Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

With the end of Moore’s Law looming ever closer, Owen Thomas, founder of Red Oak Consulting, argues that the energy sector will continue to thrive as HPC invariably moves to the cloud. It is now well recognised that Moore’s Law is nearing its end.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Provide insulation and reduce cooling loads. Fulfill municipal by-law requirements. GBB members can reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality, and lower cooling costs as a result of improved insulation and get credit for it in their EcoAssessment and GBB certification.” – Tom Permatteo, Founder & CEO of Green Business Bureau.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In 2023, SB23-285 or the “Energy and Carbon Management Regulation in Colorado” was signed into law , creating the framework for new state regulatory approvals that enable expanded power generation from geothermal resources.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Penn South first engaged Egg Geo to explore strategies for building decarbonization in an urban environment that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help achieve compliance with Local Law 97.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ted Boutrous of law firm Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher , an attorney for Chevron and chief architect of Big Oil’s legal arguments in these cases , said in a statement that “addressing climate change requires a coordinated international policy response, not meritless local litigation over lawful and essential energy production.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 22, 2022

Michal Motylewski, attorney-at-law, is a managing counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Warsaw Energy and Natural Resources practice team. Related reading: US startup to staff EV battery plant with displaced coal miners Novel ‘Co-Flow’ data centre cooling concept gets a boost. LISTEN NOW.

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Charged

AUGUST 9, 2022

According to German law, in order to tow trailers over 10 tons, tractor vehicles of heavy-duty truck-and-trailer combinations must use a continuous braking system. Each of the liquid-cooled motors generates a continuous output of 330 kW and peak output of 400 kW. The eActros 400 version has a range of up to 400 kilometers.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Provide insulation and reduce cooling loads. Fulfill municipal by-law requirements. GBB members can reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality, and lower cooling costs as a result of improved insulation and get credit for it in their EcoAssessment and GBB certification.” – Tom Permatteo, Founder & CEO of Green Business Bureau.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. E.g. Delta Air Lines and Microsoft Corp pledged to drastically curb their carbon emissions, taking into account the carbon footprint of their associated law firms.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Gavin Newsom to sign the bill into law. “Over the last few quarters California’s solar market has cooled off, which has caused the state to slip in the national rankings for solar in part due uncertainty around solar project investment,” Umoff said.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

President Biden has directed labor officials to draft laws that will protect workers under extreme heat conditions. Due to such realities, employee rights advocates have been calling for laws that protect workers against the effects of extreme heat and other weather disasters. Via The Washington Post Lead image via U.S.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Led by an interagency working group, the “Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative” will direct billions of dollars under the bipartisan infrastructure law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act toward five initial priorities: Efficient Building Heating and Cooling , including refrigerants with low global warming potential; Net-Zero Aviation (..)

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ramos, Republic Act 6957 or the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law paved the way for a rapid development of energy projects. 2001 – Republic Act 9136 or the EPIRA Law was passed, seeking the electric power industry by the privatization of generation, transmission, distribution, and supply of the power sector. MW to 123 MW.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

One reader, Katrina Amaral, shared a response that struck at this balance: As part of the resources for dealing with extreme heat, I would love to see examples of heat-adaptation and climate-change mitigation ordinances or laws that have passed at municipal / state / federal levels. And thanks as always for being a Looking Forward subscriber.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The law is asking a lot of Washington’s 65+ electric utilities who must plan their transition actions, secure clean sources for the electricity they serve customers, assess and equitably manage the impacts of their decisions on communities, and minimize the burden of rising rates on low-income households. .

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Switch was able to subscribe to this project thanks to a Nevada law allowing large industrial customers to source their own power. He particularly liked Tesla’s use of liquid cooling, which Allehaut said is more reliable than fan cooling and draws less parasitic load. ” Why this happened in Nevada.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

MARCH 27, 2023

They are also critical to the state meeting its mandated-by-law climate goals. · NY Home Energy Affordable Transition (HEAT) Act ( S2016 / A4592 )  — Would eliminate subsidies for new gas hookups (the “ 100-foot rule ”) and empower the Public Service Commission to carefully transition utilities toward zero-emissions heating/cooling.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Heating and cooling buildings accounts for about a third of the final energy consumption globally and 30% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. With global temperatures rising, the need for cooling is expected to increase dramatically in the next few years. Heating and cooling buildings is 80% of that energy used.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Heating or cooling the interior cabin of an EV substantially affects the vehicle’s on-road efficiency, and the HVAC system often gets the proverbial “rented mule” treatment. Given that most EVs—even most buses—have relatively small cabin volumes compared to, say, a house, it wouldn’t seem like much heating/cooling capacity would be required.

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

There is concern that Moore’s Law , the idea that the number of transistors on integrated circuit will double every two years, is slowing down. While much of the panel (which I helped organize) was highly technical, here are four of my high-level takeaways for those thinking about harnessing AI for climate solutions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2023

This presents an important opportunity for us to collectively step up, act and enshrine minimum energy efficiency requirements into law. These new houses will require both heating and cooling, which are not luxuries, but necessities. Increased access to heating and cooling is a hallmark of global living standards.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The power dissipated at 115 A can be found from Ohm’s law (W = I 2 * R), which comes out to a range of 211.6 – approximately 200 mm 2 of contact area), and there are a whole bunch of them to cool, for example. – approximately 200 mm 2 of contact area), and there are a whole bunch of them to cool, for example.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

A much better choice was to switch the existing chillers from gas-fired steam turbine chillers to electrified chillers, significantly reducing the carbon footprint to cool the massive complex. It was quite a process to convince the state of New York that the $100 million-dollar CHP Plant was not a good choice.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Data centers require huge volumes of power, much of which is used for cooling. According to the law firm Bird & Bird, 4 gigawatts of onshore wind capacity reaches the end of its support at the end of 2020. In some markets the economics haven’t made sense or the regulatory framework for PPAs is absent.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

His mother went for law and his father for business. A lot of my mom’s friends were of the civil rights generation, so there were these Black kids who were the first in their families to go to college and also go to law school. It’s a really cool place, and everyday I learn something new. I was their little mascot.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Both systems can be used in reverse to cool the home in warm weather. And since heat pumps can also be used for cooling, homeowners don’t have to worry about installing a separate cooling system. Massachusetts law requires the state to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. It’s ‘going to fit in somewhere’.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s possible that the dangers will reach a critical juncture where the world may want to consider another tool with the potential to save millions of lives: solar geoengineering, also described by scientists with the more careful and lengthy phrase “ climate intervention strategies that reflect sunlight to cool the earth.”.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

building on each other’s strengths, to collectively grow our portfolio to offer more clients affordable and reliable sustainable heating and cooling.” Closing, which is subject to the applicable employee consultation process in accordance with Dutch law, is expected by the end of 2023. A subsidiary of E.ON

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

megawatts of solar PV through CalCom, has also added two 520-kilowatt batteries at its central cooling facility, to reduce demand charges, shift energy to different TOU periods, and provide backup power to critical loads. For example, big Salinas Valley grower and shipper D’Arrigo Bros. of California, which has installed about 5.5

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

They began by summing all the emissions released at power plants to keep buildings cool and electricity flowing to wall outlets. Increasingly, this may be the law. Other new laws may go by names, like “Buy Clean,” but they are embodied carbon laws. These could be fly ash, slag or silica materials.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooling buildings continue to rise in Connecticut despite the state’s efforts to improve energy efficiency. Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Environmental departments in major oil companies are well-staffed with people who devote their careers to ensuring environmental laws are followed. That might seem like a ludicrous notion, but consider that in the 1970s the public had been bombarded with messages that the world was cooling. They are oil companies, after all.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. The law keeps the required procurement total at 5.6 DPU is instructed to study how to make it easier for communities to adopt geothermal heating and cooling systems. Governor Baker signed the climate bill ( H.5060 GW by 2027.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Under state law AB 327 , California’s utilities provide Integration Capacity Analysis (ICA) maps online showing DER hosting capacity on individual grid circuits. That capacity can change from hour to hour or season to season, largely from the daily rise and fall of solar power.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 5, 2021

The 2050 goal itself had already been adopted by the secretary of energy and environmental affairs under preexisting law. Without attempting to comprehensively summarize the act (or even just its energy law components), here are some of the provisions that are likely to push energy policy in Massachusetts towards a carbon-free future.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 10, 2020

“While the trapezoidal volume is identical to the original edifice, the reimagined supporting steel structure seeks inspiration from Mendel’s three laws of inheritance – and the drawings of his resulting heredity system,” explained the architects. More here:Â . Resurrected greenhouse to honor father of modern genetics.

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