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How to value solar plus storage

GreenBiz

The crisis has turbocharged interest in systems that deliver power even when the grid is down. Solar plus storage is fast emerging as a top choice, both at scale on the grid and also "behind the meter," installed in a home, apartment or commercial building. . It’s no secret that the cost of solar energy has plummeted.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio. The exclusion of JBS is quite dramatic for us because it is from all of our funds, not just the ones labelled ESG," Eric Pedersen, Nordea’s head of responsible investments, told The Guardian. .

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$1T of Potential Losses in the Pipeline for Oil and Gas Financiers

GreenTechMedia

The only climate trend more powerful for global financial institutions than the drive to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is the momentum to exit oil and gas. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), more than 50 globally significant financial institutions have put in place an oil and gas exit policy.

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Keeping it cool: O2 data centres aim to take the heat off carbon emissions

Business Green

O2 has announced plans to harness smart cooling technology to save energy at its data centres and core network sites to the tune of one million kilograms of CO2 every year. The roll out is tied to an rapid rise in demand for mobile data as the UK emerges from lockdown.

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

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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A Solar CEO’s 2020 Forecast: Local Developers Continue to Shine

GreenTechMedia

When we started Sol Systems around a dinner table in 2008, PV modules cost $3/watt — and that was a recent breakthrough. As we noted last year , solar energy technology continues its path to global dominance. Solar is now the least expensive source of electricity in two-thirds of the world. The times, they are a changing.

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'Dire warning': Fears grow over net zero 'complacency' as emissions rebound

Business Green

The rhetoric has been hugely welcome and has contrasted positively with the months and years following the financial crash of 2008, during which proposals for green stimulus packages struggled to secure meaningful traction and a wave of new fossil fuel investment locked in another decade of rising global emissions.