Solar Industry

DECEMBER 3, 2024

solar module factories can produce enough equipment to meet nearly all demand for solar in the United States. for the first time since 2019. Utilities and businesses are driving this growth as they procure significant levels of solar to meet rising demand for electricity. solar industry installed 8.6 GW of capacity in Q3. “Our

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Propelled by a crescendo of events, including heightened demand from investors, determined pressure from BlackRock’s prolific and influential CEO Larry Fink and political headwinds from a new ESG-friendly U.S. As demands for ESG risks and impact get louder, companies are starting to pivot to an investor-first approach to reporting.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

secondhand clothing market is projected to more than triple in value in the next 10 years — from $28 billion in 2019 to $80 billion in 2029 — in a U.S. In 2019, secondhand clothing expanded 21 times faster than conventional apparel retail did. The market value of this sector reached $2 billion in 2019.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 19, 2021

So far the program, approved by the Oregon Public Utilities Commission in 2019, has inked deals for 300 megawatts (MW) of new capacity, with hopes to expand soon. In May 2019, PGE launched the first GFI offering: access to the energy from a new 162-MW solar facility, to be built in Gilliam County, Oregon. Credit: Avangrid Renewables.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Over the past year, I’ve been working with Royal Dutch Shell’s aviation division — a relatively small slice of the $344 billion (2019 revenue) energy behemoth — to develop a series of video interviews focusing on what it will take to make aviation sustainable. (I Passenger volumes took a nosedive, down precipitously from 2019 levels.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Editor's note: Back by popular demand, smart cities consultant Sue Lebeck provides GreenBiz highlights from the past year in verse. You'll find her haiku from 2019 here. The sustainability year 2020 in review, in haiku. Sue Lebeck. Tue, 12/29/2020 - 01:00. Rise before the Surprise. Leaders gather for. the first and last time in year.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2021

That same study shows, however, that in 2020, 45 percent of directors say that ESG issues are a regular part of the board’s agenda, which demonstrates an increase from 34 percent in 2019. Time for training. How can boards (public and private) improve their efficacy in ESG oversight for long-term value?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

"The farms we work with are seeing a huge spike in demand [for direct sales]," Dan Miller, CEO and founder of the crowdfunding platform Steward , told me when we spoke by phone in early April. But now they have to quickly switch their businesses to meet that demand."

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of my favorite sessions from VERGE 2019 was a presentation by Amory Lovins on the expanding energy efficiency cornucopia. In the 2019 scorecard by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), Washington, D.C., Why the District of Columbia is a leader in energy efficiency. Catherine Nabukalu.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

The 2MW tidal turbine, the Orbital O2, has been under construction since 2019 and it was developed by Scottish firm Orbital Marine Power (Orbital). The O2 turbine started construction in the second half of 2019 and is roughly 80% UK-made.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

"Each year, approximately 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) are produced, equivalent in weight to all commercial aircraft ever built; only 20 percent is formally recycled," write the authors of a report published by the World Economic Forum in 2019. "If For comparison, the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

The trade barriers, composed of multiple layers of tariffs and import quotas, were effective in 2018 and early 2019. However, the effectiveness of the trade barriers started to erode in 2019 due to strong demand in the U.S. We expect that the market will grow by 33 percent in 2020 and 48 percent in 2021 from the 2019 level.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

As demand from electric vehicles and the stationary storage market both skyrocket this decade, evolving performance priorities will create a divergence between the types of batteries used for storage and those used for EV applications. It started with a supply crunch. Historically, the ESS market has mostly deployed NMC batteries.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

As the population grows, we may see more demand for this land to be used for agriculture, parks and real estate. According to the National Golf Foundation 2019 Industry Report , there are about 15,000 golf facilities and 24 million golfers. Nearly every country in the world, including the U.S., In the U.S. In the U.S. The time is now.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Our actions will boost demand," Schneider said during the briefing. "We Degrees C" pledge in September 2019: A plan to switch the company’s entire global vehicle fleet to "lower emission options" by 2022. A pledge to pay more for recycled "food grade" plastic in order to help stimulate demand. (It

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

"Solar plus battery storage can provide value in two ways: first, energy reliability for customers during emergency power outages, and second, during non-emergencies, to help the grid balance demand and generation," said Dawn Weisz, chief executive of California utility MCE, during a breakout session at last week’s virtual VERGE 20 event. .

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so. By 2019, the company counted more than a billion total rides, with 2 million annual drivers in more than 650 U.S.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2021

And demand from agriculture, industry and municipalities will only grow — the United Nations projects a 20 to 30 percent increase by 2050 — as the world’s population rises to somewhere around 9.7 This increasing demand in the midst of plummeting supply spells trouble for businesses. Lagging disclosure.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

billion last year, more than three times the level of 2019. The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors. By 2030, it expects demand for seafood to be 30 percent higher than 2010 levels. New Wave Foods. Bumble Bee.

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Seafood Startups Meat alternatives Innovation 515

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Project construction delays and tightening consumer spending will drive down storage and electric vehicle demand, according to Wood Mackenzie. Falling FTM solar system costs are being primarily driven by module price reduction, partly due to price pressure on manufacturers from demand destruction caused by coronavirus.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

includes a doubling of hospital admissions for lung conditions in England and Wales over the last 20 years or so, from 1,535 per 100,000 in 1999 to 3,143 per 100,000 in 2019. The target proposals to improve water quality and availability address pollution from abandoned mines, nutrient pollution and water demand. Water quality.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Although many organizations have adopted ESG principles, executives and boards could do more to meet the demands of institutional investors, customers, employees and other stakeholders especially in regard to climate change risk. Rising demand for sustainable solutions. 1 in three years.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Balancing hydrogen supply and demand. In the early years, nascent and difficult-to-forecast demand will be a problem. Utilities like RWE can look to create their own demand via vehicle charging or injection into the gas grid, while Ørsted is partnering with ammonia manufacturers, oil players and transportation hubs.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

These clean power sales have surged in the past decade: According to data collected and published annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, they doubled from 2010 to 2014 and doubled again from 2014 to 2019. And utility clean power sales have consistently increased over the last decade, nearly tripling from 2010 to 2019.

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Retail Demand Electricity Energy 227

GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Holly Beale (2019). HY William Chan (2019). Alexandra Criscuolo (2019). Alison Humphrey (formerly Larkins) (2019). Kamillah Knight (2019). Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ).

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

The acquisition will support the company's own sustainability goals — it is a signatory of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment and has pledged to engage its customers “to eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastic packaging from their current solutions,” according to its 2019 sustainability report.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

The move shows the efforts that Amazon is willing to go to eke out carbon emissions across its vast network of planes, vehicles and distribution centers that deliver on-demand goods across the globe. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030.

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GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

Americans continue to value and demand recycling as an essential public service according to The Recycling Partnership’s 2019 Earth Day survey. A circular economy is not possible without recycling, yet it can’t happen through recycling alone. The time to transform the way we think about and manage waste is now.

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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 3, 2024

Google admitted on Tuesday that the technology is threatening its environmental targets after revealing that datacentres, a key piece of AI infrastructure, had helped increase its greenhouse gas emissions by 48% since 2019.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

electricity grid can handle increased demand from EVs, heat pumps and extreme weather events, while electricity trading keeps energy bills low, according to a new Clean Energy Canada report. 2030 EV sales targets would only increase electricity demand in the province by 2%, while heat pumps have a nominal impact on the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

” In practice, a VPP can be made up of multiple units of a single type of asset, such as a battery or a device in a demand response program, or a heterogeneous mix of assets. A key feature of VPPs is that they can aggregate flexible capacity to address peaks in electricity demand. But there are important differences.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

billion in corporate financing between 2010 and the end of 2019, including nearly $470 million last year, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. Companies providing off-grid energy access raised over $2.1 The C&I energy access opportunity. Commercial and industrial off-grid energy access will see significant growth in the 2020s.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 24, 2020

The industry failed to get a standalone energy storage ITC passed in 2019 but will continue to push for one. In hindsight, 2019 looks like an inflection point for the way utilities view batteries as part of their long-term planning processes, new WoodMac research shows. But in late 2019, JEA pulled away from a potential deal. "We're

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Batteries North America Energy Energy 245

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Despite coronavirus-related setbacks, 2020 will be one of the biggest years for solar demand in Latin America. Country demand and system cost trends. As utility-scale solar demand climbs in 2020, system costs will fall. All-in utility-scale PV system costs by country in Latin America, 2019-2025E ($/Wdc). Beyond 2020.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Although, in many cases, these companies may pass their increased operating costs or capital expenditures on to customers, this can dampen demand, especially as alternative energy sources and technologies become increasingly competitive. Increases revenue by meeting consumer demand. Reduces upstream emissions from generation.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

Described as “ the cornerstone material for a net-zero future ” by ICA president Anthony Lea, global demand for copper is expected to double by 2050. If required at all, carbon offsets and commercially unrealized technologies like carbon capture would be limited to minimal, highly specific cases.”

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 21, 2020

Numerous new EV models became available in 2019 and 2020, and global markets showed strong sales for 2019 and early 2020. Unlike last year, this year’s EV sales in Norway include very few Teslas (2019’s early-year growth was driven primarily by Model 3 sales). Global plug-in EV sales, 2015-2019. Source: REN21.

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