Category: Business

President-elect Trump will likely attempt to claim credit as wages continue to recover. …

The energy company appealed after it had been ordered to cut its carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels. …

Andrea Pedretti designed Energy Vault’s Gravity Energy Storage Solution (GESS), which can provide long-duration storage for renewable energy without the need for lithium-ion batteries. The system uses surplus green energy from the grid to lift heavy blocks high into the air, and lowers them to generate electricity when it’s needed. If incorporated into tall buildings,… …

Lime helped popularize the climate-friendly concepts of micro-mobility and bike shares that are now seen in many major metropolises around the world; the e-bike rental company operates in more than 280 cities. Last year, it boasted that about five e-bike trips were booked every second—that’s around 156 million trips globally. But beyond helping decarbonize our… …

Bret Kugelmass, founder and CEO of Last Energy, has a bold vision: To become the first company to bring a small modular nuclear reactor online in the United States. And, as one of the fastest growing companies in this space, it’s working hard to make this a reality. It currently has commercial agreements for 80… …

Colin Wessells is the founder and co-CEO of Natron Energy, a company making sodium-ion batteries to power clean technologies. Because sodium is more abundant and more affordable than lithium, sodium-ion batteries could help bolster battery supply chains and accelerate the energy transition. Thanks to Wessells’ vision, Natron is the first – and only – commercial… …

Tim Latimer is CEO and co-founder of Fervo Energy, a startup making geothermal energy a viable alternative to fossil fuels. By repurposing technology from the oil and gas industry, Fervo drills deep below the Earth’s surface to reach hot rocks and converts that heat into 24/7 clean energy. Google is already working with Fervo to… …

In 2020, Sandeep Nijhawan co-founded Colorado-based Electra. Its mission: to decarbonize iron- and steelmaking. Iron production is a hot, energy-intensive process. Today, the steel industry is responsible for about 7% of all global carbon emissions (90% of which come from making iron). But through a novel electrochemical process, powered by renewable energy, Electra is trying… …

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Cement production is responsible for about 8% of all global emissions—and it’s a stubborn industry to decarbonize because it is so energy-intensive. That’s where Fortera comes in. As CEO and co-founder, Ryan Gilliam is working to make it easy for existing cement plants to become more sustainable by installing technology to capture up to 90%… …