E8 Cleantech Angels

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 20, 2023

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances looks at Shell USA Inc., This M&A announcement came in as Investcorp, partnering with IMB Business School, announced the results of its latest survey concerning top investment trends. Shell’s supercharged M&A Shell’s USA subsidiary is acquiring Volta Inc.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

IndiNature says investment will help scale up production of its 'carbon negative' building material. Carbon negative insulation for homes and commercial properties is to be produced in Scotland for the first time following a £3m investment in a pioneering green materials firm from the Scottish National Investment Bank.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. . In the same way that a company’s carbon credit may offset its U.S. Sustainability practitioners have spent the past couple of decades defining and debating the role of carbon credits in the transition to a clean economy, and plastics credits are not fundamentally different.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

In addition, 52 percent of those surveyed reported a negative effect on their quality of life. Strategic investments in EV adoption by institutions that can afford to incur that risk is one pathway to improving the overall affordability of EVs in the long term. One important caveat is the moderating effect of the energy structure.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing. In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Accelerate is a fast pitch competition featuring startups across the circular economy value chain. Who are they?

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

New research by Drax Electric Insights shows that the UK broke all records last year for renewable energy consumption. 42% of all energy used across the country through 2020 came from wind, solar, tidal and hydro. The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Detailed and joined-up policies, behaviour change, 'whole system' infrastructure investment, and holistic energy market reform are all critical to achieving net zero emissions, report warns. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Stiebel Eltron, a German green tech supplier, has announced investment plans of €600 million ($600 million) into their heat pump development capabilities. ” Have you read: ABB releases blueprint for carbon negative microgrids Safeguarding the stability of the grid Decarbonising heat: The hot topic we can’t ignore.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 28, 2021

Buildings that are energy efficient are now being rewarded with high energy grades and displayed publicly which is changing how tenants look at the value of the building. In New York City, the Climate Mobilization Act was designed to cut down carbon emissions dramatically. Local Law 33 – Importance of Building Energy Upgrades.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products. As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces. Gloria Oladipo. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 05:00.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Green hydrogen - made by splitting water's hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources - is a small fish in the "energies pond."

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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.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 5, 2021

Company is going all-electric and funding a new Yale center for applied research focused on carbon-negative technologies. announced this week that it wants to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040. Key steps toward reaching the FedEx carbon neutral goal include: Vehicle Electrification. FedEx Corp.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The latest edition of National Grid ESO's Future Energy Scenarios report was released this week, setting out the energy system operator's detailed vision for how the net zero transition could accelerate. The 237-page report is dense and it has landed during the hottest week on record and in the midst of a Conservative leadership race.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

We’ve spent decades promoting clean energy technologies. Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. In April, the bubble popped, perhaps forever: Oil future prices hit negative $37 a barrel. . Hunter Lovins.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

will lay the foundations for a flexibility platform encompassing centralized and decentralized assets — the latest step in the country's push to enlist distributed energy resources (DERs) at grand scale to balance an increasingly renewable-powered grid. A new active network management project in the U.K. DNOs in the U.K.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

To keep energy costs low, contractors worked to tightly seal buildings including designing windows that don’t open. Improvements in ventilation technology have decreased energy consumption by up to 30 percent. Concerning implications for energy consumption. And that's where the energy bill can really spike.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

European energy storage deployment is set to shrink compared to other global markets, even as the need for flexibility on the grid increases, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. In 2014, EMEA, dominated by Europe, represented 44 percent of global energy storage deployment. In its consultation response it urged the U.K.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

He has rightly earned praise for speaking up on climate, investment and economic transition. His letter is money-weighted opinion, colossal in institutional investment and business circles (if not quite God-like ). He wants us to embrace the opportunity of climate change and investing; climate risk is investment risk.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

” This tale underscores a vexing problem for the energy transition in Europe. While renewables’ levelized cost of energy (LCOE) is going down, and the proportion of renewables on many grids is growing, wholesale electricity markets don’t seem to be getting any cheaper. percent to 32.1 Eurostat figures show.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

Despite the chaos in global oil markets, the pair of supermajors have committed to maintaining their low carbon investment plans and spoken of an accelerating energy transition. But van Beurden said Thursday that the new energies businesses would be mostly untouched. BP stands by its planned low-carbon investments.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Labour’s energy spokesperson has said he stands “completely” with biomass giant Drax, despite admitting that its use of wood pellets in its North Yorkshire power station is not carbon neutral. The speakers at the panel event, “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As families face hefty energy bills this winter, calls are growing for market reforms that can both protect consumers and accelerate efforts to decarbonise the UK energy system. Overall, around four million UK customers have seen their energy supplier go bust in recent months.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. ’s final energy demand by 2050.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

With growing consensus on the gravity of the climate crisis, countries and companies are adopting carbon reduction targets. Pressure to make emissions visible has been around for a while: Consumers want to know how much carbon is embodied in the products they buy. Alas, to date the same isn’t true of carbon performance.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. This has led to a strong focus on two main sectors: energy and transportation. Pull Quote.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

has called on the German government to intervene to keep down the costs of renewable electricity and “fast-track” the energy transition. Any shortfall in that support should be covered by federal funding, including proceeds from the new carbon tax, Teyssen said Tuesday. is now focused on providing energy services.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Community solar makes renewable energy accessible to all and helps reduce the energy burden of low-income households. Increased Community Cohesiveness Community solar is different from a home solar installation in that it is owned and operated by a local utility or energy supplier.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Energy firm to snap up leading manufacturer and distributors of industrial wood pellets to supply its biomass energy plants. The deal is expected to give Drax another 2.9 million tonnes of biomass production capacity and "significantly" reduce the average cost of pellet production. million tonnes of biomass, including 2.9

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has today issued a flurry of new announcements designed to help accelerate the development of new nuclear and hydrogen technologies in the UK.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Energy supplier touts tie-up with engineering services company Worley as evidence plan to build UK's largest carbon capture project in Yorkshire is moving ahead. It's no longer enough to reduce emissions - the world has got to start removing carbon from the atmosphere if we are to avert this climate crisis," he said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. It estimates that, if land alone was used to remove the world's greenhouse gas emissions in order to achieve net zero by 2050, it would require at least 1.6

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist CNG Fuels has opened two further refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK this week, in anticipation of surging demand for renewable biomethane over the next year and beyond. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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