Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Kaluza, an intelligent energy platform, and Flexitricity, an electrical aggregator and demand response specialist, have partnered to provide a new combined grid flexibility service. The Balancing Mechanism is one of the tools that the UK’s National Grid ESO uses to balance energy supply and demand in real time.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

But it can also substantially increase electricity demand at ports. In response to California's electrification push, the state's largest ports, including San Diego, Los Angeles, and Long Beach, are turning to microgrids for energy security and demand flexibility. ” California leads the way with port microgrids.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

CALSTART says that the surge is coming from a combination of market demand, policies and economics as EV battery costs continue to drop. The large automakers have been pretty slow to offer a variety of models, citing a lack of demand from customers. Ford is making an electric transit van.

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Electricity North America Transportation Demand 490

EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager, Energy Transition By Sean Hackett With the dire need to slash greenhouse gas and methane emissions from the global oil and gas sector, more and more investors are advocating for stronger climate policies that accelerate the energy transition and mitigate risks.

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Policy Climate change Methane Politics 52

Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

While policies and action plans are being put in place to help meet the UK government's net-zero carbon commitments, the existential challenge of the climate emergency already requires London to look beyond its ambitious 2030 net-zero target. Current policy and progress will not get us there.

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Resilience Climate change Policy Cooling 75

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In its annual Review of Energy Policy 2023, published on 14 December, the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) urges the next government to take urgent action on the policies needed to deliver the energy transition. The review highlights the energy policy priorities for the next government – whether Conservative, Labour or a coalition.

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Energy Energy Electric vehicle Government 284

EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Climate risk management requires climate policy. Only public policy can deliver the speed and scale of reductions needed to limit the worst impacts of climate change. That’s why advocacy for climate policy is an essential part of corporate sustainability leadership. Rising stakeholder expectations.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. The policy has been a long time coming, yet came to fruition quickly, responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and the opportunity to legislate before midterms. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine. Demand for energy storage is on the rise.

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Policy Demand Carbon-negative Law 68

EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the immediate term, businesses will have to cope with these supply chain woes, while also meeting increased consumer demands. Building more resilient supply chains is a business imperative, especially as the likelihood for more disruption increases. Building resilience: Where do we go from here? . And so too is mitigation.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 13, 2022

Market demand has shifted more abruptly than ever before meaning companies have to respond faster and be more agile to all these changes. Today’s buyers demand eco-efficient brands, green products, responsibly sourced materials, and sustainability-focused solutions and services. More interactions are digital. Have you read?

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Resilience Sustainability Technology Hydropower 109

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown.

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Resilience Climate change Carbon-negative Blockchain 466

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The farms we work with are seeing a huge spike in demand [for direct sales]," Dan Miller, CEO and founder of the crowdfunding platform Steward , told me when we spoke by phone in early April. But now they have to quickly switch their businesses to meet that demand." They also looked more agile and resilient.

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Sustainability Organic Resilience Agriculture 522

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

A new briefing from think tank organisation the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) argues that the clean energy transition can be delivered on time and at an affordable cost if supply chain risks are minimised by policy and industry action. offshore wind transport vessels or grid transformers) that are costly and have long lead times.

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Technology Energy Energy Lithium 189

Charged

MARCH 18, 2021

The bill presents a sweeping set of both sector-specific and economy-wide policy proposals. This legislation will create millions of homegrown jobs in a climate-resilient economy, ensuring our workers and businesses can compete in the 21st-century transition to clean technology that’s already happening.”.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. . The price of oil plunged below zero on some days, and customer demand remains at an all-time low.

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Incubators Incubators Resilience Innovation 466

Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 22, 2020

3rd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. Back by popular demand, join us for the Future of Carbon Policy Forum. We will examine the pivotal role that carbon policy can play in addressing the multiple challenges of economic recovery, public health, transportation, and equity. Register Now. Register Now. Helen Clarkson.

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Policy Carbon Transportation Politics 52

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

However, the demands on the system are changing, and its speed has slowed. Policy changes are more frequent in response to a changing world." The Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) consenting process has served the UK well for more than a decade," they said.

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Resilience Government Policy Packaging 80

Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Phil Thompson, CEO of UK-based Balance Power, explains how much GWh storage capacity is needed for a resilient and renewable energy system and how to get these much-needed projects off the ground. Energy storage, which can balance supply and demand, can come to the grid’s aid. Watch this space for his interview later!

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Resilience Energy Monitor 52

Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The growing global consensus on the need to build a green recovery from the economic wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been yet further underlined by a set of green policy demands released today to mark World Environment Day by host of influential institutions, including the OECD and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

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Demand Packaging Resilience Biodiversity 88

GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

The grid faces twin challenges: It needs to become resilient and clean. Together, with the right policy support, they might just be urgent enough to get something done. . Renewables are already eating into the economic assumptions of power plants, with electricity demands falling short of the predicted demand for a decade.

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Demand Resilience Electricity Investment 508

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Tuesday’s letter takes up three ISO-NE policies for specific critique. The first is called Competitive Auctions With Sponsored Policy Resources, or CASPR ( PDF ), a complicated effort to balance zero-marginal-cost wind and solar power against fossil fuel and nuclear-powered generators in ISO-NE’s forward capacity auction.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Providing a comprehensive understanding of grid orchestration, its challenges, and the transformative potential it holds, this eBook focuses on: Grid Orchestration: The art of harmonising diverse energy sources, demand patterns, and grid infrastructure. Decentralisation: The shift toward decentralised energy production. Download the eBook

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Resilience Policy Demand Sustainability 52

Smart Energy International

MARCH 19, 2024

VPPs leverage AI to optimise energy generation and distribution, ensuring a balanced supply and demand. AI-Driven Decision-Making: Authentic, authoritative, and policy-compliant data is essential for AI-driven decision-making in critical infrastructure projects.

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IoT Energy Energy Policy 117

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

Actions by these states to change the direction of energy policy are a powerful confirmation that clean energy is a viable, cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels. For South Carolina, solar PV paired battery storage (solar+storage) can be more than just a tool to reduce demand and offset fossil-fuel consumption.

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Solar Energy Monitor Policy Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 102

Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

As demand for fossil-fuel free heating grows, policymakers and industry need to work together to prep the installation workforce for a major roll out of electric heat pumps, writes Panasonic's Enrique Vilamitjana. The policies needed to drive 'greener' heating across Europe. The policies that could drive UK heat pump uptake.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

A new blueprint from Ceres, the Blueprint for Responsible Policy Engagement on Climate Change , lays out a science-based action agenda for companies in the U.S. First, advocate for science-based climate policy. We can invest in a resilient and inclusive economy that builds jobs, infrastructure, growth and stability for the long term.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Politics 362

Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 8, 2020

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, As the Government of Canada develops and deploys its response to the unprecedented impact COVID-19 is having on our health and economy, we offer your government our support, assistance and advice to ensure that stimulus and recovery efforts help build a better, more resilient Canada. growth per year.

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Resilience Energy Energy Fossil fuels 73

Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

The annual review, now in its 15th edition, points to profound changes in global energy systems having been triggered by the demand-driven energy shock in response to the war in Ukraine and the need to evolve energy leadership to accelerate the global energy transitions in all regions. Others are Switzerland, Canada and Austria.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Energy 57

Climate 4.0

MARCH 23, 2021

By Eric Aldrich The Resilient and Connected Network, an ambitious GIS mapping tool developed over the past 10 years by more than 270 scientists led by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), gives conservationists a way to save biodiversity for the future. Resiliency is directly related to having policies and governance already in place.

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Resilience IoT Climate change Biodiversity 52

Smart Energy International

MAY 30, 2024

For new projects, these can help get new generation and loads interconnected faster with less disruption and also protect against future demand increases. For existing infrastructure, they can significantly reduce deployment costs, permitting times and build times.

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Resilience Technology Electric vehicle Demand 99

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As the grid reaches higher percentages of solar and wind, there is less and less alignment between the time of greatest net demand (i.e. Without energy storage, the excess solar energy produced during the day is wasted, requiring more fossil fuel-based power plants to meet the evening demand. 3 keys to faster progress.

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Resilience Climate change Demand Fossil fuels 245

Smart Energy International

MAY 2, 2024

The report, focussed on potential opportunities for AI in the grid, finds that AI is able to improve grid planning, permitting, operations and reliability and resilience as well to advance the broader transition to a clean energy economy. However, it is crucial that new AI use cases do not introduce new risks to the grid, the report states.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Other countries are also working to improve their policies on company climate risk reporting - including the UK. This issue doesn't just apply to premium listed companies, so the disclosure policy shouldn't either. Net zero, Paris-aligned business strategies are increasingly being demanded by investors.

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Resilience Climate change Law Policy 75

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Changes to planning policy could turbocharge the rollout of solar energy and help reduce reliance on gas at little or no cost to the public purse, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity appears to show. Demands for food security and nature recovery are needlessly clashing with net zero goals.?. Rooftop renewables are the answer.

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Energy Energy Policy Agriculture 147

Business Green

JUNE 27, 2022

Policies aiming to address both the cost of living crisis and the climate crisis promise better long-term economic and societal outcomes for the UK than either a business-as-usual strategy or alternative plans for tackling soaring inflation, a fresh analysis published today has concluded.

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Policy Government Climate change Demand 53

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

Water infrastructure planners should aim to exploit emergent digitally-controlled rainwater storage and recycling technologies to contribute substantially to water demand reduction targets, as well as reducing flood and pollution risks, say experts.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 236

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This is unfortunate, because, as revealed by the Michigan Public Service Commission’s (MPSC) recent State Energy Assessment , Michigan's energy system is not as resilient as it could be. By shifting electric demand to off-peak times and keeping the grid stable, storage can serve as an alternative to old ways of upgrading the grid.

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