Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, technological advances such as Blockchain technology are key enablers to form VPPs and facilitate the orchestration of a diverse set of DER assets. The other enabler for VPP is blockchain which has received tremendous attention as a communication framework in recent years. Increase in DER integration.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 14, 2020

To accelerate progress on circularity, we need investment, expertise and a whole lot of collective action. More investments to scale circular innovation are critical. Unilever is partnering with the blockchain powered peer-to-peer platform Swapchain to recirculate fashion.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 28, 2022

” Other blockchains use. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Performance appeared first on ImpactAlpha. TGIF, Agents of Impact! ?? Proof of impact. Bitcoins are verified by a cryptographic approach known as “proof of work.”

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The post The Brief: Trust-based investing practices, upskilling in Chicago, soil wealth, blockchain impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Featured: Inclusive Economy Six trust-based practices to help investors shift power to communities. Impact” is often defined by who.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. We already have demonstrated the efficacy of investments directed to electrical distribution, water, transportation and renewable energy.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 14, 2021

Make sure to tune into this ImpactAlpha partner event this week: Global Impact Investing Network convenes “Next Normal Now. The post The Brief: Black culture on blockchain, community lending, labor market insights, housing equity, Latin America’s creative economy appeared first on Impact Alpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact!

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Energy Web has launched two initiatives to advance blockchain innovation and its bid for a Polkadot parachain slot. With Energy Web entering the Polkadot environment and developing its next-generation Energy Web X blockchain , the opportunities for innovation are even greater, the organisation says.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 14, 2022

FlexiDAO, a Spanish-Dutch startup, is a renewables matching and certification platform built on the blockchain for 24/7 electricity and carbon tracking. First blockchain platform for green hydrogen tracking developed Blockchain in Europe’s energy sector – policy and regulation. Have you read?

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Given the disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the global food system , it’s more important than ever to help farmers reap the financial benefits of investing in a more sustainable approach, Sirolli said. Software company Nori, another rising player, is using blockchain to manage the transactions. An important actor.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

Unilever has announced it will invest €1 billion (about $1.12 As such it pledged to increase traceability and transparency by using emerging digital technologies — such as satellite monitoring, geolocation tracking and blockchain systems — to enhance oversight, accelerate smallholder engagement and improve its approach to derivates sourcing.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

Due to highly price-competitive environments, upstream supply chain participants have little motivation to invest in improvements. Using blockchain and cloud-based technology, a number of startups are already laying the groundwork. .

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Cerulean Ventures, a climate tech venture capital firm in Santa Barbara, Calif,, closed a $10 million pre-seed fund to work with founders in four startups focused on carbon removal, global renewable energy credits, sustainable supply chains and a global blockchain to protect endangered natural resources.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 27, 2022

27 – If blockchain was a solution in search of a problem, it may have found it in climate change. ImpactAlpha, Jan. The post Climate is a crypto play as action moves from TradFi to DeFi to ReFi appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Innovative financial services and blockchain/Web3 solutions are a passport to greater climate resilience, writes Scott Onder, Mercy Corps’ chief investment officer. The post How Web3 can help the most climate-vulnerable appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 22, 2022

Australian blockchain pioneer Powerledger’s Montreal Commons project is set to be one of the world’s first carbon neutral apartment buildings. OP Properties and Powerledger have worked together to create a model that makes residents better off over a long period of time from investing in renewables from the outset.”.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2021

Because industrial companies recognize it will be cheaper to run processes on electricity by 2030, many are starting to make their first investments in demonstration plants and technology to electrify. Such a system would help send the demand signal up the chain and trigger investments, he added. What solutions do you have already?

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Challenges remain for the deployment of blockchain in the energy sector, the EU’s Enerchain project has found. The project, undertaken by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre under an agreement with DG-Ener, was aimed to investigate the applicability and potential of blockchain technologies in the energy sector.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 30, 2018

This is my attempt at an "explainer" on blockchain, describing it as simply as I can, and exploring how it may help build the clean grid. Blockchain is everywhere — at least when you’re talking about media coverage. In short, in the words of a recent Wired overview of the technology , blockchain creates “tamperproof databases.”

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 23, 2019

23 – Faith-based investing is not only on the rise, it’s on the cutting edge. Indonesian Islamic microfinance cooperative BMT Bina Ummah raised $50,000 (710 million rupiah) through a micro sukuk, or sharia-compliant bond, on a public blockchain on Blossom Finance’s “SmartSukuk” platform. ImpactAlpha, Oct.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A pilot launched last week by the company, which is one of the largest global buyers of barley, is to use blockchain technology to give beer drinkers a better understanding of the provenance of the ingredients in their beer, while helping northern European growers' improve their barley yields and environmental footprint, AB InBev said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 8, 2021

The system doesn't require the farmers themselves to invest in technology: they are issued an identification card that includes their unique digital "Fitomboka," a stamp that is embedded on the bean and that is a well-known hallmark of the trade. We believe the return on the promises we made and values we kept will be well worth it.".

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

“What they do is use deeptech (AI and Blockchain) to match local production with local consumption, which helps with any worries regarding barriers of grid capacity for example.” Using integrated blockchain and AI, UrbanChain matches generators of renewable energy and consumers on a half hourly basis.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

“Increasing nuclear capacity is vital to meet our net zero obligations, so to encourage private sector investment into our nuclear programme, I confirm, subject to consultation, nuclear power will be classed as environmentally sustainable.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Since then, the idea of selling the power generated by your rooftop solar panels to other individuals in the same way you might let your spare room through Airbnb has gained plenty of attention thanks to the pitches from blockchain platform developers such as Grid+. an expert says. an expert says. In the U.S.,

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Business Green

JUNE 20, 2022

A new blockchain platform has been launched that aims to offer airlines a way to sell Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) credits to business customers, with the revenue channelled into supporting the development of the nascent lower carbon fuel sector. However, it's currently scarce and costs more than conventional jet fuel.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

Large companies including Bumble Bee, Nestlé, Tyson, General Mills and Thai Union are making various plays, whether by investing in upstarts or flexing their research and development muscles to cultivate new products. Through investing in systems and resources, the tuna maker gets a cut of Good Catch's sales.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 11, 2024

The post TPG Rise Fund leads $90 million investment in AI for ‘smart cities’ appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Don’t even think about parking in that bus zone. Buses in Oakland, Calif., last month were outfitted with AI-powered cameras to detect parking.

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CleanTech Group

AUGUST 8, 2019

Once considered slow-moving and outdated, the maritime shipping industry has experienced a recent influx of digitization and the implementation of new technologies, including autonomous ships, blockchain, drones and geospatial analytics.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2020

In this lab, innovative digital technologies for concrete applications in the energy industry will be tested through 2022 as part of the federal government’s blockchain strategy.”. In this case, particularly high investment costs have so far inhibited AI from contributing to an integrated and stable energy system.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2021

Earlier this year, Tesla proposed to invest in a battery project in Indonesia , which has a lot of nickel (and, as it happens, a lot of deforestation and other problems associated with supplying raw materials to the rich world). “We or words to that effect). s principles and battery value chains.”.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 1, 2019

We’re in Amsterdam this week at the Global Impact Investing Network’s investor forum, where Agents of Impact will be moving forward on The post The Brief: Co-creating in Amsterdam, index impact, Denmark’s climate commitments, Indian aquaculture, blockchain for the SDGs appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

SDG7 tracks investments in energy infrastructure for developing economies and has shown that, despite the fluctuations that were seen in 2020, there has been a steady increase in investment in clean energy in developing countries. – Blockchain: Opening doors in the energy sector.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

.” To be on a balanced pathway to Net Zero will require £55bn of investment in home energy efficiency alone between now and 2050, according to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). The devil will be in the detail for the Government’s climate commitments and investment in infrastructure.”. Net zero skills gap.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

some very tenuous attempts to identify opportunities for blockchain in Sustainability (if the stats are correct, blockchain is very damaging in terms of the processing energy it soaks up), and who could forget ‘endosymbiotic thrivability’? Everybody, it seems.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

In response, the Blockchain Association, which describes itself as dedicated to improving the public policy environment for crypto networks, said that crypto mining is a mobile industry and will leave the state if the bill is passed. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Michael Grossman

AUGUST 2, 2023

Let me use blockchain as an example. Bitcoin has been a hot topic for the past few years, and it seemed like everyone would jump on the bandwagon, but you can’t just wave the word around like a flag and hope to generate investment in your blockchain scheme. They aren’t the enemy.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 19, 2020

Climate tech investing newsletter My Climate Journey ?—?Jason lots of interesting commentary on venture investing in general, and blockchain in particular Bloomberg New Energy Finance CleanTechnica ?—?Source Ben Evans’ newsletter on (internet) tech Climatetech VC ?—?Climate Blog by Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures?—?lots

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