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Empowering India’s Energy Revolution with AI and Prosumers

AutoGrid

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. The stakes are particularly high because India is the world’s third largest energy consumer.

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Smart meters crucial for flexibility savings finds Cornwall Insight

Smart Energy International

According to new research from Cornwall Insight, household flexibility, which can be enabled by smart meters, has the potential to substantially support reductions in peak energy consumption, equivalent to the capacity of four new gas-fired power stations. billion/year ($17.9 billion/year ($17.9

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Global Briefing: Coronavirus crisis will have 'negligible' impact on emissions without green recovery, study warns

Business Green

However, the report also highlights how engineering a 'green recovery' backed by major investment in low carbon infrastructure could significantly increase the chances of the world meeting the 1.5C Study: China accounts for over 90 per cent of planned global coal power capacity. warming target at the heart of the Paris Agreement.

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Dam good news: Plan unveiled to re-introduce beavers to West London in Amazon-backed rewilding project

Business Green

The Fund said it aims to enhance or connect London's Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINCs) with a view to creating a wildlife network and making the city a "more natural and vibrant home for nature and the local community". In October last year Amazon also announced a separate £2.8m

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. and globally by 2040.

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'Fundamental change': How write downs and bankruptcies are fuelling stranded asset fears

Business Green

Price and demand projections have been trimmed and there is a real sense that the clean energy transition that much of the industry has tip-toed around for the past decade could be about to accelerate. However, the contention that the new price projections are more realistic is contestable.

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Could a UK heatwave exacerbate the coronavirus crisis?

Business Green

Lest we forget, last summer's heatwaves across Europe - made five times more likely to occur as a result of climate change - were estimated to have caused an additional 900 deaths in the UK, according to by Public Health England (PHE).