"Allumia underwrites their customer’s loan to pay for the more efficient equipment. Customers sign 5-to-7 year contracts, during which time they pay back the loan. Services covered by the contract include Allumia’s energy use performance monitoring and maintenance of the equipment upgrades."

"[E]specially with what is happening with Putin and Ukraine, now is the time for the U.S. and Estonia to work more closely together than ever."

"It’s still early days for climate fintech. After all, that $1.2 billion I referenced earlier is just a tiny sliver of the $60 billion in funding for climate tech writ large during the first half of 2021. But there are other signs that interest in the intersection of climate change and finance is growing. In late February, the University of Birmingham in the U.K. added accounting for climate change into its mainstream accounting and finance degree program."

"The firm, headquartered in a new, 25,000-square-foot facility in Chatsworth, California, has developed low-cost electrolyzers it hopes will provide the means to produce green hydrogen at a lower cost than competitors."

"The milestone, which wraps up a planning process that has taken more than 40 years, makes Sweden only the second country, after Finland, to take active steps on building a permanent SNF repository."

"Saudi Arabia’s 2020 oil price war demonstrated the power of energy as a lever over Mr. Putin. Saudi willingness to flood the market despite the hit to its finances sent crude prices below zero, chastening Mr. Putin and restoring cooperation between Moscow and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries."

"The deal is expected to accelerate progress toward Chevron's goal to grow renewable fuels production capacity to 100,000 barrels per day by 2030 and brings additional feedstock supplies and pre-treatment facilities, the company said in a statement."

"Wind and solar projects built this decade could deliver more than $1.4 billion in lifetime revenues to Nebraska’s rural economy, according to an RMI analysis — and the new net-zero commitments may increase that total."

"Russia’s financial system was under siege Monday, but the country is still pumping and exporting vast amounts of oil and natural gas to the rest of the world, delivering cash in the face of Western sanctions and a financial cushion for President Vladimir Putin. At the heart of it lie two London-listed energy giants."