Virginia approves 100% clean energy legislation, pushing state toward 2.4 GW storage, RGGI utilitydive.com/news/virginia-… via Utility Dive

Today’s The Daily podcast on corporates new push into the climate agenda, catalyzed by the Fink annual letter. Amazon, MS, Blackrock, Delta, ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

BIG deal for VC-backed startup ecosystem. Very STRONG leadership from ⁦Best crypto exchange⁩––a very valued partner of Lux. NOW: borrowers of <$10M can defer principal payments for 6 months. BIG deal for emerging growth companies. 👏 prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and if that work is stopped no other organization can replace them. The world needs World Health Organization (WHO) now more than ever.

Michael Jordan donates $100 million to fight for racial equality hill.cm/UZL86iJ

Already a big day for #climatetech announcements: Prime Coalition: $50m early-stage fund for breakthrough climate tech Pale blue dot: €53m early-stage fund for EU climate tech Greentown Labs: Expands to Houston to make it the energy *transition* capital Congrats to all!

Sunrun to Turn Home Batteries Into Grid Resources for 2 Major Utilities greentechmedia.com/articles/read/…

ISO announces the Western EIM surpassed $1 billion in benefits caiso.com/Documents/ISO-…

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NEWS: Letter from 13 Senators to @FERC on Grid-Enhancing Technologies! 1/ watttransmission.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/letter…

DER, DG, DERP, DRAM, DERMS, VDER, DREAM-WG, ESDER, DCEA, iDER, DRP, DGWG, DER-CAM, DERA,... What am I missing?

Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5,000 Electric Car From GM bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The US #coal mkt is declining; the mkt cap of the top 4 US producers is down ~80%. Extending recent mkt pricing, 45-50% of PJM’s coal capacity may retire by 2035 EOY. Operators can achieve new savings during transition by adopting a run to retire strategy. linkedin.com/posts/saadeh_e…

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It's hard to describe how it feels to see GTM shut down. I joined in 2013 because they were *the* cutting-edge voice in cleantech journalism. Any outlet would be lucky to have Jeff St. John, Julian Spector, Emma Foehringer Merchant, Jason Deign & @jparnell_gtm. Hire them.

Let’s try to avoid this tonight, Emirates ! Dxb to jfk here we go.

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Communities can be considered "disadvantaged" based on a number of economic and environmental indicators, including percentage under the poverty level, exposure to lead, proximity to traffic and housing cost burden. Here's a nifty algorithm from the beta site

Let me add to this to clarify...when I was young, one great piece of advice I got was be the non-complainer. When asked by someone to do something, I would do it. When asked to build a deck, I did it. And obsessed about every word, transition, image and animation until I felt