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Can Free Smart Thermostats Get Homeowners to Enroll in Summertime Demand Response?

GreenTechMedia

Residential demand response and energy efficiency are one way to mitigate these impacts, giving utilities and technology vendors an incentive to find ways to expand their scope and effectiveness before summer arrives to stress power grids and customer utility bills alike. Avoiding the AC "snapback effect".

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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.” Certain names also pop up over and over—many of them tied to a 2012 anti-wind confab in Washington, DC.

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FERC proposes transmission planning and cost allocation reformation

Smart Energy International

DLR provides grid operators greater visibility on existing transmission line capacity minute-to-minute by taking into account environmental factors that could increase or reduce capacity such as winds acting as additional cooling for power lines, which would allow them to carry more electricity.

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

Grist

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid.

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February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and…

Clean Energy Trust

Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including the Power Grid Failures Credit: Ron Jenkins / Getty Images People had a bad time in Texas when extreme weather created demand and supply shocks which led to rolling blackouts. Dandelion raises $40M to scale geothermal home heating and cooling business. What went wrong?

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

Grist

West Virginia Large and deadly storms, like Superstorm Sandy in 2012, have hastened efforts to bolster infrastructure in the Northeast in preparation for the more severe impacts of climate change. Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont , Washington, D.C.,