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How rooftop solar got big: Sunrun hits milestone of 5 gigawatts installed

Julian Spector: You’ve just announced that Sunrun has, in its 15 years, installed 5 gigawatts of solar capacity and reached 700,000 customers

NC Supreme Court: HOAs Cannot Prohibit Solar Installs

These days, there’s a funny stereotype on the internet and more and more in real life: Karen. She’s the lady who argues endlessly with store checkout clerks over coupons, and demands to see the manager. She calls the cops and accuses innocent people of color of crimes. They’re also known for doing anything they can to control other people and make life hard for them to serve their sense of entitlement.

How rooftop solar got big: Sunrun hits milestone of 5 gigawatts installed

Julian Spector: You’ve just announced that Sunrun has, in its 15 years, installed 5 gigawatts of solar capacity and reached 700,000 customers.

ESG Settles Into the Multifamily Industry

Major multifamily developers and property managers have already factored environmental, social and governance considerations into their plans and projects. ESG can impact financing and insurance costs, as well as how regulators, analysts, prospective tenants and recruits view their firms. It rarely determines which communities get financed or insured at this point, real estate consultancy RCLCO managing director Eric Willett says, but it is factoring into projects where climate risk and resilie…

The world will need dozens of breakthrough climate technologies in the next decade

We’re living in a pivotal decade. By 2030, global emissions must fall by half, mostly through massive deployment of commercial solutions such as wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles. But emerging climate technologies must come to market during this decade too, even if they don’t make much of a dent in emissions right away. The International Energy Agency forecasts that roughly half the reductions needed to cut emissions to nearly zero by 2050 must come from technologies that are n…

Why climate tech is poised to survive a recession

Nothing about breathing underwater is natural.

It’s why before you go under you must strap a 30-pound cylinder to your back, cover half the surface area of your face with plastic, and stuff a breathing device in your mouth, before sloppily backrolling off the side of a boat into the ocean.

WiredScore Closes $15M Series B Round Led By Beringea, Cushman & Wakefield and Crow Holdings

WiredScore, the company setting the global standard for technology in the built world through education and certification via WiredScore and SmartScore, has today announced it has raised US$15M in Series B funding, led by Beringea with key participation from notable strategic and venture fund investors including Cushman & Wakefield, Crow Holdings, and Taronga Ventures, in addition to core returning investors Fifth Wall, Bessemer Venture Partners and Jona Capital. This round brings WiredScor…

Wastewater recycling startup CEO says we need to overhaul our ‘flush and forget’ society

The bulk of water recycling now happens at centralized wastewater treatment plants, requiring thousands of miles of pipelines to move the water. This practice is neither efficient nor cheap. But as more municipalities begin to require water recycling in commercial and residential buildings, companies are stepping up with new methods of on-site water recycling.

VW and Siemens invest $450 million in Electrify America to accelerate EV charging infrastructure

Volkswagen and Siemens announced that they raised $450 million for Electrify America to accelerate its deployment of charging infrastructure in the US.

1 big thing: Companies are off track on net-zero goals

The stampede of major companies to sign onto net-zero emissions targets is not being accompanied by robust decarbonization plans to achieve these goals, a new report from investment research firm MSCI finds, Andrew writes.