GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Few grid policy battles have been fought as bitterly as those surrounding replacements for net-metering, which determines how much rooftop solar customers get paid for power they export to the grid. Utility Duke Energy tossed out the conventional playbook when proposing a net-metering successor for its South Carolina territory.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2020

billion Self-Generation Incentive Program budget to help low-income communities install about 100 megawatts of stalled behind-the-meter battery projects. The shift won’t tap the $613 million in SGIP funds earmarked for low-income and medically vulnerable customers at highest risk of fire-prevention power outages. California Sen.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 27, 2020

Virginia utility regulators once again rejected large parts of utility Dominion Energy’s grid modernization plans, including $752 million of proposed investment to deploy smart meters over the next decade. In January 2019, the SCC rejected Dominion’s 10-year, $7 billion grid modernization plan, which included $1.3

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The system works by setting a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases released by refineries, power plants and other large emitters, and requires polluters to obtain permits to cover their share. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.).

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

by Lisa Prevost, Energy News Network. As the sale of Rhode Island’s largest electric distributor comes before state regulators for approval, a group of solar developers, policy specialists and energy consultants are calling on the governor and attorney general to seize what they see as a golden opportunity to force a faster grid transition.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

Speed cameras: Lessons learned in this space are informing the roll-out of noise cameras Noise camera technology is ready to be deployed for monitoring urban traffic, according to a number of firms developing it. ACOEM’s Noise Radar product uses CUBE, a 4G smart noise monitoring terminal that conforms to IEC 61672 Class 1.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 24, 2021

This week Connecticut Governor Lamont signed a new law that will require the state to install 1 GW of energy storage by 2030 with milestone requirements every three years: 300 MW by 2024, 600 MW by 2027 and 1 GW by 2030. The Energy Storage Association (ESA) applauded the move.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

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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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Smart meters are an increasingly popular and important solution to the growing problem of electrical energy theft. By using smart meters, energy companies are able to better combat electrical energy theft, which is a major cause of non-technical losses for utility companies.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For some time, it has been plain that there should be standards for energy metering on DC fast charging stations, similar to those that already exist for gasoline sales—gas pumps are regularly certified to ensure that when you pay for a gallon of gasoline, that’s what the pump dispenses, within a small margin of error.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Broken Equipment Equinor had previously acknowledged that faulty monitoring equipment at Sleipner caused it to over-estimate the amount of CO2 it was capturing at the field for several years, as DeSmog reported in October. Credit: Sabrina Bedford. million tonnes of CO2 at the site. In August, chief executive Anders Opedal announced up to $6.7

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

New Jersey looked like the promised land for energy storage. Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed for a 100 percent clean grid by 2050. When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. Danone, banking on the assumption it reached peak emissions in 2019, is confident that its carbon-adjusted EPS will rise over the years to come. Cecilia Keating.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 11, 2023

That’s like half a million dump trucks worth of electric toothbrushes, ugly holiday sweaters adorned with LEDs, drones, and other small electronics. billion in materials — primarily iron, copper, and gold — that could have been recovered in 2019 alone, according to WEEE Forum. Roughly $9.5

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced it was suspending its enforcement of environmental laws in response to the crisis, informing companies they would not be pursued for environmental infractions during the outbreak. California to double 2030 clean energy goal, as New York closes its last coal plant.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 15, 2023

million cubic meters per year of exploitable geothermal resources, increasing the geothermal mining area to 821 square kilometers and saving about 930,000 tons of coal equivalent per year. Source: HBRGB.net The post Hebei Province, China seeks to double geothermal heating area first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A key area where businesses can focus their carbon reduction efforts is manufacturing processes, both in terms of energy usage and the carbon footprint of raw materials. For most industries, a better option is to reduce the carbon intensity of operations with carbon reduction technologies and strategies.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Where these commitments are not achieved, companies will face underperformance penalties, with Ofwat having new powers to levy fines from 2020. ” She added: “As last week’s £90m fine for Southern Water showed, environmental laws must not be undermined.” Anglian Water and Thames Water were rated as 3 star (good).

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This comes after the legislature in 2019 lifted project size limits for the state’s net metering program and implemented other policies that led to a crush of new project applications awaiting utility approval. The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development. Versant Power last recorded 382 megawatts, in 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Sam also accompanied SEPA staff to a non-compliant site and on a site visit to a legitimate waste operator to see how businesses should be operating to stay within the law and discovers how criminals undercutting these types of businesses can impact on the industry.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MAY 14, 2021

Renewable energy, energy storage and other technologies can help growers not only minimize their electricity bills – a substantial operation expense for the typical indoor farm – but also give them a leg up in the State’s licensing process. I. Environmental Impacts of Cannabis.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The UK was the first major industrialised nation to set Net Zero into law – now we have policy plans to get us there. Ministers have made the big decisions – to decarbonise the power sector by 2035, to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles, to back heat pumps for homes. And they have proposed policies to do it. I applaud their ambition.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although the UK Government’s latest legislation solidifies their commitment to the smart meter rollout in the country, there are yet a number of issues with consumer perception and the performance of the technology that need to be ironed out, explains Michael Jary of Sense. billion ($7.1 7 million will lose functionality.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

By David Thill, Energy News Network. This comes after the legislature in 2019 lifted project size limits for the state’s net metering program and implemented other policies that led to a crush of new project applications awaiting utility approval. The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The SDS Greywater on Demand (GWOD) system uses “a state-of-the-art ultrafiltration technology, unique to the UK, together with smart controls, to deliver a space-saving, low-energy and responsive water reuse system, for commercial buildings, hotels and leisure centres.” In this way the system saves energy, too.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2023

Proposed laws to curb antibiotic use on UK farms drafted after closed-door meetings with industry contain loopholes that could undermine the fight against deadly drug resistant bacteria, campaigners have warned. In contrast to the UK, the EU has banned the preventive use of antibiotics, except to treat individual animals in exceptional cases.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

By Faye Bowser, Head of Energy Solutions, Siemens plc. How do we find the energy and ideas now to put in place the changes needed to sustain our collective trajectory to 2050, and also identify the next set of ‘big wins’ for industry? A lot of the hard work has come from decarbonising the grid and the shift to renewable power.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models. 100% Clean Energy by 2045 is now the law in Washington!

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 9, 2020

Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. The standard will be set to ensure that 65 percent of the buildings in each property type will have to save energy to comply with the law. and Washington state.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Before publication the Bill had promised a legally binding target on PM2.5

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” This affects not only issues like education, but the states policies and resource allocations related to issues like climate, energy and the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. Seven of the 13 refineries also reported similarly high levels in 2019, the report notes. More than a dozen U.S. The data is supposed to drive action.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Contributed by Saverio Grosso, Edison Energy. Under the Act, passed in 2019, most buildings over 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across the city—must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions by 2024, and stricter limits in 2030. Last month, the U.S.

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