CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In 2019, U.S. annual energy consumption from renewable sources exceeded coal consumption for the first time since before 1885, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Monthly Energy Review. This outcome mainly reflects the continued decline in the amount of coal used for electricity generation over the past decade as well as growth in renewable energy, mostly from wind and solar.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Read time: 16 mins After over a decade of the much-hyped U.S. fracking miracle, the U.S. oil and gas industry is having to deal with years of losses and falling asset values which has dealt the industry a serious financial blow. This is despite the fracking revolution delivering record oil and gas production for the past decade, peaking in 2019.

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Charged

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Despite what the anti-EV brigade would like you to believe, recycling lithium-ion batteries is quite feasible both technologically and financially, and several companies are doing so right now. One of these is Li-Cycle , which was featured in the July/August issue of Charged. Another is Redwood Materials , which has gotten a lot of press coverage thanks to its superstar CEO, Tesla co-founder JB Straubel.

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Forbes Green Tech

DECEMBER 6, 2020

It is time to radically re-imagine the future of the automotive industry around the electric vehicle. We are entering a period that will see one of the greatest technological changes in human history, and it will take place before your very eyes in the next few years. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Bike infrastructure in Latin American cities has been growing fast over the last decade. Cities like Bogotá and Santiago have more than doubled the size of their cycling networks. This is good news, as studies have shown that cities that. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Announcements about new rooftop and ground-mounted solar installations come across our desks at Solar Power World daily, but some unique designs manage to stick out in our minds long after we report about them. Here are five of the most unusual solar installations we covered in 2020. The post The 5 most unusual U.S. solar installations of 2020 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

2020 was the year that…. Joel Makower. Mon, 12/28/2020 - 02:11. It was a very long year. True, just 366 days (it was a leap year, after all), each one, I’m told, containing only the standard 24 hours. But it was much, much longer than that. Remember 2019? Neither do I. To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we've published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. the beforetim

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Charged

DECEMBER 22, 2020

MAN Truck & Bus began series production of battery-powered city buses in October at its plant in Starachowice, Poland. The first customer vehicles to come off the line are 12-meter solo versions of the Lion’s City E: 17 of these will be heading for Hamburg-Holstein’s public transit agency. Malmö, Sweden has placed an order for 22 units. The articulated version of the Lion’s City E should go into series production in the first half of 2021.

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Forbes Green Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Famed car designer Henrik Fisker is mounting a comeback seven years after his pioneering electric vehicle company collapsed.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The disproportionate toll that COVID -19 is taking on the Black community brought environmental justice issues to the forefront during 2020. Calls for dealing with climate change and environmental justice were elevated by president-elect Biden, who spoke about endangered communities in the last presidential debate and on his campaign website, calling for environmental justice and “rooting out the systemic racism in our laws, policies, institutions, and hearts.”.

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Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As we enthusiastically bid 2020 farewell, for many reasons 2021 is starting to feel like a year to be hopeful. While the rollout of vaccines signal an impending slow-down to the pandemic, recent activity in DC is offering a similar glimpse to solutions on the horizon for the climate crisis.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

HSBC poll of 1,000 UK businesses indicates operational and supply chain net zero targets are heading into the mainstream. A major survey of UK firms has found almost three-quarters of businesses plan to introduce net zero emissions goals covering their own operations and supply chains over the next year, as climate-aligned business strategies head into the mainstream, according to banking giant HSBC.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers. Holly Secon. Mon, 12/28/2020 - 01:30. At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020.

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Charged

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Indian commercial vehicle giant Tata Motors recently delivered 26 electric buses to Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), which operates the public transport system in Mumbai. The buses are part of a larger order of 340 electric buses, which will be delivered in phases. The 25-seater Tata Ultra Urban 9/9 electric buses were delivered at an event at Nariman Point, Mumbai.

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Charged

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Lightning eMotors, a manufacturer of commercial EVs for fleets, will become a publicly listed company through a merger with a company called GigCapital3. Upon closing, Lightning eMotors will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ZEV. The business combination values Lightning eMotors at approximately $823 million. The transaction is expected to add over $270 million of cash to the company’s balance sheet.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Seven projects across England secure funding to test nature-based prescriptions designed to improve mental health and community well-being. Research into how connecting people with nature through activities such as walking, cycling, community gardening, and tree planting can help boost mental health and wellbeing is to be carried out through seven projects across England, thanks to £5.77m of government funding confirmed today.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Treasury publishes interim Net Zero Review outlining approach to estimating costs associated with decarbonising UK economy. Delivering a net zero emissions economy by 2050 is "essential" for ensuring long term prosperity in the UK, as the transition will create new jobs and opportunities while helping stave off the "existential threat to humanity" posed by climate change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Government introduces first dedicated number plates for zero emission vehicles, potentially paving the way for new incentives for electric vehicle drivers. Green number plates are to appear on the UK's roads for the first time from today, as the government looks to accelerate demand for zero emission vehicles ahead of the 2030 ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine cars and vans.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

GE Renewable Energy confirms latest order from Dogger Bank wind farm will see upgraded 14MW Haliade-X turbines deployed for the first time. Another wave of world record-breaking wind turbines are on track to be deployed in the North Sea, after GE Renewable Energy today announced it has been confirmed as the preferred turbine supplier for Dogger Bank C, the third phase of the giant offshore wind project.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Two firms to explore potential for shifting away from fossil fuels and harnessing hydrogen to power British Airways' future fleet. British Airways has teamed up with zero emission aircraft developer ZeroAvia for a new project aimed at exploring the potential for shifting away from fossil fuels and towards hydrogen to power the airlines' future fleet, the two firms announced today.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

3 circular economy trends that defined 2020. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 12/21/2020 - 00:15. As the year comes to a (welcome) close, it’s worth taking a moment to consider how the circular economy concept has emerged and evolved during this very particular year. Here are three trends that defined the circular economy in 2020, and what they might mean for the year to come. . 1.

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Charged

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If EVs are to replace fossil-fuel vehicles, they need to be able to make long highway trips, which means that DC fast charging needs to be reliable, convenient, affordable and ubiquitous. However, as Charged and other media have often reported, we’re still in the early days of public EV charging, and the user experience often leaves much to be desired.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Green experts hit out at data underpinning industry-backed EV lifecycle CO2 assessment report which was widely covered by national press over the weekend. A car industry-commissioned report on the CO2 impact of electric vehicles (EVs) has courted criticism, following allegations it overstated the emissions impact of EVs compared to internal combustion engine cars and was produced by a PR firm run from an address allegedly owned by Aston Martin's director of government and corporate affairs.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A UK-EU trade deal hangs in the balance as diplomats battle to resolve the irresolvable conundrum created by the UK's desire to maintain access to the world's largest market without abiding by its rules. Brexit has always been about one thing and one thing alone: sovereignty and what you do with it. Sure, the referendum was won with a pretty toxic side order of anti-immigration sentiment, nativist posturing, and elite-bashing rhetoric that exploited decades of simmering political alienation and

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The CCC's epic new report provides the blueprint for a net zero economy, the rationale for following it, and hints at the high drama that will define the century - it could prove to be a canonical document. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has just published the book on the net zero transition. At around 1,000 pages perhaps it is the War and Peace of the green industrial revolution, an exploration of every corner of society at a time of historic flux.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

'Biggest ever' citizen's assembly will encourage climate discussions between 'millions' of global citizens in lead up to vital climate summit, according to partner organisations. Citizens from around the world will be invited to take part in a supersized citizens' assembly in the lead up to the COP26 conference next year that aims to canvas views on the best ways to tackle the climate crisis ahead of the landmark climate summit.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2020

UK Green Building Council spearheads drive to develop 'single, coherent', science-based roadmap to decarbonise the UK's entire built environment. A "single, coherent" action plan for transforming the entire UK built environment to deliver net zero emissions is to be developed by a host of green building and construction experts over the next year, as part of a major new project announced by the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) this week.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

These were 10 key sustainable transport trends of 2020. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 12/16/2020 - 01:00. Have you ever been more ready for a year to be over? In a little over two weeks, this dumpster fire of a year will be relegated to history. And while the world will be dealing with COVID-19 for many more months into 2021, something just feels so good about leaving 2020 behind. .

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Annual Climate Change Performance Index points to mixed progress among world's 58 highest emitters. None of the world's 58 highest greenhouse gas emitting countries are on a decarbonisation pathway compatible with the Paris Agreement, even if emissions are falling in more than half of those surveyed. That is the headline conclusion from a major new analysis released today that points to mixed progress in the global effort to tackle the climate crisis.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Ever since Tesla's original Roadster demonstrated that a plugin electric vehicle with over 240 miles of rated range was technically possible, even with the nascent technology that was deliverable way back in 2008, the ultimate transition of road transport from combustion to plugins has been largely inevitable.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The momentum continues away from fossil fuel industries as more institutions make ethical climate action decisions.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here it is again, for the very first time-- Cleantechnica's list of the 21 best e-bikes and electric motorcycles you can buy in 2021!

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A week ago, Nissan put out a press release detailing the 2021 LEAF's pricing and options. To be perfectly honest, I feel bad for whoever Nissan has writing these, because nothing has changed. Keep reading, though, because I'm going to make this a whole lot more entertaining than Nissan's people did.

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