Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Have you read: Network solutions to guide Peachtree Corners infrastructure communications Virginia Natural Gas to inspect natural gas infrastructure with UAVs The grid needs long-duration energy storage. “Solano County currently relies heavily on the power grid, and our rates went up eight percent this year,” added Greve.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric are expected to collectively spend more than $15 billion to reduce the threat of wildfires caused by their power grids through 2022. ” The inRG system consists of multiple power line sensors and data collectors located at substations on the transmission grid.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

APRIL 15, 2020

Credit: Ricardo Esquivel But the analysis of clean energy unemployment data by E2 partner BW Research shows the crushing impact of the COVID-19 health and economic crises on one of the biggest, fastest-growing job sectors in America?—?one one essential to our economy, our resilience and our environment.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

While the focus is mainly on helping build resilience into Ghana’s infrastructure and power resources, reducing carbon emissions remains a fundamental metric for measuring overall program success. Many global efforts to halt or reverse climate impacts have squarely focused on resilience and mitigation. Point 3: Adaptation.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

Stimulus and recovery packages should accelerate the shift to sustainable, decarbonised economies and resilient inclusive societies," he said. The time has come to invest trillions, not into fossil fuels, but into sustainable energy infrastructure.".

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2022

A panel of grid experts explaining why grid resiliency matters and how to mitigate events like wildfires in the era of climate change. Meanwhile, the grid needs to adapt to support an increased share of renewables which adds to the complexity of matching supply and demand. the link between wildfires and grid resiliency.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

California is becoming a poster child for the risks utilities face from climate change, from power lines starting wildfires to heat waves forcing increasingly renewable-powered grids to the brink of system collapse.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex. In the UK, there is one main grid covering England, Scotland, and Wales.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Andrew Maximow of US aerial data analytics company Zeitview, writes on the immense task of modernising the transmission and distribution power grids and how automated inspections might provide some much needed support. They need to rapidly modernise to accommodate the transition to renewables and two-way power flow.

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Econaur

JUNE 9, 2023

The integration of solar power not only reduces carbon emissions but also enhances energy resilience and reduces dependency on conventional power grids. The integration of solar power not only reduces carbon emissions but also enhances energy resilience and reduces dependency on conventional power grids.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 16, 2024

The programme would allow PG&E to accelerate work on its electric system to further improve safety, reliability, capacity and infrastructure health, and to enable new interconnections to clean-energy projects that support decarbonization. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published on Power Grid.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2022

Shortly before Christmas in 2015 the power grid in Ukraine suffered a series of outages that impacted roughly a quarter of a million consumers and lasted several hours. [1] 1] Later, in 2017 the same group used ransomware to shutdown servers all over Ukraine, including at the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. [2]

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 11, 2024

manufacturing Building a resilient supply chain Strengthening rural and Tribal access Scaling a regenerative food system These entrepreneurs join our portfolio of more than 160 companies that have collectively created over 10,000 jobs and are delivering real benefits in local communities. The Big Picture: Even a thin.5mm

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Digital technologies and renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, Birol further argued, are playing an increasingly important role in people's lives, and the current crisis highlights the need to innovate and build resilience into energy systems worldwide, with green technologies at the forefront of this effort.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That's why forward-looking companies are investing in their value chains and working with suppliers to build resilience and prepare for the worst. It will impact supply chains, product availability, food production and economic growth.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

For a 2050 net-zero future, we’ll need an electricity grid large enough that its untangled cables would be long enough to stretch all the way to the sun. To get there, the grid requires constant attention to balance the flow of electrons. for grid upgrades as part of the Grid Resilience and Innovation Program (GRIP).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Boris Johnson today gave arguably his biggest backing yet to the UK's burgeoning green economy, in a speech to the Conservative Party conference that placed wind power, green jobs, and clean technologies at the heart of his agenda to "build back better" from the Covid-19 crisis.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

The time is right to rethink the grid. The grid faces twin challenges: It needs to become resilient and clean. electrical grid playing a central role. . Today’s grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 50-year life expectancy. And when the grid fails, it has real implications for health and safety.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. “A very different psychology kicks in, one our brains would normally discount/reject. But one that is much more useful, if alarming.” Coolest and calmest with higher than average air quality!” This is the year future records will be set against.”

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

New demands on the network from the cars we drive, to the way we heat/cool, or power our homes will change the traditional power flows and role of the electricity network. A net zero-ready grid. The asset life of a typical power network is c40-years, with the design principles more like 80+ years. Source: EA Technology.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

☔ Neara , a Sydney, Australia-based power grid modeling and digital twin software provider, raised $45m in Series C funding from EQT, Partners Group, Prosus Ventures, Skip Capital, and Square Peg Capital.  The Lancet has a new climate-meets-public health tracker.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It stresses that strategies should be closely aligned to national priorities, but that all approaches should focus on mobilising financing for clean energy projects that can displace fossil fuel from the power grid and deliver system-wide improvements in energy efficiency that can reduce overall demand for energy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This requires accelerating the roll out of low cost renewable technologies such as offshore wind, investing in the UK's power grid infrastructure and overseeing a much-needed mass insulation programme to upgrade UK's leaky housing stock.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

Additionally, an AI-powered inspection platform bolsters electric asset health maintenance, Elia Group illustrates expedited energy transition investments and a politically charged interconnector reaches financial closure. The Belgian TSO has announced in its Q2 release that its extensive grid investments – €203.9

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

This funding includes direct investments in technology, infrastructure, and other needs of communities that have been striving for better health, resilience, and access. The inclusion of drought response investments in the climate resilience plan is an important step in the right direction. ” On protecting nature.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Seasoned observers of the UN talks pointed out this weekend that without increased support for a global Covid-19 vaccination programme that can help developing nations recover from the pandemic and revert their attention to reducing their emissions and bolstering their climate resilience, the COP26 Summit could quickly become deadlocked.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

The time is right to rethink the grid Sarah Golden Fri, 03/26/2021 – 00:45 The grid faces twin challenges: It needs to become resilient and clean. electrical grid playing a central role. Today’s grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 50-year life expectancy. grid for the 21st century.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. Introducing the Food Microgrid: A Decentralized and Resilient New Food System (Panel Discussion): The coronavirus pandemic disrupted food supplies and reminded us again that our food systems are ever more centralized.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

  The Super Bowl might have got us hyped this weekend, and now, we’re taking on some other hype: the arrival of DeepSeek’s new AI model, and what its actual impacts will be on projected power demand.  The USAID shutdown removes global funding for renewable energy and disaster resilience.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

But to deliver this scenario requires investment of around five per cent global GDP each year, amounting to an additional $33tr of additional investment in energy efficiency, renewables, end-use electrification, power grids, flexibility, hydrogen infrastructure, and myriad other clean tech innovations, it said.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It also oversees weekly testing for toxic algae blooms, which infect shellfish and have become a growing public health hazard fueled by marine heat waves. Diversification, whether it’s on a single farm or across a local economy, can make towns more resilient, the report says. It’s been called an early model of climate resilience.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

"Climate change poses an existential threat, but responding to this threat offers an opportunity to support good-paying, union jobs, strengthen America's working communities, protect public health, and advance environmental justice.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Health care, already a longstanding challenge in the islands, is expected to get worse, as temperatures rise and mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika proliferate. Many Southeastern cities are plagued with flimsy manufactured housing, antiquated drainage systems, and decades-old power grids. Residents have ideas.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Lawmakers have called on officials with the PUC and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the power grid that spans most of the state, to testify at hearings later this week. Decisions are made every week that affect the health and safety of millions of Texans. State officials are again promising reforms.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Building resilient cities that can withstand wildfires, floods and rising sea levels is part of Biden's plan. This incorporates roads and bridges, but also a green power grid and improved water infrastructure. The Covid-19 crisis has refocused international attention away from the climate crisis and towards health concerns.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels. I was actually kind of excited about it,” Bartell said. could better leverage our sizable lithium reserves” to expand battery manufacturing.

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