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Tue, 11/03/2020 - 01:00. In the wake of California’s summer of wildfires, blackouts and planned outages, many consumers and businesses are clamoring for more resilient options. The crisis has turbocharged interest in systems that deliver power even when the grid is down. How to value solar plus storage. Adam Aston.
Tue, 07/14/2020 - 01:30. Businesses are reaping the environmental and social benefits of providing electric vehicle charging for employees. Last fall, a research team from PGS conducted a study on workplace electric vehicle charging practices. Workplace EV charging: Lessons from sustainability trailblazers.
AI doesn’t have to be a power hog. Thu, 07/30/2020 - 02:15. Indeed, AI is integral to all manner of technologies, ranging from autonomous vehicles to more informed disaster response systems to smart buildings and data collection networks monitoring everything from energy consumption to deforestation. .
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Wed, 11/04/2020 - 02:00. In recent years, electric vehicle (EV) adoption has accelerated in the world of personal cars. Now, as ambitious climate goals gain momentum and renewable energy prices drop, attention is turning towards scaling such systems for commercial transport. Challenges on the road to commercial ZEVs.
Now, new breakthrough climate accounting technologies are emerging as solutions to track and verify energy and carbon emissions, and report energy purchases and consumption. As more of these services hit the market, corporations making ambitious climate pledges will need to adopt energy and carbon tracking and reporting technologies.
Residential energy is becoming companies' business. Fri, 05/29/2020 - 01:45. In this crazy upside-down world, the line between residential and commercialenergy is getting fuzzy. . Everything changed so quickly, it makes sense that climate and energy teams have yet to figure out how to account for the shift.
million of new funding across nine new digital energy data projects has been announced by UK Research & Innovataion (UKRI). The non-departmental public body is awarding the funding through its ‘Modernising Energy Data Applications phase 1’ competition overseen by the Prospering From the Energy Revolution challenge.
gigawatt natural gas power plant in the U.K. have been shelved by the developer Drax, highlighting the challenging economics of converting coal-fired power to a cleaner, but still fossil-fuel-fired, alternative. ’s largest power plant. GW of power output to biomass, with a remaining 1.3 Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt
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Businesses who fail to act on decarbonisation risk exposing themselves to potential risks from policy-driven increased operating costs, increased energy costs or increased compliance costs. Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012.
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economy into free fall this spring, the energy storage industry delivered its second-best quarter ever in terms of megawatts installed. megawatts/112 megawatt-hours in Q2, up 10 percent from the previous quarter, according to the new Energy Storage Monitor report released Thursday by Wood Mackenzie and the U.S.
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gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity in 2020, more than double the 499 megawatt-hours installed in 2019. gigawatt-hours this year, according to Wood Mackenzie's latest report on Australia's energy storage market. Falling battery costs will lead to improved overall capex for the energy storage sector.
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With assets installed far from shore in harsh conditions, offshore wind turbine manufacturers and project operators are turning to new digital tools to optimize performance, boost power production and minimize downtime. said in an interview. said in an interview. That "implies some serious interest in the technology," Barla said.
energy storage industry capped off its biggest year of installations with its largest single quarter in Q4. energy storage installation topped 522.7 megawatt-hours in the fourth quarter, according to the newly released Energy Storage Monitor , produced by Wood Mackenzie and the Energy Storage Association.
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Hitachi Energy has announced an investment of more than €30 million ($32 million) in the expansion and modernisation of its power transformer manufacturing facility in Bad Honnef, Germany. Expected to be complete in 2026, the project will see the facility expand to over 15,000 square meters.
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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.
A Canadian firm with a technology that enables “grid-interactive buildings” has been selected by the UK government to participate in the Tech For Our Planet challenge program, an initiative taking place in the run-up to COP26. BrainBox AI offers AI geared towards making commercialbuildings smarter and more efficient.
Research highlighted at a recent water industry webinar appears to show that nearly half a million Covid-19 infections could have been prevented in the US alone if there had been a nationwide ban on water shutoffs. Access to water is vitally important for health, businesses and communities. Efficiency through innovation.
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Wed, 07/22/2020 - 02:00. A global coalition fronted by former Vice President Al Gore promises granular insights and data into those sources — down to individual power plants, ships or factories. What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'. Heather Clancy. Where did they originate?
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Residential batteries outperformed the rest of the energy storage sector in first quarter deployments. The first quarter of 2020 marked the fourth consecutive record for home battery installations, according to the new Energy Storage Monitor , from Wood Mackenzie and the Energy Storage Association.
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