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Energy Efficiency: 18 Easy To Implement Tips For Your Business

Green Business Bureau

Energy Efficiency: 18 Easy to Implement Tips for Your Business. Most electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels which emit greenhouse gasses and other harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels, water, and land are all scarce resources that are at risk without proper energy efficiency initiatives. Energy Source.

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Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?

GreenTechMedia

Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean energy customers in California's Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral researcher in the energy storage and distributed resources division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Not quite full resilience.

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How energy providers can prepare for summer heat with innovative solutions

Renewable Energy World

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. ROOT CAUSES.

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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 These challenges are of course exacerbated by climate change. The food and beverage sector is therefore seeking to lower climate risk in its supply chains.

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Green Realtor® Guide: Marketing Eco-Friendly Homes and Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

With continued advances in energy efficiency, green technology and design, houses built today operate more sustainably than they did several decades ago. Climate change mitigation. Energy efficiency. Home renewable energy systems. There is also a growing number of homebuyers desiring green homes.

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Tax credits & rebates make solar more affordable

Greenability Magazine

If you’ve been thinking about installing solar on your home, it has become increasingly more affordable with lower installation costs, a federal tax credit and utility rebates. The urgency for reliable, cleaner alternatives quickened the research and advancements of energy and manufacturing technologies. Reducing energy bills.

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Bidgely and GridX Collaborate to Unlock Sophisticated Energy Use and Cost Insights to Advance Decarbonization Goals

Bidgely

In reality, no single business will be able to change the course of climate change on its own. “Motivating consumers to make smarter energy decisions is paramount to achieving utility decarbonization goals,” explains Chris Black, CEO of GridX. That’s why Bidgely and GridX have partnered.