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Organic Valley loans dairy farmers funds for renewable energy

GreenBiz

Organic Valley loans dairy farmers funds for renewable energy. In 2018, the Land O’Lakes Sustain program, now part of Truterra , provided loans for the cooperative’s farmers to adopt sustainable methods such as water-reuse systems and manure separation technology. Jesse Klein. Thu, 04/15/2021 - 00:45.

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Solar Net Metering Under Threat as Shadowy Group Demands Intervention in State Policies

GreenTechMedia

Solar net metering, the backbone of the U.S. rooftop solar market for the past two decades, may be facing its most important legal challenge in years — and it's coming at a time when the industry is already reeling from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Waste heat reuse and CO2-neutral energy supply concept among winners of German energy efficiency awards

Envirotec Magazine

The following have been recognised for their achievements: The building materials manufacturer, Adolf Gottfried Tonwerke GmbH , together with the technology provider, Orcan Energy AG , in the Energy Transition 2.0 category, for exploiting previously unused waste heat from two furnaces for electricity generation.

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

GreenBiz

Carbon atoms flow through all living organisms, from the atmosphere to the earth to the oceans and back again. But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. emissions in 2018. For companies, investors and the planet, it’s win-win.

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Group Seeking to Overturn State Net Metering Reveals Member with Utility Ties

GreenTechMedia

The group claiming status as a ratepayer advocacy group in its attempt to get federal regulators to override state net metering regimes has finally revealed the identity of one of its members. But that revelation appears to strengthen claims by its opponents that it is representing energy industry interests rather than those of ratepayers.

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‘We Too Must Improve’: Clean Energy Industry Holds Up Mirror on Racial Inequity

GreenTechMedia

clean energy organizations joined nationwide expressions of grief and anger this week following the recent killings of black Americans including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) lamented continuing racial inequities in the U.S.,

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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups

GreenBiz

We might be at a turning point, however, because a handful of forward-looking corporations, conservation organizations and startups recently have accelerated efforts to store carbon in marine systems. Once it goes down below 1,000 meters, it’s not coming back up, because the pressures are so great," Odlin told Fast Company. "So