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5 Maritime Sustainability Trends for 2022

The Environmental Blog

In total, the maritime industry’s carbon emissions only make up 3% of the total emissions worldwide. It’s not much compared to other big industries but a study has found this figure may rise to as much as 17% by 2050 if the industry doesn’t become more sustainable. Increased use of cleaner fuel.

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How Cloud-Based Access Control Can Reduce Buildings’ Global Emissions Footprint

The Environmental Blog

In 2022, using cloud-based storage systems has become part of our daily lives. For example, apartment buildings can become greener and more sustainable when they have efficient cloud-based access control points, which can reduce their global emissions footprint. How does this equate to energy efficiency? Smart door locks.

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Adobe flips the switch on all-electric building

Business Green

million square feet to the software company's building portfolio, a space capable of accommodating up to 4,000 employees. Microsoft, another software giant making sustainability moves on its campus, will have a headquarters that will support more all-electric cooking equipment across multiple sites , but not all of the sites are open).

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Chitty-chitty-pop-bang! Are noise cameras ready to tackle UK traffic?

Envirotec Magazine

Speed cameras: Lessons learned in this space are informing the roll-out of noise cameras Noise camera technology is ready to be deployed for monitoring urban traffic, according to a number of firms developing it. Real-world trials were conducted in a few UK urban locations in 2022 and 2023. 3 Where has it been tried?

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MISO electric vehicle prospects increase (3 out of 3)

Renewable Energy World

With the increase in Electric Vehicles’ availability in Midwest states, it is time to acknowledge the opportunities for charging EVs at MISO, the regional grid operator. Aggregated EVs can be a distributed energy resource (DER). So, MISO is preparing to integrate ESRs on legacy market systems by June 2022. See part 1 here.

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A solar settlement for the good of the grid

Renewable Energy World

Getting electricity customer-generators the compensation they deserve has been a battle in many states. Could a settlement between the utility and solar advocates squash net metering conflict for good? The settlement, which Utility Dive calls a “landmark settlement” may finally put to rest the controversy over net metering.

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Sniffing out the specs of the Tesla Semi

Charged

When one German automaker released its first major EV model , it hosted a press event at which cutaway versions of battery packs and electric motors were on display, and the engineers who designed them were on hand to answer questions. Automakers differ widely in how forthcoming they are with technical specs. Tesla is a different animal.