# climate tech (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover climate tech. Page: Feed: --- ## [NY Climate Tech: Aug 18 - Aug 25](https://nyc.climatetechcities.com/p/ny-climate-tech-aug-18-aug-25) _2026-08-18 · Alec Turnbull · NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani_ Boat tours of energy infrastructure, panels on grid affordability, lunches on AI and sustainability, climate tech mixers, and a new plan to daylight a river in the Bronx. ## [Your startup just fell out of CSRD scope. The questionnaire is still coming.](https://mkozak.pl/csrd-omnibus-startups-value-chain/) _2026-08-02 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ The omnibus cut CSRD's scope to companies with more than 1,000 employees and 450 million euros. You are out. The questionnaire from your biggest customers is still coming ## [Climate Week NYC: The First 150 Events](https://nyc.climatetechcities.com/p/climate-week-nyc-the-first-150-events) _2026-07-27 · Alec Turnbull · NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani_ It's less than 60 days away! Check out our early-bird guide to the first 150 events of Climate Week NYC 2026 ## [Your charging network is probably stuck on OCPP 1.6, and the exit just got more interesting](https://mkozak.pl/ocpp-migration-1-6-to-2-0-1-or-2-1/) _2026-07-26 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ Most of Europe's deployed chargers still speak OCPP 1.6, a protocol from a earlier era. New one has been ratified for years, it is now an IEC standard, and there is a newer version on top of it. ## [NY Climate Tech: July 21 - July 28](https://nyc.climatetechcities.com/p/ny-climate-tech-july-21-july-28) _2026-07-21 · Alec Turnbull · NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani_ Offshore wind, hours of action, sustainable investment in the park, climate conversations, climate innovation, City of Water Day, and more upcoming events ## [Edge AI for industrial: Jetson, YOLO, and the real cost of leaving the cloud](https://mkozak.pl/edge-ai-industrial-jetson-yolo-real-cost/) _2026-07-19 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ Edge AI sounds like a way to save on cloud inference bills. In practice, it usually is not. The right reasons to go to the edge are latency, privacy, and bandwidth, in that order, and if your reason is not one of those three, stay in the cloud. ## [Time-series at energy scale: TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, or ClickHouse?](https://mkozak.pl/time-series-energy-scale-timescaledb-influxdb-clickhouse/) _2026-07-12 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ Pick wrong and your data layer will crack at exactly the moment your fleet is interesting. The three credible options for energy and IoT time-series in 2026 are TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, and ClickHouse. Each is excellent for a slightly different shape of workload. ## [NY Climate Tech: July 7 - July 14](https://nyc.climatetechcities.com/p/ny-climate-tech-july-7-july-14) _2026-07-07 · Alec Turnbull · NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani_ Infrastructure & biodiversity, what we're breathing on the subway, actionable science, data centers, bike tours, extreme heat & storytelling, and more upcoming events ## [Series A engineering in the age of AI: stay lean, but know what still forces you to grow](https://mkozak.pl/series-a-engineering-age-of-ai/) _2026-07-05 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ The old Series A reflex was to raise the round and hire engineering up to twenty-five people. In 2026 that reflex is wrong. AI raises per-engineer output enough that you can stay lean far longer, but the organizational transition does not disappear. It relocates. ## [LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, Cat-M1: a 2026 connectivity decision tree](https://mkozak.pl/lorawan-nb-iot-cat-m1-2026-decision-tree/) _2026-06-28 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ Picking your connectivity is picking your unit economics, and you only get to do it cheaply once. Here is the decision tree I would hand a founder shipping their first ten thousand devices in 2026, with the Polish coverage reality that most guides get wrong. ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dlAa8LhlM3Wu) _2026-06-28 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [NY Climate Tech: June 23 - June 30](https://nyc.climatetechcities.com/p/ny-climate-tech-june-23-june-30) _2026-06-23 · Alec Turnbull · NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani_ Climate Fintech, AI for Good, Mobility, Pride, DERs, Transitioning from Fossil Fuels, Climate Pints, Quiet Trains, and more upcoming events ## [Five Frameworks, One Question: How to Bridge Nuclear and Southeast Asia's Data Centers?](https://earthvc.substack.com/p/frameworks-nuclear-ai-sea) _2026-06-23 · Earth Venture Capital · Edge of Earth_ The nuclear-for-AI thesis is no longer theoretical. For Southeast Asia, nuclear is no longer a question of if the technology works. It’s how the whole ecosystem actually gets there. ## [Demand-side flexibility: the grid asset hiding in your customers' basements](https://mkozak.pl/demand-side-flexibility-the-asset-in-the-basement/) _2026-06-21 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ Every heat pump, EV charger, and home battery in Europe is already a grid asset. Most of them are just not aggregated, not addressable, and not paid. The companies that crack the aggregation layer in the next three years will own a category that does not have a name yet. ## [Balancing markets, explained for software builders](https://mkozak.pl/balancing-markets-for-software-builders/) _2026-06-14 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ If you are building anything that touches the grid, you will run into FCR, aFRR, mFRR, BRPs, and BSPs within your first three meetings with a utility. The terminology sounds designed to keep software people out. The mechanics are simpler than a Stripe webhook flow. ## [NY Climate Tech: June 9 - June 15](https://nyc.climatetechcities.com/p/ny-climate-tech-june-9-june-15) _2026-06-09 · Alec Turnbull · NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani_ My mayor's Muslim / my bagel's Jewish / my building's electrified / Knicks in five ## [Technical due diligence in climate tech: what VCs miss when they only read the deck](https://mkozak.pl/technical-due-diligence-climate-tech-what-vcs-miss/) _2026-06-07 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ Climate tech due diligence is not the same as SaaS due diligence. The code base is usually fine. The risks live in hardware dependencies, certification timelines, regulated market access, and whether the team has ever shipped against a real grid operator. ## [NY Climate Tech: June 1 - June 8](https://nyc.climatetechcities.com/p/ny-climate-tech-june-1-june-8) _2026-06-01 · Alec Turnbull · NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani_ Plug in Solar, NY Tech Week, and our first conference! ## [Dynamic tariff customers are supposed to tune out. Ours open the app 23 times a month.](https://mkozak.pl/dynamic-tariff-engagement-myth/) _2026-05-31 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ The conventional wisdom is that dynamic tariff customers check the app out of novelty and then forget it exists. Pstryk's data says the opposite. Here is what real engagement looks like and what it means for how you build. ## [From Bespoke Megaprojects to Standardized Baseload: SMR Founder Lessons at the Nuclear Frontier](https://earthvc.substack.com/p/from-bespoke-megaprojects-to-standardized) _2026-05-27 · Earth Venture Capital · Edge of Earth_ The accelerating growth of AI adoption and data-center demand in Southeast Asia is defining a new customer profile for a purpose-specific energy product: clean, safe, and scalable baseload power for AI campuses, next-generation industrial parks, and digital infrastructure. ## [EMS architecture: when local control beats the cloud round trip](https://mkozak.pl/ems-architecture-edge-vs-cloud/) _2026-05-24 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ An EMS that round-trips every decision through the cloud is going to disappoint someone, eventually, in a way that costs real money. The right split between edge and cloud is a latency budget question, and once you frame it that way the architecture writes itself. ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JBtyD4wIJgj8) _2026-05-24 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [NY Climate Tech: May 19 - May 26](https://nyc.climatetechcities.com/p/ny-climate-tech-may-19-may-26) _2026-05-19 · Alec Turnbull · NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani_ Up to $200k for immersive climate art, CDR, EVs, investing in sustainable food, sustainable architecture & AI, climate nightlife, and more upcoming events ## [MQTT at fleet scale: what a few thousand IoT devices and one bad Postgres password taught us](https://mkozak.pl/mqtt-fleet-scale-emqx-postgres-incident/) _2026-05-17 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ A misconfigured Postgres credential turned an ordinary EMQX cluster into a 50,000-connection-attempt-per-minute self-DDoS. Here is what we changed about authentication, observability, and runbook design after that night. ## [NY Climate Tech: May 12 - May 19](https://nyc.climatetechcities.com/p/ny-climate-tech-may-12-may-19) _2026-05-12 · Alec Turnbull · NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani_ Data centers, sustainable nightlife, renewable happy hours, infrastructure tours, carbon, and more upcoming events ## [The fractional CTO playbook: what four hours a week actually buys you](https://mkozak.pl/fractional-cto-playbook-what-four-hours-buys-you/) _2026-05-10 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ Four hours a week is enough to fix architecture, hiring, and roadmap if you spend it on the right things, and useless if you spend it reviewing pull requests. ## [NY Climate Tech: May 4 - May 11](https://nyc.climatetechcities.com/p/ny-climate-tech-may-4-may-11) _2026-05-04 · Alec Turnbull · NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani_ Plastic Detox, Sunset Park Solar, Supply Chains, Resilient Infrastructure, Internet of Animals, Investing in Sustainability, and more upcoming events! ## [Green Energy in Europe: We Built It. Now Comes the Hard Part.](https://mkozak.pl/green-energy-in-europe-we-built-it-now-comes-the-hard-part/) _2026-04-26 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ Sometime in 2025, Europe quietly crossed a line that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Wind and solar generated more electricity than all fossil fuels combined for the first time in EU history - 30% versus 29%, according to Ember's full-year review. Renewables overall hit 47.3% ## [From Frontier Innovation to Investable Infrastructure: SMRs and Nuclear-Powered AI in Southeast Asia](https://earthvc.substack.com/p/investable-nuclear-powered-ai-infrastructure-sea) _2026-04-23 · Earth Venture Capital · Edge of Earth_ Southeast Asia is entering a new phase of digital infrastructure development in which the rapid expansion of AI and data centers are reshaping both the nature and scale of long-term energy requirements and infrastructure investment planning. ## [Vertical Farming: Tech-driven solutions for sustainable food production](https://mkozak.pl/vertical-farming-tech-driven-solutions-for-sustainable-food-production/) _2026-04-18 · Mateusz Kozak · Matt Kozak_ If you've spent any time in climate tech, you've probably noticed that energy and transport get most of the attention. Fair enough - they're massive emitters. But food production? It accounts for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, eats up 50% of habitable ## [New Report: Nuclear Energy Fuels AI Boom in SEA Data Centers](https://earthvc.substack.com/p/nuclear-energy-fuels-ai-boom-in-southeast) _2026-04-17 · Earth Venture Capital · Edge of Earth_ This publication, produced by Earth Venture Capital, explores how advanced nuclear technologies, particularly Small Modular Reactors, can provide low-carbon, reliable baseload power to fuel Southeast Asia's rapidly expanding digital economy and AI-driven data center growth. ## [Earth VC backs Sygaldry](https://earthvc.substack.com/p/earth-vc-backs-sygaldry) _2026-04-16 · Earth Venture Capital · Edge of Earth_ Earth Venture Capital is proud to back Sygaldry in its $139M Seed and Series A rounds. ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/62ZwzmZZOrDw) _2026-04-16 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [Climate Tech Club 2025: A Year of Showing Up](https://sfclimatetechclub.substack.com/p/climate-tech-club-2025-a-year-of) _2026-01-29 · Ami Zou · SF Climate Tech Club_ An end-of-year reflection on climate hackathons, community building, and what happens when you stay consistent ## [Commercializing Climate Deep Tech in Southeast Asia: Insights from 10+ Investors](https://earthvc.substack.com/p/commercializing-climate-deep-tech) _2025-08-25 · Earth Venture Capital · Edge of Earth_ Building a climate tech startup in Southeast Asia is no easy feat. ## [Turning Climate Chaos into Clarity: Mind Mapping for Impact](https://sfclimatetechclub.substack.com/p/turning-climate-chaos-into-clarity) _2025-06-14 · Ami Zou · SF Climate Tech Club_ How one pen-and-paper session helped me rewire my brain—and reminded me why we build community in the first place. ## [BeeX: Transforming the Ocean Floor with Autonomous Robotics Solutions](https://earthvc.substack.com/p/beex-transforming-the-ocean-floor) _2025-06-09 · Earth Venture Capital · Edge of Earth_ When Earth Venture Capital (Earth VC) first met Grace Chia and her team at BeeX, we knew this wasn’t just another startup tinkering with robotics. ## [AlterPacks: Can We Fight Waste with Waste?](https://earthvc.substack.com/p/alterpacks-can-we-fight-waste-with) _2025-06-05 · Earth Venture Capital · Edge of Earth_ In a world where 350 million tons of plastic waste churns out every year, AlterPacks sets out to replace them with high-performance, bio-compostable packaging. ## [🌱 Introducing the SF Climate Tech Club — Let’s Build the Future Together](https://sfclimatetechclub.substack.com/p/coming-soon) _2025-04-30 · Ami Zou · SF Climate Tech Club_ https://www.climate-tech-club.com ## [Earth VC backs Electra](https://earthvc.substack.com/p/earth-vc-backs-electra) _2025-04-29 · Earth Venture Capital · Edge of Earth_ Earth Venture Capital has joined Electra’s $186 million Series B funding round, a defining moment in green steelmaking that cements our firm conviction in driving industry-wide changes. ## [Commercializing Climate Solutions in Asia: InnoCSR's Journey](https://earthvc.substack.com/p/commercializing-climate-solutions) _2025-04-22 · Earth Venture Capital · Edge of Earth_ by ADB Ventures [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/161856839/48f5494164a77839e5d63676ca03ab3e.mp3)