Jim Conca
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
WA State is committed to decarbonizing by mid-century and has passed legislation to do just that, like replacing all gasoline cars, mostly with electric vehicles. But that needs preparation, charging stations and knowledge of how we fit them into our lives, plus software like that supplied by EnelX.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The Eurasian lynx is so-called because it has been found in forests that stretch from Europe to central Asia, thus distinguishing it as the widest-ranging cat on our planet. Despite this, the species disappeared from Great Britain during the Middle Ages due to excessive hunting, according to the Journal of Quaternary Science.
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Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Resource recovery technology firm Fiberight is one of the consortium partners. An 11-strong European consortium has secured funding for a project to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of generating waste sugars derived from household waste and producing a range of high-performance bio-based materials and products. The VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project has received €6,984,813 funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Unio
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Microplastic pollution is everywhere, but its size—less than five millimeters in length—makes the threat almost invisible to the naked eye. That’s why Cambridge-based research and development lab Draper has teamed up with the Environmental Protection Agency and design firm Sprout Studios to create the Draper Drone, a concept for an autonomous underwater vehicle that implements Draper’s portable microplastics sensor.
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.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Empowering communities to design their own gardens amplifies the company's corporate responsibility impact, plus boosts its customer base.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
London-based architect Margot Krasojevic has just unveiled a futuristic art gallery that runs on hydroelectric power.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Oil major Shell has started feasibility work on what would be the largest green hydrogen project in the world. The plans would see 3 to 4 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity established in the North Sea by 2030 purely for the manufacture of green hydrogen. Electrolyzers will be based in Eemshaven, along the northern coast of the Netherlands, and potentially offshore as well.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
By addressing a gas that can super-charge warming, Dominion Energy is breaking new ground. And its plans hinge on an unusual source of power.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The 100 percent renewable energy future doesn’t start with a country, state or region. It starts with a city. One power plant in a city, in fact. In Glendale, California. Glendale is a city of 200,000 people just north of Los Angeles. And in 2014, Glendale was in a tricky spot. The city’s natural gas plant was old. The City Council faced a decision that would impact the municipality for decades to come: revamp the 252-megawatt gas plant, or find local alternatives?
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
An inside look at innovations afoot to manage energy demand in at least 13 states.
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.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The nation's top rooftop solar installer finished the year with a burst of home solar-plus-storage deals. Sunrun installed a record 117 megawatts of solar in Q4, within its most recent guidance for the quarter and up 9 percent from Q3. The company achieved double digit annual growth in installations, though it grew slower than originally expected.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now at the highest level they’ve been since the Pilocene Era, 3 million years ago, when giant camels roamed arid land above the Arctic Circle.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The solar-plus-storage market is evolving rapidly and will look completely different a decade down the road. What can we expect on the way to 2030? Here are 10 predictions. All-in-one systems will be the new normal. 1. Lots of storage. Batteries will be incentivized or mandated for practically every new solar PV system across the U.S. by 2025. As more home and business owners deploy PV systems to reduce their electricity bills and ensure backup power, simple net metering will increasingly be rep
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
This pioneering technique promises to be an environmentally friendly way to enhance concrete structures while simultaneously reducing construction costs and curtailing carbon emissions.
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.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Welcome to Decarb Madness! The policy bracket game for energy wonks who don’t want to play with our future. With March Madness just around the corner and a climate crisis closing in, Political Climate challenged four energy experts to build their ideal policy bracket for decarbonizing the electricity sector. Contestants were asked to select five federal-level policies that they think will win the day — both in terms of carbon reductions in 2050 and political feasibility.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
New figures from packaging company DS Smith appear to reveal the alarming amount of plastic waste that ends up in UK paper and cardboard recycling streams. In the last year alone, the firm’s Kemsley Paper Mill – the largest recycled paper mill in the UK – measured enough plastic contamination in paper and cardboard materials bound for recycling to fill up to 4.8 million black bin bags.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Lifestyle brand Ivory Ella recently announced a generous donation of over $96,000 to Animals Australia, an animal protection organization giving aid to wildlife displaced and injured from the devastating bushfires that ravaged the country from September 2019 to February 2020.
Charged
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
There’s little dispute that Tesla has a substantial head start in terms of battery tech vis a vis the legacy automakers. Now Electrek has reported that Tesla has a secret project called “Roadrunner” that could soon enable the company to produce much cheaper battery cells on a massive scale. For some time, it’s been apparent that Tesla plans to move beyond its long-time partnership with Panasonic, and start making its own battery cells.
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?
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) accounted for 18.2% of net domestic electrical generation during 2019, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of just-released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). A year earlier, renewables’ share was 17.5%. The latest issue of EIA’s “Electric Power Monthly” (with data through December 31,… The post Solar accounted for 2.6% of U.S. electrical generation in 2019 — a 15%
Charged
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The latest electrification news from what some are calling Northeast Ohio’s Voltage Valley: Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy, an electric utility that serves over 6 million customers, has agreed to buy 250 Endurance electric pickup trucks from Lordstown Motors. Lordstown is aiming its Endurance pickup truck squarely at the fleet market. The onboard power export feature enables workers to run power tools at a job site without a stinky generator or idling diesel truck.
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Trina Solar has formally unveiled its latest Duomax V bifacial double-glass modules and Tallmax V backsheeted modules. Based on the 210-mm large-size silicon wafer and monocrystalline PERC cell, the new modules come will have a high power output of more than 500 W and module efficiency up to 21%. According to preliminary estimates from large-scale ground-mounted power stations in China’s Heilongjiang province, compared with conventional 410-W… The post Trina Solar unveils 500-W bifa
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Read time: 7 mins Balmorhea, Texas – Less than four years ago, oil and gas company Apache Corp. announced an oil strike worth $80 billion in one of the most pristine reaches of west Texas — the “biggest oil find” of 2016 — which the company dubbed Alpine High. Yesterday, Apache officially called it quits in Alpine High, as its business partner revealed that Apache has “no current plans for future drilling” in that field.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 27 – One person’s garbage patch may be another’s opportunity. That’s the message of Future of Waste from UBS Global Wealth Management, the first of a series of white papers exploring longer-term sustainable investment opportunities. The report details the challenges and investment opportunities to be found in reducing waste, from food and plastics.
altenergymag
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Based on the 210mm large-size silicon wafer and monocrystalline PERC cell, the new modules come replete with several innovative design features allowing high power output of more than 500Wp and module efficiency up to 21%, consolidating the Company's leadership and embracing a new era of PV 5.0.
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
After a full year of hearings, business meetings and bipartisan negotiations, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), today released the text of their energy innovation package. The American Energy Innovation Act (AEIA) will modernize domestic energy laws to ensure the United States remains a global energy leader while also strengthening national security,… The post Senate energy bill includes investment in solar and energy storage appeared first on Solar Power World.
Andrew Winston
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
(A repost from my MIT SMR column. I actually wrote it last fall as I was thinking through my larger climate strategy piece in HBR. I keep coming back to this question: how do we increase quality of life for what will be 9 or 10 billion people in a climate and resource-constrained world? In other words, how do we grow? It’s a thorny issue that we have to keep tackling.).
Charged
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
As the EV market expands, there’s a pressing need for more standardization of DC power distribution remains, especially for buses and heavy-duty vehicles. SAE International’s new standard SAE J-3105 : Electric Vehicle Power Transfer System Using Conductive Automated Connection Devices Recommended Practice promotes the safe testing and performance of mechanized conductive power transfer systems, primarily for vehicles using a conductive automated-charging device (ACD).
E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
E2 Introduces Third Class of 1 Hotels Fellows in San Francisco E2 is excited to launch the third year of our 1 Hotels Fellowships. After a national search that resulted in about 100 applications from across the country, we introduced and convened our 2020 cohort of Fellows in San Francisco on Feb. 20. The 1 Hotels Fellowship at E2 is designed to support early to mid-career businesspeople who are tackling unique projects at the intersection of environment and economy.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Take the National Express, when the earth's in a mess? Transport group pledges to become UK's first zero emission bus and coach firm by 2035. National Express has mapped out it journey towards driving a fully zero-emission bus fleet by 2030 and a zero-emission coach fleet by 2035, as it today announced plans to become the first zero-emission transport group in the UK.
Greentown Labs
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Rana Gupta , manager of Greentown Labs member Felsuma , used to be a venture capitalist (VC). As a VC, if he was seriously considering an investment in a company, one of the first things he wanted to know about was the company’s capitalization table. Given the importance of capitalization tables, Gupta decided to share his unique perspective at a Lunch and Learn with the Greentown community.
Charged
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
AKASOL has adopted Tesla’s nomenclature, and christened its new battery plant in Darmstadt, Germany “Gigafactory 1.” The German battery maker has commissioned Manz to supply fully automated production lines for high-energy battery modules at the new plant and the company’s US site in Hazel Park, Michigan. The total order volume for production equipment could reach 20 million euros.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 27 – Long before $1 billion became table stakes for impact investment funds, Lata Reddy went to the White House to announce Prudential Financial’s plan to build a $1 billion impact investment portfolio by 2020. Today, back in Washington D.C., the Newark-based insurance company will announce it has surpassed its $1 billion goal at. The post Prudential’s $1 billion portfolio of impact investments offers a blueprint for institutional investors appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Charged
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
New research from MIT could lead to batteries that pack more power per pound and last longer. A new paper. co-authored by Yuming Chen and Ziqiang Wang at MIT explores the idea of using pure lithium as the battery’s anode. The design is part of a concept for developing safe solid-state batteries by dispensing with the liquid or polymer gel usually used as the electrolyte material between a battery’s two electrodes.
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