GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How Stockton and California are building resilience from the ground up. So, how is California building resilience in both its rural and urban communities? We've had this shock to our system from the pandemic that has exposed these fault lines and the basic lack of resilience in our system in our economy. Community Resilience.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Breaking Barriers initiative is developing two resilience centers in Atlanta, one on the campus of a historically Black college that will be backed by a solar-powered microgrid with battery storage.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 21, 2022

Bringing a gender lens to climate resilience investments will help you to both identify and mitigate potential risks while at the same time uncover new opportunities for investment, innovation and impact.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

There's a lot of untapped potential in our homes and vehicles that could be harnessed to reinforce local power grids and make them more resilient to unforeseen outages, a new study shows.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 14, 2023

Sponsored: In a future-proofed energy strategy, resilience goes beyond operational continuity to include economic and regulatory resilience.

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GreenBiz

JULY 25, 2023

Extreme weather, a changing resource mix, and energy price volatility – these factors are transforming the energy landscape and driving organizations to prioritize energy resilience. As a result, organizations are increasingly looking for solutions that align with their energy resilience goals.

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TechXplore

JANUARY 8, 2025

Researchers at MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) have shown that using decision-making software and dynamic monitoring of weather and energy use can significantly improve resiliency in the face of weather-related outages, and can also help to efficiently integrate renewable energy sources into the grid.

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Energy Monitor Resilience Energy Energy 328

POWER Magazine

MARCH 19, 2025

A virtual power plant (VPP) is a network of decentralized, small- to medium-scale power generating units, flexible power consumers, and storage systems that are aggregated and operated as a single […] The post How Virtual Power Plants Enhance Grid Operations and Resilience appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2021

With extreme weather becoming the norm across the United States, communities and companies are in need of clean backup power that can be deployed today.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 17, 2022

USDA to invest up to $550 million will help younger farmers access land and get support, an important boost.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 24, 2023

How three cities, Cupertino, Orlando and Boston, are using their communities, new technology and buildings to fight the effects of climate change.

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Resilience Climate change Sustainability Technology 431

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A University of Glasgow project that’s increasing community resilience and enhancing the capacity of residents of flood-prone areas in Brazil to take protective action has been announced as an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Celebrating Impact Prize finalist. Flooding in Capivari, Sao Paulo state, in 2015.

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POWER Magazine

MARCH 27, 2025

One week after a catastrophic fire at the North Hyde electrical substation plunged the UKs flagship Heathrow Airport into chaos, questions are mounting about what went wrongand what the incident […] The post Heathrow Airport Transformer Fire Prompts Urgent Inquiry, Exposes Cracks in Grid Resilience appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Sponsored: How local leaders can partner with financial institutions to support frontline communities.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The centre of the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire suffered significant flooding following extreme rainfall in June 2007 and November 2019, affecting hundreds of homes and businesses, writes Helen Wilson, industry & infrastructure sales manager at Xylem.

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CleanTech Group

MARCH 6, 2025

The post Its Getting Hot in Here: Climate Resilient Infrastructure to Combat Urban Heat Island Effect appeared first on Cleantech Group. As global temperatures continue to rise, cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, where urban areas experience significantly.

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Resilience 88

TechXplore

JULY 3, 2024

In a significant step towards resilient, sustainable energy, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) are undertaking an initiative to enhance the performance and longevity of grid transformers, a critical component of the electric grid.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These and other recommendations are the results of the "Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transitions to 100% Renewable Energy Study" (PR100), announced Feb. With a lot of solar and wind power, energy storage, and advanced extreme weather impact modeling, Puerto Rico could achieve a 100% renewable power grid by 2050.

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Power grid Resilience Wind power Energy 254

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2025

Wrtsil is supplying its Quantum energy storage system technology and GEMS Digital Energy Platform with SMA grid forming inverters enabling a resilient power system with high power quality. The delivery by Zenobe of this grid forming battery is a major accomplishment and brings us a step closer to this goal.

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Batteries Europe Resilience Fossil fuels 355

GreenBiz

APRIL 24, 2020

Redundant, distributed, resilient, smaller scale and locally powered, yet connected to the larger world in ways that benefit it when safe.

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Resilience 520

GreenBiz

APRIL 5, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act directs unprecedented funding to tribes and Native communities for climate resilience and solutions.

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Resilience 514

Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), one of California’s main investor-owned utilities (IOUs), has brought online a portfolio of four ‘advanced’ microgrids equipped with 180MWh of battery storage.

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Resilience Batteries Electricity Demand 305

Energy Storage News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Western Australia and Victorias AusNet have provided financial aid to support battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the energy transition and community energy resiliency.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Just as companies are upping their game when it comes to addressing their sustainability and climate impacts, so, too, are cities, transit districts and other public agencies.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 8, 2022

Automaker GM sells $2.25 billion in notes to fund electric vehicle transition, Lenovo makes its first offering and food and beverage company PepsiCo raises another $1.25

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Resilience Electric vehicle Electricity 302

GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2023

Sponsored: Artificial intelligence carries great promise in advancing sustainability and resilience in sectors from agriculture to transportation. But it takes human intelligence to ensure AI solutions deliver positive outcomes.

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Agriculture Resilience Transportation Sustainability 471

TechXplore

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Solar power is currently the fastest growing energy sector worldwide. Solar photovoltaic power plants convert sunlight into electricity and their vast potential for producing clean, renewable energy make solar power a cornerstone of the NetZero Emissions by 2050 initiative, which seeks to cut carbon dioxide emissions to zero by the year 2050.

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Resilience Solar Power Carbon Electricity 306

TechXplore

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Electricity production and distribution in the U.S. currently depends on more than 10,000 power plants, 642,000 miles of high voltage lines, 56,000 substations and 6.3 million miles of local distribution lines. Much of that infrastructure is over 30 years old.

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GreenBiz

MAY 21, 2024

The health care sector is a leading driver of greenhouse gas emissions; decarbonization will require intentional investment and systemic action throughout the industry.

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Health Resilience Investment 299

GreenBiz

JUNE 20, 2024

Two key areas for climate investment are resilience to warming temperatures and phasing down fossil fuels, says Paul Bodnar

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Fossil fuels Resilience Investment 397

GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2021

When distributed energy resources are aggregated, these assets can do more than just help the owners; they can help the entire grid become more resilient by providing new, dispatchable resources to utilities.

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Resilience Energy Energy 454

CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The post Strong Foundations: Innovative Solutions for Building Climate-Resilient Infrastructure appeared first on Cleantech Group. As the planet grapples with increasingly severe weather events, our infrastructure faces a critical test. Buildings, utilities, and other physical assets must be.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It also supports governments and communities in making informed decisions, whether building resilient infrastructure or improving social and economic opportunities to reduce the vulnerabilities of specific communities. In terms of resilience, AI improves the monitoring and response to environmental changes, natural disasters and other crises.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Resilience Climate change 147

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2023

Learn about the role microgrids play to maximize the value of solar energy and ensure resilient power. Sponsored: Are you maximizing the value of your solar?

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Sustainability Resilience Energy Energy 423

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Asset-based development could be the secret to adaptation and resilience for threatened coastal communities around the world.

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Resilience 411

GreenBiz

JUNE 20, 2024

Featuring all-electric systems, water reuse and innovative solar power, these buildings improve “the health and resilience of economies, cultures, and people.”

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Solar Power Resilience Health Innovation 376

GreenBiz

MARCH 20, 2023

Frontline communities have been underrepresented and underserved in climate resiliency efforts to date, mirroring their underinvestment in the investment field as a whole.

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