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How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US

GreenBiz

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. Wed, 03/31/2021 - 01:00.

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The Texas Polar Vortex Resurrects the Question of Fuel Diversity for the Decarbonized Grid

GreenTechMedia

natural gas supply network was stressed by record demand and prices. Energy Information Administration, for the 9-day stretch from February 9 through yesterday February 17, natural gas provided about 35 percent of the U.S. Lower 48 Power Generation Mix, with other fuels providing 65 percent. First, the U.S.

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Top universities launch new £8m home energy data project

Business Green

University of Oxford and UCL to investigate how uptake of zero carbon technologies will impact future energy demand. research project dedicated to establishing a national energy data platform to facilitate the country's transition to net zero emissions.

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Heat pumps are critical to net zero - but they urgently need policy support

Business Green

Delivering the UK's heat pump installation target requires urgent policy action and a clear strategy, explains Laura Bishop of the Ground-Source Heat Pump Association. We now need to see urgent policy action by the UK government and a clear strategy adopted to help drive forward our low carbon heating future. So what needs to be done?

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Major Climate Bill Recommits Massachusetts to Climate Goals

Energy and Cleantech Council

On January 4th, as the legislative session came to a close, both houses of the Massachusetts legislature passed “ An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy.” The 2050 goal itself had already been adopted by the secretary of energy and environmental affairs under preexisting law.

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5 States Blazing the Trail for Integrating Distributed Energy Resources

GreenTechMedia

Distributed energy resources (DERs) is an expansive term, including everything from backup generators to microgrids. In some states with 100 percent clean energy mandates, like California and Hawaii, the focus is on solar — lots and lots of it — and the tools needed to integrate this massive new grid edge resource.

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Illinois Opens Narrow Window for Critical Solar, Nuclear Relief Bills to Pass

GreenTechMedia

Two long-delayed energy bills in Illinois that could make or break the state’s nuclear and solar industries have been left in limbo by the coronavirus pandemic. Pritzker asked lawmakers to pass clean-energy legislation this year, but that was before COVID-19 led the General Assembly to stop holding formal sessions.