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What Were Europe’s Oil Majors Doing When GTM Launched in 2007?

GreenTechMedia

It’s 2007. With the exception of Total’s stake in SunPower, the trio was fairly quiet for 10 years post-2007. A look at BP’s 2007 annual report shows that seven years deep into its “Beyond Petroleum” rebrand, it was still searching for a differentiator. By the end of 2007, the U.K.

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Elkhorn Valley Wind Farm has safely produced renewable energy since 2007

Green Living Guy

The post Elkhorn Valley Wind Farm has safely produced renewable energy since 2007 appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, California, Florida, Missouri, Texas, Nevada. The 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm represents an estimated capital investment of $221 million.

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Al Gore roasts corporations and politicians, comparing their climate crisis promises to ‘New Year’s resolutions’

TechCrunch: Climate

presidential nominee, and even Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2007 for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.” Al Gore has enjoyed a very successful career, including as a U.S. senator, U.S. Vice President, U.S. This past May, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his lifetime of service.

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EVs are one step closer to becoming roaming grid batteries

Canary Media

In fact, he and his team of EV researchers at the university have been turning electric vehicles into grid batteries since 2007 , when they kicked off a first-of-a-kind experiment that’s since been replicated in V2G… University of Delaware professor Willett Kempton is a pioneer of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

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Dutch clean energy investor SET Ventures lands new €200 million fund, which will go toward digital tech

TechCrunch: Climate

Founded in 2007, Dutch firm SET Ventures is one of the latter. New climate tech VC firms have emerged in recent years, but existing ones are also raising larger funds. Its fourth fund, which just closed at €200 million, is twice the size of its previous one, and will be deployed into 20 to 25 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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'I Am a Plastic Bag' is made from recycled single-use plastic bottles

Inhabitat - Innovation

Following the sold-out success of “I Am Not a Plastic Bag” in 2007, designer brand Anya Hindmarch has launched a new product, called "I Am a Plastic Bag" aimed at recycling single-use plastic and leaving behind a net-zero carbon footprint from production.

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Former BP boss calls for end to new North Sea drilling licences

The Guardian: Energy

The oil industry veteran, who was known as the Sun King when he ran the oil company between 1995 and 2007, said an important test for the UK’s political parties before next month’s general election was whether they have “serious plans for the country’s green energy transition”. Continue reading.