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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Reactive Technologies: Pinpointing the Inertia of Renewable-Powered Grids

GreenTechMedia

Getting to 100 percent clean energy presents power grid operators with a major problem: what to do about inertia. ’s National Grid, Australian grid operator AEMO, Italian grid operator Terna and Japan’s biggest utility Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Canada’s Ontario province.

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Secrets of a long partnership in gas detection (Sponsored content)

Envirotec Magazine

Frank’s career in gas detection stretches back to 1982, and when he was first visited by a sales person from Alphasense in 2003, he was immediately impressed with the representative’s technical knowledge. “It Responding to market demand, CETCI developed monitoring systems that met the requirements of the market.

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Your ‘Love Is Blind’ addiction is not heating the planet … yet

Grist

billion — Fortune Magazine published a more-alarming statistic : Streaming the nearly five-minute video that many times required as much computing power “as 40,000 U.S. And all that computational activity takes energy. That’s mainly thanks to improvements in energy efficiency. Curbing energy use. homes use in a year.”.

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New York City Is About to Get an Injection of Tidal Power. Is This Time Different?

GreenTechMedia

New York City may be weeks away from seeing tidal power injected onto the local grid. The Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) installation will feature three underwater 35-kilowatt turbines on a single triangular base called a TriFrame. Still, the path toward bigger tidal arrays, and even demonstration projects, looks challenging.

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Are carbon offsets the answer to the climate change crisis?

Business Green

However, the European Commission has estimated that achieving the current 2030 climate and energy targets will require €260bn of additional annual investment, equal to about 1.5 An increasing number of them are taking the step to offset the carbon emissions of their business activities. Standard Life Aberdeen is one such business.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.