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Unveiling the Benefits of Community Solar: A Step Towards a Sustainable Future

The Environmental Blog

By aggregating user demand and supply, community solar projects can offer economic benefits that individuals can’t get with rooftop solar, like economies of scale and access to financing. The community solar model typically involves an array in a nearby town or city connected to the local electric grid.

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Biomass Energy: Pros and Cons Explained

Hydrogen Fuel News

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Syngas can be subsequently burned to generate electricity or processed into transportation fuels.

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell Norco.

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Amazon Wins with Climate Action and Fails by Silencing their Employee's Climate Advocacy

Green Market Oracle

Despite an ambitious climate plan and renewable energy leadership employees are being threatened for demanding that the company do more. It called for a resolution demanding aggressive climate plan. Consistent with the pledge Amazon has launched a new website that reports on its carbon footprint and other sustainability metrics.

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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Promoting ‘Lower Carbon,’ ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Oil and Gas

DeSmogBlog

There is a generation of Millennials around the globe who have written off fossil fuels,” Chris Romer, co-founder of Project Canary, told the oil and gas industry trade publication Rigzone this month. “We “And then we’re going to create a carbon offset by plugging and abandoning that well, so it never leaks methane again.”

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'We must go further': Ofgem debuts Decarbonisation Action Plan

Business Green

More broadly, it promises that the regulator will step up support for clean tech R&D and take a more agile and adaptable approach to price controls for network operators so as to enable investment in net zero infrastructure.

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Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom

GreenBiz

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Historically, the private sector invested in research and development to produce world-changing innovations.

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