Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Maintaining healthy, comfortable buildings can be expensive in Minnesota — especially during polar vortex events. Warren, a small city in Northern Minnesota, is offering an innovative public service: images that reveal building heat loss, captured by drones. Warren does not generate its own electricity. How can they save energy?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It is also a strong example to bring to the COP26 summit of how to follow climate change targets with action. That’s the apparent conclusion of a new independent assessment of the Net Zero Strategy published on 26 October by the Climate Change Committee (CCC). This is the UK’s climate governance working as it should.”.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Contributed by Saverio Grosso, Edison Energy. New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act has been lauded as one of the most ambitious and innovative legislative initiatives by a major city to combat climate change. There’s been a tremendous uptick in energy optimization and efficiency projects. Last month, the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Taskforce comes after ‘pioneering’ Energy Data Taskforce catalysed efforts to digitalise energy system, according to Clean Growth Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan. The taskforce aims to emulate the approach of 2019's Energy Data Taskforce, which sparked a wave of "energy data activity" across government, Ofgem, and industry.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. The pipelines would cost billions of dollars to build.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2023

Green Building Council (USGBC), is catalyzing a new generation of inclusive, healthy, high-performance, sustainable cities worldwide. Kansas City has taken several steps to help us reach our goal of climate neutrality for city operations by 2030. . On Tuesday, the city announced it has achieved LEED Gold. LEED, by the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

Last year the number of residential battery systems installed in Australia increased by 20%. The rate solar system owners can earn for selling energy back to the grid (Feed in tariff) has fallen significantly in the last 2-3 years in line with decreasing wholesales prices. The Emergence of Virtual Power Plants.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

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. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 9, 2021

That’s why today, Greentown Labs and Saint-Gobain, with support from MassCEC, have launched the Greentown Launch Healthy Buildings Challenge , seeking applications from startups with buildings-related technologies that optimize for the health of people and the climate, together. Somerville, Mass., June 15 at 1:00 p.m.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Carbon Tracker study finds solar and wind energy potential is 100 times as much as global energy demand. As such, the analysts predict exponential growth for the solar and wind power sectors, noting that "humans specialise in extracting cheap energy, and fast". per cent of solar and 0.16 per cent of daily sunshine.". "The

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

More businesses need to explore installing onsite solar power if the UK is to meet its net zero targets, writes Valpy Fitzgerald from Drax. There's been an exponential rise in global demand for solar power throughout the pandemic. The sector grew by 50 per cent in 2020 compared to 2019, making it one of the success stories of the year.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Despite COVID-19 and the economic downturn, clean energy investment did surprisingly well in the United States last year. billion on deployment of low-carbon technology in 2020, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance ( BNEF ). Even without legislation, the federal government can do a lot with clean energy related procurement.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

British Energy Efficiency Federation chair Andrew Warren sets out his vision for building a thriving market for domestic green homes upgrades. It is universally acknowledged that Britain needs urgently to improve the energy efficiency of its housing stock, long deemed amongst the worst in western Europe. Here is how.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

Facebook has unveiled a new heat recovery system at a wind-powered data centre in Denmark that shuttles surplus heat from its servers to homes in the nearby community. The tech giant said it expects to recover and donate 100,000 MWh of energy annually from its banks of servers, enough energy to warm 6,900 homes.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While the global economic slowdown reduced major drivers of climate change around the world, the true picture of the pandemic’s effect on our planet’s resources and ecological health is somewhat more nuanced. A Closer Look: Work from Home. Work-from-home Emissions. Effects on Ecological Factors. Source:Rume, T.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid. The impacts of climate change feel abstract until they’re not. . It’s a reminder of how our systems are limping towards climate chaos, and we — and our infrastructure — are not prepared. Heatwaves are a double whammy for the electrical grid.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the years, DEMO Day grew into an event that featured lab tours, dynamic speaking programs featuring industry leaders and elected officials, popcorn pitches from our members, and, most crucially, opportunities for the entire climatetech and cleantech ecosystem to connect with our startups. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

MAY 8, 2020

National cleantech investing network offers updates on angel investing, venture fund and a new philanthropic impact fund to mitigate climate change. The largest investments supported include Energy Storage Systems (ESS), Green Canopy Homes, OnSwitch, Apana, Ecellix, PowerLight and StormSensor.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) have accused the government of "failing to grasp" the challenge of decarbonising the nation's housing stock, warning that existing support for homeowners looking to 'green' their homes falls far short of the levels required to put the UK on pathway to net zero emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

It is just nine months since the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced he was launching a new Green Homes grant scheme, allocating an initial £1.5bn over the opening six-month period from October 2020. But the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) saw it as being predominantly a decarbonisation scheme.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

National cleantech investing network offers updates on angel investing, venture fund and a new philanthropic impact fund to mitigate climate change. The largest investments supported include Energy Storage Systems (ESS), Green Canopy Homes, OnSwitch, Apana, Ecellix, PowerLight and StormSensor.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Worried about the climate crisis? And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. .

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

But as the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has pointed out, it is not possible to deliver our low carbon future simply by wishing it. Heating our homes, businesses, and industry accounts for nearly half of all energy usage in the UK and more than a third of our carbon emissions. So what needs to be done?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Much of the media coverage about heat pumps features Mike Foster, a former Labour MP and the chief executive of the Energy and Utilities Association trade body.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

People are looking for pension funds and financial institutions that actively support the transition to a sustainable economy (68%) and consider the climate change impacts of the companies they invest in (64%). The way the financial world responds to the climate crisis will be make or break for the health of our planet.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

That is the conclusion of new government research published this week, which in particular highlights a lack of awareness of the contribution to climate change made by heating buildings and reveals limited public knowledge of the essential low-carbon heating technologies that will play a critical role in meeting the UK's net zero emissions target.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Did you realize that by throwing food out, you’re also wasting water and causing climate change? Homes generate approximately 61% of this waste, 26% by food service, and 13% by retail. All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Approximately 1.3

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. Climate change is usually seen as a global problem. I forget that this isn’t normal," he says. As the U.S.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

. “This decade represents an all-hands-on-deck moment for humanity to make critical progress in addressing climate change,” said Riley Duren, Carbon Mapper CEO and research scientist at the University of Arizona. These home-grown satellites are a game-changer.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Plans to fund the production of biomethane 'green gas' to provide low carbon heating for homes and businesses through a new carbon tax on UK fossil fuel gas suppliers have been confirmed today, with the government signalling that it aims to launch the new tariff scheme in the autumn. The green gas tariff scheme is expected to help save 21.6

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

.” — a passage from “ Cabbage Koora ,” by Sanjana Sekhar The spotlight Nearly 4 in 5 people support doing “whatever it takes” to mitigate climate change, according to a survey published late last year by the firm Potential Energy. ” The debate around gas stoves in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals. Of that, about $7.8

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

The analysis, published on 1 June in Science Advances , uses satellite images to reveal for the first time how nitrogen oxides – gases found in car exhaust and industrial emissions – affect crop productivity. Nitrogen oxides are invisible to humans, but new satellites have been able to map them with incredibly high precision.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The research at Ohio University could help transform old fossil fuel sites into clean energy assets, though much work remains to be done. Ohio is home to thousands of abandoned coal mines, which have become both public safety and environmental hazards as they leach acidic pollution into nearby waterways. “We One mine at a time.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

With the government already under fire for its handling of the cladding scandal, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have today warned Ministers must enhance the UK's approach to flood protection and risk management in preparation for escalating climate impacts.

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