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Organic Valley loans dairy farmers funds for renewable energy

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Organic Valley loans dairy farmers funds for renewable energy. In 2018, the Land O’Lakes Sustain program, now part of Truterra , provided loans for the cooperative’s farmers to adopt sustainable methods such as water-reuse systems and manure separation technology. And not all lenders are comfortable lending for solar.".

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Renewable Power Topped Fossil Fuels in UK During Q3

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Renewable energy sources generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the U.K. Fossil fuels’ share of the electricity mix was 10 times larger than renewables’ a decade ago, Carbon Brief's data shows. The growth of renewable energy capacity in the U.K. gigawatts in 2018.

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Using Solar to Displace Fossil Fuels for Process Heat in Industrial Facilities

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primary energy demand, according to the Department of Energy. At many of these facilities, fossil fuels, and especially natural gas, are the energy feedstock used for process heating applications. But what if the sun’s energy could take over the job much of the time and displace fossil fuels?

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New York?s Energy Transition (and Challenges) in 5 Charts

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Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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Research Finds Unknown ‘Critical Points’ in European Grids

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Distribution grids around the world tend to operate in relative darkness, in terms of sensors and monitors to reveal their point-to-point and moment-to-moment condition to their operators. But that may have to change as distributed energy resources take up an increasing role in powering them.

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Dandelion Raises $30M to Scale Up Home Geothermal Energy

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There’s a lot of energy underneath homes — if reasonably priced technology can be scaled up to tap its potential. Dandelion Energy hasn’t gotten nearly to that scale yet. On Wednesday, Dandelion raised a $30 million Series B round led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures to expand on those ambitions.

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WPD unveils low carbon heating strategy

Smart Energy International

GB network operator Western Power Distribution (WDP) has set out plans for the decarbonisation of heating in its service area. These include heat pumps, thermal storage, district heating, combined heat and power, solar thermal, waste heat recovery and hydrogen. Decarbonising heat: The hot topic we can’t ignore.