Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Carbon Tracker analysis warns soaring gas process could leave projects that produce hydrogen from fossil gas stranded. Germany, Morocco, and the US are set to mobilise the highest levels of investment in the near term, according to the report.

Building Energy Monitoring 88

Building Energy Monitoring Hydrogen Investment Energy Monitor 88

EDF + Business

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Note: this is the second installment of a dialogue Q&A series with private equity investors following a methane summit EDF recently hosted for portfolio companies of EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG) and Quantum Energy Partners. First, EIG is committed to being a part of the energy transition.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Xcel Energy, provider of electricity and natural gas services to nearly 6 million customers in eight Western and Midwestern states, has committed to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from its natural gas business by 2050. Xcel Energy’s aggressive, forward looking plans for clean energy are welcomed news.".

Natural gas 95

Natural gas Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Methane 95

EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

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. Uncontrolled methane emissions in the U.S. Roughly one-third of U.S.

Natural gas 48

Natural gas Methane Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 48

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power.

Energy Monitor 90

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 90

Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2023

Funding Peak Power , a provider of energy-optimization software and services, raised a $35M round led by Greenbacker Capital Management. SmartAC.com raised a $22M Series B to ramp up sales of its HVAC monitoring system. It also won the grand prize and audience choice award at the MIT $100K LAUNCH Competition.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Startups 98

Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Today, we are excited to announce new details of our hyperspectral constellation, which is being brought to market through a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership with the Carbon Mapper Coalition.

Business Energy Monitoring 110

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Methane 110

Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

Methane 67

Methane Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 67

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Carbon-neutral Policy Carbon Carbon-negative 111

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 1, 2024

The energy sector in 2023 has been dominated by many advances, such as the drive for decentralisation, the increasing use of Web3 and AI technologies and the focus on the grid as the foundation or ‘backbone’ of the renewables-driven grid of the future and we expect these to continue into 2024. Have you read?

Energy Monitor 69

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Technology 69

Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tackling methane from oil and gas operations among 'best near-term opportunities’ for combatting climate change, IEA argues. Methane, which is largely released from abandoned coal mines, oil and gas operations, and farming, has a far greater global warming potential than CO2.

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Fossil fuels Methane Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 61

Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Despite the tense, last-minute drama, the Glasgow Climate Pact sends a very clear investment signal to businesses and financial institutions, argues Nick Molho from the Aldersgate Group. This is understandable, but it should not detract from the very clear signals that the business and investment community have been sent at COP26.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Investment 65

Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. So far, electrification and hydrogen-based options have struggled to achieve sufficient energy densities. These lower-carbon fuels are only as good as their ingredients.

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Transportation Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 52

Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times as much as the lithium-ion batteries used to propel electric cars. But according to a growing body of research, those efforts leave something out: Most of the planet-warming effects of flying aren’t from carbon dioxide. It’s also terrible for the climate.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Aviation Energy Monitor 95

Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs.

Energy Monitor 61

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 61

Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. Business As Usual Scenario. By Shelley Wenzel.

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Policy Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Microsoft, EY, and the Corporate Leaders Group Europe are among 20 leading organisations which have today launched a joint drive to develop a universal carbon accounting system in a bid to improve the transparency and reliability of greenhouse gas emissions data.

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Carbon Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 79

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Titled Renewable Hydrogen - Seizing the UK Opportunity , the report calls on the government to back the development of 'green hydrogen' - produced using renewable energy - by supporting the renewable sector as it attempts to replicate the success of the UK's offshore wind industry. the RenewableUK study argues.

Building Energy Monitoring 79

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Hydrogen 79

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This decade alone, the industry must: Increase low carbon electricity generation by approximately 50 per cent from sources such as wind or solar power. Install low carbon heating systems in approximately 2.8 Develop carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) technology and develop hydrogen networks.

Building Energy Monitoring 95

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 95

Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Since the IRA passed, 265 clean energy and manufacturing projects worth $100B+ have been announced. 🏦 The Loans Program Office kept busy. Proterra, the dominant electric bus maker, was just one high profile example. 👻 Spooky season for clean energy stocks. 💪 Climate joined the labor movement.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 72

EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Business as usual for the oil and gas industry is over. Investor confidence is flagging just as the talent pool shrinks and competition from cleaner energy sources intensifies. Ben Ratner, Senior Director, EDF+Business. Actively supporting climate policy isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s good business.

Building Energy Monitoring 57

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Methane 57

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2021

Going green starts at home, and while separating paper from plastic in your recycling bin is a great first start, there are more steps you can take to be less wasteful and reduce your carbon footprint. What better way to disinfect your home than to use the natural germ-killing power of the sun? 3) Get a home energy score.

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Earth Day Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 165

Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

Even as the overall VC market slows during the second half of 2022, investments in climate tech - particularly technologies that could enable green hydrogen to help decarbonize heavy industry and other big emitters - continue to add up. Its electrolysis process runs on renewable power, the hallmark of so-called green hydrogen technologies.

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Building Energy Monitoring Hydrogen Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 83

Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 45

Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C Meanwhile, global emissions are spiralling upwards again as the economy recovers and surging fossil fuel prices are driving fears that a new wave of high carbon infrastructure investment could yet be unleashed.

Business Energy Monitoring 36

Business Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 36

Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Even in the old normal, the healthy $100m investment disclosed this week by agtech startup Pivot Bio - which hopes to disrupt the $65bn global market for synthetic nitrogen fertilizer - would be impressive. The company says it eliminates between 30 to 50 per cent of wasted energy consumption related to this sort of equipment.

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Business Energy Monitoring Startups Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 55

Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

The 100-year old Saltend Chemicals Park is gearing up to become a test ground for hydrogen and carbon capture industrial decarbonisation technologies - BusinessGreen visits the UK's ground zero for net zero. We are decarbonising energy and we are decarbonising products. That's quite unique within the UK environment.".

Building Energy Monitoring 36

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Hydrogen 36

EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Investors and climate experts are increasingly concerned about one of the energy transition’s biggest loopholes – the transferred emissions problem. Securing large-scale emissions reductions in the real economy – not through accounting exercises – is core to a successful energy transition. By Andrew Baxter and Gabriel Malek.

Methane 57

Methane Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 57

EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But despite strong rhetorical support of the Paris Climate Agreement, the vast majority of America’s largest banks continue to invest in companies ill-prepared for a low-carbon future. Many of these investment firms have established multi-billion-dollar environmental finance goals – a good start. Why it matters.

Building Energy Monitoring 76

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Climate change 76

Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No The health benefits of these actions alone will pay for the huge investment by the state.

Building Energy Monitoring 36

Building Energy Monitoring Methane Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 36

Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) releases annual progress report detailing efforts to cut methane emissions and step up clean tech investment. Boasting direct emissions of 678 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, the 12 firms represent 1.4

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring 46

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

Carbon 78

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. What is corporate greenwash?

Business Energy Monitoring 148

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 148

Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The initial carbon pollution fee of $15 per (tCO2e) in 2020 increases annually by $2/tCO2e plus urban-area inflation.

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Pollution Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 45

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules.

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Hydrogen Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 36

Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis?

Solar Energy Monitor 82

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 82

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98