Since data centers themselves only take 12-18 months to build, power availability will be the key factor in determining ...

Power plant limits – from Obama-era standards on new fossil plants (2015) to Biden’s 2024 guidelines requiring carbon capture retrofits on coal and gas units. Together, these rules were projected to ...

Removals: Engineered GGRs — like DAC, enhanced weathering, and BECCS (woodland carbon still TBD) — will be eligible under the ...

From “FOAK fatigue” to funding flux, climate tech investors are navigating a trickier, more tactical market in 2025. A few months ago, we fielded an investor market sentiment survey, in partnership ...

It’s no secret that there’s a new normal in climate tech, where investment numbers, round sizes, and valuations are all down. In today’s environment, VC investors are becoming increasingly skeptical ...

We all know the joke: Fusion is indefinitely 30 years away. And the joke especially works today — despite the billions pouring in, companies are still running into roadblocks. In the last month, ...

The Five P's of FOAK preparation (source: Sightline Climate) Meet the FOAK folks With CapEx challenges and federal funding uncertainties, investors in first-of-a-kind (FOAK) projects are adapting at ...

We usually celebrate other companies’ fundraises, but today, we’re celebrating our own! We’ve raised a $5.5m Seed round, co-led by The Westly Group and Molten Ventures, to scale Sightline — our market ...

You've seen our 2024 Investment Trends report looking at the current state of climate tech. This week, we’re hopping into our time machine and taking a look at the past — and the future — of climate ...

A new normal. Total investment was down 14% in 2024 from 2023 — less than the 24% drop between 2022 and 2023, but still more than the 5% drop between 2021 and 2022. Meanwhile, the number of deals was ...

That includes: The state of climate funds - the capital raised to invest in climate tech, and the fundraising trends driving it Dry powder - the amount of undeployed capital, and what it’s earmarked ...