GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The largest natural gas infrastructure firm in Europe has launched a new hydrogen business and increased its financing for low carbon projects. Snam, which runs the Italian gas grid and is active in France, Greece and the U.K., has pledged to direct 20 percent of its annual investments into sustainable projects by 2023 via its SnamTec arm. SnamTec was launched in January to act as an innovation vehicle to help the group navigate the energy transition.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A brief decade held considerable cost-efficiency gains in wind and solar. These sustainable technologies are now more cost-effective than any other power generation technologies in general, according to Lazard. Solar and wind technologies simply make more sense.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Over an average lifetime of 78.7 years, one American would send 67,000 pounds of waste to landfills. Incentives for recycling can bring that number down.

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CleanTech Alliance

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Source: Rocky Mountain Institute, November 2019 While some parts of the energy system are changing rapidly toward reducing GHG emissions, the world is badly off track from what is needed to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global average temperature increase to well below 2°C. Top-down government policy actions cannot be expected to deliver […].

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How much capital for renewables is likely to be deployed going forward, and where will it come from? Wood Mackenzie estimates that the combined global capex spend on wind and solar projects will range from around $165 billion to $190 billion a year between 2020 and 2035. That calculation is based on realistic growth scenarios, and project development at a global average cost of around $1.00 per watt for onshore wind and solar.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

From e-bikes to light rail, East Coast to West Coast, policies and plans are making municipalities more sustainable.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Air pollution from power plants caused 16,000 premature deaths in the United States in 2014, according to new research on the sources and destinations of fine particulate matter produced by electricity generation. The state-by-state study had some other troubling findings, too: Exposure to the toxic pollutants varies by race and income, and in many cases fine particulate matter travels beyond the state where it was produced.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Early this month, three community-choice aggregators and one municipal utility serving much of California’s San Francisco Bay Area launched a 30-megawatt distributed energy storage-plus-solar solicitation. It breaks ground on multiple fronts. First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

“With the UK hosting COP26 in Glasgow in 2020, the country’s actions will be under close scrutiny and there will be nowhere to hide if we fall short of doing our part,” said Kiran Sura of PwC. UK leads the G20 having the most rapid decarbonisation rate since 2000, at 3.7%. Achieving the UK’s commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 will require an annual decarbonisation rate of 9.7%.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Nikola Motor Company dropped a bomb on the electric vehicle industry today with news of a pending acquisition of a team that has developed next generation battery technology. The news comes with claims of a cathode with 4 times the energy density of today's lithium-ion cells, lasts for 2,000 cycles, and at a cell cost of 50% less than today's lithium-ion cells.

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

California's planned power shutdowns have communities, cities and companies scrambling for solutions, and microgrids are at the top of the list.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

PaperTale is an app that scans smart tags on clothing to reveal the items' materials and how ethically they were made.

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Jim Conca

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A new study on the double challenge that the global energy sector faces in the next 30 years - fundamentally transformed into a low-carbon energy supply system in response to climate change and adapt systems to climate change and its effects. Oh…and eradicate global poverty, too.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Ohio regulators on Thursday threw up a hurdle for a solar project that's slated to be the state’s largest, rejecting plans from American Electric Power’s Ohio subsidiary to charge ratepayers for costs to build the 300-megawatt project. The decision, which also encompassed another 100-megawatt AEP Ohio project, shouldn’t come as a complete surprise: in January commission staff recommended against the project, arguing the power isn’t needed in the state.

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Contrary to what you might expect, the company doesn't offer employee stock options, in part so it can continue to push boundaries of corporate behavior.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Learn how to design and build resilient homes that are good for the planet from the experts at Deltec Homes.

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Jim Conca

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In the sense of animal, vegetable, or mineral, the USGS lists 35 minerals that are essential to the function of our society. Whether it’s indium for LCD screens, Co for iPhones, U for reactors, or lithium for batteries, if we do not have an ample supply of each, bad things happen.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Jämtland in Sweden is one of seven states and regions already powered by 100% renewable electricity. 75 states and regions are generating 45% of their electricity from renewable sources. States and regions have, on average, reduced emissions by 14% as global emissions continue to rise. The Climate Group and CDP call for states and regions to set more ambitious emissions reduction targets for 2030 and beyond to limit global heating to 1.5°C (2.7°F).

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A persisting lack of transparency and public communication makes it difficult to hold companies accountable. Can we change that?

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Delta is a bamboo structure that retracts into itself when challenged by stormy weather and expands during non-severe weather.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

European offshore wind developers could go one step beyond zero-subsidy projects and start paying a tariff for contracts. So-called negative bids are “quite likely” in forthcoming European offshore wind tenders, said Michael Dodd, U.K. and Ireland director at consultancy DNV GL. Such bids would come in markets that have already seen zero-subsidy projects, Dodd added.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

AD plants have inherent weak spots, which make them susceptible to biogas leakage. The issue of biogas leakage is one which many anaerobic digestion (AD) operators fail to address; often because the problem is invisible. However, the dangers associated with it – from diminished profits to environmental pollution and health & safety risks – should not be underestimated.

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

They're a win-win for building owners, utilities and society at large. Plus, there are ways for everyone to get involved.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Just in time for those awkward holiday encounters with family, here are 10 vegan myths, debunked.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A new bill introduced today by Rep. Don McEachin and co-sponsored by over 150 members could set the United States on a path to an economy powered by 100% clean energy by mid-century. If passed into law, the 100% Clean Economy Act of 2019 would require federal agencies to create a plan, using existing authorities,… The post Congress introduces climate bill to reach 100% clean energy by 2050 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

United Utilities Developer Day. On 2 October the sales team from Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd were invited to take part in the annual United Utilities Developer Day held in the DW Stadium, Wigan. The United Utilities Developer Day aims to provide a stage for housebuilder associations, suppliers and other utility companies in the North West to promote their products and services.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Risk disclosure. Regular reporting. Performance management. We need it all.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

While many meat eaters don’t want to think about the actual slaughter of a turkey, they might comfort themselves with the thought that their Thanksgiving dinner was humanely raised. Think again.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Read time: 7 mins New research from Stanford University professor Mark Z. Jacobson questions the climate and health benefits of carbon capture technology against simply switching to renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Carbon capture technology is premised on two possible approaches to reducing climate pollution: removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere anywhere in the world, an approach generally known as direct air capture, or removing it directly from the emissions source, such as

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

CEM 2020 will take place in Poland, 13-15 May, and the organisers say they are now accepting abstracts for papers that describe recent research, regulatory developments and real-world case studies. Submissions can be made via the event website www.ilmexhibitions.com/cem. In common with past events, CEM 2020 presentations will address key monitoring themes such as the measurement of particulates and gases at low concentrations.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Often, the best technology innovations are the ones that are virtually invisible.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The redeveloped square would also “promote the creation of urban ecosystems” and become a celebrated meeting place for Polish arts, culture, innovation and more.

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