The Carbon Copy
We’ve entered a new era of mass deployment of climatetech solutions. How will it play out? The Carbon Copy is a weekly narrative-news show that explains the business and tech trends shaping decarbonization. Each week, host Stephen Lacey digs into the business and technology stories that explain the rise of clean energy, the challenge to fossil fuels, and how the energy system is transforming in dramatic ways.
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VCs from Energy Impact Partners and Prelude Ventures go head-to-head in a climate tech news quiz. Where do you stack up?
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Views on the $1.8 trillion clean energy economy
Some optimistic and cautionary takes on the investment trends guiding the energy transition
A dive into the different business models shaping virtual power plants
An Energy Department VPP expert on the imperative for connecting and dispatching distributed resources
Pricing and tech trends shaping the booming global storage market
As manufacturing capacity ramps up, is a shakeout on the horizon?
US power demand is set to boom. How will we meet it?
AI, manufacturing, and electrification are doubling power demand forecasts. But we don’t need fancy tech breakthroughs to serve it.
AI is already advancing new materials for solar, batteries, fuel cells, and EVs
‘Without AI, we're stuck in first, and we need to be driving a Ferrari top speed.’
Climate venture investors riff on headwinds, hype, and wildcards of 2023
Despite a downturn in the climate tech sector, we may look back on 2023 as the “year of building” the green industrial economy.
The terawatt era of PV: ‘Solar will be the gas of today’
On The Carbon Copy podcast: What does it look like for the global market to install a gigawatt every day?
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The storylines of the energy transition in 2023
This is the decade to get it right, and we’re almost halfway through it.