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GHG Protocol: Scope 1 Emissions Explained

Green Business Bureau

Scope 2 emissions are indirect GHGs released from the energy purchased by an organization. These are fossil fuels burnt on site. Stationary combustion : These are the emissions released from the direct burning of fossil fuels to power heat sources (e.g. a log burning fire), or a stationary combustion engine.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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Ohio geologists study potential for geothermal in abandoned coal mines

Renewable Energy World

The research at Ohio University could help transform old fossil fuel sites into clean energy assets, though much work remains to be done. Lopez also has long studied issues related to geothermal energy at locations in both the United States and in El Salvador, where she grew up. They’re just taking up space.”.

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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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AMPLY Power offers EV fleets guaranteed uptime and zero charging challenges

Charged

AMPLY Power says its charging as a service model provides 99.9% During previous tech revolutions, third-party contractors emerged to provide turnkey services to companies for things like data centers and solar installations. Now innovative companies are meeting the demand for similar services in the fleet charging realm.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

AGreenLiving

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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Welcome to the Pyrocene

Grist

Where fires were not visible, the lights of cities and of gas flares were: combustion via the transubstantiation of coal and gas into electricity. With increasing frenzy, humans are binge-burning fossil fuels. Fossil fuel societies find surrogates for fire and remove it (or suppress it) from landscapes.