{"id":143658,"date":"2022-08-05T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T01:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/bill-gates-backed-startup-is-using-robots-to-build-enormous-solar-farms"},"modified":"2022-08-05T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T01:24:07","slug":"bill-gates-backed-startup-is-using-robots-to-build-enormous-solar-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/bill-gates-backed-startup-is-using-robots-to-build-enormous-solar-farms","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates-backed startup is using robots to build enormous solar farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVo16WlZBqc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures co-led a $44 million funding round for a startup that aims to accelerate solar far construction.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a climate change solution-focused VC firm backed by the likes of Bill Gates, has joined a $44 million backing of solar startup Terabase Energy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/terabase-energy-raises-44-million-series-b-to-digitalize-and-automate-the-deployment-of-utility-scale-solar-power-plants-301597361.html\" title=\"a press statement\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">a press statement<\/a> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The VC firm co-led the Terabase deal alongside investor Prelude Ventures, and is known for its backing of Amp Robotics and Lime. The round brings Terabase Energy\u2019s total funding to $52 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company\u2019s co-founder and CEO, Matt Campbell, Terabase Energy\u2019s goal is to build \u201cterawatt scale\u201d solar farms using robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures co-led a $44 million funding round for a startup that aims to accelerate solar far construction. Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a climate change solution-focused VC firm backed by the likes of Bill Gates, has joined a $44 million backing of solar startup Terabase Energy, a press statement reveals. The VC firm [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,6,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}