Renew Economy

APRIL 25, 2023

Pacific Hydro rebrands in bid to reposition as Australia's leading renewables-only generator – and unveils plans including a new retail arm. The post Australian renewables pioneer PacHydro rebrands, sees big demand for wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The mainland electricity system in Spain will have 609MW of demand response capability in 2024 from consumers and retailers who participate directly in the wholesale electricity market. According to Spain’s TSO Red Eléctrica, the figure represents an increase of nearly 23% compared to the first auction, which came into force in 2022.

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Charged

AUGUST 27, 2021

Tesla to the rescue— Texas Monthly reports that Tesla Energy Ventures has applied with the Texas Public Utility Commission to enter the electricity market as an official retailer. Since then, Tesla has reported a surge in demand for Powerwalls in the state.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2020

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food. Because the COVID-19 response has restricted restaurants to pick-up and delivery orders in many areas, business for on-demand food delivery apps such as DoorDash, Grubhub, Seamless and Uber Eats has increased dramatically. . Anna Zhang. Mon, 06/08/2020 - 02:00.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Value of Demand Response Participation to the Retail Customer. To avoid this exposure, utilities could either increase power supply or decrease power demand. What specific aspects of a customer’s operation represent opportunities to monetize demand response? By John Bonnin.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

California grid operator CAISO has been curtailing renewable energy at record levels this year, as the state’s ever-rising share of solar power during daylight hours increasingly outpaces electricity demand. Adding to its challenges, the grid operator is now contending with falling power demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Retailers need to make the switch from plastic shopping bags to eco-friendly alternatives. Customers demand non-plastic alternatives. The post Sustainability Guide for Retail: Plastic Bag Alternatives appeared first on Green Business Bureau. Plastic bags are not biodegradable and can last over a 1000 years. Learn More.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Manufacturers, retailers and recyclers urged to join the collaboration. In collaboration with manufacturers, retailers and recyclers, the Fund intends to improve flexible plastic recycling and reduce plastic pollution by giving the material a stable value. Several other major retailers are set to follow suit. Mars UK, Mondel?z

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now FERC is being asked to put that authority to a new use: ending a decade-old provision allowing individual states to opt out of letting demand response companies enlist customers to turn down their energy use to support the power grid. “But if the aggregations do include demand response, the opt-out can apply,” she said.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

But the structures for valuing the “negawatts” that demand response delivers have largely remained the same. Those are the conditions that led to rolling blackouts in August as a regionwide heatwave pushed air conditioning-driven power demand beyond CAISO’s ability to safely supply it.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The peninsular electricity system will now have a total of 497MW of demand response available from consumers and retailers who participated in the first active demand response auction, organised by Spanish system operator Red Eléctrica. The outcome of the auction will be applicable between 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2023.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 12, 2021

Removing state opt-out for demand response program participation in wholesale energy markets would benefit renewable project developers because aggregators of solar and energy storage technologies can leverage their experience with demand response products. And distributed solar is a big slice of the distributed energy pie.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 10, 2019

retail energy business, this deal will take the number of Shell Energy Retail’s U.K. residential customers to just under 1 million and adds to Shell’s presence in the B2B market,” said Colin Crooks, CEO, Shell Energy Retail. “As part of our ambition to build a significant U.K.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Commercial real estate firm Ediston has inked a deal with Osprey Charging that will enable it to roll out rapid EV charging at warehouses and retail parks across the UK. Graham Lind, head of retail warehouse asset management at Ediston, predicted that charge points were set to become a cornerstone of retail parks' offering to the public. "On-site

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

While the oil and gas industries face the greatest risks, EIA’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook also predicts steep declines in commercial and industrial electricity demand, and a significant decline in new generation capacity as a result. EIA now expects retail sales of electricity to the commercial sector to fall by 4.7

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the most significant activities among state utility regulators is the development of EV-specific retail rates that reflect different objectives and design options. reduce bulk power system peak demand, support local distribution network voltage).

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

UK technology retailer, Currys, has announced it is trialling sales of refurbished technology on its website. Refurbished laptops are in particularly high demand – without any supporting marketing activity, one in 10 online users searching for laptops organically browsed the available refurbished listings. in November 2022.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Planet Tracker's latest report draws on project with French retail giant Carrefour to show how overfished species deliver the lowest margins for retailers. Food retailers hold immense power when it comes to the sustainability of our oceans," said François Mosnier, head of the oceans programme at Planet Tracker.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The DER company has acquired Centrica’s demand response division, bolstering their DER capacity from 5.6GW to 6.3GW. CPower closes Centrica demand response acquisition. Their services aim to help customers earn revenue for participating in demand response solutions that bolster the grid.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

While this may be temporary, it could well be permanent, and such uncertainty demands that, more than ever, business flexibility is a key determining factor to future success. The good news is that the technology is already available to respond to this need for flexibility and the changing demands of energy markets.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

Multi-site retailers are under tremendous pressure to increase sales, cut costs, and provide shareholders with consistent revenue and earnings growth year-over-year. There are of course many other challenges related to HVAC systems in retail shopping environments. and it’s available “on-demand” when needed?.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Building a greener future for retail requires brave conversations, big risks and hardwiring sustainability into the fabric of the business, explains Selfridges' Daniella Vega. But as retailers, our responsibility is to both react and predict how our customers will shop and what they will expect.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

Online retail had, of course, already been growing before Covid-19 struck at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has significantly accelerated the trend. It also finds that jobs right across the retail sector are growing, and that every direct online retail job requires a further 1.2 indirect jobs in fulfilment and delivery.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

It’s not as much as the roughly 500 megawatts enrolled in Consumers’ current commercial and industrial demand response programs, or the roughly 30 megawatts available from its existing residential direct air conditioner load control program. And Consumers' 1.6 That’s where the free offering comes in.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 29, 2019

Proposals to eliminate competition in retail electric supply to consumers are in the air. A consultant to the Massachusetts attorney general has just published an update to a report of last year asserting that retail competition has led to nothing but losses. For a more detailed discussion, see T.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

More than 500 leading fashion brands and retailers including H&M, Zara and Walmart have now signed up to a major new global pledge to avoid using products and materials associated with deforestation in their supply chains, and to instead shift towards sourcing low carbon alternatives.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Moreover , as of 2025 the EU’s Corporate Sustainable Reporting Directive (CSRD) will mandate that listed companies headquartered in or with subsidiaries in the EU disclose a broad set of independently verified ESG metrics which will likely further increase carbon credit demand. With increased participation, comes transparency.

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2023

New report examines economic gains which could be realised through mass adoption of heat pumps to drive the decarbonisation of residential heat Mass heat pump deployment could reduce energy demand across the UK's residential building stock by up to 40 per cent and result in annual household savings of £15.9bn, a new report has argued.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The company’s retail launch is behind its main competitor Beyond Meat, which has been in retail stores for months with its burgers and sausages and launched a similar ground protein substitute for retail sale in June. . Impossible Foods’ retail debut will prompt a rapid acceleration in plant-based meat market growth.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

SEC rule change stifles key risk signal, disenfranchises retail investors. Demand for voluntary carbon offsets holds strong. Outakes from the reporting behind Joel Makower's two-part series about the mica supply chain and retailer Beautycounter's work to address the sector's big child labor problem.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2022

Warning from former Unilever CEO comes alongside survey showing sustainability is now a strategic priority for many global retailers. Consumers are demanding change, especially Millennials and Gen Z - they want to buy from brands that stand for something and they are willing to pay more for it," said Polman.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

Novel initiatives could maximise the potential of the demand side, and consumer participation in a net zero system. While many have merit in specific circumstances, they must be placed in the context of the massive demands of repowering UK for 2050. System transitions should be led by technology.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

“Today marks a critical milestone in our mission to bring fast charging to EV drivers when and where they need it, while delivering new revenue streams and customers to quick-service retailers across the US,” said Electric Era CEO Quincy Lee. Source: Electric Era Technologies

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altenergymag

JULY 28, 2022

Proliferating demand for rooftop solar photovoltaic across end-use sectors owing to significant price difference between retail electricity and solar-generated electricity is bound to provide a major boost to the rooftop solar photovoltaic market growth.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The British Fashion Council (BFC) has has urged major retailers and the government to work together to encourage shoppers to halve their annual purchases of new new clothes, arguing that shifting towards a more circular fashion system could create hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the UK.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

XCharge’s energy storage system can not only level out energy consumption, saving site owners big money on utility demand charges—it’s also bidirectional, so it can return surplus energy to the grid.

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Charged

JANUARY 27, 2022

Bridgestone Retail Operations, a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas, plans to expand its electric and hybrid vehicle services at 44 of the company’s Firestone Complete Auto Care and Wheel Works stores in Austin, Texas and San Francisco, California. Bridgestone currently offers low-voltage hybrid and EV services at retail stores nationwide.

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