The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There is also disagreement about the role of technology in sustainable agriculture. Critics argue that the use of genetically modified crops and other technologies undermines the goal of sustainability. How is technology helping to shape the future of sustainable agriculture? What future trends will there be?

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Technological and scientific advancements have ushered in an era of efficiency, reduced waste, and better animal welfare practices. The use of innovative techniques and technologies like precision feeding and climate-controlled poultry houses help streamline operations. In 2020, nearly 40% of worldwide meat production was poultry meat.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 26, 2021

Solar power is predicted to dominate the global market, with key stakeholders including SunPower (US), Canadian Solar (Canada), Jinko Solar (China), and Tina Solar (China). Solar and wind power is set to lead the renewables market, but with a reinvigorated drive towards greater efficiency in production, innovation and storage.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

However wind energy generation is closely looked at by many governments, especially in Africa, for its permanent consistency in the continent which should result in high profitability for the embedded countries due to low cost and sustainability. Alternate pricing occurs in remote areas when there’s little connection to main power lines.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

Facebook has unveiled a new heat recovery system at a wind-powered data centre in Denmark that shuttles surplus heat from its servers to homes in the nearby community. Lauren Edelman, energy specialist at Facebook, explained in a blog post that the data centre had been specifically selected for its potential to enable heat recovery.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

“The science is clear: The world must act now if we’re going to avert the worst consequences of climate change,” Pichai wrote in the blog post. It starts with collecting data on the carbon intensity of the power supplied across different regions and calculating the resulting carbon footprints of different facilities.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

EIA estimates that wind power accounted for 9% of U.S. The agency expects wind to make up 31% of the nearly 40GW of new generating capacity in 2021. Our customers are pushing us to help them maximize their efficiencies and increase long-term sustainability with digital and cloud-connected technologies.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 28, 2019

We also need strategies to pull climate pollution from the atmosphere – letting farmers profit by using practices that store carbon, and protecting forests, and advancing technologies that remove carbon pollution directly from the air. Wind power is almost 70% cheaper. Potential breakthrough technologies are on the horizon.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 31, 2020

On the margins, virtual power plants have gone mainstream and green hydrogen has emerged as the energy carrier of choice for tomorrow’s fuel systems. What follows is a selection of would-be energy technologies that we filed under ‘?’ Vortex Bladeless: wind power without blades. ’ in 2020.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 11, 2021

In that case, it is in the best interests of both the interconnection customer and the transmission owner to look at grid enhancing technologies to accommodate the interconnection requests while waiting for a detailed transmission study. ” There is evidence that GETs provide value to both interconnection customers and TOs.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

This obvious point has sustained debate over perpetual motion machines since the Middle Ages and continues to be a key issue for the commercial viability of technologies such as nuclear fusion. For Hall, an important application of the concept was in oil extraction. Oil is an energy-dense fuel. ” Adding a new dimension to the debate.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Emerging technologies and breakthrough science, from AI & ML and computer vision to low-cost DNA sequencing and CRISPR gene editing, are enabling fundamental innovations across industries with the potential to solve intractable problems in climate, health, and inequality. solar and wind power now cost less than natural gas.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

Ed Crooks, vice-chair of the Americas for energy consultant Wood Mackenzie, argued in a blog post earlier this month that the Covid-19 crisis was highlighting the "superior resilience" of electricity businesses.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 26, 2021

The trick is more transmission owners need to adopt these new technologies in place of transmission lines and new substations. LineVision and SmartWires are part of the Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs). These technologies are not unique to the US energy ecosystem.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

By viewing the year behind us as a test case, it’s obvious that Westminster needs to heavily fund and support two particular technologies: wind and solar. These two technologies delivered a third of all of Britain’s energy last year, in a clear demonstration that both have matured into reliable and compelling sources of energy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

This article was adapted from Climate Tech Weekly, a free newsletter focused on climate technologies. From an energy standpoint, the fact that the panels point in many directions helps the Google buildings capture "the power of the sun from multiple angles," Tahir wrote in a blog about the installation.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The CfD scheme was rolled out as part of the ambitious Energy Act back in 2013 and supports the development of most renewable technologies (although notably, biomass has been excluded from the latest round). The money will be channeled via the Contracts for Difference auction series, an incentive scheme launched just under a decade ago.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A hybrid project can be available for power around the clock—providing electricity generated by wind and solar or discharged by the battery when renewable energy is not available. As shown by all the proposed hybrid resources waiting in the queue, the technology and economics are there.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Powered by electricity, heat pumps are currently set to play a key role in decarbonising heating and replacing gas boilers, which heat around 85 percent of Britain’s homes and account for 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions nationwide. Broadcast media has amplified similar messages on BBC 2’s Newsnight , LBC , TalkTV and GB News.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Google, for example, can deliver seven times as much computing power today as it did five years ago, using the same amount of electrical power, according to a blog published by Urs Holze, senior vice president of technical infrastructure, in late February. The technology can be spin up or shut down very quickly.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Since developers sit at the junction where they cannot build renewable projects without transmission and cannot afford expensive network upgrades, this opportunity for comments should also highlight the issues with utilities dragging their feet on adopting grid-enhancing technologies. RTOs must be technology-neutral, as well as size neutral.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 25, 2021

The UK’s annual budget was announced last week by Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealing more government support for the UK’s wind industry. The budget announcement included the unveiling of a £20 million programme designed to support the development of floating offshore wind technology across the UK. The green revolution awakened?

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

In his work, Milford applied principles of disruptive technology innovation to clean energy markets, assisted by the late Professor at Harvard Business School Clay Christensen, an early mentor. CEG has worked on technology innovation from fuel cells to offshore wind, to energy storage and advancing energy equity over the past two decades.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

The EU’s climate commitments mean that we will replace those smokestacks with clean technologies, sooner or later. However, too many ESG funds merely invest in low-carbon tech companies from Silicon Valley, not in the startups developing essential climate technologies. Where Gail sees despair, Fred sees opportunity.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

However, renewable electricity could be used for hydrogen production by powering electrolyzers that separate water into its components–hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen from electrolysis powered by renewables is known as “green hydrogen.”. Hydrogen is an energy carrier rather than a renewable energy technology.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 10, 2021

In 2020, the company set out to make its Grand Rapids, Michigan headquarters a showcase for the required sustainable technology. Solar PV generation supplies 20 percent of the site’s power, reducing utility bills, but Catalyst needs to implement at least three energy conservation measures to reduce their Energy Use Intensity (EUI).

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Facilities, including buildings, cleaning and maintenance, bathrooms, food service, heating, air conditioning, landscaping, lighting, solar and wind power. Information Technology and printing, including your servers, data center, and hosting providers. the product’s reuse and recycling potential). all go to reducing risk.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While FERC staff is sorting out solutions that are quick to implement, i.e., the “quick fix” solutions such as mandating Dynamic Line Ratings (DLRs) and RTOs implementing Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs), approving SOO Green line should be a top priority for FERC. SOO Green has already done all the work.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 19, 2021

The first possible solution is IC having the option to trigger a study on their own to evaluate alternative Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) such as SmartValves or Dynamic Line Ratings (DLRs). I see at least 2 possible solutions in the interim for projects already in the queue waiting for SPP’s DISIS study results.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 5, 2021

All this takes time that technology providers, states, cities, and communities don’t have to meet their renewable goals. It would be nice for the developers if the comment period ends with FERC Order, but it doesn’t because FERC gives RTOs time to file compliance plans and then implement them.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 26, 2021

The UK is leading the way in solar, wind, hydro and marine. These technologies now have a proven track record to deliver clean, cheap and efficient energy so it makes no sense to take this backstep. If the UK is to host COP26 while simultaneously approving the extraction of coal, we risk becoming an international laughing stock.”

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

It provides an overview of the existing fossil infrastructure and fuel consumption, which technologies are required to transform, how much it would cost and who are actually working on it. This technology is literally older than sliced bread and has been around since the 1920s. For that we need green hydrogen. Lots of green hydrogen.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

“DOE is powered by brilliant scientists, engineers, and energy policy experts who are the very best for the job we’ve been tasked with: to develop and deploy new clean energy technologies that will achieve the Administration’s goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and secure our nation’s future.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 10, 2021

The US Energy Information Administration projects renewables’ share of the national generation mix will rise from 21 percent in 2020 to 42 percent in 2050, even as the federal tax credits for both wind and solar close out over the next few years. million MWh or around 17 percent of total generation. Budget for O&M.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

It provides an overview of the existing fossil infrastructure and fuel consumption, which technologies are required, how much it would cost and who are actually working on it. This technology is literally older than sliced bread and has been around since the 1920s. This explores what is needed to build a green hydrogen refinery.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 19, 2021

New technologies are central for developing clean solutions. Transportation emissions cannot be solved by technology alone. Policies are needed to advance technologies. California is a great example of policies leading technological innovation and market change. One of my strengths is being the holder of relationships.

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