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- CD Original Article · Jennie Montano · 02/17/2025Have you thought about ditching your gas furnace or car and electrifying your home, only to be stopped by sticker shock or a maze of choices? If so, you’re not alone. The good news: plenty of homeowners are cracking the code on all-electric, zero-carbon living. Take Jennie Montano, for example. Jennie is a homeowner in Austin, Texas, who recently decided to transform her 1970s bungalow into a…
Renewables
- CD Original Article · Elaeanor Clark Boli · 03/19/2025Renewable energy is booming, but many communities remain skeptical—and for good reason. While infrastructure scales up, too many projects still overlook local economic resilience, environmental justice, and community voices. Can “for profit” and “for good” coexist? (Spoiler: yep, and today we have the blueprint.) After the new U.S. administration removed crucial community engagement guidelines…
- CD Original Article · Nandita Srivastava · 05/22/2026You know how food companies handle methane? One sets a Scope 3 target. Another joins a voluntary pledge. A third is running a program to reduce emissions on dairy farms in France. Fifty of the largest food and agriculture companies in North America, each building its own approach, each figuring out measurement from scratch, most of them unable to tell you how much methane their supply chain…
- Podcast · Skander Garroum & Jordy Gold · 05/29/2026AI companies are racing to secure power for their energy hungry datacenters and it turns out renewables might be their only option in the short term. Environmentalists have been terrified about what AI and its energy use could mean for the climate. But after diving into the data, we flip the script on its head and ask: is AI the unexpected catalyst we never knew we needed to drive renewables…
- CD Original Article · Eleanor Clark Boli · 05/29/2026Renewable energy is booming, but many communities remain skeptical—and for good reason. While infrastructure scales up, too many projects still overlook local economic resilience, environmental justice, and community voices. Can “for profit” and “for good” coexist? (Spoiler: yep, and today we have the blueprint.) After the new U.S. administration removed crucial community engagement guidelines…
Renewables › Software › Asset Management
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 02/14/2025The Space Laser Dilemma: Asset-based financing for climate companies. Mairi Robertson is Director of Asset Financing at Ezra Climate, where she develops innovative financing structures for energy transition investors and companies. The Space Laser Dilemma: Asset-based financing for climate companies Photo by NASA on Unsplash . Space Lasers & Company: A tale from the frontier Let’s suppose…
Renewables › Solar
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 08/11/2023In a world where the sun sets every day, one energy source has managed to shine brighter than ever before: solar energy. Just a few decades ago, solar panels were a rare sight. Fast forward to today, and they're starting to be everywhere, powering cities, and offering a glimmer of hope in the fight against climate change. How did a technology once confined to calculators and satellites…
- Podcast · Skander Garroum & Jordy Gold · 05/29/2026Thanks to three converging ‘miracles’ the continent of Africa is one step closer to living out the Solarpunk utopian dream where people can live in harmony with nature. This episode is based on Skander Garroum’s viral article that blew up, focussing on how solar and batteries have taken hold, how African countries are using the tech to leapfrog others in the west and the amazing things they…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026What’s happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, except it’s not being built by governments or utilities or World Bank consortiums. It’s being built by startups selling solar panels to farmers on payment plans. And it’s working. Over 30 million solar products sold in 2024. 400,000 new solar installations every month across…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026Australia’s energy crisis has a dirty secret: 4 million rooftops have solar, but the grid is buckling under the chaos. When solar floods the market at noon and vanishes at sunset, who pays? The renters, the poor, and everyone locked out of the $15,000 solar club. Now one company just raised $67M to flip the script entirely: What if you could get solar and batteries for free, and the grid…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026Why & how this startup is buying tired wind farms and giving them a second life. Here, we are diving into 3 companies: NeXtWind in Germany, Chestnut Carbon in the US and Sun King in Kenya.
Renewables › Solar › Production and Deployment
- Podcast · Skander Garroum & Jordy Gold · 05/29/2026Thanks to three converging ‘miracles’ the continent of Africa is one step closer to living out the Solarpunk utopian dream where people can live in harmony with nature. This episode is based on Skander Garroum’s viral article that blew up, focussing on how solar and batteries have taken hold, how African countries are using the tech to leapfrog others in the west and the amazing things they…
Renewables › Solar › Production and Deployment › Residential Solar
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 08/11/2023hining the spotlight on emerging giants in the solar arena: Palmetto: A fresh face, now the 8th largest in the scene with 1% market share; ION Solar: Celebrating the all-American spirit in solar solutions; Pineapple Energy: What happens when midsized installers are brought under one roof
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 08/09/2023Diving into the world of residential solar. Here's a fun fact: the surge in residential installations is fueled by decreasing system costs and soaring electricity prices. How solar became so affordable? In 2022, the U.S. residential sector grew by 40% in a year. To put that into perspective, that's 700,000 American households harnessing the sun's power in just twelve months!…
- Company · 05/26/2025Trust in a Fragmented Solar Terrain: Amidst the solar sector's vast, decentralized landscape brimming with myriad local contenders, carving a trustworthy brand is no easy feat. Yet, Palmetto illuminates the scene with gleaming 4.9 stars on Google reviews. Evolutionary Business Model: Having spent years as a traditional vertical seller, Palmetto has transformed its role. They now serve as…
- Company · 05/26/2025Focus on Direct Sales (door to door), selling only american products (at a premium), starting at lesser known states, and then expanding from there (everyone needs solar, even if the winter is harsh). Ion Solar champions a unified service approach. They also believe in a strong customer relationship, with high reviews.
- Company · 05/26/2025SUNation Energy is proud to be a top solar and energy installer throughout the Long Island area. Since 2003, SUNation has served more than 9,000 homeowners and building owners in the region, installing the ost current and efficient solar panels and battery technology. We stand out based on our professionalism, personalized customer experience, and constant drive to reach peak customer…
- Person · 05/26/2025Founder & Economist on a mission to demystify climate solutions. Serving bite-sized insights and in-depth explorations.
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 03/03/2025Your customers don’t really care about saving the planet—unless it also saves (or makes) them money. Curious how solar got unstuck (and why nuclear SMRs and green hydrogen haven’t)? Check out Mairi’s bite-sized manifesto below. It’s a crash course in Homo economicus meets climate investing: perfect for founders, investors, or anyone who wants to see where the climate tech unicorns will come from.
- CD Original Article · Jennie Montano · 02/17/2025Have you thought about ditching your gas furnace or car and electrifying your home, only to be stopped by sticker shock or a maze of choices? If so, you’re not alone. The good news: plenty of homeowners are cracking the code on all-electric, zero-carbon living. Take Jennie Montano, for example. Jennie is a homeowner in Austin, Texas, who recently decided to transform her 1970s bungalow into a…
- Company · Skander Garroum · 05/29/20261.5 billion people lack reliable grid power, forcing them to spend up to 10% of income on dirty fuels and lighting. Sun King is replacing that reality at scale: 23 million solar products sold in 2023, serving 40 million customers in 42 countries, and targeting 50 million units by 2026.
Renewables › Solar › Production and Deployment › Solar Financing
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 01/29/2025We’re here to tackle the current climate challenges head-on. One of the biggest right now? Navigating the funding Ice Age facing climate companies. Where’s the money going to come from to fuel the solutions we desperately need? Thankfully Mairi Robertson, climate financier extraordinaire, has agreed to open-source her Cli-Fi Playbook (that’s climate finance, not speculative fiction). Over the…
- Podcast · Skander Garroum & Jordy Gold · 05/29/2026Thanks to three converging ‘miracles’ the continent of Africa is one step closer to living out the Solarpunk utopian dream where people can live in harmony with nature. This episode is based on Skander Garroum’s viral article that blew up, focussing on how solar and batteries have taken hold, how African countries are using the tech to leapfrog others in the west and the amazing things they…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026What’s happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, except it’s not being built by governments or utilities or World Bank consortiums. It’s being built by startups selling solar panels to farmers on payment plans. And it’s working. Over 30 million solar products sold in 2024. 400,000 new solar installations every month across…
Renewables › Wind
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026Why & how this startup is buying tired wind farms and giving them a second life. Here, we are diving into 3 companies: NeXtWind in Germany, Chestnut Carbon in the US and Sun King in Kenya.
Renewables › Hydropower › Drought Management & Planning
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/27/2026Affordable solar irrigation, sold on pay as you grow terms, is letting smallholder farmers in Africa water crops year round, boost yields, and build climate resilience without diesel or bank loans. Africa doesn’t have a water problem. It has a finance problem that looks like a water problem. Here’s a math problem: A solar pump costs $1,200. A smallholder farmer earns $600 per year. Rain comes…
Renewables › Biomass & Waste-To-Energy (WTE) › Carbon Capture & Storage
- CD Original Article · Isabelle Le Guay · 09/15/2023This post will continue to explore Carbon Removal. After deep diving into the Carbon Removal Hype, digging into Carbon Offsets, Climate Drift will now look at the carbon removal challenge ahead of us. We hear about carbon dioxide emissions, carbon tons, and huge efforts ahead. But where are we now, and where do we need to go?. In summary, we are currently looking at a market that will grow…
- CD Original Article · Tessa Peerless · 01/27/2025The 7 things everyone should know about low-carbon cement. If you’ve ever thought of cement as “just that boring grey stuff holding up buildings,” you’re in for a surprise. Today, we’re diving into one of the most important climate challenges: decarbonizing cement. Cement isn’t just the backbone of modern infrastructure; it’s also responsible for a staggering 8-9% of global emissions. That’s…
Nuclear
- CD Original Article · Jarek Dmowski · 05/29/2026January didn’t ease into 2026. It kicked the door open. We tracked 105 climate investments totaling $26 billion. That’s nearly three times December’s volume and the biggest month since we started this series. The headline: China broke ground on the world’s first nuclear cogeneration plant, an $8.5 billion facility designed to replace coal-fired steam in heavy industry. The U.S. responded with…
Nuclear › Fusion
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026Commonwealth Fusion Systems represents the most credible path to commercial fusion. Their $3B war chest, MIT pedigree, and proprietary magnet technology position them to win the global race to fusion commercialization. While competitors like Helion Energy and TAE Technologies pursue alternative approaches, CFS’s tokamak design builds on 70+ years of proven plasma physics. The stakes couldn’t…
Energy Storage
- Person · 05/26/2025Founder & Economist on a mission to demystify climate solutions. Serving bite-sized insights and in-depth explorations.
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 09/26/2023Rondo, a company aiming to significantly reduce global emissions - how significantly? Their stated goal is reducing 1% of world emissions in a decade. But this is not where their ambition stops: in 15 years they want to reach 15%. So far they have dozens of pilots running and hundreds more in the pipeline. They raised more than $100 million, with their last round of $60 million this year…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 09/26/2023The Rondo Heat Battery delivers 24/7 zero-carbon, economical industrial heat, fueled by affordable renewable electricity. It supplies on-demand high-temperature heat as hot air, steam, or hot water, enabling customers to reduce operating costs while utilizing zero-carbon energy continuously.
- CD Original Article · Harrison Tramposch · 08/24/2024Batteries are becoming a key player in the energy transition, with demand growing exponentially as various sectors adopt battery technology. This domino effect is driving down global fossil fuel demand, as highlighted in RMI’s recent report. From consumer electronics to electric vehicles, batteries are climbing S-curves of adoption, with sales doubling every two to three years. Battery prices…
- CD Original Article · Micheal Applebaum · 03/03/2025Today we're diving into the fast-growing, high-stakes world of battery energy storage systems (BESS). This market isn't just heating up; it's set to skyrocket from around $50 billion in 2024 to potentially $150 billion by 2030. But growth at this scale doesn't come without turbulence. Battery storage sits at the center of the energy transition, unlocking renewables,…
- Person · 05/26/2025Founder & Economist on a mission to demystify climate solutions. Serving bite-sized insights and in-depth explorations.
The Grid & Demand
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 04/02/2024When Microsoft announced a 10.5GW renewable energy deal last May (8 times larger than any previous corporate PPA) it grabbed everyone’s attention. At first glance, it looked like a routine “Big Tech goes green” headline. But a closer look shows something else at play: the AI hype is suddenly reshaping not only how we use electricity, but how we finance it, too. How do you fund power plants big…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/20/2026A Climate Drift companion to the Stepchange Show's epic 4.5-hour episode on the largest machine ever built
- CD Original Article · Eric Schiff · 05/22/2026How FOAKs cross the gap from working physics to bankable, repeatable deployment. Across AI data centers, batteries, grid storage, and industrial heat, the technologies mostly work. What breaks projects is everything around the tech: grid queues that stretch to seven years, factories that don’t ramp, pilots that never become products, and FOAK deployments that stay bespoke forever. Physics…
- Video · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026Data centers consume 1% of global electricity today. Household devices (TVs, phones, everything you own) use 2%. And there’s 12 gigawatts under construction with 60+ gigawatts planned. For context: a city of 1 million people uses 1 gigawatt. In the video I try to answer: how are data centers actually powered, and what comes next? I cover the grid problem, Jevons paradox, gas turbines, nuclear,…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026A 5-minute crash briefing on transmission bottlenecks, modernization billions, and the great infrastructure awakening. Today we are breaking down what is happening in ⚡ Grid & Energy: where the grid is jammed, what gets built, how it’s financed, the must-know stats, the winners and losers, the next 12 months, and the names to track.
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026A 5-minute crash briefing on compute, carbon, and the coming power crunch. AI is chewing through the world’s electricity like Pac-Man on steroids. Data center demand will triple by 2030, straining grids already creaking under renewables build-out delays. But here’s the paradox: the same AI could help us save up to 5 billion tons of CO₂ a year. Spend carbon to save carbon.
- CD Original Article · Ananya Chopra · 07/09/2026The average U.S. power grid runs at about 30% utilization. Roughly 70% of it sits idle on a normal day, even while everyone in the room swears there’s no room left to plug in one more data center. Somewhere in that gap sits a large, cheap answer to the AI power crunch, if you can find it. GridCARE looked at one slice of National Grid, the same network with a years-long waiting list, and…
The Grid & Demand › Smart Grids
- Company · 05/26/2025VECKTA is the world’s first end-to-end onsite energy deployment platform and advisory. Enterprise businesses improve resilience, unlock savings and decarbonize at scale with VECKTA. Purpose-built to solve the challenges of onsite energy deployment at scale. Baseline an entire portfolio of sites to get a clear view of potential benefits. Establish a centralized, secure database of information.…
The Grid & Demand › Microgrid
- CD Original Article · Peter Blair · 02/26/2025The grid is not ready for the explosive growth in EV sales we expect to see over the next decade. While Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) will play an important role in managing the increased demand for power, we will need physical investment to make the grid more resilient. Microgrids offer the potential to fast-track a grid that can handle the increased demand for clean electricity. Read on to…
- CD Original Article · Tanner Scholtes · 04/04/2025In an era of climate change, where natural disasters and grid outages are becoming more frequent, the need for resilience – the ability to reliably maintain a continuous power supply – is increasingly vital, for communities and businesses alike. Microgrids have emerged as a critical component and enabler of the energy transition, offering an ideal solution for delivering resilience when it is…
- CD Original Article · Clint Amadeus Chan · 09/13/2023Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) are seen by the US Department of Energy and other federal regulators as an important tool in both driving and meeting the demands of the green energy transition. In fact by 2050, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) estimates that VPPs could avoid 44 million– 59 million tons of CO2 in 2050 and provide tens of GW of renewable energy capacity by 2050. So what are they?…
The Grid & Demand › Rising Complexity of the Grid & Renewables
- Video · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026Data centers consume 1% of global electricity today. Household devices (TVs, phones, everything you own) use 2%. And there’s 12 gigawatts under construction with 60+ gigawatts planned. For context: a city of 1 million people uses 1 gigawatt. In the video I try to answer: how are data centers actually powered, and what comes next? I cover the grid problem, Jevons paradox, gas turbines, nuclear,…
The Grid & Demand › Virtual Power Plants & Distributed Energy Resource (DER)
- CD Original Article · Tracy Cheung · 09/30/2024A Roadmap for Sustainability in AI. In this deep dive, we're looking at: The current state of AI sustainability; Challenges AI companies face in going green; Finding comparables: How tech giants are benchmarking their sustainability efforts; The economic upside of sustainable AI; Solutions to rein in AI's carbon footprint; A sustainability roadmap for AI companies. This is a tactical…
- Company · 05/26/2025VECKTA is the world’s first end-to-end onsite energy deployment platform and advisory. Enterprise businesses improve resilience, unlock savings and decarbonize at scale with VECKTA. Purpose-built to solve the challenges of onsite energy deployment at scale. Baseline an entire portfolio of sites to get a clear view of potential benefits. Establish a centralized, secure database of information.…
- CD Original Article · Chris Bernkopf and Maura White · 09/14/2025deep dive into the world of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). We'll explore: The Flexibility Revolution: How consumption is becoming as flexible as generation once was inflexible; The Dual Flywheel Effect: Understanding the self-reinforcing relationship between DERs and renewable energy; Grid Stability in the DER Era: How to maintain balance in an increasingly complex system;…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026Australia’s energy crisis has a dirty secret: 4 million rooftops have solar, but the grid is buckling under the chaos. When solar floods the market at noon and vanishes at sunset, who pays? The renters, the poor, and everyone locked out of the $15,000 solar club. Now one company just raised $67M to flip the script entirely: What if you could get solar and batteries for free, and the grid…
Batteries
- CD Original Article · Harrison Tramposch · 08/24/2024Batteries are becoming a key player in the energy transition, with demand growing exponentially as various sectors adopt battery technology. This domino effect is driving down global fossil fuel demand, as highlighted in RMI’s recent report. From consumer electronics to electric vehicles, batteries are climbing S-curves of adoption, with sales doubling every two to three years. Battery prices…
- CD Original Article · Micheal Applebaum · 03/03/2025Today we're diving into the fast-growing, high-stakes world of battery energy storage systems (BESS). This market isn't just heating up; it's set to skyrocket from around $50 billion in 2024 to potentially $150 billion by 2030. But growth at this scale doesn't come without turbulence. Battery storage sits at the center of the energy transition, unlocking renewables,…
Batteries › Manufacturing › Supply Chain
- CD Original Article · Harrison Tramposch · 08/24/2024Batteries are becoming a key player in the energy transition, with demand growing exponentially as various sectors adopt battery technology. This domino effect is driving down global fossil fuel demand, as highlighted in RMI’s recent report. From consumer electronics to electric vehicles, batteries are climbing S-curves of adoption, with sales doubling every two to three years. Battery prices…
- CD Original Article · Micheal Applebaum · 03/03/2025Today we're diving into the fast-growing, high-stakes world of battery energy storage systems (BESS). This market isn't just heating up; it's set to skyrocket from around $50 billion in 2024 to potentially $150 billion by 2030. But growth at this scale doesn't come without turbulence. Battery storage sits at the center of the energy transition, unlocking renewables,…