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Utilities plus telcos: The case for an arranged marriage

GreenBiz

The notion of power utilities and telecommunications companies combining or working together is not new. Telco plus utility = Energy savings and modernized infrastructure. Cooling existing equipment and adding new sites to cater for 5G wireless networks will add to burgeoning energy costs. Richelle Elberg. That needs to change.

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Will Your EV Keep the Lights on When the Grid Goes Down?

GreenTechMedia

Last month’s preventative power shutoffs in California highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to threats exacerbated by a changing climate. But what about the mobile battery packs carried in the hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles now on the road in California?

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How critical and emergency services can benefit from battery power

Smart Energy International

As blackouts become more common due to the severity of climate change, sources of continuous battery backup power can be one less headache—and a life-saving advantage—to fire departments and emergency services already faced with rising costs and operational challenges, explains Lance Honea of Swell Energy. are volunteers.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Best Cleaners – New York’s Capital Region Experts

Green Business Bureau

Best Cleaners is a proud affiliate of America’s Best Cleaners , a third-party organization that searches out the top cleaners across the United States. Other ways that Best Cleaners has greened their business are by switching to LED lighting in their facilities and creating a hanger recycling program. About America’s Best Cleaners.

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EPRI, Shell, the City of Houston, Greentown Labs, and NYU Urban Future Lab Announce Startup Participants for the Low-Carbon Hydrogen Accelerator

Greentown Labs

This six-month, highly structured accelerator program offers startup participants collaboration and engagement opportunities with EPRI, its member utilities, and Shell on technology validation, feasibility studies, paid pilot demonstrations, and other development and commercial partnerships. Somerville, Mass.

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How to stop runaway deforestation? Look at Indonesia.

Grist

In 2011, the government of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that it would stop handing out forest land for palm oil plantations. Wilmar’s CEO Kuok Khoon Hong, was beginning to see that he might have the power to tip the entire industry toward saving, rather than felling, forests. That’s the good news, but it’s only half the story.