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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.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South to burn them overseas in its power plants. Collectively, the region’s wood pellet industry exports more than 7.4

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#Greentown10: A Look at Greentown’s Biggest Annual Event Throughout the Years

Greentown Labs

We held our first DEMO Day in 2013, two years after Greentown’s founding. You’ll also learn about key technology areas that are driving momentum to equitably tackle the climate crisis, and explore the plentiful opportunities for everyone to be a part of the energy transition that’s already unfolding. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

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Green battalion: British Gas to recruit former service personnel to net zero workforce

Business Green

British Gas-owner Centrica says trainees will install EV charge points, smart meters, and heat pumps, and support solar and battery storage projects. A recruitment drive which could see 500 former military personnel sign up to the mission to build a net zero emission energy system has been launched by British Gas-owner Centrica.

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Build Louisiana Back Resilient

Renewable Energy World

By Logan Atkinson Burke, Alliance for Affordable Energy, and Marriele Mango, Clean Energy Group. Like Hurricane Katrina and numerous storms before it, Hurricane Ida demolished Louisiana’s outdated, fossil-fuel-dependent energy system. Three weeks later, 38,000 remained without power. Outages were widespread and lasting.

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The Rules for Early-Stage Cleantech Venture Capital Investment in 2021

GreenTechMedia

Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation. That led, in turn, to a major drawback from big VC firms, with early-stage funding for climate tech companies falling to about $418 million in 2013.

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Making the Impossible Possible

Mr. Sustainability

Key technologies include electrification, on-board batteries, solar panels, synthetic fuels, carbon capture and storage and possibly hydrogen. The case argues to convert Sleipnir into a ‘Solar-Synthetic’ vessel, combined with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for remaining emissions. Why Do We Need Zero-Emission Vessels?