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Sacramento Wants to Electrify Its Homes, Low-Income Families Included

GreenTechMedia

Blunk, a strategic planner with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), had assembled a diverse group of stakeholders with expertise in energy policy, green building, energy efficiency retrofits and program implementation. Tenants can live in safer, more comfortable homes with improved indoor air quality.

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Distributed Energy Helped Fight California’s Grid Outages, But It Could Do Much More

GreenTechMedia

During last week’s heat-wave-driven grid emergency in California, grid operator CAISO and the state’s utilities sent out desperate calls to demand response providers, behind-the-meter battery aggregators, electric-vehicle charging providers, microgrid operators and backup generator owners, seeking whatever help they could provide.

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Challenges & Solutions in Sustainable Energy Engineering: Navigating the Transition to a Low-Carbon Future

Hydrogen Fuel News

As the world grapples with the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, sustainable energy engineering has taken center stage.    This dynamic field is focused on developing innovative solutions to generate, store, and use energy in a cleaner and more environmentally friendly way.

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Meters and More: An association of new stakeholders supporting the energy transition

Smart Energy International

The energy transition is increasingly catching the daily attention of companies and citizens no matter of their role in the society. The electricity distribution system is moving from a one-way flow of electrons to a two-way exchange of energy.

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Women innovators celebrated as C40 tech challenge winners announced

Envirotec Magazine

The winners were: Lorena Gordillo Dagallier from Cambridge (UK) who successfully pitched her initiative “open-seneca”- a mobile air quality sensor network that will be installed throughout the city alongside educational workshops. Uniquely the monitors’ data is captured and recorded by volunteer ‘citizen scientists.’

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From the CEO’s Desk Newsletter

Renewable Energy World

Resilient home. In EBCE’s service area, PG&E is continuing to implement Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events, proactively shutting off power to thousands of customers to prevent accidental wildfires. While power shutoff events may reduce community risk to wildfires they can also deeply impact residents and businesses.

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California Faces Big Challenges to Microgrid Plans for Wildfires and Outages

GreenTechMedia

California regulators and utilities want to build microgrids for communities most at threat from the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires, and the widespread public safety power shutoff (PSPS) grid outages meant to prevent them. That would be too expensive for backup power that has to last for up to three days in a row.