Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The company will test the 400 kWh unit at Duke Energy's Emerging Technology and Innovation Center in Mount Holly, North Carolina next year, with the deployment of a utility-scale, 60 mWh pilot project expected in 2023. Our Emerging Technology and Innovation Center is an ideal proving ground to study this technology.

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Batteries Carbon-neutral Innovation Technology 72

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 30, 2020

As Ben Dukes, a friend and colleague, often says, "What got you here won’t get you there.". We need vastly more diversity in age, gender, race, geography and from industry outsiders. Increasing diversity will not happen organically; we need to be proactive and work at it or we are destined to bring the same ideas to the party.

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Innovation Climate change Technology Health 479

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Xcel filed its wind plan with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission in September and expects approval by year’s end, CEO Ben Fowke said during the company’s third-quarter 2020 earnings conference call. If approved, the investments are expected to save customers more than $160 million over the life of the assets, he said.

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Carbon Investment Natural gas Hydrogen 130

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Varentec’s ENGO systems have been piloted by Duke Energy, Southern Company and Hawaiian Electric as a tool to manage solar-driven voltage disruptions. In 2018 it landed a 2,000-unit deployment with Xcel Energy in Colorado to provide conservation voltage reduction (CVR) services across 472 circuits.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Still, that’s a major shift for a utility that announced the sale of its natural-gas business on the same day it and partner Duke canceled the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, facing multibillion-dollar cost overruns and the likelihood of legal challenges for years to come. Duke Energy. Duke's utilities serve 7.7

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Carbon Natural gas Carbon-neutral Nuclear Power 246

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 30, 2020

As Ben Dukes, a friend and colleague, often says, “What got you here won’t get you there.” We need vastly more diversity in age, gender, race, geography and from industry outsiders.

Innovation 36

Innovation Climate change Technology Health 36

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

it wants cap and trade when a carbon tax is on the table, and it wants a carbon tax when cap and trade is on the table),” said Ben Franta, a JD/PhD candidate at Stanford University’s Law School and Department of History who studies the history of climate denial. The end result,” he told DeSmog via email, “is nothing getting passed.”.

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