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Doteasy Technology Inc: A Certified Sustainable Web Hosting Solution

Green Business Bureau

Established in 2000, Doteasy is a Canadian web hosting company specializing in domain name registration and sustainable web hosting solutions. All of Doteasy’s operations are run using 100% renewable hydropower, this includes the running of their data centers. This province mostly runs on 100% renewable hydropower. Data centers.

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Making the Case for an Integrated Energy Market in the Southeastern US

GreenTechMedia

That’s primarily because renewable energy’s growth will remain challenging without a more flexible and regionally coordinated system to balance the intermittency of wind and solar power through geographic diversity and a broader range of hydropower dams, new battery storage and other balancing resources.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

In 2000, he began using models to unlock renewable energy solutions. Their report revealed that by combining wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower sources, California could, theoretically, meet 100% of its electricity demand with WWS. Hydropower electricity produced in the Pacific Northwest would be imported to fill in the gaps.

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Apple’s low-carbon aluminum is a climate game changer

Grist

The tech firm now uses more recycled aluminum in its devices and prioritizes suppliers who run their facilities with hydropower, not coal. If adopted by Iceland’s three aluminum smelters — which use geothermal and hydropower — the technology would eliminate about one-third of the country’s total emissions, he said.

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A move to renewable energy could grow Africa’s economy by 6.4%

Renewable Energy World

Coal, natural gas and oil together account for about 70% of Africa’s total electricity generation, and conventional power attracts far more funding than renewables, owing to an established process that favors less capital-intensive thermal generation, the report notes. Specific to hydropower , the report said that 17.4%

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Solar, Wind Tax Credit Extensions and Energy R&D Package in Spending Bill Before Congress

GreenTechMedia

Utility-scale solar power is already cost-competitive against coal-fired power across the world and with natural-gas-fired power in many markets. Schumer’s office also shared details of the Energy Act of 2000, a massive energy RD&D funding package brought into the broader spending package last week.

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