Procter & Gamble

Twelve Corporation

Twelve — formerly Opus 12 — is a start-up based in Berkeley, California, developing methods for electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide into chemical inputs.

Ottonomy — Robotic Airport and Kerbside Delivery

IDTechEx had an interview with Ritukar Vijay, Founder and CEO at Ottonomy. Ottonomy is a robotics company providing services of airport and kerbside delivery. To date, the company has raised US$1.4 million in funding, and the company employs 25 people as of March 2022.

Grid Storage: Constant Change Ahead

The US Department of Energy's paper, "Grid Operational Impacts of Widespread Storage Deployment" analyzes requirements to 2050. It variously calculates 1.3 TWh required to just over 6.0 TWh in its 94% renewable electricity, Zero Carbon scenario. Earlier, other researchers calculated 80% wind and solar will require 5.4 TWh of energy storage so it is obvious that huge amounts of storage are needed. Even that is with massive over-production and therefore curtailment - electricity only being generated 10% to 20% of the time on average. Polluting peaker plants only have 11% capacity factor so, on that model, bad replaces bad in that respect.

Full Construction Begins on Largest Hybrid Project in California

Clearway Energy Group LLC announced the start of full construction at its Daggett 3 Solar Power + Battery Energy Storage System project in San Bernardino. When completed, the entire Daggett project footprint will encompass 482 MW of solar power and a remarkable 394 MW of energy storage capacity, making it the largest solar + battery storage project currently built in California.

ProFound AI May Reduce Interval Breast Cancer Rates

iCAD Inc announced that ProFound AI for 2D Mammography might notably reduce the risk of interval breast cancer, according to a retrospective analysis recently published in the Journal of Medical Screening.

New Skills of Graphene: Tunable Lattice Vibrations

Without electronics and photonics, there would be no computers, smartphones, sensors, or information and communication technologies. In the coming years, the new field of phononics may further expand these options. That field is concerned with understanding and controlling lattice vibrations (phonons) in solids. In order to realize phononic devices, however, lattice vibrations have to be controlled as precisely as commonly realized in the case of electrons or photons.

Opus 12

Opus 12 have developed an electrolysis cell to reduce carbon dioxide and produce useful fuels and chemicals.

World's Largest Utility-Scale Battery Energy Storage System now Online

The Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility has been connected to the power grid and began operation. At 300 megawatts/1,200 megawatt-hours, the lithium-ion battery storage system, located on-site at Vistra's Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, California, will be the largest of its kind in the world.

Opus 12

Opus 12 is a green technology start-up company developing methods for catalytically converting carbon dioxide into chemicals and fuels, with the aim of reducing the carbon footprints of the world's heaviest emitters while creating a new revenue stream from what is discarded today as a waste product. In October 2020, IDTechEx Senior Technology Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Etosha Cave, COO and co-founder of Opus 12.

Urbint Launches First-Of-Its-Kind AI-Powered Worker Safety Technology

Urbint, the only AI-powered field risk mitigation platform for critical infrastructure operators, today announced the launch of Urbint Lens for Worker Safety, a new predictive AI technology that identifies safety threats to workers in the field, enabling supervisors to prevent serious injuries and fatalities.

Purecycle Technologies

Purecycle Technologies have developed a physical solvent extraction method to remove impurities such as colorants and other additives from PP in a two stage process.

World's first heart failure neuromodulation device

Designed to address a significant unmet medical need in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, the BAROSTIM NEO was one of the first therapies to receive the FDA's "Breakthrough Device" designation.

Tesla introduces Megapack: utility scale energy storage

Megapack significantly reduces the complexity of large-scale battery storage and provides an easy installation and connection process.