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Venture and strategic investment activity in climate and energy technologies, spanning geothermal, grid infrastructure, solar, and power software startups.
Type One Energy's CEO says its new $200 million Series B gets the company halfway to paying for a 400 MW fusion plant at TVA's Bull Run. Grid planners and large power buyers now have a named utility site and a 2034 target to track.
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A $150M Series A backed by Nvidia, Siemens, RWE and 12 Fortune Global 500 investors bets that curtailable data centres get grid access the rest of the queue has to wait for.
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The Denver startup left stealth with $8 million and a factory-built supercritical CO2 block that sits at a simple-cycle turbine's exhaust. Its case to operators is that the turbine itself needs no permit work.
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The seed round, led by Berlin's PT1 Ventures with Octopus Ventures and AENU returning, takes Metris Energy to $7.5m raised against 500 megawatts under management, about an eighth of what US rival Raptor Maps has banked.
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Fluxnium has come out of stealth with $7 million and a Department of Energy licence to grow uranium-catching fibre in the ocean. What a pound costs is still the open question for anyone who buys reactor fuel.
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The startup redesigned a rejected project outside St. Louis with a digital twin and post-placing robots, producing the same power on 40% less land. Its investor says permitting and land now cost more than panels.
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TQ Ventures and Sheryl Sandberg's family office put $4m behind a Munich battery-software spin-off whose 800 customers average 7.5 sites each, and how much of that footprint trades live is not broken out.
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Certain Energy's Series A rests on a UK constraint-payment forecast of £8bn a year by 2030. The two curtailment figures in the same account differ by a factor of three.
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A $150mn Series A backed by Nvidia, Siemens, RWE and GE Vernova prices workload curtailment as the cheap answer to interconnection queues. The demonstrated evidence is one cluster.
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