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How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US

GreenBiz

Wed, 03/31/2021 - 01:00. From cardboard boxes delivered to our doors to home appliances, nearly everything comes from industrial processes. Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. Optimize electric energy efficiency.

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Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

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. WPR’s campaign also explicitly promotes hydrogen as a viable fuel for domestic heating. The PR campaign subjects heat pumps to intense criticism.

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Lessons from a year of reporting on climate solutions in Cascadia

Grist

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. You’ve got plenty of company after the events of 2021: Heat waves, hurricanes, fires, and floods hit new and deadly extremes. Worried about the climate crisis?

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2022 in Photos: Gaslighting by the Fossil Fuel Industry and Its Supporters

DeSmogBlog

I covered developments related to the rapidly expanding petrochemical and LNG export industries, like new facilities that came online this year and rely on fracking new wells to supply the growing demand for natural gas, which is mostly methane. Tyler Bryant, in front of his home, totaled by Hurricane Ian, on September 29.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Elsa Wenzel. and globally by 2040.

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Analysis: Energy giants investing only a fraction of their profits in renewables

Business Green

BP, Shell, Total Energies, and Equinor were all found to be investing the vast majority of their profits back into fossil fuel projects. per cent of its £17.1bn profits into low carbon energy, while it invested more than three times more into oil and gas. And ultimately, we are in an energy affordability crisis.".

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? Heat pumps go steampunk

Climate Tech VC

AtmosZero is focused on replacing the gas boilers that create the steam to power industry. ” Joule 5(3), 2021 Last week, AtmosZero announced a $7.5M Source: GP Thiel and AK Stark. “To Decarbonize Industry, We Must Decarbonize Heat.”