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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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California’s Big 2021 Grid Reliability Decision: Expand Supply or Manage Demand?

GreenTechMedia

California is facing a major decision under a tight deadline — whether it should push for large-scale power plants and batteries to prevent a repeat of its August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer, or turn to behind-the-meter resources like batteries and demand response. 14 and 15 last year. 14 and 15 last year.

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New Prime Minister faces flurry of proposals for tackling the energy crisis

Business Green

Trade body Energy UK becomes latest influential group to endorse plans to shrink electricity bills by reducing the costs paid to legacy low carbon electricity generators. The voluntary CfD scheme would apply to generators that secured contracts under the Renewables Obligation scheme, which closed to new applicants in 2017.

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'Octopus Wednesdays', heat pump 'flip-flops', and the power of innovation

Business Green

There are good reasons why the two-for-one cinema ticket deal became synonymous with the mobile network, ran for over a decade, and its demise in 2015 generated lamenting headlines. The 'boiler tax' is nothing more than egregious lobbying from polluting incumbents that do not want to invest properly in the clean energy transition.

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Global Zero Carbon Buildings Accelerator wants to remove carbon emissions from buildings by 2050

Renewable Energy World

Buildings account for nearly 40% of energy-related CO2 emissions, according to WRI. Every $1 invested in efficiency alone saves $2 in new electricity generation and distribution costs, said WRI. Energy and Climate Branch (UNEP) and Head of the GlobalABC Secretariat, UN Environment Programme.

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Can Tech Solve Climate Change?

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

All eyes are on Paris for the 2015 U.N. Peter Thiel declared the cleantech sector — solar panels, wind turbines, and more — a “disaster” in 2011. But today, the solar industry employs 174,000 people , more than Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter combined , and job growth is 20 times higher than the rest of the U.S.

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5 Government Initiatives from Around the World That Are Helping Reduce the Impact of Climate Change

Green Tech Challenge

Our alumni Bluebenu is developing a lead technology that transforms the plastic pollution rescued from the oceans into eco-fuel. India’s Plan to Promote Electric Cars The Indian government is preparing a new policy to promote the use of electric vehicles and lessen its fossil fuel consumption.