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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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Manchester Prize to award £2 million to AI-breakthroughs that help make Britain a clean energy superpower

Envirotec Magazine

This year, the Manchester Prize is rewarding UK-led breakthroughs in artificial intelligence that will accelerate action towards the UK’s world-leading target to decarbonise the electricity grid to deliver green power by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. 

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How to value solar plus storage

GreenBiz

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. And those that need electricity for heating, cooling, and to keep food fresh." .

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How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US

GreenBiz

How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US. 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.

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Monitoring for flood management

Envirotec Magazine

C limate projections for the UK suggest that rainfall will increase in winter and decrease in summer, and that individual rainfall events may increase in intensity, especially in winter. Flood risk management therefore focused on measures to protect communities and industry in affected areas. Monitoring NFM. NFM benefits.

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When you think climate change, you need to think about water

GreenBiz

With nearly a half its land lying below sea level, the Netherlands knows a lot about water and how to make sure a city’s infrastructure is resilient to it, particularly flood risks and freshwater supply. Ecolab is creating technology that businesses can use to calculate and reduce their water usage. Melody Waintal.

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Maintaining confidence: strategies for securing more sustainable operations

Envirotec Magazine

Efforts to ensure the continuity of today’s mission-critical industrial operations are blunted by the burden of aging and increasingly complex electrical systems. Halting a chemical, pharmaceutical or other industrial process due to sudden electrical failure means an immediate loss in revenues.