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CIRPASS – a digital passport approach launches for Europe

Smart Energy International

The 18-month project, which is funded by the European Commission under the Digital Europe Programme, is anticipated to lead the way towards a circular economy, which in essence adds a lifecycle approach and in particular recycling to avoid any waste to the traditional ‘linear’ supply chain system that has been the standard.

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Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Still Looks Like a Distant Prospect

GreenTechMedia

Since then, the idea of selling the power generated by your rooftop solar panels to other individuals in the same way you might let your spare room through Airbnb has gained plenty of attention thanks to the pitches from blockchain platform developers such as Grid+. Europe and Australia at the vanguard. an expert says. an expert says.

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The Biggest Sustainability Stories of 2019 (and what to watch for in 2020)

Andrew Winston

The list of extreme, tragic, and very costly weather events this year — record heat in Europe, hail in June in Mexico , record floods in Nebraska , endless Australian bush fires , and epic destruction from storms in Mozambique and the Bahamas – was shocking. But it’s now not an annual story; it’s permanent. degrees Celsius.

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RIDDLE&CODE Energy Solutions gets behind energy tokenisation

Smart Energy International

IBM to tokenise renewable energy credits Wien Energie launches blockchain JV. RIDDLE&CODE Energy Solutions provides a blockchain-powered infrastructure with the MyPower platform that enables the tokenisation of energy production and consumption. Have you read?

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Company profile.

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Can Renewables Restart the Grid? The UK Investigates

GreenTechMedia

” Distributed ReStart was launched in January 2019 and is set to run to March 2022, with £10.3 And in August 2019, the U.K.’s “Past and current approaches rely on large power stations, but as the U.K. moves to cleaner, greener and more decentralized energy, new options must be developed. million ($13.5

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5 Emerging Energy Technologies to Watch Out for in 2020

GreenTechMedia

Erstwhile more novel technologies, meanwhile, such as energy blockchains or flow batteries, have been relatively quiet this year. Following the growing popularity of floating solar arrays on freshwater bodies, 2019 saw a spate of announcements regarding sea-based PV projects. In some respects, this is no bad thing. Marine solar.