Where the fast changing world of energy ⚡️ meets business. Hosted by the Wharton Energy & Climate Club (@ned_downie, Shivani Shikha, Ben Noel, and more).
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Check out the latest episode of the @WhartonCurrent!
Emily Goldfield and Ian Miller sat down with Apoorv Bhargava (@apoorv_bh89), CEO and co-founder of @WeaveGrid, for a fascinating discussion about innovations in EV charging software. Take a listen!
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⚡ New Wharton Current Episode Alert! ⚡
Nelson Abramson, CEO of Verrus, joins the show to discuss how he and his team are developing a new sustainable data center to support the AI revolution and efforts to curb climate change.
open.spotify.com/episode/75W…
📣 new Wharton Current episode! Sustainable investing needs good data; how do we bring accounting rigor to it? We brought on board member Elizabeth Seeger @bluebirdtweets of the Int'l Sustainabilty Standards Board @IFRSFoundation, who's leading here.
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Listen to learn:
💎How the ISSB is unifying the global maze of sustainability accounting standards
💎How the board uses financial reporting concepts to underpin sustainability reporting standards
💎How sustainability reporting standards in public markets affect private markets.
Great to see this -- check out our podcast with them here to learn about Antora's tech & strategy for scaling! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Today, we’re proud to launch the world’s first thermal battery capable of delivering zero-emissions heat & power—a product that’s factory-made, road-shippable, ready to scale to industrial sites across the globe.
@HiMichelleMa breaks the news in @business: bloom.bg/3Zh0pS7
A teaser of our latest episode with Christina Chang @lowercarbon, on how we get to net-zero steel
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What tech can get us to net-zero steel? Dr. Christina Chang knows this space as well as anyone in VC -- a PhD chemist, steel startup CEO, and now @lowercarbon partner. To her, H2 and CCUS aren't enough. Listen on our latest 🎧to learn this and more:
open.spotify.com/episode/5wZ…
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The Wharton Current retweeted
On the @WhartonCurrent podcast, Antora co-founder and COO Justin Briggs discussed what makes the Antora team stand out.
Learn more about the incredible people who make up the Antora team: bit.ly/3Kr6pl0
How do we keep the grid stable in the low-carbon future? Check out our latest with Frederico Rauter, CRO @Reactive_Tech, a Series C startup pioneering tech to monitor grid inertia.
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Listen to learn:
💎What inertia is + why you need to measure it well 1/2
💎Why you really need to measure well in the grid of the present, and the future -- and how their tech helps with that
💎What slows utilities in adopting new technologies -- and how their product was made to avoid those pitfalls
Thanks to @ErinESchultz for facilitating!
📣 new episode alert! How can we get corporate climate targets Paris-aligned? @Lfernandoamaral, CEO of @sciencetargets, tells @ned_downie and Adriel Barrett-Johnson how his UN-backed org helps firms set science-based climate targets. Learn: 1/2
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📣 new Wharton Current alert! What's the pre-seed/seed landscape in climate venture look like right now? Listen for insights from Leshika Samarasingha, founder and solo general partner of Twine Ventures. She shares: 1/2
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The Wharton Current retweeted
"When you’re sitting down with your grandkids," said Antora co-founder Justin Briggs on @WhartonCurrent, "and they’re asking, ‘What did you do in the 2020s when you knew the world was on fire?’ Have an answer to that question."
Ready to work on climate? boards.greenhouse.io/antora
Thanks for joining us, Lauren -- delighted to have had you on!
Thrilled to have been a guest on the Wharton Current #podcast where we covered the driving questions around how to get homeowners invested in energy efficiency & the ways we’ve built @sealedhomes to meet those motivations — all important topics on this #EarthDay — and every day.
📢new ep: how can we decarbonize industrial heat? Justin Briggs @antoraenergy tells us their simple solution:
1⃣ Find a cheap, common material with high energy density
2⃣ Insulate it
3⃣ Use zero-C power to get it really hot.
4⃣ Tap it when you need it!
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Justin tells Shivani Shikha & @ned_downie:
💎how Antora decided this was a winning solution for industrial decarb
💎how their thermal energy storage (TES) product (solid carbon + thermo PV) can beat out TES competitors
💎 how they sought out mission-focused VCs in fundraising