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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 result has been significant drops in electricity demand in big commercial centers like New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area , and forecasts that commercial energy usage across the country will decline by 4.7

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ClearTrace raises $4 million to help real estate and energy companies track carbon emissions

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, December 15 – ClearTrace makes software that connects buildings and metering systems to let operators and company users track carbon output. The post ClearTrace raises $4 million to help real estate and energy companies track carbon emissions appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Work concludes on AI-powered flood risk digital twin prototype

Envirotec Magazine

The prototype, which can detect, monitor, assess and predict the financial and socio-economic risks related to flood events, harnesses continental water data from earth observation data, in-situ ground sensors and drone data. Almost every day, terrible floods prove that the planets water cycle is increasingly susceptible to disruption.

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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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Smart meters help Danish company record €135,000 in annual savings

Smart Energy International

Himmerland Boligforening, a Danish housing association, has announced that it has so far achieved €135,000 in savings per annum owing to smart meters the company has deployed for heat, water and electric customers. As a result, both the consumer and Himmerland Boligforening are able to access usage data on an hourly basis.