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Electricity Maps calculates the carbon intensity of electricity consumption to optimize usage at scale
If you’re an electricity nerd, chances are you’ve already spent quite a few hours looking at Electricity Maps and its mesmerizing export flow animations.
But companies like Google and Samsung are increasingly relying on this rich data set to hit their sustainability goals and empower their own users. But TechCrunch has exclusively learned it recently raised a $5.4 million (€5M) funding round from Transition and Revent, to take things up a notch by investing in the product and the business. The funding injection is aimed at dialling up Electricity Maps’ own impact by stepping on the gas so it can meet rising demand for smarter climate tools, per Corradi.
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