Fri.Aug 02, 2019

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Japan – Asia’s Biggest Energy Market Opportunity in 2019?

CleanTech Group

One of the largest economies in the world and the fourth largest consumer of electricity, Japan has long been a recognized leader in energy technology development. The 2011 earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident triggered a major overhaul of the energy market in Japan. As a result, local and foreign innovators are now looking […].

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Carbon Prices Are Spreading Across The Globe, But Not Fast Enough For Paris

Forbes Green Tech

The world now has 57 carbon-pricing programs covering about 20 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions, but they won't be as effective as they could be, experts said last week, until more of the world participates.

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Fracking's Dirty Water Problem Is Getting Much Bigger

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 8 mins While fracking for oil and gas in the U.S. has contributed to record levels of fossil fuel production, a critical part of that story also involves water. An ongoing battle for this precious resource has emerged in dry areas of the U.S. where much of the oil and gas production is occurring. In addition, once the oil and gas industry is finished with the water involved in pumping out fossil fuels, disposing of or treating that toxic wastewater, known as produced water, becomes ye

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Arctic wildfires are releasing as much carbon as Belgium did last year

Grist

During the past few weeks, the top of the world has been burning. Vast swaths of the Arctic, from Alaska to Siberia, are on fire, with scientific agencies breaking out the term “unprecedented” to describe the situation. To the ecologists who work in the Arctic, this pyrotechnic summer is both weird and weirdly unsurprising: This is what can happen when you get lots of very warm weather.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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1.2 million customers, 2 million visits!

Enervee

Celebrating continued engagement via SDG&E Marketplace It was not that long ago that San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) announced that their online choice engine platform, the SDG&E Marketplace , had attracted 1 million visits… And this month, the utility announced that the 2 million visitor milestone had been surpassed. For a utility with 1.2 million residential customers, that’s no small feat!

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New Concerns Raised by Opponents Delay Wanhua’s $1.25 Billion Plastic Complex in Louisiana

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins “ Look at what is coming into the Parish, instead of saying ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah’—it is time to say ‘No,’” Pastor Harry Joseph told the St. James Parish Council on July 24. He implored councilmembers to consider freshly unveiled public health and economic concerns before they reaffirmed a permit allowing yet another petrochemical plant in a southern Louisiana community fed up with its already rapid industrialization.

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NY governor announces $1.1 billion project to extend life of Niagara Power Project

Renewable Energy World

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that the New York Power Authority is launching a 15-year modernization and digitization program to significantly extend the operating life of the Niagara Power Project.

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Robotic Underwater Gliders Could Improve Hurricane Forecasts

Forbes Green Tech

As the 2019 hurricane season ramps up, robotic underwater gliders may improve forecasts.

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Clean Power Alliance : DER Programs Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Distributed Energy Resource Programs Manager. Location: Downtown Los Angeles. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is a Community Choice Aggregation/Joint Powers Authority providing electricity services to retail customers in Southern California. With 32 member agencies, CPA is the largest CCA in California and 5th largest electricity provider in the State, serving over three million residents and businesses through more than one million customer accounts.

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Drinks, Food, Trivia, and Climate: Kicking off Our DC Chapter

Defend Our Future

Last week, more than 60 people came out to Mission Restaurant in Washington, DC’s Dupont Circle neighborhood to celebrate the launch of Defend Our Future’s new capital city chapter. The vibes were great, the food and drinks were tasty, and the energy was upbeat. But good times with good people were only part of the reason for getting together. We started a DC chapter because Congress has so far failed to take action on climate change.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Clean Power Alliance : Marketing Coordinator

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Marketing Coordinator. Location: Downtown Los Angeles. Clean Power Alliance is Southern California’s locally operated community choice aggregation (CCA) electricity provider across 32 communities within Los Angeles and Ventura counties. We offer clean renewable energy at competitive rates for over one million customer accounts and have been operating since 2018.

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What Canada Must Do To Reduce Emissions

Green Market Oracle

Canada’s Oil and Gas Challenge A recent report makes it clear that Canada is not on track to meet its emissions reduction commitments nor is the country doing anywhere near enough to keep temperatures from warming beyond the upper threshold limit. The report , titled Canada’s Oil and Gas Challenge: A Summary Analysis of Rising Oil and Gas Industry Emissions in Canada and Progress Towards Meeting Climate Targets , was released at COP24 by Environmental Defence and Stand.earth.

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Clean Power Alliance : Structured Contracts Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Structured Contracts Manager. Location: Downtown Los Angeles. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is a new Community Choice Aggregation/Joint Powers Authority formed to provide electricity services to retail customers in Southern California. With 32 member agencies, CPA will be the largest CCA in California and 5th largest electric utility in the State, serving over three million residents and businesses through more than one million customer accounts.

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Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, NextEra plan combined wind, solar, energy storage project

Renewable Energy World

The Skeleton Creek project will be located in three Oklahoma counties.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Stem : Sales Associate

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Sales Associate. Location: Millbrae, CA. As a Sales Associate, you will be helping the enterprise sales team with customer acquisition from the initial customer interaction through the development of a proposal including the solution design, pricing, and financial modeling of the project. You will support several outside Account Executives to assist in moving deals through sales funnel to booking as quickly as possible.

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Climate Change: 18 months To Save The World

Forbes Green Tech

Europe is burning. We will not combat climate change if our energy use continues unchecked - we need to change our relationship with energy.

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RE-volv : Solar Account Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Solar Account Manager. Primary Location: San Francisco, CA. Reports To: Executive Director. Application Deadline: ASAP. The Solar Account Manager Role. RE-volv seeks an experienced and highly motivated Solar Account Manager. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional who has experience managing solar sales efforts, with an emphasis on small commercial solar projects.

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Will The European Union Transcend Its Migration Crisis or Fall Apart?

Unsustainable

The European Union must cooperatively rise to the challenges posed by incoming migrants, before climate change sends ever greater waves of refugees. words by Christina De La Rocha Crises can strengthen federations or destroy them. The European Union has been lately teetering at that crossroad, trying to avoid going down either lane, wanting to neither fall apart nor cede more national powers to Brussels.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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RE-volv : Senior Development Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Senior Development Manager. Primary Location: San Francisco, CA. Reports To: Executive Director. Application Deadline: ASAP. The Senior Development Manager Role. RE-volv seeks an experienced and highly motivated Senior Development Manager. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional who has managed successful long-term fundraising efforts, with an emphasis on foundations and major donors.

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Clean Power Alliance : DER Programs Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Distributed Energy Resource Programs Manager. Location: Downtown Los Angeles. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is a Community Choice Aggregation/Joint Powers Authority providing electricity services to retail customers in Southern California. With 32 member agencies, CPA is the largest CCA in California and 5th largest electricity provider in the State, serving over three million residents and businesses through more than one million customer accounts.

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Clean Power Alliance : Marketing Coordinator

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Marketing Coordinator. Location: Downtown Los Angeles. Clean Power Alliance is Southern California’s locally operated community choice aggregation (CCA) electricity provider across 32 communities within Los Angeles and Ventura counties. We offer clean renewable energy at competitive rates for over one million customer accounts and have been operating since 2018.

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Clean Power Alliance : Structured Contracts Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Structured Contracts Manager. Location: Downtown Los Angeles. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is a new Community Choice Aggregation/Joint Powers Authority formed to provide electricity services to retail customers in Southern California. With 32 member agencies, CPA will be the largest CCA in California and 5th largest electric utility in the State, serving over three million residents and businesses through more than one million customer accounts.

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Stem : Sales Associate

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Sales Associate. Location: Millbrae, CA. As a Sales Associate, you will be helping the enterprise sales team with customer acquisition from the initial customer interaction through the development of a proposal including the solution design, pricing, and financial modeling of the project. You will support several outside Account Executives to assist in moving deals through sales funnel to booking as quickly as possible.

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RE-volv : Solar Account Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Solar Account Manager. Primary Location: San Francisco, CA. Reports To: Executive Director. Application Deadline: ASAP. The Solar Account Manager Role. RE-volv seeks an experienced and highly motivated Solar Account Manager. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional who has experience managing solar sales efforts, with an emphasis on small commercial solar projects.

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RE-volv : Senior Development Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Senior Development Manager. Primary Location: San Francisco, CA. Reports To: Executive Director. Application Deadline: ASAP. The Senior Development Manager Role. RE-volv seeks an experienced and highly motivated Senior Development Manager. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional who has managed successful long-term fundraising efforts, with an emphasis on foundations and major donors.