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Lifecycle Maintenance: Prolonging Truck Efficiency Through Comprehensive Care

The Environmental Blog

Log Care For Better Performance Much like tracking diet and exercise goals, recording maintenance history helps optimize truck performance and makes troubleshooting simpler when issues arise. Warmer weather demands inspection of cooling and AC systems. Colder months call for antifreeze and battery checks.

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Axiom Exergy Joins List of Commercial Storage Companies Pivoting to Software

GreenTechMedia

Those downsides can get in the way of the appeal, which is to save companies loads of money on their electricity bills by dodging peaks and demand charges. The logs get wiped every couple of weeks to make room for more under-utilized data. There's a lot of pent-up demand for it.".

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Ohio geologists study potential for geothermal in abandoned coal mines

Renewable Energy World

Geologists at Ohio University are exploring the potential to turn abandoned coal mines into sources of carbon-free heating and cooling. As the distance from the mine increases, so would capital costs for the piping system, along with losses in heating or cooling capacity. Tremendous geothermal potential’.

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AutoGrid Responds Across the Globe to a Summer Like No Other

AutoGrid

Temperature records were logged across both the northern and southern hemispheres, with nearly 400 new records set. This heat feeds surging demand for electricity and increased strain on already taxed power grids. We also currently have behavioral demand response (BDR) programs in Spanish, Chinese, and English.

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Google Spinout Dandelion Energy Ramps Up Home Geothermal Installations

GreenTechMedia

It partnered with utility Con Edison to install geothermal heat pumps in Westchester, where demand for natural gas has outstripped supply, leading to a moratorium on new hookups. Both actions help utilities stressed by peak seasonal heating and cooling needs. Dandelion is seizing on statewide trends as well.

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How climate change drives hotter, more frequent heat waves

Grist

Yafali and his family found respite in their AC, but they were fortunate outliers; Seattle, known for its cool, wet winters and mild summers, is one of the least air conditioned big cities in the country. They took refuge in shady parks or in community cooling centers. Earlier this month, Earth logged its seven hottest days ever.

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New Flyer unveils lighter, more efficient, longer-range electric bus

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New Flyer’s battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE and fuel cell-electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2 buses have logged 4.5 The Xcelsior CHARGE NG’s battery packs use an active liquid cooling system to maintain temperature and respond quickly to increases in power demand and environmental loads. million service miles to date.