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An Open Letter: The Texas Energy Transition—The Greentown Labs Community Offers Pathways to a Resilient and Sustainable Energy Future

Greentown Labs

The Texas energy crisis in February 2021 reminded us of the precariousness of energy systems and their high costs of failure. This event nearly devastated the state’s power grid due to a frequency drop that put Texas four minutes and 37 seconds away from a months-long blackout.

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Grid enhancing technologies find a place in FERC’s ANOPR on transmission planning

Renewable Energy World

FERC is looking for comments on transmission planning, cost allocation, and generator interconnection processes since this could be one of the most important transmission planning orders from FERC since Order 2003. MISO Independent Market Monitor (IMM) also supports DLRs.

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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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? The bits and bytes of grid tech

Climate Tech VC

For a 2050 net-zero future, we’ll need an electricity grid large enough that its untangled cables would be long enough to stretch all the way to the sun. As electricity demand rises to meet population growth and the electrification transition, so does the need to expand and strengthen the grid.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Using simple plug-and-play ideology, we revolutionized solar installations in 2003 with our Interconnect System TM. By using simple ideas, we are making solar energy a more affordable and clean power source for future generations. Industry: Renewables & Environment – Solar, Energy Storage, EV Charging.

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Energy Transfer’s Gulf Run Pipeline to Export Fracked Gas from Louisiana set to Begin Construction

DeSmogBlog

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.