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Campaign Aims to Stop Home Depot From Sourcing Unsustainable Plywood

Green Living Guy

[Atlanta, GA – May 16, 2022] In the runup to Home Depot’s May 19 shareholder meeting, the advocacy group Friends of the Chocó has launched a campaign to highlight the company’s practice of carrying Sandeply plywood, a Home Depot exclusive made by Ecuadorian manufacturer Endesa-Botrosa, which is deforesting primary tropical rainforests in western Ecuador’s Chocó […].

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Will the Buy American provisions of the revamped EV tax credit do more harm than good?

Charged

Auto industry experts (and others) are beginning to assess the details of redesigned federal EV tax credit program contained in the Inflation Reduction Act. There’s broad agreement that the changes will help to speed EV adoption, but there’s also concern that some provisions of the law could be counter-productive, at least in the short term. The New York Times’ Jack Ewing writes that the package “aims to achieve two goals that are not always compatible: Make electric vehicles more affordable whi

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How fusing power and process automation delivers operational resilience

Smart Energy International

The confluence of digital transformation and the constant pressure to improve sustainability while reducing CAPEX and OPEX are driving an initiative to rethink the separation between process automation and power management, writes Lucas Pellegrin. We are living in a digital boom. The way goods and services are procured, delivered, and consumed is increasingly driven by information technology.

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U.S. Utility-Scale Solar Projects Report Delays

CleanTechnica

Power plant developers plan to install 17.8 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) generating capacity in 2022, according to our June 2022 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. Over the first six months of 2022, 4.2 GW of that capacity came online, less than half of what the industry had planned to install in those […].

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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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Wireless EV Charging Update: Siemens & MAHLE Team Up

CleanTechnica

Wireless EV charging has been a fun topic for as long as I’ve been writing about electric cars (more than a decade). Yet, it’s not exactly common (it’s almost unheard of) to find one in an EV owner’s garage. Companies aren’t giving up yet, and that includes Siemens and MAHLE, which have just teamed up […].

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Taming Tomorrow’s Wildfires

CleanTechnica

As wildfire season blazes on, PNNL researchers are fighting back with science.

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Extreme Weather Is Only Getting Worse. Can Cities Protect Public Transit?

CleanTechnica

Climate-resilient public transportation is crucial to meeting climate goals and ensuring mobility for vulnerable communities.

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1st Tesla Megapack Deployed In NYC, NineDot Launches Community-Scale Bronx Battery Energy Storage Site

CleanTechnica

NineDot Energy, a leading developer of community-scale energy projects that creates innovative urban energy solutions that support a more resilient grid and deliver economic savings while reducing carbon emissions, has launched a community-scale battery energy storage site. The NineDot site, which includes the first Tesla Megapack system deployed in New York City, is a model […].

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Autonomy Orders 23,000 More Electric Vehicles

CleanTechnica

The ink is barely dry on my last story about Autonomy and it has another big one. The electric vehicle subscription company — the biggest in the USA — has ordered 23,000 electric vehicles from 17 different automakers in order to expand and diversify its subscription fleet. Up till now, it has only offered the […].

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XPeng G9’s Luxe Cabin & Truly Next-Gen Infotainment Features

CleanTechnica

The next XPeng model coming to market is the G9, a larger SUV than the company’s currently available G3. Taking advantage of that larger interior, XPeng has created a luxe cabin with some cool features and is now showing it off ahead of the vehicle’s release. Interestingly, before getting to the interior, note that XPeng […].

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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.