Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

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.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The US-certified DCBM 400/600 meter takes EV fast charging to another level By Mathieu Beguin, Global Product Manager at LEM With transportation accounting for over 20% of global CO 2 emissions in 2020 and 17% of all greenhouse gas emissions (according to Statista ), decarbonization is essential in this sector.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 27, 2020

Residential and commercial energy storage installations are taking a hit as the U.S. The behind-the-meter storage segment will install 31 percent less capacity in 2020 than previously forecast, according to a new analysis by research firm Wood Mackenzie. ” The residential storage market has a different problem.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Stem, the decade-old behind-the-meter battery startup that was seeking a buyer earlier this year to bolster its growth ambitions, is now launching a plan to go public via a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) reverse merger. Friday’s announcement names Star Peak Energy Transition Corp. billion in late 2019 to about $2.7

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45. The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . And then once [Enviva] start building it, then they were saying ‘oh this is coming,’ and I told them ‘this is what I tried to tell you all about.’” .

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and coming recession is expected to drive down pricing for both front-of-the-meter solar and storage systems even faster than expected. Project construction delays and tightening consumer spending will drive down storage and electric vehicle demand, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 18, 2021

Hawaii's largest utility enlisted a new tool in its quest for a carbon-free electricity system: thousands of batteries installed in people's homes. Hawaiian Electric won regulator approval for a $25 million plan to harness solar and batteries at 6,000 homes across the islands of Hawaii, Maui and Oahu.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Vermont utility Green Mountain Power not only verified the efficacy of residential batteries for meeting grid needs, it saved its customers millions of dollars with them. It already has not a couple hundred, but 2,567 utility-controlled Powerwall batteries sitting in customer homes, adding up to around 13 megawatts.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

energy storage industry smashed its quarterly installation record with an influx of major projects in the third quarter. The growth came in spite of the coronavirus fallout, which slammed the broader economy and conventional energy companies in particular. gigawatts in 2025, which amounts to sixfold growth from 2020. "It’s

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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 particular, residential demand response faces more pressure than usual as many people continue to work from home over the next few months. power system. The role of generators.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

Several floors below the firm’s balcony, power lines crisscross over piles of garbage, a fleet of rickshaws and cow patties on a rooftop, being dried for cooking fuel. ” Rapid growth in India’s renewable energy sector is driving demand for new technologies to modernize the country’s power sector.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

2020 forced most people into a more distributed and virtual way of life. But a segment of the grid edge industry has been trying to achieve that for years, installing controllable devices at homes and businesses that can work together to help the grid. Check out GTM's explainer: So, What Exactly Are Virtual Power Plants?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 19, 2020

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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2021

Tighter rules on the carbon footprint of new homes in England look set to trigger a fresh boom for residential solar. New homes will be expected to produce 31 percent less carbon dioxide than they do now, according to plans laid out this week , which will require better energy efficiency and being “heat pump ready.”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

California is facing a major decision under a tight deadline — whether it should push for large-scale power plants and batteries to prevent a repeat of its August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer, or turn to behind-the-meter resources like batteries and demand response. 14 and 15 last year. 14 and 15 last year.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

Barry Cinnamon is CEO of California's Cinnamon Energy Systems. Dave Barry said it best when summarizing 2020: “This was a year of nonstop awfulness, a year when we kept saying it couldn’t possibly get worse, and it always did. Buildings will be designed to be carbon negative.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

The report by the CEWASTE consortium – led by the Switzerland-based World Resources Forum – says this requirement should apply to certain e-waste categories, including: End-of-life circuit boards, certain magnets in disc drives and electric vehicles, EV and other special battery types, and fluorescent lamps.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 22, 2020

The start of 2020 has already seen significant momentum at the grid edge. Even under pandemic restrictions, distributed energy resource project lifecycles are ongoing. Grid edge wins so far in 2020. The start of 2020 signaled sustained hunger for investment at the grid edge as DERs proliferated and electrification continued.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2020

’s novel approach to enlisting rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries, electric vehicle chargers and grid-responsive appliances as an integral part of its power grids. First, they’ve built up the technology to monitor and manage these distributed energy resources (DERs) at a large scale.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

GreenCom Networks, the Internet-of-things platform provider that’s become a go-to for major European utilities to control solar panels, batteries, electric vehicle chargers and smart home energy loads, has landed another funding round with two new strategic investors that could open new markets. million customers.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

California regulators have finalized plans to direct more than half a billion dollars in behind-the-meter battery incentives over the next four years to customers most at risk of the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires and the grid outages meant to prevent them. Big changes for California's energy storage market.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

residential solar market just experienced its best-ever quarter, with 712 megawatts (DC) installed. residential installations through the first three quarters of this year. residential installations through the first three quarters of this year. residential solar sector. residential solar sector. percent of U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Government sets out plans to accelerate smart meter rollout across UK homes and businesses, in bid to boost post-Covid-19 recovery. Advocates of smart meters see them as crucial for boosting public awareness of energy use and automating billing processes.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Last month’s preventative power shutoffs in California highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to threats exacerbated by a changing climate. But what about the mobile battery packs carried in the hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles now on the road in California? kilowatt-hour nameplate capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

California’s distributed energy resources add up to gigawatts' worth of capacity that could be used to prevent future rolling blackouts and balance the state’s increasingly clean-powered grid — if the state can compensate them for those services. 14 and 470 MW shed on Saturday, Aug.

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Charged

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Most EV owners choose to install a Level 2 charging station at their homes, and for most, it’s a reasonably priced and hassle-free process. In our September/October 2020 issue, we wrote about NeoCharge’s Smart Splitter. This is a UL-listed product that’s designed for permanent installation at any home or business.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

Charlie Baker’s administration has finalized a major rule for promoting clean energy during the most expensive hours of electricity production. The Clean Peak Standard, called for in legislation passed in 2018, creates credits for clean energy delivered during time windows identified as peak hours for a given season.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

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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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Residential solar PV has had a remarkable decade. From 2010-2020, more than 2 million residential solar panels have been installed in the U.S., Unsurprisingly, this also means that to date, most growth in residential solar has been concentrated in a handful of state markets that offered additional incentives.

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Bidgely

JUNE 10, 2021

Last month on the TechCentral TechRadio podcast, I spoke with tech journalist Niall Kitson about how Bidgely and Electric Ireland, Ireland’s largest energy retailer, are working together to bring greater value to Irish energy consumers and establish a strong competitive advantage in a region that vies for customer loyalty and satisfaction.

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Bidgely

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With that in mind, he says the operational challenges best-suited for an AI solution in the retail segment also present significant opportunities for the utility industry , including using AI for demand forecasting, personalization and solving strategic business problems. AI for Demand Forecasting.

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