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Challenges and Opportunities for a Distributed Grid: Opinions from the Latest Power Breakfast

CleanTech Group

More smart meters, growth in smart buildings, a focus on renewables and increased demand for energy storage means that the centralized grid is giving way to distributed resources for reliability and flexibility.

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Sephora’s safer ingredient announcement is turning heads – here’s why

EDF + Business

By Alissa Sasso We recently reported that Sephora became the first major specialty beauty retailer to release a public-facing chemicals policy. As a complement to their policy, Sephora also promotes their Clean at Sephora labeling program, an avenue for showcasing brands with an embedded safer ingredient philosophy. Sephora recently updated this program: going forward, a product bearing Sephora’s Clean label must avoid a list of more than fifty ingredients (in some cases, ingredients are allowed

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Is Solar Right for Your Organization?

Sun Valley Solar

With the lucrative federal solar tax credit set to ramp down after 2019, organizations are rushing to lock-in their commercial solar contracts before the end of this year. After all, there is no one-size-fits-all solar solution, and any good solar design / installation firm will require ample time to fully evaluate an organization's energy use and facilities in order to fully optimize system design fro maximum ROI.

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Florist Sustainability Guide: How To Offer a Green Wedding Option

Green Business Bureau

The wedding industry provides a huge financial opportunity to florists, so how can your business attract potential couples to use your floral services? To tailor marketing to modern couples, a florist must consider who the modern engaged couple is. A large percentage of current engaged couples in search of a florist are young millennials conscious about environmental impact.

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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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YouTube’s Video Suggestion Engine Boosted Climate Science Denial as World Warmed, Study Finds

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins Back in 2015, if you’d searched YouTube for information about climate change, the videos offered up might have left you with a warped sense of the state of climate science and the degree of scientific certainty that people are heating the world’s climate, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Communication suggests.

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Cities are growing faster and smarter, but can they go greener? We asked Siemens.

EDF + Business

By Aileen Nowlan When you think about Siemens, you’re probably picturing medical scanners, energy generators, or transportation equipment. You might not be thinking about smart cities, or how the company is working to accelerate technology innovation, eMobility, resilience, and urban sustainability. But that’s just what Martin Powell, the Global Head of Urban Development at Siemens, focuses on each and every day.

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Utility device and data management technologies revenue could exceed $22 billion by 2027edit

Renewable Energy World

A new report from Navigant Research released this week says that revenue from device and data management technologies could grow from approximately $14.8 billion in 2018 to more than $22.1 billion in 2027 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.6%.

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Foreign firms look to make India a global wind turbine export hub

Renewable Energy World

Global wind turbine makers are expanding manufacturing capacity in India to boost exports from the South Asian nation even as the country’s domestic industry faces headwinds.