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EPA Requirements for Monitoring Buried Carbon Emissions Are Too Weak: New Report 

DeSmogBlog

The nation’s top environmental regulator doesn’t have sufficient rules to monitor leaks from carbon capture projects, according to an environmental watchdog’s new report. The agency also lets operators largely set the terms for the methods they use to monitor for leaks, as well as for the duration of the monitoring.

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New Jersey Approves PSE&G’s $778M Smart Meter Rollout

GreenTechMedia

million smart meters — but with regulator insistence that it share the benefits of the data they will collect with its customers. Thursday’s approval of Public Service Electric & Gas’s $778 million advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) plan marks the first big deployment for the state.

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Acceptance tests for energy meters

Smart Energy International

From time to time there are some questions regarding the acceptance inspection (FAT) for energy meters. The IEC 61358 (later referred to as old) was published in May 1996 and withdrawn in September 2008. The electronic meters have a plastic housing together with a printed circuit board. OLD NEW Test No.4 9 +/- 1.0 %.

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Britain’s smart meter programme – more needs to be done

Smart Energy International

Britain’s smart meter programme has failed to hit targets and secure public support, the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has reported. In that period the deadlines have been pushed back three times and the targets reduced from “all homes and small businesses” to have smart meters by the target date to the current 74.5%

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How to value solar plus storage

GreenBiz

The crisis has turbocharged interest in systems that deliver power even when the grid is down. Solar plus storage is fast emerging as a top choice, both at scale on the grid and also "behind the meter," installed in a home, apartment or commercial building. . It’s no secret that the cost of solar energy has plummeted.

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Watt It Takes: Opower’s Dan Yates on the Origins of Behavioral Efficiency

GreenTechMedia

Dan Yates and his co-founder Alex Laskey built Opower, an efficiency company that saves more energy every year than the hoover dam can generate. Opower was based on a simple premise: send paper mailers to utility customers comparing their electricity use to their neighbors. The Energy Gang is brought to you by Nor-Cal Control.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Given that we have less than a decade to address the double whammy of climate change and biodiversity loss, and given that the technology to monitor and track, for example, deforestation or overfishing already exist, the slow pace of progress can be maddening.