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Ed’s note: Energy poverty in our own backyard

Smart Energy International

The first International Energy Poverty Action Week (IEPAW) is held virtually this week, from the 21st (yesterday) to the 25th (Friday) of February. It brings together academics, policymakers and various experts in the field of energy poverty for a series of seminars, workshops and discussions. What qualifies as energy poverty?

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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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Greentown Labs and Vineyard Wind Announce Offshore Wind Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

Startups will participate in accelerator program to develop data monitoring technologies focused on protecting marine mammals. The startups will focus on innovations in marine mammal monitoring through data collection, real-time transmission, and analysis. Somerville, Mass., million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.

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Greentown Labs Announces the Healthy Buildings Challenge with Saint-Gobain and MassCEC

Greentown Labs

More specifically, the Healthy Buildings Challenge is interested in solutions within building materials, coatings, and envelope systems, as well as digital platforms, monitoring, and supplemental technologies that advance building sustainability and wellbeing for building occupants. Somerville, Mass., June 15 at 1:00 p.m.

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Greentown Labs Deepens Partnership with Vineyard Wind; Announces Go Energize 2023, Supported by MassCEC

Greentown Labs

10, 2023 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech incubator in North America, and Vineyard Wind , developer of the first utility-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, are now accepting applications for Greentown Go Energize 2023 , a program supported by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). Somerville, Mass.

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The Olympics of Geothermal – WGC 2023 experience of African participants

ThinkGeoEnergy

Geothermal energy is one of the more important baseload elements for achieving carbon emission peaking and carbon neutrality. Based on this experience, the IGA together with the organizer should double-check whether such presentations and requirements have been well-arranged. Henan is in east-central China.

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Roundup: Summer Kickoff

Defend Our Future

The Community Organizing Fellows Program began with a two-day intensive training in D.C. Through this program, we have deepened relationships with three other environmental organizations: Vote Solar, Colorado Rising and Our Climate. and has continued on a glide path since! Markey, Ossoff and Fetterman, as well as Rep.

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