The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Gansu Wind Complex, China The Gansu Wind Complex stands as a testament to China’s commitment to renewable energy and sustainable development. Unveiling the Giant: Gansu Wind Complex The Gansu Wind Complex is one of the world’s largest wind power installations, covering vast expanses of the Gansu Province in northwestern China.

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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

Solar Controls Energy Costs 1. When you choose to install a home solar system and a battery, you can better control your average electricity costs over a year. When you choose to install a home solar system and a battery, you can better control your average electricity costs over a year. 8 Solar Saves Lives 6.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 21, 2023

Eighteen startups joined our community in the first months of 2023, working on innovations as diverse as an ammonia-based energy system, sneakers made from food waste, and nano-filters that reduce energy consumption in chemical separations. This system has 5x higher system-level energy densities compared to lithium batteries.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

The industry is moving toward sustainable construction. Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. HOW TO BUILD and RENOVATE A HOME TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE. Energy Usage and Electricity. Plumbing and Water Usage. Solar Power.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. Let’s look at the major areas that determine how sustainable and eco-friendly a home is: Building Design & Materials. Energy Usage and Electricity. Plumbing and Water Usage. Solar Power.

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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. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

As blackouts become more common due to the severity of climate change, sources of continuous battery backup power can be one less headache—and a life-saving advantage—to fire departments and emergency services already faced with rising costs and operational challenges, explains Lance Honea of Swell Energy. Have you read?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

ClientEarth’s Climate Snapshot 2019 finds that: Three in five people believe that financial institutions and banks should no longer invest in fossil fuels (59%) and that they should be legally accountable if they choose to do so (60%). Too many banks, pension funds and insurers are propping up fossil fuel giants.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

The Texas energy crisis in February 2021 reminded us of the precariousness of energy systems and their high costs of failure. This event nearly devastated the state’s power grid due to a frequency drop that put Texas four minutes and 37 seconds away from a months-long blackout.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 28, 2023

Decreased Renewables Cost: Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) to project sponsors is expected to decrease by 40-60%, which will likely result in cost reductions for commercial electricity users. Notes: PTC stands for Production Tax Credit. ITC stands for investment tax credit. Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Justice is the foundation for a transition where we literally (for real) stop the sources of pollution driving the climate crisis that are deeply rooted in all aspects of the economy. “In general, making climate action profitable is still being prioritized over pollution reduction and equity.” Of the $626.5

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

On Friday, at the United Nations’ climate conference, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced her agency’s new “Earthshot Initiative” to bring the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it securely below $100 per metric ton. We need governments to push the button of innovation here.”.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. The current standard for machinery and equipment is gas powered, which releases carbon into the atmosphere when in use. Additionally, some of the nitrogen is washed away, where it pollutes waterways and causes algae blooms.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 15, 2015

But today, the solar industry employs 174,000 people , more than Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter combined , and job growth is 20 times higher than the rest of the U.S. The energy sector, worth trillions of dollars, is the second-largest economic sector in the world, behind the military. Let’s look at each in turn.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Remember how the nation mobilized seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? This time it'll be batteries. Same size homes, same size cars, the same American Dreams, just without the pollution and with much higher efficiency. homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By Logan Atkinson Burke, Alliance for Affordable Energy, and Marriele Mango, Clean Energy Group. Like Hurricane Katrina and numerous storms before it, Hurricane Ida demolished Louisiana’s outdated, fossil-fuel-dependent energy system. Three weeks later, 38,000 remained without power. Fossil-Fuel Failures.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 16, 2019

Clockwise from upper left: pictures of NET Power, Fulcrum BioEnergy, and Lanzatech facilities Addressing climate change is a complex and difficult challenge, but we have more figured out than you might think. often either because of the energy density or high temperatures required in these processes. I agree with this framework!

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

While commercial mining of the deep seafloor is not yet happening, momentum is building and the world is now seriously entertaining the possibility. To vacuum up these treasured chunks requires industrial extraction by massive excavators. In June, Nauru took the first step in launching the industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

potentially affecting the ultimate fate of millions of abandoned oil industry wells. The wastewater well sits on land that’s owned by ExxonMobil, was drilled by ConocoPhillips, and eventually wound up run by a tiny start-up called Black Elk Energy that specialized in wringing out the last dregs of oil from aging wells.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

UK to Reduce Plastic Waste Plastic waste is a burning issue in the UK, as its recycling industry is largely affected by China’s new ban on foreign waste. Our alumni Bluebenu is developing a lead technology that transforms the plastic pollution rescued from the oceans into eco-fuel.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You may count me among those who want to see society move beyond fossil fuels. We all know there are negative consequences associated with fossil fuel usage, such as the emission of carbon dioxide and various other pollutants. Most people drastically underestimate our ongoing dependence on fossil fuels.

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Cleaner Electricity Grids Equal Longer Life Expectancy By Nils Frenkel, Sales Director, North America When I was working with the City of San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan a few years ago, I learned about a shocking statistic in the city I call home. Peaker Plants Are Located Throughout the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. The theme is "Renewable Energy for a Better Future" and the it will include: Keynote talks, Plenary sessions, Discussion Panels, B2B Meetings, Poster symposia, Video Presentations, and Workshops.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Steve Bramley of Gambica , a trade association representing the instrumentation and control industry believed there were “no downsides” to getting on with making these more sustainable technologies, and being the one to set the example. Putting a price on pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2021

It will attract more customers and employees, gain their trust and loyalty, cut your energy costs, preserve resources and reduce waste. Golf courses today can have a major negative impact on the local environment and the planet in several ways including: Using hazardous chemicals and pesticides that pollute waterways and harm wildlife.

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AutoGrid

MARCH 27, 2024

Commercial & industrial (C&I) site operators face major energy management challenges today. Increasing production collides with rising energy costs. The threats are real, but Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) providers have stepped up to provide solutions. Grid outages put refrigerated goods at risk.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

How to divert energy flows from fossil to renewable using electricity and biomass Summary - Up to 20% of our energy needs could be met by sustainably harvested biomass, in particular food and agricultural waste, as well as manure. In part II we learned that the world needs 435 TWh of energy per day. Or is there?

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2021

A technical, environmental and economical evaluation from a shipowner’s perspective by Gilles Hagen Summary - This thesis performs a technical, economical and environmental feasibility study of dense hydrogen carriers as a fuel to power the largest semi-submersible offshore crane vessel in the world – Heerema’s Sleipnir.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Key technologies include electrification, on-board batteries, solar panels, synthetic fuels, carbon capture and storage and possibly hydrogen. Once again, we will (and we must ) transition from fossil fuels to into a zero-emission world. The marine industry contributes significantly to these numbers.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Comparatively, poor waste management contributes to air pollution, exacerbates climate change, contaminates ecological habitats, and is harmful to wildlife and human health. How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution? Yet the most common waste types here are industrial non-hazardous waste and fossil fuel combustion waste.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Not to mention President Biden also signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 , putting about $67 billion toward zero-carbon industries and climate research. Boosting shared solar installations through the 10-year extension of the 30% Investment Tax Credit, which is now technology neutral and covers energy storage, clean hydrogen, and more.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Remember how the nation mobilised seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? This time it'll be batteries. Sixty-nine million US homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So Plus, renewable energy is more efficient than natural gas and coal-fired energy, which lose a lot of heat.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Other speculative chemicals and materials in the future-fuels mix include ammonia, methanol and hydrogen. While bioenergy remains the world’s largest source of renewable energy, there is still at this point a sense that there might not be enough to go around, to meet the demands of aviation. A “fat” rush?

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