One of the biggest roadblocks to clean energy in the U.S. isn’t a lack of wind or solar power — it’s an outdated grid that can’t keep up. 

Gridraven, an Estonian startup, is tackling that problem with AI-powered weather modeling, and it just secured €4 million to bring its tech to the U.S., reported CleanTechnica.

The U.S. grid wasn’t built to handle the surge of renewable energy, leading to frequent bottlenecks and curtailments — when clean electricity goes unused because transmission lines are at capacity.

“The current U.S. transmission system will need to be upgraded and expanded to make it possible to carry larger amounts of clean energy across longer distances,” the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) warned in May.

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