Startup Stories of 2017: Blockchain, Batteries and Acquisitions

Energy Gang

Wood Mackenzie

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🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We've reached a new stage in cleantech. Years after the VC bubble popped, startups are pursuing new approaches to scaling, finding customers, partnering, and raising money.

Those new approaches to scaling early-stage cleantech were crystallized this year. And we're going to talk about them.

This week, we recorded live at Greentown Labs, the largest cleantech incubator in the country. We discussed a wide range of trends: the emergence of blockchain, a diversifying class of corporate investors, the blitz of mergers and acquisitions, low-cost ways of scaling new technologies, how to ask for money, and where startups can engage in policy.

Plus, we ran through the top headlines of the week: Tesla's 100-megawatt battery, the heinous Congressional tax bill, and the Bonn climate talks.

This podcast is sponsored by Mission Solar Energy, a solar module manufacturer based in San Antonio, Texas. You can find out more about Mission’s American-made, high-power modules at missionsolar.com.

Are you coming to GTM's Storage Summit on December 12-13? Podcast listeners get 20 percent off their registration with the promo code PODCASTS.

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0:00.0	This Podcast is brought to you by Mission Solar Energy, a solar module manufacturer based in San Antonio, Texas.
0:07.0	Mission Solar modules are designed, engineered, and assembled in their Texas-based 200 megawatt facility and serve residential commercial government and utility applications.
0:17.5	Adhering to the strictest quality standards, Mission Solar's modules outperform their
0:21.8	competition in real-world conditions, proving to be an easy choice
0:25.4	for installers, distributors, and developers.
0:28.4	To find out more about Mission's High Power American Quality modules, visit Mission Solar.com.
0:34.0	What is up Boston?
0:36.0	Wait, whoa, wait, wait, sorry, the Boston Metropolitan Region Summerville, Massachusetts, what's up? Do we have any energy gang
0:46.4	listeners in the house? So that makes me feel a little welcome. I need that
0:52.2	to boost my confidence when I'm at a place like this.
0:55.0	And there are all these really intelligent engineers and entrepreneurs and investors around.
1:00.0	I get paid to sit up here and talk about what you all are doing and you guys get to do what you're doing without
1:08.0	getting paid.
1:09.2	So we all know our roles, right?
1:12.1	And speaking of roles. And speaking of roles.
1:13.4	Are we supposed to be getting paid for this?
1:15.4	Speaking of roles, I'm Stephen Lacey, the editor-in-chief of Green Tech Media, and this is the
1:21.6	Energy Gang, a weekly digest on energy
1:23.6	clean tech and the environment. We are in Somerville, Massachusetts at Greentown
1:28.3	Labs. Let's hear it for the folks in front of us.
1:30.8	Thanks I love to talk to back to me. the folks in front of us. So Greentown, as you all know is the biggest accelerator
1:40.8	incubator in the country for clean tech. It's hardware focused.
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