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EDC celebrates 40th anniversary of Tongonan geothermal field, Philippines

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) recently celebrated the 40th year anniversary of the Tongonan geothermal power plant in the Leyte geothermal field of the Philippines. After several years of intensive exploration and development work, the Tongonan-1 geothermal power plant was inaugurated on July 02, 1983.

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Cities need to act on climate adaptation now

Unsustainable

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in South Asia in the form of erratic rainfall patterns predicted by climatologists. In 2006, flooding in Surat left more than 75 percent of the city underwater, causing major economic and other losses. The flooding was caused by an emergency release from the upstream Ukai reservoir.

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UN-Approved ‘Green’ Investors Funding UK Airport Expansion Bids

DeSmogBlog

PRI signatories have rapidly grown since the initiative was first launched in 2006 with a small number of investors to over 4,000 current members , raising doubts about whether its minimum requirements are strong enough, with just 5 signatories forced out last year. Airport Investors: Full Lists.

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Soy scandals: Green groups raise alarm over deforestation impact of corporates' soy supply chains

Business Green

Soy expansion is increasingly encroaching on African savannahs and native grasslands in Central Asia, as well, the report warned. Collectively, the 22 traders wield enough power to trigger large-scale, transformative change across the soy industry, WWF said, yet too little is being done to curtail soy-linked deforestation.

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The Rules for Early-Stage Cleantech Venture Capital Investment in 2021

GreenTechMedia

Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation. billion according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance to $16 billion, according to PwC.

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A fat load of good? Sourcing feedstocks for aviation biofuels looks not-so-simple

Envirotec Magazine

While bioenergy remains the world’s largest source of renewable energy, there is still at this point a sense that there might not be enough to go around, to meet the demands of aviation. Between 2006 and 2021, these kinds of usage fell precipitously as more and more of this material went into making biodiesel (mostly for vehicle transport).

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The sun-to-car connection: SolarEdge provides the missing link from solar panels to EV charging

Charged

SolarEdge Technologies provides hardware and software to bring these elements together, including solar inverters, power optimizers and monitoring systems for photovoltaic (PV) arrays. The company was established in 2006, and now has offices in the US, Brazil, throughout Europe and Asia, Australia and Israel.