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Coal Is Uncompetitive. Why Do We Burn So Much?

GreenTechMedia

America gets 20 percent of its electricity from coal. That’s a 50 percent drop since the peak in 2007. But if coal is becoming so economically uncompetitive, why does it still make up so much of our grid mix? This week: Coal is no longer king. But it still has a lot of power across the land. How do we banish it for good? Katherine and Stephen welcome Joe Daniel as a guest co-host this week.

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Cowpat crypto: An environmentally-conscious earner?

Envirotec Magazine

Farmer Philip Hughes with Josh Riddett of Easy Crypto Hunter. A firm supplying equipment for crypto mining to renewable generators in the farming sector says it has taken £5 million in sales bookings so far this year. The fortunes of Bitcoin have seemed to fluctuate in recent months, as though linked to the proclamations of Elon Musk, who in May was blamed for wiping billions off the value of cryptocurrencies after posting a series of emojis on Twitter, and expressing disapproval at the energy-g

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Albania’s first floating solar plant starts commercial operations

Renewable Energy World

European renewable energy generator Statkraft, in collaboration with Norwegian supplier Ocean Sun, has started commercial operations at the first unit of its floating solar project in Albania. The project is placed at the Banja reservoir in Albania, where Statkraft is operating its 72-MW Banja hydropower plant. After the successful completion of the first floating solar unit and connection to the grid, the plant is now generating renewable energy and injecting the power into the Albanian nationa

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish? Elsa Wenzel. Tue, 06/08/2021 - 02:12. Put down that beet-juice burger. The next big wave in plant-based protein is fake fish. Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood.

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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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Wyoming To Lead The Coal-To-Nuclear Transition

Jim Conca

States like Wyoming and Montana are evaluating replacing coal with nuclear and Bill Gates’ TerraPower, has partnered with GE Hitachi, Bechtel, Energy Northwest, Duke Energy, DOE and the State of Wyoming to do just that with their new 345MW fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system.

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EU plastic ban to go into effect July 3

Inhabitat - Innovation

The ban will end sales of plastic bottles, food containers, cotton swabs and more.

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Electrification could squeeze CO2 out of industrial supply chains

GreenBiz

Electrification could squeeze CO2 out of industrial supply chains. Jean Haggerty. Wed, 06/09/2021 - 00:10. In a net-zero carbon world, the low-carbon solution wins. With this in mind, the remaining years of this decade will be defined by tackling value chain emissions. These Scope 3 emissions often are seen as the third rail of climate policy. Right now, the corporate gold standard is net zero well before 2050, and companies at the net-zero forefront are saying that they want to halve their Scop

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U.S. Solar Needs A New Model – Lumio Answers From Silicon Slopes

Jim Conca

Rooftop solar’s success depends on its business model as much as solar cells. A new company, Lumio seeks to provide a total Home Experience - your home creates power, manages its own energy, cleans its own water, filters its own air, monitors itself and calls professionals when the house needs them.

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Oyasai Crayons are a plant-based coloring option made from food waste

Inhabitat - Innovation

In an effort to produce options that are more sustainable, a Japanese company has found a way to make the ubiquitous crayon with all-natural ingredients.

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NanoGraf Reaches Energy-Density Milestone for its Lithium-Ion Battery Material

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Record-setting breakthrough in energy density of silicon anode cells enable longer-lasting, lighter weight, and shortened charge cycles for consumer electronics, electric vehicles, military equipment and more.

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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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What You Need to Know about Policy

GreenBiz

What You Need to Know about Policy. Regulations are quickly changing, with far-reaching implications for the future of electrification. Our experts give a crash course. Speakers: Sara Baldwin | Director Of Electrification Policy | Energy Innovation. Vincent Barnes | Senior Vice President of Policy and Research | Alliance to Save Energy. Jon Wellinghoff | CEO | GridPolicy.

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8 Simple Ways to Improve the Water Quality in Your Home

U.S. Green Technology

Everybody wants access to the best and cleanest water possible, but it’s no secret that declining water quality is a growing problem around the globe. Many communities across the country are experiencing issues with contaminated water, and the worst part is that they often don’t know about it until long after the contamination occurs. Since. The post 8 Simple Ways to Improve the Water Quality in Your Home appeared first on U.S.

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Climate change threatens Maine blueberries

Inhabitat - Innovation

Maine blueberries and the farmers who harvest them could be some of the latest victims of climate change.

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DuPont Introduces DuPont™ Tedlar® Photovoltaic Rescue Tape

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New photovoltaic backsheet repair solution extends operational lifetime of solar panels

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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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Utilities plus telcos: The case for an arranged marriage

GreenBiz

Utilities plus telcos: The case for an arranged marriage. Richelle Elberg. Thu, 06/10/2021 - 00:05. The notion of power utilities and telecommunications companies combining or working together is not new. The obvious synergies between these real or quasi monopolies have been written about extensively over the past two decades. Both small and large utilities, telcos and cellular companies ("cellcos") have carefully tried partnering in a typically limited fashion.

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Green Business Bureau Opens Up Texas Office in Houston

Green Business Bureau

Local GBB Team Launches “Go Green Woodlands” Program to Make the Woodlands Business Community the Greenest in the Country. Green Business Bureau (GBB) has opened up a local office in Houston, Texas to provide the state with local support for the GBB’s sustainability management solutions and green business certification program. The Green Business Bureau online platform helps businesses of all sizes become more sustainable and guides them in achieving certified levels of improved business sustain

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Lake life suffers from declining oxygen levels

Inhabitat - Innovation

Fish are struggling to breathe and algal blooms flourish in lakes around the country, thanks to a drastic decrease in oxygen levels.

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Navisun Becomes a Sponsor of SEIA & SEPA Solar and Energy Storage Northeast Conference

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Navisun is a Kilowatt Sponsor of the Solar and Energy Storage Northeast Conference being held in Boston, June 9-10th.

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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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Luminescent Grand

GreenBiz

Luminescent Grand. This session was held at GreenBiz Group’s VERGE Electrify, May 25-26, 2021. Learn more about the event here: [link] ; YanniGuo. Mon, 06/07/2021 - 13:16. Featured. Off.

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Golf Course Sustainability Guide for Owners and Operators: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

Golf Course Sustainability: Balancing Business with Protecting the Environment. If you own, operate or manage a golf course, it’s time to get serious about sustainability and become a more eco-friendly business. It’s important to your employees, customers, partners and the future of our planet. The younger generation of today cares about climate change, the planet and who they do business with.

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UN launches program to reverse "triple environmental emergency"

Inhabitat - Innovation

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to combat three crises: biodiversity loss, climate change and mounting pollution.

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SIBA's Energy Storage System (ESS) Fuses

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SIBA's Energy Storage System (ESS) fuses are specifically designed and tested for the stringent requirements of ESS applications and are utilized by large OEM's globally. We are constantly developing new technology for various industries, and we have recently introduced several new product lines, including our specialized ESS fuses from 400 Volt to 1500 Volt with the highest breaking capacity and lowest L/R in the industry, and SSK wind and solar application fuses up to 40.5kV.

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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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Why Electrification is Critical for Grid Resilience

GreenBiz

Why Electrification is Critical for Grid Resilience. Communities are increasingly facing grid blackouts, while electrification is growing. How do we make sure that the future of the grid is resilient and clean? Speaker: Leah Stokes | Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science | UC Santa Barbara. This session was held at GreenBiz Group’s VERGE Electrify, May 25-26, 2021.

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Message in a bottle: Plastic tracking project launches in Cornwall

Envirotec Magazine

“First study of its kind” to track how plastic bottle pollution moves through the open ocean. Scientific monitoring devices were launched into the ocean on 8 June, World Ocean Day, in a bid to increase understanding about how plastic pollution behaves in the ocean. Seven devices – one for each G7 nation – were launched into ocean currents around the G7 Summit’s Cornish venue ahead of the Summit starting 11 June.

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Human actions are causing endangered whales to shrink in size

Inhabitat - Innovation

Today, endangered right whales are about one meter shorter than they were 40 years ago.

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V2G (Vehicle-to-Grid) Technology Market Worth US$ 17.43 Bn By 2027

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The vehicle to grid technology market will exhibit a humongous CAGR of 48 percent in the given projection period and is expected to reach US$ 17.43 billion by 2027.

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Day 1: Organizers Welcome

GreenBiz

Day 1: Organizers Welcome. GreenBiz Senior Energy Analyst & VERGE Electrify Co-Chair Sarah Golden welcomes participants to VERGE Electrify. Welcome! This session was held at GreenBiz Group’s VERGE Electrify, May 25-26, 2021. Learn more about the event here: [link]. YanniGuo. Fri, 06/11/2021 - 12:11. Featured. Off.

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Aqua Pro: Keeping Drains Clean and Water Supplies Safe With 100% Organic Cleaning Solutions

Green Business Bureau

Aqua Pro is a reseller of BioOne, an organic, bacterial-based drain cleaner formulated to naturally clear pipes, leach fields , grease traps, pump stations and more. EPA-approved as a Safer Choice alternative, BioOne triumphs over the caustic cleaning products out on the market today without forfeiting quality or performance. What Goes Down Sticks Around.

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Keystone XL oil pipeline is canceled

Inhabitat - Innovation

TC Energy announced Wednesday that it is officially terminating its Keystone XL oil pipeline.

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STI Norland to supply 180 MWp of dual-row trackers for projects in Spain

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New solar tracking logic will optimize power generation on cloudy days

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The City Is the Solution: Celebrating Jaime Lerner

The City Fix

Jaime Lerner passed away on May 27, 2021. A world-renowned Brazilian urbanist, he was three times mayor of Curitiba and two times governor of the southern state of Paraná. Besides his great ideas, he was a very kind person and. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Largest agrivoltaic research project in U.S. advances renewable energy while empowering local farmers

Solar Power World

The global installed capacity of agrivoltaics, or the co-development of the same area of land for both solar power and agriculture, has grown rapidly from about 5 MW in 2012 to approximately 2,900 MW in 2020. One of the largest driving factors for this growth is the need to continue to build solar projects to… The post Largest agrivoltaic research project in U.S. advances renewable energy while empowering local farmers appeared first on Solar Power World.