GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2020

Get ready for all-electric heavy-duty big rigs, semi-trucks, box trucks, delivery vans and more.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2020

Australian architecture firm POLYstudio has recently completed A House for All Seasons, a contemporary family home with an emphasis on energy efficiency. Commissioned by a young family, the sustainable new dwelling was designed with a flexible layout to accommodate the clients’ evolving needs within a relatively compact footprint.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2020

The move comes just a month after the firm was accused of being 'full of greenwash' by former US Vice President Al Gore.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2020

For those planning a summer day on the waterways of Lake Michigan, there's a new ecological option that will help you spend the day boating in sustainable style. Located on the lake's eastern shore, Retro Boat Rentals has unveiled a collection of fiberglass boats from the 50s and 60s that have been restored using state-of-the-art electric motors.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2020

The water-repellent coating on many biodegradable products can cause harm in waste management and human health.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2020

In Denmark’s fourth largest city of Aalborg, Copenhagen-based architecture firm Sangberg has designed a deceptively simple parking garage that offers much more than parking spaces. Dubbed the Parking House G2, the monolithic building features a dynamic and lightweight facade of extruded aluminum slats that “animates itself” in different ways depending on how and from where it’s viewed.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2020

Many entrepreneurial folks have started unusual businesses and events, which often surprise and delight visitors. If you’ve always wanted to visit a vegan strip club or watch an adult soapbox derby race, Portland is for you.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2020

The good, the bad and the utterly unknown.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 13, 2020

Another community and commercial solar developer goes to an infrastructure fund, with the Monday announcement that U.S.-based JLC Infrastructure has purchased Connecticut's Greenskies Renewable Energy. The benefits afforded by the JLC acquisition are threefold, according to Greenskies vice president of marketing Jeff Hintzke: the fund offers lower cost of capital, readily available capital and experience in municipal infrastructure markets where Greenskies sees growth opportunities.

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Retail Solar Power Resilience Investment 130

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 13, 2020

Rest Right Mattress is an online retailer that provides the highest quality of adjustable beds, pillows, mattress protectors, and mattresses. Their focus is to offer the lowest prices for the highest quality of sleep products, and since they are an online retailer, they eliminate the high overhead cost and pass the savings to their customers. Rest Right believes that everyone can have quality sleep without the high cost, enabling their customers to live the life they deserve.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 13, 2020

Canada’s Brookfield Renewable Partners on Monday offered to buy out all the shares of yieldco TerraForm Power that it does not already own, potentially adding further heft to what is already one of the world’s largest clean-energy generators. Brookfield Renewable — backed by Canadian alternative-asset giant Brookfield Asset Management — is already the majority owner of New York-based TerraForm Power.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor South America 130

Charged

JANUARY 13, 2020

Bidirectional charging encompasses several applications that can be collectively referred to as V2x (vehicle-to-grid, vehicle-to-home, maybe someday vehicle-to-brain). It’s expected to play an important role in tomorrow’s electrified, connected transportation ecosystem, but to date it exists only in pilots, most of them involving commercial fleets. So the new Quasar bidirectional EV charger from Barcelona-based Wallbox , which appears to be the first commercial V2x product aimed at the home mark

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Batteries Retail Electric vehicle Electricity 132

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 13, 2020

ABU DHABI — Saudi Aramco’s corporate venture capital arm is preparing to launch a new $500 million fund to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions as well as new oil and gas technologies. Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), a subsidiary of the kingdom’s state-owned oil producer, has also opened an office in Beijing and plans to scale up its presence in that country, CEO Majid Mufti said on the sidelines of the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum in Abu Dhab

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 13, 2020

Energy and climate policy experts share their U.S. 2020 energy predictions: A solar surge, coal's crash, the gas exorcism, new clean energy incentives, and public mobilization.

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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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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 13, 2020

The year 2019 was an astronomical time for Planet. Twenty SuperDove satellites entered orbit aboard the ISRO’s PSLV-C45 in the spring and 12 more hitched a ride into space in winter, with the latter marking Planet’s 25th successful launch. Since the company’s inception a decade ago, we have launched over 400 satellites into space—and have now imaged all the Earth’s land an average of over 1,000 times!

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 13, 2020

Flygskam is a term which means "flight shame" and has led to a decline in domestic and short haul air travel in Europe over the last few months. Climate change is a very relevant topic right now with Greta Thunberg in the headlines, but global aviation is actually relatively only a small emitter.

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Enervee

JANUARY 13, 2020

Online shopping, efficient choices and private investment poised to expand the impact of low-income energy efficiency budgets Far too many Americans are having to choose between heating their homes to a comfortable temperature, putting food on the table and paying for medication. The cost of energy that wealthier folks take for granted represents a real burden for low- and moderate-income households.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 13, 2020

ImpactAlpha’s What’s Next series, produced in partnership with the Global Impact Investing Network, provides a platform for practitioners and experts to reflect on the future of impact investing. We want to hear from you. Send quick reactions, short blurbs and longer responses of up to 300 words to editor@impactalpha.com by Thursday, Jan. 16. ImpactAlpha, Jan. 13 – Capitalism, in its current The post Three ways asset owners can shift mindsets, incentives and portfolio theory appeared first on Im

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2020

Read time: 4 mins This is a guest post by ClimateDenierRoundup. Two new studies on denial came out last week. While they’re not exactly breaking new ground, confirmation is always nice. The first is a literature review led by Stanford’s Gabrielle Wong-Parodi that examines psychological studies on climate denial in the U.S. and found four big lessons for appealing to conservatives.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 13, 2020

By Anne Hoskins, CPO, Sunrun Home batteries are changing how people use energy across California. Californians are combining rooftop solar and batteries to take control of their own power needs. People can now use residential batteries to protect themselves during power outages and from forever-increasing utility rates. Solar installers should understand the value that batteries… The post What value do batteries bring to California homeowners?

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Charged

JANUARY 13, 2020

Vitesco Technologies, the powertrain business of German parts maker Continental , has unveiled a new compact transmission for PHEVs. As a PHEV contains two separate power sources, the additional complexity can raise costs to a level that prohibits significant market penetration, says Vitesco. To solve the problem, the company has created the DHT transmission.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 13, 2020

Residential solar loan provider Loanpal announced it has expanded its partnership with Goldman Sachs to finance an additional $200 million in residential solar loans, bringing their total financing commitments to $635 million. Additionally, the partnership will now allow Loanpal to finance hundreds of new products for homeowners that make up the $200+ billion annual home… The post Loanpal secures more funding for residential solar loans appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Charged

JANUARY 13, 2020

Charging station manufacturer EVBox revealed its new fast charger, the Troniq 100, and the redesign of its ultra-fast charger, the Ultroniq, at the recent CES trade show. The Troniq 100 and Ultroniq offer power outputs of 100 kW and 350 kW respectively. The new fast and ultra-fast chargers also offer: Retractable cables LED lights Wheelchair accessibility Larger touchscreens than prior models 200 A and 500 A of power for the Troniq 100 and Ultroniq respectively.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 13, 2020

Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has acted as technical advisor to the Finnish renewable energy developer, Taaleri Energia, in a deal that sees funds managed by Taaleri Group divest part of their wind farm investment portfolio by selling their shares in the Nyby and Myllykangas wind farms to a consortium of Korean institutional investors.

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 13, 2020

Want to attract foreign capital to world regions that need new clean energy sources? Take the unnecessary risks out of making such investments, say the globe’s energy ministers and business leaders.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 13, 2020

Serving as a key link for the power delivery between the source and the end-user application, the power transformers have been witnessing a buoyant growth over the past few years on account of various reforms in the global power sector.

Electricity 60

Electricity 60

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 13, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Jan. 13 – Quick, do you pick beef or shrimp if you are concerned about greenhouse gas emissions per per kilo? Surprise. Once land use change is factored into the shrimp life cycle, the tiny crustaceans out-emit cattle on a per kilogram of production basis, according to a new report by Planet Tracker. Mangrove The post Shrimp farming poses a jumbo risk for investors appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 13, 2020

Ingeteam Power Technology has been awarded for the ‘Noor Abu Dhabi PV Plant’ constructed in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) and being built by Sterling and Wilson with an installed power of 1,177.39 MW.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 13, 2020

The 2017 update of the National Electric Code is officially in effect in 30 states, while most other states are in the process of adopting the new rules. Complying with the 2017 NEC requires solar installations on all buildings to have the capability of module-level rapid shutdown in case of emergency. This rule pertains to… The post What solar installers need to know about rapid shutdown appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Charged

JANUARY 13, 2020

Swedish battery maker Northvolt is launching a new program, Revolt, that is devoted to recycling lithium-ion batteries. It plans to bring a pilot recycling plant online in Västerås, Sweden, in 2020, next to its existing manufacturing plant. The plant will handle NMC and NCA Li-ion chemistries. It will serve as a platform for developing and validating the recycling?

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2020

Turbine manufacturer says it will cut its carbon footprint by 55 per cent by 2025 and hit 100 per cent by 2030, promising carbon neutrality 'with no offsets'.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 13, 2020

Greenskies Renewable Energy, a developer of commercial and industrial solar power facilities, has successfully completed a transaction that brings JLC Infrastructure in to accelerate the platform’s expansion in the high-growth C&I and municipal sectors. As part of the transaction, JLC formed Greenskies Clean Energy to acquire substantially all of Greenskies Renewable Energy’s assets and employees.… The post JLC Infrastructure acquires and rebrands Greenskies Renewable Energy appe

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Charged

JANUARY 13, 2020

China will not make significant cuts to subsidies for new energy vehicles (NEVs) this year, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei told a recent gathering of auto industry execs. The government-backed Beijing News confirmed that “this year’s NEV subsidy policy will remain relatively stable and there will not be significant cuts.”. China implemented a generous five-year program of NEV subsidies in 2016, but reduced them in 2019 , and announced plans to phase them out completely

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