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Infinium Joins Billion-Dollar Cleantech Club with $1.1B Boost

We now have a second clean tech company here reach the billion-dollar club.  Producer of clean fuels from captured waste gas and clean hydrogen, Infinium has received a $1.1 billion investment from Brookfield Asset Management to accelerate development of its eFuels. ...

New Boost for the Circular Economy

New legislation is providing big new business opportunities for innovation in reducing waste streams in California, and the ideas may spread nationally.  On September 26, we had a MeetUp featuring two speakers:  Heidi Sanborn and Shira Lane.  Heidi has been a strong...

EVs Powering the Grid

Connecting EVs to the grid (Vehicle-to-Grid or V2G) to use the batteries as a place to store excess electricity and feed it back at times of shortage is a hot topic. This two-way flow of energy helps stabilize the grid, especially during times of peak demand. It’s a...

Portable DC Fast Charging

You own an EV.  You live in a big apartment building with a big parking lot.  The lot has 4 Level 2 chargers, but they are usually full.  You are low on charge and need to make it to work.  You didn’t plug in last night. What do you do? That dilemma is one of several...

Water is Still Presenting Opportunities for Innovation

“Clean technology” often means “clean energy” to many.  But there are many more dimensions to it.  One of those is water.  It is simultaneously one of the most abundant, and most demanded commodities in our society.  It also is subject to constant innovations that...

Electric Vehicles: The Future of Transportation and Grid Stability

Electric Vehicle (EV) sales are on the rise again, while traditional vehicle sales are declining. The pessimistic prognosticators who said EV sales are declining are changing their tune once more. Initially, the argument was that "people don't want them," and now it's...

AI and the Future of the Grid: A Peek over the Horizon

This was one MeetUp you didn’t want to miss.  Most of the 30+ attendees said it was our best one ever—and we have had some great ones.  It was so good because we talked a lot about the context and the big issues of the next 20 years.   Our speakers were Daveed Sidhu,...

Bike Lane Marketplace wins Big Bang Clean Tech Award

Bike culture is a thing. A serious thing. If you are a part of that culture, you spend a lot of time and money looking for cool parts to customize your bike. When I was a kid, I thought it was cool to put a playing card on the frame of my Schwinn bike with a...

West Biofuels Charging Ahead

In 2022, we wrote that “West Biofuels Making the Leap to Commercial Plants”.  Now it is clear they made that leap.  We checked in with COO Matt Summers recently and discovered they are charging ahead with one plant operating, one nearly ready to operate under...

Simpl Global: Bootstrapping Growth

Farid Dibachi likes to do things differently.  That approach has served him well in building Simpl Global.  One is his technical approach.  The other is his way of funding growth. An electrical engineer, Farid founded the company in 2018 based on a very clever—and...

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