June, 2018

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NuScale's Small Modular Nuclear Reactor -- Reliable, Resilient and Flexible

Jim Conca

NuScale’s SMR is the most resilient and reliable of any energy source, with Black-Start Capability, Island Mode and First Responder Power, not needing external grid connections, capable of withstanding earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, floods, cyberattacks, EMP threats and geomagnetic disturbances.

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Fairphone 2 is the world's first ethical, modular smartphone

Treehugger - Technology

If only we could buy it in North America.

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Italian scientist combines climate research with art

Climate-KIC

Climate scientists, ecologists and activists can sometimes dismiss climate art as inaccurate or even useless. Andreco who works both as a scientist and an artist feels different. “Artwork can change the perception of the environmental problem” he writes, backing the idea that culture is at the heart of system change as it directly influences individual […].

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3 Ways A Home Battery Helps You Stay In Control During Time Of Use Rates

Sunrun

Breaking Down Time of Use and Battery Storage Maybe you’ve heard of time-of-use (TOU) rates before, or maybe you’re just now hearing about them. Either way, TOU rates could be behind your ballooning energy bills in the future. Smart energy storage like Sunrun Brightbox™ can help to offset the higher cost of electricity due to TOU rates. But before we get into that, let’s go over what TOU rates are.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Crouching Heater, Hidden Pool Pump

Bidgely

This article originally appeared in the May 2-18 issue of Strategies, the magazine of the Association of Energy Services Professionals ( AESP.ORG ). Crouching Heater, Hidden Pool Pump. The unintended consequences of missing appliances when analyzing loads. Utilities collect and analyze energy usage data for various purposes such as fine tuning load predictions, designing demand side management programs, and improving rate allocation models.

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Inside UPS’s Electric Vehicle Strategy

Andrew Winston

(Continuing to catch up on re-posting some articles I wrote over the last few months. ICYMI, UPS announced a milestone in electric vehicles -- cost parity for a delivery truck. It's clearly good news, but I suggest here that, when you consider all the ways EVs pay off for the company, the "breakeven" point was likely earlier. Companies can miss great investment opportunities with too narrow a definition of return on investment.).

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Microsoft submerges data center off Scotland's Orkney Islands

Treehugger - Technology

This is the second deployment of the tech company's underwater data center project.

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Why Tyson Ventures is Investing in Sustainability and the Internet of Food

AFN Sustainable Protein

What does a meat company, in the business of raising and slaughtering animals for food, do when startups start developing disruptive technologies that cut out the need for animals? In the case of leading US meat supplier Tyson Foods, it invests in them. Through its year-and-a-half-old venture arm Tyson Ventures, the meat company has invested in three companies manufacturing meat and meat-like products without animals.

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AC- vs. DC-Coupled Battery Power Storage Systems: What is the Difference?

Sunrun

Learn What AC & DC Coupling Mean for Your Solar Battery Storage System When you decide to add battery storage to your solar system, there are two main ways to connect or couple these two sources — known as AC or DC coupling. AC & DC are the two types of voltage used to transmit and conduct the electrical energy you use at home every day. What is AC Power?

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Recycling News Roundup - June 2018

Living Green Technology

2018 has been a wild year when it comes to recycling and green living news. Keep reading for the latest from these industries. Seattle Times: Some Seattle-area recycling dumped in landfills as China’s restrictions kick in The Seattle Times recently published an article on how China's decision to shut its doors to American recyclables has had a trickle down effect on recycling here in Seattle.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories – 28 June

Climate-KIC

Could algae replace grain in a cattle’s diet? Can seaweed solve the plastic crisis? And, how is the EU making it a right for you to sell your own renewable energy? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. 1. Could algae replace grain in cattle’s diet? If just two per cent […]. The post This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories – 28 June appeared first on Climate-KIC.

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ANS All Energy Forum Brings A Sobering Analysis To Energy And Climate Plans

Jim Conca

The All Energy Forum at the American Nuclear Society’s annual meeting in Philadelphia wrapped up with some good news. But adjusting our energy mix to increase non-fossil fuels in order to combat global warming was not part of the good news. We're still going in the wrong direction.

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2 rallying cries for a green building revolution: Reduce Demand! and Electrify Everything!

Treehugger - Technology

Previously titled "4 reasons why heat pumps are not going to save the planet" which was mean to heat pumps.

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Why Tyson Ventures is Investing in Sustainability and the Internet of Food

AFN Sustainable Protein

What does a meat company, in the business of raising and slaughtering animals for food, do when startups start developing disruptive technologies that cut out the need for animals? In the case of leading US meat supplier Tyson Foods, it invests in them. Through its year-and-a-half-old venture arm Tyson Ventures, the meat company has invested in three companies manufacturing meat and meat-like products without animals.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Net Energy Metering (NEM)

Sunrun

Net Energy Metering (NEM) Definition: A practice in which utilities credit you for the excess electricity generated by your solar panels. You can then draw upon these credits when your panels don’t produce enough electricity to match your use; most commonly in the night when the sun is down.

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When electronics recycling innovation is strangled by corporatism: The Eric Lundgren story

Living Green Technology

In case you haven't heard, the US government and Microsoft have succeeded in their quest to take down one Eric Lundgren, a force in the electronics recycling industry. How did Lundgren land in this predicament? Did he avoid taxes? Did he mislead consumers? No. All he did was attempt to sell thousands of Windows Recovery Disks to computer refurbishers for 25 cents a pop in an effort to significantly extend the life-cycle of used PCs.

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Spacious 500-acre park provides green backdrop to inspiring climate change art

Climate-KIC

“Indicators: Artists on Climate Change” is an environmental series from over a dozen artists. The exhibition opened in May and is being shown at the Storm King Art Center—a 500-acre sculpture park in New York’s Hudson Valley. Consisting of both indoor and outdoor installations, the series explores the impacts of climate change and incorporates scientific, […].

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Vote Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position: Interior West Manager (Arizona + New Mexico focus). Description: We are in search of a top-notch candidate to work with Vote Solar’s Interior West Director to design, campaign for, and implement key policies for making solar more affordable and accessible in the Interior West. The position will initially focus on Arizona and New Mexico, but may also include work in Colorado and Nevada.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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New heat pump technology heats and cools houses at lower cost

Treehugger - Technology

The dual source heat pump uses either the ground or the air as a heat source.

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NREL study shows industry-leading accuracy of Sighten's automated shading tool

Sighten

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a study evaluating the accuracy of Sighten’s automated shading tool, showing that Sighten remote shading estimates are nearly identical to measurements taken on site. The Department of Energy-affiliated lab found that Sighten's shading tool generated the most accurate shading estimates of all software applications evaluated by NREL to date.

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Time-of-use (TOU)

Sunrun

Time-of-use (TOU) Definition: Time-of-use metering is a method of measuring and charging a utility customer's energy consumption based on when the energy is used. Utility companies charge more during the time of day when electricity use is higher. TOU rates vary by region and utility.

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The Effects Of Trump's Steel Tariffs On Red State Energy

Jim Conca

Trump imposed tariffs on the most important metals in modern society – aluminum and steel. This will hit all of society, but energy particularly hard. Wind energy needs 500 tons of steel per MW, while solar needs 1,600 tons of steel. And renewables are growing in Red States fastest of all.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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This week?s ten biggest climate innovation stories ? 21 June

Climate-KIC

How can ammonia fertiliser be used to store green energy? Will food waste take over the fashion industry? And despite new EU targets on renewables, energy efficiency and emissions, how well are individual countries performing? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. Batteries boom enables world to get half of […].

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First Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position: Project Finance Associate. Location: San Francisco, CA or Houston, TX. Description: Our high growth and leadership position in the renewable energy business offers outstanding opportunities to individuals seeking an exciting work environment in one of the most important industries for the 21st century. First Solar is a leader in the development and manufacturing of thin film solar modules used in grid-connected solar power plants, as well as a provider of complete solar generation so

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Why California gets to write its own auto emissions standards: 5 questions answered

Green Technology

Rush hour on the Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, September 9, 2016. AP Photo/Richard Vogel. Nicholas Bryner , University of California, Los Angeles and Meredith Hankins , University of California, Los Angeles. Editor’s note: On April 2, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that the Trump administration plans to revise tailpipe emissions standards negotiated by the Obama administration for motor vehicles built between 2022 and 2025, saying the standards were set “t

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Artist?s intricate paper sculptures connect humans to corals

Climate-KIC

American artist Rogan Brown creates stunning paper art of the microscopic organisms living inside our bodies that, when scaled up, resemble coral reefs. The art highlights the harmonies between our outer and inner worlds. Coral bleaching is one of the most conspicuous and widespread effects of climate change we see today. It occurs when coral […].

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This week?s ten biggest climate innovation stories ? 14 June

Climate-KIC

Does the EU have new target renewables and energy efficiency yet? What breakthrough has there been in sucking CO2 out of the air? And how is big finance driving climate action in other big companies? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. ‘Game-changer’: Major European banks partner for green mortgage pilot […].

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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories – 7 June

Climate-KIC

Could this pioneering ‘liquid air’ project can help store excess electricity? Who is transforming air pollution into talk-provoking art? And, how can buildings go net-zero emissions by 2030? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. 1. ‘Outperforming’: Green economy market cap now matches fossil fuel industry There is a growing body […].

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Tools for change: Air Hack exhibition

Climate-KIC

Air Hack was hosted by Makerversity at Somerset House in London last week. The event brought together designers, makers, activists, and technologists to pitch innovative ways to address air pollution. The Guardian reported that London reached the legal air pollution limit just one month into the new year and toxic air has been at illegal […]. The post Tools for change: Air Hack exhibition appeared first on Climate-KIC.

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Corporate Member: Sila Nanotechnologies

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Sila Nanotechnologies has the following positions available in Alameda, CA: Mechanical Engineer – Battery Design. R&D Operations/Test Engineer. Scientist, Slurry and Coating Development. Controls and Automation Engineer. Environmental, Health, and Safety Engineer. Development Project Engineer. Development Yield Engineer. Process Engineer. Please click each link above for the full job description and to apply.

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Corporate Member: eMotorWerks

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

eMotorWerks is hiring for several positions in San Carlos, CA: Hardware Product Manager – EV Charging Station. Junior Accountant. Marketing Manager. Product Manager – Developer Platform. Product Manager – Energy Services. Segment Marketing Manager. Senior Firmware Engineer – EV Charging Systems. Senior Manager, Regulatory & Government Affairs.

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Trump And Kim In Singapore -- The 26-Year Dance With North Korea That Led To This Summit

Jim Conca

Trump still needs to cram a bit on North Korea after meeting with Kim Jong Un, mainly by reading Siegfried Hecker’s latest analysis on the history of our negotiations.

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