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In New York, a New Way for Stay-at-Home Customers to Get Paid for Shaving Peak Energy

GreenTechMedia

New York is struggling with the country’s worst coronavirus outbreak, but it’s also pushing ahead on its ambitious clean energy goals. Take GridRewards, a program launched last week by community choice aggregator Sustainable Westchester and building energy software and demand response provider Logical Buildings.

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Behind-the-Meter Battery Pioneer Stem to Take SPAC Route to Public Markets

GreenTechMedia

Stem, the decade-old behind-the-meter battery startup that was seeking a buyer earlier this year to bolster its growth ambitions, is now launching a plan to go public via a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) reverse merger. Friday’s announcement names Star Peak Energy Transition Corp. and abroad. and abroad.

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NuScale’s Federal Safety Approval Moves US Modular Nuclear Reactors a Step Closer to Reality

GreenTechMedia

Small-scale modular nuclear reactors have gone from being a technology that’s always a decade away from being built to one that may actually enter into commercial production in the next decade. That’s a critical step for the Portland, Oregon-based company’s plans to build its first commercial systems.

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Exelon Threatens To Mothball Four Nuclear Power Plants Unless Paid A Premium For Their Zero-Carbon Electricity

Forbes Green Tech

Lawmakers often turn to federally chartered "Independent Market Monitors" to vet the nuclear industry's claims that its plants are money-losing. This is an investigation of how one of these expert groups arrived at its striking conclusion about two nuclear plants in Illinois.

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New York?s Energy Transition (and Challenges) in 5 Charts

GreenTechMedia

Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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Finding a Sustainability Career in Business

Green Business Bureau

The field of sustainability in business offers many career paths, including roles in corporate, consulting, government and entrepreneurship. Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. Energy Manager. Consulting.

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Can Gas-Fired Power Plants Coexist with a Net-Zero Target? Yes, Southern Company Insists

GreenTechMedia

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.