New Google tools to map rooftop solar potential, air quality

Published on August 30, 2023

Google Maps functionality harnesses AI and aerial imagery to help businesses and cities plan solar deployments and tackle air pollution.

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Redwood Materials lands $1B to boost its battery recycling efforts

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Redwood Materials needs a lot of money to scale up its plans to supply U.S. demand for lithium-ion batteries with recycled metals and materials. On Tuesday, the startup founded by Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel got a big chunk of that funding, landing more than $1 billion in venture investment. …

Texas hooked up its first virtual power plants to help the grid

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The Texas grid is now open for business for small-scale, customer-owned energy devices. Two clusters of Tesla Powerwall customers, in Houston and Dallas, have been cleared to inject power from their battery storage devices onto the Texas grid and earn compensation for their services. It’s a milestone for the…