Mitsui backs smart grid company Viridity Energy
A smart grid software startup raises $15 million from Japanese conglomerate Mitsui. Read more »
China building super highway for clean power
China likes to do things on a grand scale, which allows it serve its vast population spreading out in huge regions and brag about its technical advancements. Here comes another one: the country is now building a transmission line with a whopping 800-kilovolt of capacity that will ferry wind and solar power over 2,210 kilometers (1,373 miles). Read more »
A growing wind farm in Alaska looks to batteries
While wind power is one of the cheapest forms of clean power, it’s also one of the most fickle, and to combat that problem, utilities are experimenting with energy storage, and in particular batteries. Read more »
Startup building super grid hub raises funds
Tres Amigas, a startup with an audacious proposal to build a transmission hub to connect the U.S.’s three major grids in the east, west and Texas, is raising funding to try to move forward with its design. Read more »
Viridity Energy Takes Demand Response to Military Bases
Viridity Energy is competing for a Defense Department contract to control power use at federal and military facilities, and has already signed up one military base customer. That’s a big prize for a startup, if it can scale to match its demands. Read more »
Xtreme Power Joins the Transmission Hub Project
The startups that have teamed up to build a transmission hub to connect the U.S.’s three major grids are adding another startup player for energy storage. Tres Amigas has partnered with Xtreme Power, which provides groups of batteries for energy storage for the power grid. Read more »
Startups Team Up to Remake Grid Transmission
Transmission lines — which carry power from power plants to the distribution point where electricity can then light up our houses — are getting an unusual dose of the entrepreneurial spirit. Transmission super hub startup Tres Amigas and smart software energy startup Viridity Energy have teamed up. Read more »
