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“Water shutoff ban saves lives”, says US research

Envirotec Magazine

Research highlighted at a recent water industry webinar appears to show that nearly half a million Covid-19 infections could have been prevented in the US alone if there had been a nationwide ban on water shutoffs. Over 500,000 smart meters were installed to 21 March and Thames is now receiving millions of meter readings per day.

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Empowering India’s Energy Revolution with AI and Prosumers

AutoGrid

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. The stakes are particularly high because India is the world’s third largest energy consumer.

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9 Predictions for the Clean Energy Transition in 2024

AutoGrid

2023 was a big year for the clean energy sector—but our team is even more excited for what’s on the horizon. keep an eye on these numbers: Wind and solar will deliver one third of the electricity generated in the U.S. Here are a few top-of-mind themes for our team members this January.

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4 Big Challenges Facing FERC’s Plan to Open Up Power Markets to Distributed Energy

GreenTechMedia

Last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Order 2222 , a groundbreaking effort to open up U.S. wholesale energy markets to aggregated solar systems, smart inverters, batteries, electric vehicles, smart appliances, grid-responsive building controls and other distributed energy resources (DERs).

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Planet Superpowers: Looking Closer

Planet Pulse

Satellite data allows organizations to see and monitor change across broad geographies and timescales — and take informed action. And when broad area monitoring is combined with high-resolution tasking, organizations are able to have a comprehensive and detailed view — allowing them to see and understand the unknowns.

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CBAM Ignites New Era of Equitable Contest in Europe

Hydrogen Fuel News

This mechanism serves as a protective shield for the EU’s climate policies, preventing them from being undermined by production relocation to countries with less stringent environmental standards or by the substitution of EU products with more carbon-intensive imports.

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Will low-carbon hydrogen will be the silver bullet in APAC?

Renewable Energy World

On Thursday the 19 th of August, the Climate Council in partnership with the law firm Shearman & Sterling, hosted an intriguing panel to discuss a major topic in the energy industry: Will low-carbon hydrogen be the silver bullet in APAC? But the question remained, “how low carbon is low-carbon hydrogen?”

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