Jim Conca
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
The Washington State Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Committee drafted a new bill, SB 5244, encouraging the production of advanced nuclear reactors, small modular reactors, and components through the Invest in Washington Act. A very necessary thing to do.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Justin Guay is director for global climate strategy at the Sunrise Project. * * *. The only climate trend more powerful for global financial institutions than the drive to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is the momentum to exit oil and gas. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), more than 50 globally significant financial institutions have put in place an oil and gas exit policy.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
French media company Le Monde Group has recently welcomed its 1,600 employees into its new headquarters, a striking Snøhetta-designed building that’s not only certified BREEAM Excellent but has also been awarded the prestigious French real estate prize, Grand Prix SIMI.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Last March, lockdowns swept across Europe, forcing an eerie silence on some of the world’s most iconic and bustling cities. It caused a steep drop in electricity consumption — putting pressure on thermal generators and giving renewables a greater share of the generation mix. “And all of that has really provided us a bit of a glimpse of the future to a time where we will have much more flexible supply on the system and renewables will be consistently taking a much greater share
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
The piece is a redesign of the company’s Calatea chair, originally developed in 2017, with new, eco-friendly materials and organic aesthetics for a greener version of the classic chair.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
U.K. oil major BP doesn’t expect substantial income from its low carbon business this side of 2025, according to CFO Murray Auchincloss. Speaking on the company’s full-year results call with analysts on Tuesday, Auchincloss said the company was still not expecting low carbon to produce “a ton of EBITDA,” the firm’s preferred measure for income, this side of 2025, describing it as a “longer wavelength business.
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altenergymag
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
The Hydrogen Taskforce is delighted to welcome another member to its growing coalition of the UK's largest organisations that operate and innovate in and across the hydrogen sector. Centrica has joined the Taskforce this January, adding its extensive experience in providing low-carbon and sustainable energy to the UK.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Human prosperity is killing the other species on the planet. An important new report shows what we stand to lose and offers some solutions.
Grist
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Coal’s grip on the global electricity sector is loosening as more utilities and companies invest in renewable energy. But one major coal consumer — the steel industry — is finding it harder to kick its habit. Steel companies make nearly 2 billion tons of high-strength material every year for bridges, buildings, railways, and roads. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
The remote King Island of Tasmania will soon be powered by tidal energy.
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.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 3 – As founder of The Workers Lab, Dr. Carmen Rojas led a nonprofit incubator and investor with the tagline “building power. The post The Reconstruction: Carmen Rojas on practicing truth in the service of freedom appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
German commercial vehicle manufacturer MAFI Transport-Systeme has released an electric version of its popular T 230 diesel terminal tractor (terminal tractors, more colorfully known as “yard goats,” are used to move cargo around within ports and other such facilities). MAFI’s distributor, Eastern Lift Truck, said the new truck will be available this spring.
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Solar Basics is a video series by Solar Power World created to help installers learn about the business, tools and tricks of the solar power trade. When installing solar inverters on carport installations, contractors must ensure the power electronics are protected from the general public who will park under them, and vice versa. Learn more… The post Solar Basics (At Home!
Charged
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
The European Commission has approved a second Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to support innovation throughout the battery value chain. The European Battery Innovation project calls for 12 member states—Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden—to provide up to €2.9 billion in funding in the coming years.
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.
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Apple's plan calls for the production of 100,000 electric vehicles at Kia’s Georgia auto-assembly plant, according to a story that neither company is commenting on.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
ImpactAlpha, February 3 — Sacramento-based Infinium makes ‘green hydrogen’ from renewable electricity, combines it with waste carbon dioxide and produces fuel with net-zero. The post Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund backs Infinium to produce net-zero ‘electrofuels’ appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Renewable Energy World
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Minnesota utility Xcel Energy was fined one million dollars in late January for exceeding a maximum number of customer service complaints as a result of significant delays in its processing of interconnection requests for solar projects. A ruling from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission affirms the right of consumers to reasonable customer service in the interconnection process.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
“Materiality is being redefined – through pressure on business from wider civil society, and through precedents established by company practice and, increasingly, regulation. The post Redefining materiality (again) to transform the role of business in society appeared first on Impact Alpha.
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?
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Read time: 4 mins The French state has been found guilty of climate action in what campaigners have dubbed “the case of the century”. . Today the Paris administrative court concluded France has failed to do enough to meet its own commitments on the climate crisis and is legally responsible for the ensuing ecological damage. Tags: 1.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
As it reported its fourth straight quarterly loss yesterday, Exxon tried to deflect a growing shareholder revolt by adding an independent board member. The post Corporate boards are not leading companies where they need to go appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
MPs in Public Accounts Committee have urged government to “move on from aspirational words” and start “taking the hard decisions” to advance its environmental agenda. Progress on schemes to improve the UK's air, water, and biodiversity have been "painfully slow" in the nine years since the Conservative-led government first pledged to improve the natural environment "within a generation".
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Featured: Corporate boards are not leading companies where they need to go. The post The Brief: Climate-smart boards, net-zero electrofuels, inclusive fintech in Africa, supply chains in Brazil, Carmen Rojas on The Reconstruction appeared first on Impact Alpha.
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Read time: 12 mins By Jerry Redfern. This story originally appeared in Capital & Main and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. “ Something just blew up!”. Cora Gonzales was in her room on January 4 when she heard her father yell. In the evenings he watches TV while sitting by the living room window, and that’s where she found him, looking outside and not at the tube.
Mr. Sustainability
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Funding decision granted and first contracts signed for the Northern Lights project Summary - Following a historic vote in parliament on December 15th 2020, the Norwegian Government announced its funding decision for the ‘Northern Lights’ CO2 transport and storage project. In cooperation with Shell and Total, the project aims to create a carbon capture and storage hub in Norway, open to third parties.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
ImpactAlpha, February 3 — Catalyst Fund supports emerging-market entrepreneurs expanding access to basic goods and services. The accelerator has committed £80,000 ($110,000) to. The post Catalyst Fund backs six early-stage African fintech ventures appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Veolia is partnering with Carbon Clean to trial a new carbon capture technology, while a separate £300m energy-from-waste facility in Teesside was this week granted planning permission. Veolia is set to partner with carbon capture innovator Carbon Clean on a project to test the use of new carbon capture technology in the recycling specialist's Energy Recovery Facilities (ERF).
Renewable Energy World
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Standard Solar, Inc. has announced the financing and operation of 17 community solar projects in Minnesota and Massachusetts totaling 24.6 MW of capacity. Tax equity financing for these projects was secured in a partnership with Crestmark, a division of MetaBank. Massachusetts and Minnesota account for about half of cumulative capacity of community solar throughout the U.S. according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
New goals in support of net zero by 2040 target are to take in Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. British supermarket giant Sainsbury's has stepped up its climate ambitions with a series of science-based commitments that will see it pledge to reduce its indirect Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2030 and slash its direct Scope 1 and 2 emissions to net zero by 2040.
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
In an era in which ESG (environmental, social, and governance) performance is driving corporate decision making, Amazon is keeping a terawatt-size secret: It will not say how much energy it uses.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
A survey from the Heat Pump Association indicates sales are expected to double across the industry over the next year. Heat pump manufacturers are anticipating a surge in demand through 2021, as new data reveals they are preparing to deliver 67,000 units in the course of the year - nearly double the 35,000 heat pumps which were sold in 2019. The figures come from a membership survey conducted by the Heat Pump Association (HPA), which represents 95 per cent of the heat pump manufacturing market.
altenergymag
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Jeremy Sainsbury OBE, a Director at Natural Power, has been re-appointed to the board of Scottish Renewables.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
'We will be able to meet over 50 per cent of our CO2 targets for the supplier network, just by using green power'. BMW Group has announced it is to begin sourcing aluminium produced using solar electricity with immediate effect in a move that could deliver significant reductions to its supply chain emissions. The German auto giant confirmed the first delivery of aluminium produced at plants that source solar power was the first step in a plan to scale up the use of green power across its alumini
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Thursday, February 25, 2020 2 pm ET / 11 am PT 2021 will be a year of incredible opportunity for solar installers, but only for those who are prepared to take advantage of it. To help installers navigate the new year, Aurora Solar has assembled the latest trends, tech, and best practices that… The post Webinar: Trends, Tech, and Tools for 2021 and How to Take Advantage of Them – February 25 appeared first on Solar Power World.
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