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Behind-the-Meter Battery Pioneer Stem to Take SPAC Route to Public Markets

GreenTechMedia

Stem was founded in 2009 as power electronics startup Powergetics and rebranded as Stem in 2012 , becoming one of the first pure-play providers of batteries to help building owners and operators shave peak-demand usage and cut back on their utility bills.

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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. Figure 1: U.S.

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Arizona Outlines Possible Path to 100 Percent Clean Power by 2050

GreenTechMedia

The newly approved changes will boost those targets dramatically for investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, mandating a 50 percent cut in carbon emissions from 2016 to 2018 average levels by 2032 and a 75 percent cut by 2040.

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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.

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Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

DeSmogBlog

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. She added: “And so whenever it isn’t windy we’re starting to get into issues of the grid being stressed”.

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Fukushima on track to become a renewable energy hub

AGreenLiving

In hopes of reinventing its image, new life is breathing into Fukushima, the Japanese northeastern prefecture that was devastated by a 2011 tsunami and consequent nuclear power plant meltdown. The Japanese are optimistic about the electrical power that will be generated, given the region’s current trajectory.

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‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’

DeSmogBlog

.” The Ohio and Pennsylvania advocacy groups sent the Austin Master samples to Marco Kaltofen, a nuclear forensics scientist in Massachusetts who has extensive experience examining radioactive waste from the nuclear weapons, nuclear power generation, and oil and gas industries.

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