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Blockchain 24/7 carbon-free energy traceability for corporates

Smart Energy International

European blockchain start-up FlexiDAO’s energy traceability solution is to be offered in conjunction with Altenex Energy’s Insights. The Insights platform is designed to give users transparency on power and natural gas procurement, with access to offers and bids and spend and settlement reporting. Have you read?

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Four ways EPA methane rollbacks threaten American natural gas

EDF + Business

By Ben Ratner At the behest of the American Petroleum Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate nationwide limits on methane pollution, sending America’s natural gas industry backwards to the days of uncontrolled emissions. America’s natural gas industry is no different. With most of U.S.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021

Greentown Labs

Acelerex pairs clean energy and storage technologies with proprietary software innovations of AI, IoT devices, blockchain, big data, data mining, cloud computing, and real time optimization algorithms. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Electricity.

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June Cleantech Roundup: Beyond Carbon, Beyond Tariffs, Beyond Plastics, Beyond Fission?

Clean Energy Trust

It will also be putting pressure on natural gas power?—?notable notable since Bloomberg was supporting natural gas as an alternative to coal earlier this decade. Link Facebook announced Libra, their new blockchain and cryptocurrency project.

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So, What Exactly Is Long-Duration Energy Storage?

GreenTechMedia

Its allure has proven more durable than energy blockchain, and its commercialization is further along than super-buzzy green hydrogen. Depending on who you talk to, long-duration storage technology can knock out coal and gas peaker plants, turn renewables into round-the-clock resources and generally pave the way for a carbon-free grid.

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As Oil Giants Turn to Bitcoin Mining, Some Spin Burning Fossil Fuels for Cryptocurrency as a Climate Solution

DeSmogBlog

Flaring — or the burning of stranded natural gas directly at an oil well — is one of the drilling industry’s most notorious problems, often condemned as a pointlessly polluting waste of billions of dollars and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. How does ExxonMobil plan to reach that goal? And Exxon is hardly alone.

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So, What Exactly Are Virtual Power Plants?

GreenTechMedia

In this respect, they can emulate or replace natural gas-fired peakers and help address distribution network bottlenecks—but usually without the same capital outlay. General Electric has investigated building VPPs using blockchain technology and sells digital systems for VPP development alongside traditional power plants.