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Plugging into electricity’s energy challenge

Envirotec Magazine

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

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Majority of companies to miss net-zero targets, analysis shows

Envirotec Magazine

The European business community is more engaged than ever in the race to zero, with the number of companies publicly setting goals having grown over the last two years,” said Jean-Marc Ollagnier, CEO of Accenture in Europe. Our findings show that it is possible, but only if European businesses act now,” Ollagnier said.

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Energy efficiency: EP100 hails one billion tonnes of corporate carbon savings

Business Green

Initiative that invites businesses to double their energy productivity reveals huge scale of emissions and energy cost savings already being realised. Energy efficiency has been vital to the economy ever since the oil crisis of the 1970s," she said.

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Interview – The impact of GeothermEx on the geothermal industry in the last 50 years

ThinkGeoEnergy

To learn more about the history of GeothermEx and its continuing initiatives today as the geothermal consulting services arm of SLB’s geothermal business, we had an interview with Ann Robertson-Tait , president of GeothermEx. GW of geothermal power installed around the world—has helped the geothermal industry to grow.

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Coronavirus, the stay-at-home workstyle, and cloud energy consumption

Business Green

Between video calls, collaboration applications and streaming services, data centers are working overdrive - proving why energy efficiency matters more than ever. One obvious exception: the world's data centers and internet infrastructure, which are experiencing an unprecedented spike in usage. How much more efficient?

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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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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.”.