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Renewable energy for remote Amazon village

Smart Energy International

Remote Vila Restauração in northwest Brazil now has 24/7 power, thanks to the installation of a solar plus storage microgrid. Previously the 750-inhabitant village relied on a diesel generator providing three to four hours of power per day. As such, the delivery of the solar and other equipment required careful logistical planning.

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Bay Area CCAs Solicit 30MW of Distributed Batteries to Weather Grid Outages

GreenTechMedia

Community-choice aggregators representing three San Francisco Bay Area counties have launched a 30-megawatt behind-the-meter battery solicitation aimed at protecting vulnerable customers and communities from the massive fire-prevention power outages of bankrupt utility Pacific Gas & Electric.

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200 million acres of forest cover have been lost since 1960

Grist

By 2010 to 2019, the world’s total forest cover was shrinking by nearly 1 million acres per year, thanks in large part to “unprecedented” commercial logging, new mining projects, and agricultural expansion. According to a study published earlier this year , tropical forests can cool the planet by an entire degree Celsius (1.8

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CO2 imaging

Envirotec Magazine

Researchers in Madrid have used a novel near-infrared-light imaging technique to capture the first cross-sectional images of carbon dioxide in the exhaust plume of a commercial jet engine. Adequately capturing the exhaust from a commercial airplane engine requires imaging an area up to 1.8 Kaleidoscopic input. m in diameter.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. Cascade Steel’s electric arc furnace (EAF) is more energy efficient and environmentally-friendly than traditional blast furnaces. Insulation is one of the most important factors that play into your home’s energy efficiency.

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How Defra's post-Brexit statutory instrument spree could weaken UK environmental law

Business Green

Among the coalition's chief concerns are that the resulting body of law in many cases gives ministers new powers, does not offer an adequate replacement for oversight once provided by the European Commission, offers up a weaker penalty regime, and strips many laws of previous targets and reporting requirements. "The

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AstraZeneca promises to get to net zero 10 years ahead of schedule

Business Green

The move will see AstraZeneca accelerate its plans to cut carbon, with the firm promising yesterday to double energy productivity, use 100 per cent renewable energy, and reduce total energy consumption by 10 per cent from a 2015 base, all by 2025.