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World’s Largest Customer-Sited Solar-Storage Plant Planned for Nevada Desert

GreenTechMedia

Data center operator Switch plans to buy power for its record-breaking Citadel facility from an adjacent project developed and owned by Capital Dynamics. A 60-megawatt/240-megawatt-hour Tesla Megapack installation will turn 127 megawatts of solar capacity into a nearly 24/7 power source. ” Distributed energy like never before.

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From Humble Sponge Balls to Global Innovation: How a Simple Invention Revolutionized Air Conditioning

GreenTech Gazette

Imagine a world where air conditioning runs smoother, lasts longer, and consumes less energy. This forces the system to work harder to achieve the desired temperature, leading to: Increased Energy Consumption: A clogged system can consume up to 30% more energy, driving up utility bills and placing a strain on the power grid.

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Sunrun Taps AutoGrid to Optimize Grid Services for its Growing Fleets of Home Batteries

GreenTechMedia

On Thursday, it picked Silicon Valley energy management software startup AutoGrid to help it optimize this growing fleet. “You really need the power of big data and machine learning to do this in a scalable manner.” ” Fleets of batteries, meet optimization software.

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Bush Brothers counts on water reuse to reduce local impact of bean production

GreenBiz

The company is also better equipped to tightly control its water usage, according to Evoqua. . Bush Brothers, a family-owned business, has been operating in the small community of Chestnut Hill, Tennessee, for over 110 years. businesses. We would help to identify the potential and convince [businesses] that it had a return.

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What Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Gets Wrong About Heat Pumps

DeSmogBlog

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. The extreme cold and record-setting electrical consumption has reignited local debates about whether heat pumps are a viable option in the province.

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

GreenTechMedia

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision. gigawatts by 2023.

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Can Facebook, Google and Microsoft inspire data center innovation at Climate Week?

EDF + Business

By Tom Murray One focus area at this week’s UN Climate Action Summit is Energy Transition , where one of the expected outcomes is bold new “commitments from the IT sector (individually or collectively) on energy efficiency and the leveraging of technology.”. Tom Murray, VP EDF+Business. zombie servers”).