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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. . Utilities already have found wind and solar power are less costly sources of energy.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. Utilities already have found wind and solar power are less costly sources of energy.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. Utilities already have found wind and solar power are less costly sources of energy.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2021

Greentown Labs

Energy Toolbase is an industry-leading software platform that provides a cohesive suite of project modeling, energy storage control, and asset monitoring products that enable solar and energy storage developers to deploy projects more efficiently. The company pays its users for saving energy when the grid is at risk of using dirty power.

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How carbon-smart farming is catalyzing the big bucks needed to transform the way America eats

GreenBiz

Standing alone in the open field, the solar-powered equipment Sheffer shows me could be mistaken for some sort of high-tech scarecrow, but it has a far different job: to monitor and measure the CO 2 in the soil at this farming operation and research center in New York’s Hudson Valley. . In January, Seattle startup Nori raised $1.3

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US Funding For Solar–Hydro Hybrid Energy, Microgrid, Grid Storage, & Blockchain Research

CleanTechnica

This fourth round of US DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office projects concerns solar–hydro hybrid power plants, other solar hybrid power plants, microgrids, grid storage integration, and blockchain technology.