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Why carbon tracking and reporting is necessary to hold corporations accountable

GreenBiz

Now, new breakthrough climate accounting technologies are emerging as solutions to track and verify energy and carbon emissions, and report energy purchases and consumption. As more of these services hit the market, corporations making ambitious climate pledges will need to adopt energy and carbon tracking and reporting technologies.

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Why Empty Office Buildings Still Consume Lots of Power During a Global Pandemic

GreenTechMedia

What happens to an office building’s electricity demand when almost everyone who works there is stuck at home? The coronavirus pandemic has forced broad swaths of the economy to shut down, as state after state forced non-essential businesses to close. pecent this year. pecent this year.

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'Green' commercial buildings attract higher rents, UK real estate survey finds

Business Green

That is the conclusion from a new poll of 50 real estate managers in the UK, which found 82 per cent had seen their more energy efficient commercial properties rise in value by between 16 and 25 per cent compared to buildings that cannot command so-called 'green premia'.

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US real estate developer Gardner to host VPP-connected flywheels and batteries in Utah

Energy Storage News

Real estate development company Gardner has signed an agreement with technology provider Torus to deploy flywheel and battery-based energy storage systems at its commercial properties in Utah, US.

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The Return on Investment (ROI) of Sustainable Business

Green Business Bureau

The ROI Of Sustainability in Business. There is general consensus among business leaders and investors that business success today requires a commitment to sustainability. There is company risk in not being sustainable, both to the planet and to the business. The Business Case for Sustainability Programs.

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Canadian AI firm selected by UK government to demonstrate emissions-reduction commercial building technology

Envirotec Magazine

BrainBox AI will showcase its predictive and self-adaptive commercial building technology in “Challenge 3 – Thinking Smart”, which is dedicated to solutions that can capture and share data to better predict and manage energy consumption. Its flagship product, currently installed in over 100,000,000 sq.

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Catalyze Aims to Remake Commercial Storage With Backing of Oil Investor EnCap

GreenTechMedia

A new company backed by an experienced oil and gas investor wants to revitalize the choppy commercial storage market. The Energy Transition team at Houston-based EnCap Investments is funding Catalyze, a group that develops, owns and operates distributed energy projects, including storage. But it’s not easy.