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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Elsa Wenzel. and globally by 2040.

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Electrification gets down to the wire

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Tue, 04/20/2021 - 02:11. It’s a shockingly heady time for electricity. The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Joel Makower.

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California’s Big 2021 Grid Reliability Decision: Expand Supply or Manage Demand?

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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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Entergy reaches smart meter milestone

Smart Energy International

New Orleans headquartered energy company Entergy has reported upgrading more than 3 million electricity meters for home and business customers. The milestone recorded on December 31, 2021 marks completion of the initial phase of the company’s grid modernisation initiative, which was launched in January 2019.

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How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US

GreenBiz

Wed, 03/31/2021 - 01:00. From cardboard boxes delivered to our doors to home appliances, nearly everything comes from industrial processes. Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. Optimize electric energy efficiency.

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5 Major Trends Driving the $80B US Distributed Energy Resources Market Through 2025

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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.

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Sacramento Wants to Electrify Its Homes, Low-Income Families Included

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Blunk, a strategic planner with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), had assembled a diverse group of stakeholders with expertise in energy policy, green building, energy efficiency retrofits and program implementation. Tenants can live in safer, more comfortable homes with improved indoor air quality.