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Siemens publishes advice for businesses on steps to decarbonise

Envirotec Magazine

Businesses who fail to act on decarbonisation risk exposing themselves to potential risks from policy-driven increased operating costs, increased energy costs or increased compliance costs. Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012.

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Monitoring for flood management

Envirotec Magazine

Monitoring NFM. Given the wide range of potential NFM benefits outlined above, the number and type of parameters to be monitored are likely to be equally diverse. Monitoring data should be used to inform the design of NFMs. However, it maybe be possible to secure baseline data from other parties.

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New York City Is About to Get an Injection of Tidal Power. Is This Time Different?

GreenTechMedia

New York City may be weeks away from seeing tidal power injected onto the local grid. The Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) installation will feature three underwater 35-kilowatt turbines on a single triangular base called a TriFrame. Still, the path toward bigger tidal arrays, and even demonstration projects, looks challenging.

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The Current System of Electric Billing No Longer Makes Sense

GreenTechMedia

Dan Seif is vice president for market development at 7X Energy, a Texas-based solar developer. Let’s stop pretending that we’re paying for “energy” via our home power bills and understand that we’re mainly paying for infrastructure.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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NuScale’s Federal Safety Approval Moves US Modular Nuclear Reactors a Step Closer to Reality

GreenTechMedia

Small-scale modular nuclear reactors have gone from being a technology that’s always a decade away from being built to one that may actually enter into commercial production in the next decade. That’s a critical step for the Portland, Oregon-based company’s plans to build its first commercial systems.

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Bush Brothers counts on water reuse to reduce local impact of bean production

GreenBiz

The company is also better equipped to tightly control its water usage, according to Evoqua. . Bush Brothers, a family-owned business, has been operating in the small community of Chestnut Hill, Tennessee, for over 110 years. Water, specifically, stopped being an afterthought for Bush Brothers after the 2007 drought in Chestnut Hill.