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Demand Response Industry Asks Feds to Open States to Energy Market Competition

GreenTechMedia

Now FERC is being asked to put that authority to a new use: ending a decade-old provision allowing individual states to opt out of letting demand response companies enlist customers to turn down their energy use to support the power grid. “But if the aggregations do include demand response, the opt-out can apply,” she said.

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The future is climate-friendly software

GreenBiz

The new nonprofit organization, Green Software Foundation , aims to change the culture of software development to prioritize sustainability. They’re also essential to our ever-connected world, and their energy demands are huge and expected to grow. The data center example. Data centers are energy hogs.

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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?

GreenBiz

Some are given information about what goals the competitors are setting, and what the talent, customers and investors are expecting and demanding from the board. No wonder that the World Health Organization has declared mental health issues a pandemic alongside COVID-19. Many are asked to nod to those goals. Sunset, not sell.

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Solar Foundation and Interstate Renewable Energy Council to Merge

GreenTechMedia

And in 2015, the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) and the Assocation for Demand Response and Smart Grid (ADS) merged under the new name Smart Electric Power Alliance , to focus on policies to promote increased integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) from across the spectrum. We really felt that trend.".

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Highlights from the 2022 BP Statistical Review

R-Squared Energy

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. It is a primary data source for numerous companies, government agencies, and non-government organizations. Energy consumption and production dramatically dropped in 2020, but since then demand has rebounded.

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From Backwoods to Bankrupt: The Rise and Fall of Real Goods Solar

GreenTechMedia

A decade earlier, Real Goods Solar grew organically and through acquisition and pulled in tens of millions in revenue. Local, off-grid cannibis growers provided crucial early demand. By 2010, it was boomtown out there," he said of the rooftop solar industry. "Of Schaeffer stepped down from the CEO role in 2010.

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PG&E Picks New CEO to Lead It Through Post-Bankruptcy Challenges

GreenTechMedia

Those public-safety power shutoff events have left hundreds of thousands to millions of the 16 million people it serves without electricity from hours to days at a time, and driven demands for backup power systems to help worst-hit communities ride through outages. ’s board of directors, said in Wednesday’s conference.