GreenTech Gazette

MAY 1, 2024

Reduced Cooling Capacity: The reduced efficiency translates to less cool air being produced, making it harder to maintain comfortable temperatures. Enhanced Cooling Capacity: Clean tubes allow the system to operate at peak performance, delivering optimal cooling with less effort.

Innovation 52

Innovation Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 52

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2020

Established in 2016 by engineering entrepreneur Jon Fenton, FeTu’s seemingly “simple but revolutionary” device is a two-stage turbine designed to “reduce both energy consumption and emissions by unprecedented levels”, says the firm.

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Waste Waste Electricity Innovation 264

Grist

AUGUST 16, 2022

First Street was founded in 2016 to develop ways of analyzing climate risk and to help homeowners better understand the threats their properties face. First Street also concluded that a lack of cooling infrastructure is set to exacerbate the consequences of higher temperatures. By 2053, 26 percent of counties in the U.S.

Cooling 98

Cooling Real Estate Hydropower Climate change 98

Grist

JULY 26, 2023

Cool roofs lowering home temperatures in India: The city of Ahmedabad was the first in India to develop a heat action plan, following a devastating heat wave in 2010. The plan has been through several iterations over the past decade — and one of the latest initiatives is a focus on “cool roofs.”

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Cool roof Fossil fuels Cooling Resilience 88

GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Casino company MGM famously used this Direct Access rule to exit utility NV Energy in 2016, with the goal of doubling its share of clean energy while cutting energy costs. The state initially rejected Switch’s request to leave the utility, but later granted it in 2016.

Solar Energy Monitor 246

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 246

ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 2, 2024

Founded in 2016, Launch Alaska is an Anchorage-based nonprofit focused on accelerating climate tech deployment to decarbonize systems of energy, transportation, and industry. GreenLoop solutions offer a stable and predictable cost of energy while providing a valuable mix of power and direct use heating and cooling.

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Energy Energy Geothermal power Technology 52

Charged

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

First-generation (2011-2016) Leafs lack the range that current EV buyers expect, but thousands of owners (including your correspondent) still find them to be delightful daily drivers. Unlike most EVs, which use some form of liquid cooling in the battery pack, the Leaf has an air-cooled battery.

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Batteries Cooling Retail Demand 120

Grist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But the scorch factor of recent years was actually tempered by a climate pattern that slightly cools the globe, “La Niña.” The planet hasn’t seen a strong El Niño since 2016 — the hottest year ever recorded — and the next El Niño will occur on top of all the warming that’s occurred since then.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Cooling Carbon 145

Sunrun

JULY 25, 2017

Did you know a new solar installation was completed every 84 seconds in 2016?1 1 It’s no wonder, considering solar prices dropped 29% – in every area of the market – from 2015 to 2016. Those are cool stats, but you might be wondering how all that translates to the cost of installing rooftop solar panels for your home.

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Cooling 74

Charged

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In-wheel hub motors add unsprung mass that results in higher stress to suspension components,” founder Mate Rimac told Charged in 2016. Croatian supercar builder Rimac uses a 4-motor design, but these are not in-wheel hub motors. “In-wheel

Energy Monitor 120

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Electricity Startups 120

Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming. The report recommends that early warning systems, maximum safe temperature thresholds, shift working, and cooling solutions, should all be explored as a means of helping businesses and workers to adapt to worsening heat-related risks.

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Climate change Asia Health Global warming 101

GreenBiz

MAY 20, 2020

In 2016, Bush Brothers began working with Evoqua to upgrade its wastewater system to reduce its reliance on public water sources and provide its facility with more capacity, flexibility and reliability. Bush Brothers, a family-owned business, has been operating in the small community of Chestnut Hill, Tennessee, for over 110 years.

Business Energy Monitoring 317

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Waste Waste 317

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

If HFCs can be phased down globally – as many countries have agreed to do under the 2016 Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol – that would avoid about half a degree Celsius of temperature rise compared to preindustrial times. How HFCs keep rooms and food cool. So, it’s time for another generation of cooling equipment.

Ozone 71

Ozone Cooling Global warming Fossil fuels 71

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

For instance, a 2016 DXC Technology white paper stated data centers worldwide account for 2% of the total greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). On top of this, and as mentioned, Doteasy’s data centers are maintained using energy-efficient water-cooled chillers, which consume less energy and have greater longevity than air-chilled coolers.

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Sustainability Technology Hydropower Cooling 146

Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2023

For example, the Clean Cooling Collaborative was founded with the help of an initial $10m of philanthropic funding in 2016 and has since mobilised more than $600m in public and private finance to improve equitable access to low-carbon cooling systems that are on track to deliver 4.2 gigatons of avoided CO2 emissions by 2050.

Biodiversity 67

Biodiversity Cooling Government Investment 67

Grist

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Read Next Extreme Heat 101: Your guide to staying safe and keeping cool Gabriela Aoun Angueira While this summer has been historic, it can also be considered prophetic. Up to this point in the year, 2023 ranks as the second hottest on record, behind 2016, the last time there was a strong El Niño.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Cooling Organic 92

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

He joined when Opower had about 30 employees, then served as chief marketing officer as the company went public in 2014 and was acquired by Oracle in 2016. Both actions help utilities stressed by peak seasonal heating and cooling needs. Sachse’s appointment as CEO follows his experience at energy efficiency company Opower.

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Energy Energy Logging Technology 245

Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

The former 1GW Rugeley Power Station closed down for good in 2016 due to increasingly challenging market conditions and competition from cleaner sources of energy, marking another milestone towards the UK's goal of closing down all its coal fired power plants by 2024.

Carbon 60

Carbon Carbon-neutral Cooling Innovation 60

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 article for American Thinker , Singer wrote: “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has to provide proof for significant human-caused climate change; yet their climate models have never been validated and are rapidly diverging from actual observations.

Climate change 98

Climate change Policy Global warming Wind power 98

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 27, 2022

The smart metering project deployed in partnership with technology firms Kamstrup and BA Technologies is a result of a sustainability strategy that the real estate firm adopted in 2016. I can pull out the information I need, and in five seconds I can see if there are installations with poor cooling.

Energy Monitor 52

Energy Monitor Real Estate Smart Cities Cooling 52

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Data centers require huge volumes of power, much of which is used for cooling. Cisco estimates annual average growth in Western European data centers of 17% from 2016 to 2021; it expects the lion’s share to be built in Scandinavia.

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Europe Retail Cooling Law 100

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

One of Trudeau’s campaign promises was to enforce a federal carbon tax on any province that didn’t already have one, a measure that went into effect in 2016. ” Brendan Haley, director of policy research with Efficiency Canada To begin with, heat pumps are indeed an energy efficient and low-cost way to both heat and cool homes.

Home Energy Monitoring 97

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 97

Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The climate impact here is clear: in residential buildings, for instance, energy transfer through windows is responsible for 25 to 30 percent of heating and cooling use. InventWood was founded in 2016 as a faculty-led spin-off company of the University of Maryland. For buildings, the primary application is windows.

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Startups Plastics Carbon-negative Packaging 97

Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

But the Mayor's office said that increasing tree cover in the city could help combat the ‘urban heat island' effect that results from the sun's rays being absorbed by hard surfaces instead of trees, plants and grass, thereby helping to cool the city and make London more resilient to flooding.

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Packaging Climate change Resilience Cooling 80

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power, founded in 2016, uncovered the potential for technology to reduce a building’s carbon emissions by capturing CO2 from its ventilation system and using it in the production of fuel or concrete, for example. Our system also delivers cost-reduction, employee well-being, and sustainability benefits.

Building Energy Monitoring 130

Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Technology Home Energy Monitoring 130

Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment.

IoT 73

IoT Pollution Biotech Building Energy Monitoring 73

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

Sunrun, the country’s leading solar installer, joins a roster of AutoGrid clients using its Flex software to manage distributed energy resources (DERs), ranging from smart thermostats for utility demand response programs to industrial cooling and heating systems and commercial micrgrids. Sonnen landed its first U.S.

Home Energy Monitoring 130

Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

At the site where four huge cooling towers once belched coal fumes into the air on the edge of the Midlands town of Rugeley, plans are underway to build 2,300 low carbon homes and a net zero carbon school, in a scheme that hopes to provide a new standard for smart, sustainable, and community-centric development in the UK.

Carbon 77

Carbon Cooling Sustainability Investment 77

Green Business Bureau

JULY 13, 2020

Whether you’re a small business with a few computers or a larger business with a computer room or data center, your computers require power and cooling. There are eco-friendly computers available and eco-friendly ways to power and cool your equipment. In 2016, the United Nations reported over 44.7 Equipment Recycling.

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Sustainability Technology Recycling Recycling 147

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 15, 2021

GTM confronted the ghosts of the solar industry, as the author did in this 2016 Halloween costume. On my first day on the job during the summer of 2016, CEO Scott Clavenna and editor Stephen Lacey sat me down and told me I’d cover energy storage. Photo courtesy of Julian Spector). End of an era.

Cooling 130

Cooling Energy Energy Batteries 130

Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous but populous regions of eastern Africa. A recent Georgetown University study found them moving upward in sub-Saharan Africa at the rate of 21 feet per year.

Climate change 73

Climate change Africa Health South America 73

Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Equally, using renewable energy heat pumps, which extract the buildings’ heating or cooling requirement from the external ground, air, or water, will substantially reduce the environmental impact. About the author: Steve McGregor joined DMA Group in February 2016. Heat pumps can also be used in centralized, community heating schemes.

Carbon 85

Carbon Construction Cooling Organic 85

Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

Although the pandemic caused the green bonds market to cool slightly in 2020 after several years of strong growth, social and sustainability bonds in contrast hit record highs, bringing last year's total issuance for all three markets to $225bn, the credit ratings and financial analyst giant said.

Sustainability 73

Sustainability Europe Policy Fossil fuels 73

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Energy efficient electric appliances, ranging from heat pump hot water heaters and clothes dryers, induction cooktops, and air source heat pumps for heating and cooling, can drastically cut indoor and outdoor air pollution while lowering monthly utility bills.

Energy 78

Energy Energy Policy Climate change 78

EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Radhika also manages a global coalition of over 30 leading organizations to spur innovation in the air conditioning industry through the Global Cooling Prize. 2016 – Elizabeth Turnbull Henry. 2016 – Jenny McCulloch. 2016 – Jaxon Love. The William K. Award for Leadership. 2019 – Ed Carley.

Business Energy Monitoring 52

Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 52

Earth Gratitude

MARCH 24, 2016

Don’t heat or cool empty homes or rooms. Reduce your heating/cooling bill. Complete your energy efficiency upgrades in 2016 and you might qualify for a tax credit. When you can heat or cool a smaller space (your office, say) rather than the entire house, you are saving a massive amount of energy (and money). Use them now!

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Earth Day Cooling Investment Energy 40

AGreenLiving

MAY 26, 2021

Further, the study found that the hottest year in the region in recent times was 2016; the previous warmest year was 770. In their quest to learn more about summers in Yellowstone, the researchers found that the park has been through its fair share of periods of considerable cooling and warming over the last millennium.

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North America Global warming Climate change Cooling 28