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A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid

GreenBiz

A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid. How will the electrical grid handle so many vehicles charging at once? Especially when fast-charging stations gulp down prodigious amounts of power? You can shift a lot of the electric vehicle charging to line up with those times," Langton said.

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Renewable and Resilient Energy in Commercial Buildings

GreenBiz

Commercial buildings account for 33 percent of electricity usage in the U.S. But to be truly sustainable, energy solutions must be not only clean, but also resilient and affordable. today, representing a major opportunity for decarbonization.

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Smart motor innovation could be game-changer for energy saving

Envirotec Magazine

An intelligent motor developed in Nottingham appears to offer a game-changing combination of energy savings, performance and small size, providing an industrial motor with advanced variable frequency technology in a package that is 60% smaller than current market offerings. It is a game-changer.

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“DC factory” picks up Energy Efficiency Award from German Energy Agency

Envirotec Magazine

An important industry award in Germany has gone to direct current (DC) power technology firm Schaltbau for what’s described as the world’s first DC factory. Schaltbau’s NExT Factory is described as a pioneering leap in sustainable manufacturing and energy efficiency. Image credit: Thomas Köhler/photothek.

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How Waste Metering Powers Environmental And Financial Responsibility

GreenBiz

As such, metering utilities like gas, water and electricity has been standard practice for decades. Smart sustainability and operations leaders are now metering their waste, giving them access to always-on, accurate reporting about waste production by weight, content and contamination trends and carbon emissions output.

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Indian Army inaugurates geothermal-based Net Zero Energy Building

ThinkGeoEnergy

A Geothermal-Based Net Zero Building has been inaugurated at the city of Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, India. An array of ten boreholes, drilled to a depth of 120 meters each, provides space air conditioning to the building, thus far being able to maintain indoor temperatures of 26-27 C while the outdoor temperature is at 43 C.

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Smart meter network passes 20 million milestone

Envirotec Magazine

The firm behind the telecommunications infrastructure underpinning the UK’s smart meters rollout, the Data Communications Company (DCC), says the 20 millionth smart meter has been connected to its national network. The group’s CEO, Angus Flett, said: “These 20 million meters have been added in less than 4 years.