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What Is Customer Engagement and How Can Utilities Use It?

Bidgely

There’s good reason why customer engagement (CX) is at the top of most businesses’ priority lists. But, with so many ways of doing business that didn’t exist 20 years ago—from SaaS to virtual power plants—what does the term actually mean, and why should it matter to your utility? Why Customer Engagement Is King. Customer engagement doesn’t have a singular meaning; it depends largely on the industry.

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Rick Perry Claims U.S. Achieved Energy Independence On His Watch

Forbes Green Tech

In his farewell video to Energy Department employees, departing Energy Secretary Rick Perry takes credit for many accomplishments of the department —including one that hasn’t happened.

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What Is Customer Engagement and How Can Utilities Use It?

Bidgely

There’s good reason why customer engagement (CX) is at the top of most businesses’ priority lists. But, with so many ways of doing business that didn’t exist 20 years ago—from SaaS to virtual power plants—what does the term actually mean, and why should it matter to your utility? Why Customer Engagement Is King. Customer engagement doesn’t have a singular meaning; it depends largely on the industry.

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Mekong coffee growers struggle with drought and heating climate

Unsustainable

Drought aggravated by climate change is hurting coffee growers in the Mekong region, and intensive farming techniques are part of the problem This is the first of Karoline Kan’s two-part series on coffee growing in the Mekong region. Part two is avialable here. words Karoline Kan In villages around the city of Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnamese farmers are waiting for the monsoon that normally arrives in April or May.

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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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Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Panel | 1.16.20

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Thursday, January 16, 2020. 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PST. Canadian Solar, Moffett Place Building (1), 1155 Borregas Avenue , Sunnyvale , CA. In 9 years, Californian Communities Choice of Aggregation, or CCAs, have came to serve 4 of the 15.6 millions of electricity customers of the Golden State. These still new organizations, in the electricity history, are taking a key role in the California energy goals with, according to the California Public Utility Commission, 90% of the storage procurement by 203

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Event - SRI 30

Green Market Oracle

The 30th edition of the SRI Conference will take place on November 13-15, 2019 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Advisor Summit Workshop will take place on November 11-15, 2019. If you are interested in socially responsible investing you need to attend SRI. For 30 years, the SRI Conference has been the most important annual gathering for investors, asset owners, asset managers, financial advisors, researchers, academics, mission-driven organizations, and enterprises who share t

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IEA: Solar set for 'spectacular' growth over next five years

Business Green

New forecasts from International Energy Agency suggest world will add 1,200GW of new renewables capacity by 2024.

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SUVs are driving more emissions growth than heavy industry, aviation or shipping

Eco-Business

SUVs were the second-largest contributor to growth in greenhouse gas emissions from 2010 to last year, ahead of industries such as iron and steel, cement, trucks and aviation, said the International Energy Agency.

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Study: Air pollution spikes trigger hundreds of hospitalisations

Business Green

New data from King's College London reveals jump in cardiac arrests, strokes, and asthma attacks on high pollution days.

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Asian cities urged to guard cultural heritage as they modernise

Eco-Business

Many of Asia's booming cities are failing to preserve their cultural heritage and risk losing traditional knowledge, crucial for inclusiveness and sustainability, say experts.

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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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Our independent craft brewers need certainty on deposit returns

Business Green

A deposit return scheme may help boost recycling, but it also comes with major challenges for smaller businesses, warns James Calder of The Society of Independent Brewers.

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Failure in conservation projects are rarely recorded, new study finds

Eco-Business

Everyone experiences failures in conservation projects but only a few are recorded. What are the leading causes of project failures?

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OVO snaps up stake in Renewable Exchange

Business Green

OVO announces it has acquired a minority stake in Power Purchase Agreement specialist Renewables Exchange.

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Agro Commodities Exporters, Health Products, Organic Farming India

Eco-Business

Aryan is a leading producer of Health products, agro commodities exporters, suppliers and organic products. All Aryan products support health and wellness and are made with loving care.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Event - New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources

Green Market Oracle

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. The theme is "Renewable Energy for a Better Future" and the it will include: Keynote talks, Plenary sessions, Discussion Panels, B2B Meetings, Poster symposia, Video Presentations, and Workshops. This conference is a global platform to discuss and learn about aims to provide a Renewable energy researchers, scientists, industrialists, policy makers, energy economists and academicians to exchang

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Tom Steyer’s Climate Plan Addresses The Arctic, The Ocean And More — But Will It Work?

Forbes Green Tech

Following the release of his unprecedented Justice-Centered Climate Plan earlier in his campaign, presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination Tom Steyer announced his International Plan For Climate Justice today.

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Leaving trees alone might be better than planting new ones

Grist

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. William Moomaw has had a distinguished career as a physical chemist and environmental scientist, helping found the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and serving as lead author on five reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Chevy Bolt & Hyundai Kona EV Crushing Tesla Model 3 In US Sales, + Model 3 No Mass Market Car

CleanTechnica

There are a handful of hilarious and informative pro-Tesla Twitter accounts. Elon Musk's may be the most famous (either his or Earl's), and he's got a pretty good handle on humor (dad humor), but another tweeter who makes me laugh on a routine basis and who I think more people should follow is The Short Shorts Historian (@TeslaHistorian). This history professor is quite adept at picking LOL-funny tweets from yesteryear and bringing them to the harsh neon lights of modern-day Twitter.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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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Tesla Model Y Production … Fusion Energy … Tesla Model 3 Range After 50,000 Miles — #CleanTechnica Top 20

CleanTechnica

The top 20 CleanTechnica stories of the week were led by a Tesla Model Y production plan an insider leaked to us, which is both super exciting and something to be cautious about. The second most popular piece was a story about Tesla Model 3 range after 50,000 miles of driving. The black swan story of the week that climbed its way into the top 3 was on the topic of fusion energy.

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What Fits In A Tesla Model 3?

CleanTechnica

What fits in a Tesla Model 3? It's not every day that you need to transport 700 square feet of flooring — unless you are in the flooring or construction business. However, people often need to move things — large things or large quantities of things. A few tweets show that from flat-screen TVs, to bodies, to 700 square feet of laminate flooring, pretty much anything will fit inside the cargo space of a Tesla Model.

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Thanks, Tesla — Porsche Taycan EV Outperforms Fossil Panamera Sibling

CleanTechnica

The Porsche Taycan offers much higher performance "bang for the buck" compared to its gas-powered Panamera sedan sibling. This applies across the board — the new Taycan 4s variant provides faster acceleration than the Panamera GTS whilst being 20% less expensive, and the Turbo and Turbo S variants significantly outperform their more expensive Panamera siblings.

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10 Years Of Commercial Electric Vehicle Success: Motiv Power Systems Powers On — CleanTechnica Interview

CleanTechnica

Headquartered in Foster City, California, Motiv Power Systems recently announced its 10-year anniversary working in the commercial electric vehicle industry. Electric passenger vehicles receive a great deal of attention in the press relative to commercial vehicles, but large trucks and buses are a very important part of the sustainable transportation picture.

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Google Commits $150 Million Into Renewable Energy For Manufacturing

CleanTechnica

Google is committing $150 million into renewable energy as a way to keep its focus on making products with clean energy. Google's Head of Sustainability, Anna Meegan, explains that her job is to integrate sustainability into podcasts, operations, and communities.

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Tesla Sentry Mode Catches Vandal Who Keyed 5 Cars (Video)

CleanTechnica

Tesla Sentry Mode has caught another vandal, and this time it brings justice not just for one Tesla owner, but for owners of four other cars. Yes, Sentry Mode is a Tesla's car's best friend.

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Virginia Signs Blockbuster Renewable Energy Contract With Dominion. That’s The Good News

CleanTechnica

The state of Virginia has signed a 20-year deal to purchase renewable energy from solar farms operated by Dominion Energy. It's an encouraging first step.

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How Would A Robotic Machine Learning Velociraptor Learn To Play Goalie?

CleanTechnica

A neural net is trained to recognize that things that it is seeing are items of value, i.e. logs. It identifies them. But that’s a noun, not a verb. Where does the verb or action come from? That’s an attention loop. An attention space. People who care. Features. A neural net which is being trained to pay attention. Trainers. But little to no understanding of action.

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But No, Seriously: What’s It Really Like To Work With Elon Musk?

CleanTechnica

Like most movers and shakers in history, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a complicated figure. There’s been no shortage of “What’s it like to work with Elon?” articles. Many of them have a predetermined premise: fans find him to be a wise and inspiring leader, an out-of-the-box thinker; the anti-EV crowd is eager to paint a picture of an impulsive, hot-tempered prima donna.

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UK Man Invents Aluminum Air Battery In His Garage

CleanTechnica

Trevor Jackson of the UK says he has invented an aluminum air battery that could power an electric car for up to 1500 miles. And Austin Electric says it will pay him millions of dollars to manufacture it. What's going on here?

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Free Webinar: Accelerating Electric Vehicle Adoption With Industry-Wide Implementation Of ISO/IEC 15118

CleanTechnica

As more electric vehicle (EV) models are released and EV charging stations are deployed, the technology supporting the growth has evolved, being driven by consumer and business use cases. This evolution is most apparent in the Combined Charging System’s (CCS) rapidly growing use of charging communication protocol ISO/IEC 15118. Learn more about this important charging technology in this free webinar.

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Tesla Makes The Best Vehicle For Someone In A Wheelchair (Video)

CleanTechnica

I want to share with you a story of a young woman named Cambry, who is an inspiration. Over 6.8 million Americans use assistive devices to help them with mobility. Many of these devices are wheelchairs. In Cambry's case, her wheelchair is not motorized, so she has to use her arms and core to move around, which can be challenging in some cases, like when going to a gas station and pumping gas.

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Tesla Semi Prototype Demo At Yandell Logistics Facility In California (Video)

CleanTechnica

The Tesla Semi red prototype was recently seen at a facility for a large warehousing and logistics client from California named "Yandell," a huge facility at 360 Industrial Court in Benicia.

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It Takes A Crowd: Funding Solar Energy In Developing Countries

CleanTechnica

When it comes to the global energy and development outlook, we should be considering crowdinvesting as an enabler that could begin to level global playing fields and ensure that sustainable business is at the heart of sustainable development. The challenges we are facing cannot be solved by crowdinvesting alone, but initiatives that make it easier for individuals to act together are already leading the way.

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