GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Why SPACs will be key to the sustainability revolution. Andrew Shapiro. Thu, 02/18/2021 - 02:11. Technology and finance have complementary histories of innovation, from the royal charters that launched the first global explorers to the early stock markets that fueled the industrial era. Today, the rise of SPACs is a capital markets innovation that matches the urgency and scope of our global sustainability challenges.

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Jim Conca

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Texas’ energy mix of mostly gas and wind did not do well with this week’s extreme cold snap. Gas used for heating increased dramatically, removing much of it from generating electricity, some pipelines froze up and couldn’t deliver, and there just isn’t enough pipeline capacity to begin with.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The 'last mile' of consumer sustainability behavior. Mike De Socio. Thu, 02/18/2021 - 00:05. These days, it’s hard to argue that sustainability is a niche consumer interest. A vast majority of consumers worldwide believe we need to consume less, according to research by GlobeScan. More to the point, 57 percent of consumers in that survey were willing to pay more for sustainable products.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

There’s a lot of energy underneath homes — if reasonably priced technology can be scaled up to tap its potential. A U.S. Department of Energy study indicates that geothermal heat pumps, which capture the steady temperatures of underground air to heat homes in winter and cool them in summer, could cost-effectively replace fossil-fuel- and electric-powered heating and air conditioning in up to 28 million homes.

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Brette Haus has created an incredibly versatile tiny cabin that can unfold and be installed within only three hours.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Last summer a record-setting heat wave in California caused rolling blackouts throughout the state. This week, a record-setting freeze knocked out power for millions of people in Texas and the Midwest. It’s too early for a postmortem on what happened, but we know that the cold affected all fuel sources, and most of all, natural gas. Wellheads and gas lines froze.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Wind turbine market leader Vestas has revealed the first investment made by its venture fund with a stake in Swedish wooden wind tower start-up Modvion. Modvion builds wind towers from sections of specially prepared wood laminate panels. As well as being lighter, the modular nature means transporting the towers to the construction sites is far easier.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Investment Energy Monitor 130

Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Atop a luxury home in Westmount, Montréal, MYTO Design d’espaces vivants created a biodiverse green rooftop dedicated to wellness.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

• Designed to help protect Lithium-Ion Energy Storage Systems (ESS) in solar and wind farms, as well as Lithium-Ion batteries used in data centers and battery manufacturing facilities • Provides rapid off-gas detection, battery stack disconnection and early intervention activation resulting in an integrated and comprehensive solution • Delivers an early warning detection of off-gases and toxic vapors with a response time within a few seconds

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The current deadly cold weather across the U.S. is climate change in action.

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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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U.S. Green Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The pandemic may have put the world on pause but global warming continues to become a threat to the environment and people. Fortunately, green technology has helped develop solutions that slow down global warming and climate change and preserve the environment. Moreover, different sectors have been finding ways to use sustainable materials and processes, furthering.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Maskless, selfie-taking tourists could become a source of disease transmission, a new study says.

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Africa 238

The City Fix

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Road development throughout the 20th century was based primarily on the premise that more infrastructure eases traffic. But evidence shows that road building, instead of reducing congestion, actually increases traffic. When travel time by car is reduced and convenience increased, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Sustainability Transportation 145

altenergymag

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Accurate, modular, and affordable optical sensing technology platform provides greater visibility of distribution grid, allowing utilities to safely integrate renewables

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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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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The European Commission recently approved a multinational project to support battery innovation , which will involve 42 companies, including several automakers. One of those automakers is Tesla, which may receive a cool billion euros ($1.2 billion) in public funding from the federal government of Germany and the state of Brandenburg, the site of the company’s Gigafactory 4.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A new study by independent researchers from Imperial College London has found that just 4.5 GW of new long duration pumped hydro storage, with 90 GWh of storage, could save up to £690 million per year in energy system costs by 2050, as the UK transitions to a net-zero carbon emission system. Commissioned by SSE Renewables via Imperial Consultants, the report focused on the benefits of new long-duration pumped hydro storage in Scotland, as the most-established long-duration energy storage technol

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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

BorgWarner’s latest High Voltage Hairpin (HVH) electric motor, the HVH 320, is designed to power a variety of commercial EVs. Production of the HVH 320, which is equipped with 800-volt capabilities and is available in four variants, is expected to kick off in 2024. Its multifaceted platform will deliver over 400 kW of power at 97% peak efficiency, and will support BorgWarner’s OEM customers’ demand for a common electric drivetrain.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Software will enable California’s largest investor-owned utility to maximize the value of a flexible energy storage resource to provide safe, clean, reliable and affordable electricity to the California grid

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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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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Experts discovered the existence of thousands of fake profiles created to skew the results of a public consultation into the closure to motor vehicles of five Newcastle upon Tyne bridges.

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Innovation 120

altenergymag

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As per the details analyzed, the Fuel Cells market is expected to grow annually at the rate of around 11%. Through the primary research, it was identified that the Fuel Cells market was valued at around USD 8600 Million in 2019. The "Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC)", on the basis of type segmentation, was the leading revenue generator and has a share of around 32% in 2019.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In The Price of Inequality, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz notes the moments in history when people rise up to say something. The post How impact investors can challenge three fallacies of legacy finance appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Policy 116

altenergymag

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Clean energy solutions provider, Logan Energy, has won a public tender contract with Welsh social enterprise, Menter Môn, to support the delivery of a hydrogen production plant, refuelling and distribution hub in Holyhead, north Wales.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 18 – The claim that frozen wind turbines caused Texas’ harrowing power outages turned out to be all hat, no cattle. The post Building a smart and resilient grid moves up the to-do list after Texas power failures appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A new report from the United States Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG) outlines ways that utility companies and school districts can come together to deploy electric school buses across the country. Electric school buses are ready to roll—the technology is here, and protecting school children from noxious diesel fumes is a cause that draws a lot of support.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This week, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced plans to help local governments and state agencies build 40 distributed solar systems that will bring renewable energy to surrounding communities. The projects will help meet the New York Power Authority (NYPA) 2025 community solar target that sets a goal of 75 megawatts (MW) of renewable capacity, including 15 MW of paired battery storage.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Read time: 12 mins On the evening of February 1, a fire erupted at a West Virginia facility that processes radioactive oilfield waste generated from nearby fracking operations, injuring two workers. A video of the fire captured by local news station WTRF shows a raging nighttime inferno billowing out of the collapsed building. Initial news reports described the facility — located in Dallas Pike, 50 miles southwest of Pittsburgh — as a truck stop cleaning station.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

ImpactAlpha, February 18 — Carlyle Group has secured a $4.1 billion line of credit from a consortium led by Bank of America. The. The post Carlyle Group secures ESG-linked credit tied to board diversity goals appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Innovation 101

Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

When it comes to Tech, the fight for control goes beyond hardware.but it must start with hardware. Right to Repair matters because how this fight goes will ultimately define our relationship as a society to Big Tech going forward.

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Innovation 101

Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Our View from the Frontlines: What are the Gaps Between Policy and Practice During this Pandemic? Our View from the Frontlines is a two-part series Front and Centered is launching about the intersection of equity and environmental justice. Join us for two conversations (February 25 and March 4) about how the pandemic has exacerbated the inequities of community health and wellbeing for frontline communities statewide.

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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Sunrun?, the largest residential solar installer in the U.S., said online search traffic to its website from Texas has increased by 350% this week.

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Innovation 111

EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

To avoid the worst consequences of climate change, companies must reduce their reliance on diesel-powered trucks to move goods – and they must act quickly. Transportation is expected to be the largest source of new greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through 2050, and a major driver of dangerous air pollution, which is disproportionately concentrated in low income communities and communities of color.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

By Gregg Hicks, VP, Modernize Now that the new year is well underway, many solar professionals are refocusing their marketing efforts for 2021. Just because 2020 has ended doesn’t mean you have to start over with your marketing. It’s likely that you have solar leads from last year that still hold the possibility of a… The post Top ways to generate revenue from last year’s leads appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Moleaer (/Mo-Lee-Air/) is a wonderfully innovative company commercializing emerging scientific discoveries related to microscopic oxygen bubbles. Nanobubble technology can be applied to a wide selection of industries, but this article focuses mostly on Moleaer’s AgTech applications.

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