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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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After Bold Promise, New Jersey’s Energy Storage Plan Remains a Mystery

GreenTechMedia

New Jersey looked like the promised land for energy storage. Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed for a 100 percent clean grid by 2050. When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Who’s the Boss?

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California’s Plan to Equip Vulnerable Citizens With Batteries Stumbles Out of Gate

GreenTechMedia

In a landmark move, California regulators last year redirected the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP), the state’s main support mechanism for behind-the-meter batteries, to focus more than half of its $1.2 billion budget through 2024 on providing backup power to protect its most vulnerable populations.

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'Still a work in progress': UK on track to meet EV charging rollout targets, but barriers remain

Business Green

The network is not perfect - it is still a work in progress, and there are definitely still teething problems with both the existing infrastructure and the rollout of new infrastructure," she said. Difficulty securing permission to law new electrical cabling across land was another barrier identified by the report.

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2020 New Investment Spotlight: Renewance

Clean Energy Trust

From mobile phones to computers to electric vehicles, the convenience of on-demand power is driving demand for batteries of all shapes and sizes. Some battery systems for utility-scale energy storage are becoming so large that they need their own buildings for space. Batteries have become ubiquitous in our daily lives.

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What Is B Corp? B Corp Certification Guide + Quick Assessment

Green Business Bureau

Private equity venture capital investors B Lab has collected publicly available information for more than $2 billion of investment in B Corps and benefit corporations by more than 150 venture capital firms to date, with every major silicon valley venture capital having invested in a certified B Corp and a benefit corporation.

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Making the Impossible Possible

Mr. Sustainability

The largest crane vessel is Sleipnir, which has an installed power generation capacity of 98MW. All Heerema’s vessels are diesel-electric , meaning power is provided by a diesel engine, which spins an electric generator, which in term provides electricity for the entire vessel.