GreenBiz

APRIL 7, 2021

magnitude earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2016, disaster managers were able to able to identify which communities were at greatest risk due to rapid access to data. Climate risks cut across government sectors — such as water, agriculture and energy — and solutions for one sector can have positive or negative consequences for another.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

California already has some of the highest electricity rates in the country. Those costs could rise even faster over the next decade, as utilities harden their grids against wildfires, grow their share of net-metered rooftop solar, and add other costs being passed through to utility customers.

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Charged

JANUARY 25, 2022

Asian bus manufacturer Gemilang International plans to deliver 140 electric school buses to California customers in 2022. The order of 120 units of 12-meter school buses and 20 units of 7.5-meter meter school buses is the company’s largest single order for electric buses to date.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Plume of CO2 detected from a coal-fired power plant in Kendal, South Africa on September 19, 2024. Building on aerial surveys conducted since 2016, Carbon Mapper researchers have been refining the algorithms and processes necessary to pinpoint and quantify super-emitting sources of methane and CO2 quickly. “To

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Over the past half-decade, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has consistently won court battles upholding its authority over states to set the rules for how distributed energy resources can play in wholesale energy markets. ” Why demand-side resources are gaining grid power.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated. Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Why capture CO2 from buildings? Petri Laakso of Soletair.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Data centers utilize different information technology (IT) devices to provide these services, all of which are powered by electricity. households (U.S. households (U.S.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Lordstown Motors , the startup headed by Workhorse CEO Steve Burns , is building an electric pickup called the Endurance at a former GM factory in Lordstown, Ohio. The new e-pickup will feature in-wheel hub electric motors, according to specs published on the Lordstown’s website. Others are skeptical.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Berrien is from a small Pennsylvania town, where her family experienced energy poverty. As an adult, she went into the energy industry—a decision, she explains, that she didn’t realize was fueled by her previous experiences with energy. By reducing their energy use during peak times, businesses can actually make money.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

market for distributed energy resources will look very different in five years than it does today. And electric vehicles will give utilities and regulators the opportunity to promote pricing regimes to encourage charging when electricity is abundant — or suffer potentially grid-destabilizing consequences.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

French oil major Total and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni have won the rights to build Qatar’s first utility-scale solar PV project, due online in time for the 2022 World Cup. Qatari national power firm Kahramaa has signed a 25-year power-purchase agreement for the output of the project.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 10, 2020

For years, the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been working on technologies that could turn distributed energy resources (DERs) — specifically, smart solar inverters and batteries — into tools for keeping the grid stable. The Providence, R.I.-based

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

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. And both of them wanted to build a company for environmental good. The company went public in 2014 and was sold to Oracle in 2016. The Energy Gang is brought to you by Nor-Cal Control.

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Charged

APRIL 20, 2021

The rechargeable battery industry has experienced significant growth and is expected to continue to grow into the future. Most of this growth is expected to be propelled by next-generation high voltage energy systems for electric vehicles, and marine and home storage applications that use seriesconnected battery packs.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Maine now has about 90 megawatts of solar installed, putting it in the bottom ten states according to rankings from Wood Mackenzie and the Solar Energy Industries Association. Maine also set a goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Energy Information Administration. But hydropower and biomass dominate that total.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And according to a new study, the cost to harvest that resource using a floating offshore wind farm has dropped by approximately two-thirds since a pilot project was abandoned in 2016. “Overall, the prospects for offshore wind in Oregon look promising for large-scale electricity generation,” the authors conclude.

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Grist

AUGUST 27, 2024

In the fall of 2016, soaring temperatures caused the permafrost encasing a remote Norwegian mountainside to thaw. Oh, and they want to build it on the moon. “In An ensuing flood breached the entrance tunnel of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built into the mountain as a fortress to safeguard the world’s seeds.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By Logan Atkinson Burke, Alliance for Affordable Energy, and Marriele Mango, Clean Energy Group. Like Hurricane Katrina and numerous storms before it, Hurricane Ida demolished Louisiana’s outdated, fossil-fuel-dependent energy system. Three weeks later, 38,000 remained without power. Outages were widespread and lasting.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Over its 13-year history, California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program has been the state’s primary driver for distributed solar, biomass power systems, fuel cells. and, over the past half-decade or so, behind-the-meter batteries. billion in present and future funding, that would go to the equity resiliency budget.

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Charged

JULY 29, 2021

AMPLY Power says its charging as a service model provides 99.9% Fleet charging management may not be the most glamorous segment of the EV industry, but it is emerging as an extremely important component of the future EV ecosystem. I’ve been a long-time clean energy entrepreneur. uptime, critical to scaling EV deployments.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Engie is on the lookout for more clean energy acquisitions in the U.S., With a long history in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Engie has pivoted dramatically toward renewables over the past few years — a strategy that included the U.S. Engie supplies the city of Houston with solar power from its Holman project in Texas.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 8, 2020

Heading into summer 2020, looming uncertainty about electricity demand makes flexibility more vital than ever in the United States. In California, the number of third-party demand response providers registered with the California Public Utilities Commission has tripled since 2016. power system.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

Converting a fleet from fossil-fueled to electric is a lot more complicated than simply buying new vehicles. The electric cars, trucks and buses need carefully scheduled charging to ensure they have sufficient fuel for their duties. Then it's up to Amply to actually deliver power in the most cost-efficient manner.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

On Thursday, it picked Silicon Valley energy management software startup AutoGrid to help it optimize this growing fleet. “You really need the power of big data and machine learning to do this in a scalable manner.” A growing market for optimizing distributed energy.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

EDF Renewables has acquired PowerFlex Systems , a California startup with technology to manage one of the biggest challenges for scaling up electric vehicle charging: controlling the loads that lots of EVs charging at once can place on the power infrastructure of the sites hosting the chargers. European acquisition spree.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

After a decade of eking out a niche in the world of advanced distribution grid power controls, Silicon Valley startup Varentec has sold its key assets for an undisclosed sum. But Koch Industries is also a massive, if quiet, player in the U.S. But Koch Industries is also a massive, if quiet, player in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 6, 2020

Over the past decade, Geli has seen its software put to use to design, install and operate megawatts of grid-connected and behind-the-meter battery and microgrid projects. commercial and industrial customers, with a 26 percent share of the market in the second quarter, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

“We wanted to be more of a consumer electricity product, a simple solution for consumers,” founder and CEO Eric Clifton said in an interview. “The idea was an appliance that is not infrastructure, because the entire storage industry was still looking at it as infrastructure.” A full U.S. kilowatts/2.2

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts continues its work to build a geothermal system that will contribute to making the campus carbon-neutral by the end of the decade. A series of wells at a depth of 800 feet (~243 meters) will be drilled and connected in a closed loop.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Wireless electric vehicle charging carries a whiff of the future, akin to flying cars. The company has designed a ground-mounted pad that beams electricity up to a car-mounted receiver to wirelessly charge it. The electric vehicle industry is scrambling to build out enough chargers to handle the expected wave of EV adoption.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2019

households to cleaner, cheaper energy options, raised $30 million Tuesday to fuel its expanding community solar and retail energy services business. based startup has built a novel business in the energy services space, based on software that can aggregate, analyze and package a variety of energy options for U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Despite drops in energy usage during the pandemic, coal power use only declined by four percent in 2020, according to a new report. While coal used for power generation dropped 20 percent in both the U.S. F), according to the 2021 Global Electricity Review by think tank Ember. . electricity consumption was 2.5

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Order 2222 , a groundbreaking effort to open up U.S. wholesale energy markets to aggregated solar systems, smart inverters, batteries, electric vehicles, smart appliances, grid-responsive building controls and other distributed energy resources (DERs).

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

In some regions, lack of access to natural resources and basic necessities such as water or reliable electricity is a major impediment to profitability and growth. For these reasons and others, a business strategy that includes sustainability is key to building resilience, improving profits, and reducing risk.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Distributed energy resources (DERs) is an expansive term, including everything from backup generators to microgrids. In some states with 100 percent clean energy mandates, like California and Hawaii, the focus is on solar — lots and lots of it — and the tools needed to integrate this massive new grid edge resource.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

However, we also know that before widespread monitoring began, the UK’s biodiversity had already been highly depleted by centuries of habitat loss, unsustainable farming practices, development, and persecution. Since 1970, the abundance of species studied has declined on average by 19%.

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