston—Griddy wants to bring the Costco model to retail energy: Pay a membership fee; get wholesale prices for electricity. “Griddy, through the mobile app membership, connects the home right to the...
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Boston Tech Watch: TripAdvisor, MassChallenge, Twine Health & More
This week in Boston tech, we’re tracking trouble at TripAdvisor, the closure of a co-working space in Harvard Square, the winners of the latest MassChallenge Boston accelerator program, a pair of...
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Clean Energy Entrepreneur Desai on Tech’s Pitfalls & Promise in 2017
A series of events this year—from the Equifax data breach to the foreign use of social media to influence the U.S. presidential election—has prompted some to question the utopian promise of...
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San Antonio Startup Leaptran Develops Machine-Learning Energy Tech
San Antonio—A pair of San Antonio researchers have created a startup that aims to reduce the cost of energy consumption for commercial buildings using solar power and machine learning technology....
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Solar Electricity Startup NovoMoto Wins WI Business Plan Contest
NovoMoto, a clean energy startup that sells packages of solar panels, lamps, batteries, and other equipment to rural households in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was crowned the top winner of...
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From Google to Gates: Malta Targets Power Storage With Molten Salt
A new and unconventional power storage startup is preaching the gospel of salt and antifreeze as the long-sought answer to how to bottle up renewable electricity from intermittent solar and wind...
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Xnor.ai Makes Solar-Powered Computer Chip to Crunch, Learn from Data
By now, many consumers know that uploading a photo, video, or other file to “the cloud” on a service like Google or Facebook often means storing it in a data center. But the computer servers inside...
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LevelTen Energy Raises $20.5M to Facilitate Clean Power Purchases
LevelTen Energy, a startup that helps corporations make renewable energy purchases, has raised $20.5 million from investors. The Seattle-based company says it plans to use some of the new money to fund...
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As Clean Power Buying Surges, LevelTen Helps Firms Track Energy Data
LevelTen Energy, a Seattle-based startup that helps corporations make renewable energy purchases, on Wednesday released new performance monitoring software it says allows users to better track energy...
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Amazon Sets Electric Vehicle, Carbon Footprint Goals Amid Criticism
Amazon unveiled a new series of ambitious, long-term sustainability goals on Thursday that would continue the company’s efforts to make its operations more environmentally friendly.Under what Amazon...
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