Solar Power
Dandelion co-founder is back to help you electrify your home for less
Balto Energy hopes to speed the electrification by helping homeowners choose and finance the projects that make the most sense for them.
Civic Renewables is rolling up residential solar installers to improve quality and grow the market
With most residential solar panels installed by smaller companies, customer experience can be a mixed bag. To try to address the quality and consistency problem, Civic Renewables is buying small…
Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales
Small operations can lose customers by not offering financing, something the Berlin-based startup wants to change.
Two former CloudKitchens execs are tackling Mexico’s solar power lag
The Mexico City-based startup raised a seed round to expand its solar installation platform.
Orbital Composites and Virtus Solis team up for space-based solar power mission
Advanced manufacturing startup Orbital Composites is teaming up with Virtus Solis Technologies to conduct a space-based solar power demonstration as soon as 2027. The two companies say the mission will be…
Temasek’s Xora backs Cosmos Innovation’s next-generation solar cell technology
Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell technology is a mouthful, but it’s basically perovskite crystals layered on top of silicon cells. The combination captures energy from the sun more efficiently than…
Solar AI wants to make solar power more accessible in Southeast Asia
High energy prices are leading to a solar boom across the world, but in Singapore, many home owners are still hesitant to install solar panels because of the high cost,…
Terraform Industries wants to solve climate change by making more hydrocarbons
Casey Handmer is not intimidated by very large quantities. Billions of acres. Thousands of gigawatts of solar power. A billion metric tons of carbon. His startup, Terraform Industries, aims to…
Climate tech roundup: From solar to CES, this week had something for everyone
Even without a milestone fusion announcement this week, plenty happened in the climate tech world that’s worth catching up on.
The last time the U.S. pushed for more domestic solar production, it didn’t turn out so well. Here’s how this time is different.
The startup uses AI tech to measure live data from solar plant, and offers suggestions for fixes when their solar arrays start underperforming.
Enact Systems connects solar installers and customers for more efficient energy use
There are about three million solar installations in the United States per year, but that process is costly and often lacks transparency. Pleasanton, California–based Enact Systems wants to increase collaboration…
Multifamily housing has missed the solar boom. PearlX wants to fix that with $70M Series B
Energy startup hopes to bring the financial and climate benefits of solar and storage to renters.
Enverus, a company specialized in energy-focused software-as-a-service products, has announced that it has acquired RatedPower, a Spanish startup that helps you plan, design and optimize solar power plants. Terms of…
Apparently, solar power is hot right now. Porsche said Monday that it plans to build and operate a solar power microgrid at its U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, reducing its annual…
Sono Motors reveals final design of its solar-charging Sion EV
Sono Motors unveiled this week the final production design of the Sion EV, a solar electric vehicle that’s been in the making since the Munich-based startup launched in 2016. It’s…
Tesla’s solar roofs have stayed mostly in the dark, and other TC news
This week on The TechCrunch Podcast, TC climate writer Harri Weber comes on to talk about Tesla’s underperforming solar roofing business and new TC reporter…
Persistent Energy raises $10M to grow its clean-tech venture building business in Africa
Persistent Energy has raised $10 million in Series C funding to grow its climate venture building business in Africa, in a round led by Kyuden International Corporation, a subsidiary of…
Feds must step in or renewable energy will have nowhere to go, says MIT report
Building wind and solar farms is an important part of building a new green grid, but a calm night stops their energy generation cold. It’s just as important to research…
Stacks of teeny lenses that look like inverted pyramids could juice up solar panels, helping them capture more light from any angle on both sunny and overcast days. Solar panels…
Garmin just brought solar power to its Forerunner line, a cult-favorite among runners. Along with some other devices, the company took the wraps off its new Forerunner 995 Solar today.…
After ultracharged growth, battery maker EcoFlow comes for the glampers
In recent years, episodes of extreme climate crises and power outrages have driven doomsday preppers to plan for off-the-grid survival scenarios. The mentality has been a boon to EcoFlow, a…
The new hybrid Hyundai Sonata has solar cells built into its roof. After baking in the sun all day, the car can add 3-4 miles to its range. That might…
Enpal closes out Series C with $174M from SoftBank for tech to make it easier for homeowners to make the switch to solar energy
One of the gating factors for getting more homeowners to make the switch to solar energy has been that solar, as a business, is a hard one to get right,…
Regher Solar is ready to meet the new space industry’s demand for cheaper, better solar panels
The math is pretty basic. How many satellites are going to go up over the next decade? How many solar panels will they need? And how many are being manufactured…
IKEA will sell clean energy to Swedish homes
IKEA won’t just sell you smart lights — it’ll soon sell you the electricity to power those lights, too. IKEA has revealed plans to sell clean energy to Swedish homes…
$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to create solar satellites that beam power to Earth
It sounds like a plan concocted by a supervillain, if that villain’s dastardly end was to provide cheap, clean power all over the world: launch a set of three-kilometer-wide solar…
Dracula Technologies turns ambient light into energy with printed solar cells
Internet of Things devices are proliferating, making daily tasks more convenient for many people — but that comes at a cost. The United Nations expects the amount of e-waste created…
Aurora Solar aims to power the growing solar industry with a $250M round C
Aurora Solar had one of those pitches that seemed obvious in retrospect. Instead of going to a house and measuring its roof manually for a solar panel installation, why not…
Swell Energy’s new deal in New York shows how the company plans to spend the $450 million it’s raising
Back in December, Swell Energy said it would be raising $450 million to support the development of distributed power projects in three states. Now, with the announcement of a deal…
