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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. Tom Christensen writes.

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

Business Green

Research released in late February by researchers at Northwestern University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Koomey Analytics found that total global data center energy consumption grew six per cent between 2010 and 2018, even though the number of 'compute instances' grew by 6.5 times during that same timeframe.

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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

Its plan recommends consuming more invasive plants, making warming and cooling centers accessible during extreme weather events, and determining whether to preserve “at all costs” the black ash trees that are used for basket-making — or pivot to alternatives. While most non-Indigenous populations across the U.S.

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Cascadia is known for strong climate action. So why are emissions still rising?

Grist

However, leaders on both sides of the border said much the same in the run-up to 2010, when Cascadia set pathbreaking goals to slash climate-altering pollution. The region’s power grid — part of a larger Western grid — is too weak and fractured to reliably integrate the massive increase in renewable energy needed to decarbonize.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

From his perch at Climate Depot , the blog he’s run since 2009, Morano has elevated fake climate experts, encouraged the harassment of real climate scientists , and promoted the myth of “global cooling.” It’s not just offshore wind at risk either.