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A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience

GreenBiz

A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience. Alec Appelbaum. Thu, 07/02/2020 - 01:15. What would you do if the cause that lights your day turned out to be trapping fellow citizens in the dark? . For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply.

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Energy-neutral school in Utrecht enhances biodiversity

Inhabitat - Innovation

At the Winkerlaan in Utrecht, Dutch architecture firm EVA architecten has completed SO Fier, an energy-neutral primary school for Special Education Cluster 2 students that emphasizes sustainability, flexibility and connections with nature.

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Portland General Electric Jumps Into Virtual Power Plant Business

GreenTechMedia

Portland General Electric, the largest utility in Oregon, is jumping into the cutting-edge business of turning home batteries into grid resources. The company announced this week that it has received approval from regulators to link up 525 homes with solar-storage systems into a controllable fleet, often referred to as a virtual power plant. The five-year pilot will study how to optimize the use of these batteries for the grid, while ensuring the customers get what they want out of participating

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The South Pole is warming 3 times faster than anywhere else

Inhabitat - Innovation

Researchers are nearly certain this disturbing trend is due to human activity.

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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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The Plastics Recycling Puzzle: Can Chemistry Close the Loop?

CleanTech Group

Challenges associated with plastics across their lifecycle have become increasingly apparent in recent years. There are significant emissions attributed to their production, most.

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Wellesleys Global Flora greenhouse can generate all of its own energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

A net-zero greenhouse has joined Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

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Tropicfeel launches hemp capsule clothing collection

Inhabitat - Innovation

Hemp makes for lightweight, durable and versatile clothing.

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In U.S., Engie and Hannon Armstrong Form Multi-Gigawatt Renewables Partnership

GreenTechMedia

The North American arm of European energy giant Engie SA and climate-focused investor Hannon Armstrong announced Thursday they will partner on a 2.3-gigawatt portfolio of U.S. wind and solar projects slated for completion this year. The two will split equity ownership of the Engie-developed portfolio, with that company maintaining a 51 percent majority interest and continuing to manage the projects.

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This sustainable Jackson Hole residence has a LED-lit indoor slide

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Jackson Tech House has spectacular views and state-of-the-art features.

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Heat network webinar explores future technology pathway to net-zero

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The Housing Forum is partnering with member Switch2 Energy to host its next Innovation Forum by webinar. The discussion will focus on the role of future technology and performance optimisation in delivering on net zero goals.

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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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Key to 10x’ing the capture of carbon? Put a price on it.

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 3 – Technology to capture, store and use carbon dioxide could take 500 million tons of the greenhouse gas per year out of the atmosphere by 2030, a 10-fold increase from today, according to a new McKinsey report. Key to making the technology cost-effective: a price on carbon. The development of carbon-negative technology. The post Key to 10x’ing the capture of carbon?

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Hydrogen as part of Canada’s energy transition

Clean Energy Canada

Through media briefs, we aim to provide journalists with useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. Please use this as a resource, and let us know if there are any topics that you would like to see for future media briefs. . As Canada navigates the clean energy transition, cleaner technologies and solutions are attracting attention.

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Back to Business: Enabling Public Bus Systems Post-COVID-19

The City Fix

The ongoing pandemic has wreaked immense and lasting damage to India’s economy, and passenger transport has been particularly affected. COVID-19’s far-reaching impact on the aviation and railway industry is well-documented, along with the struggles of auto and taxi drivers. However, a critical mode that has. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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How to unlock the value of diversity and inclusion in impact investing

Impact Alpha

It’s time for the impact investing community to lead the investing world in breaking through the systemic barriers that impede capital from flowing to Black leaders and other leaders of color. The post How to unlock the value of diversity and inclusion in impact investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Hannon Armstrong and ENGIE to Jointly Invest in 2.3 GW Portfolio of U.S. Wind and Solar Projects

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The partnership combines Hannon Armstrong’s extensive experience in providing long-term investment for climate solutions with the best-in-class development and operations experience of ENGIE, a global energy and services leader dedicated to accelerating the deployment of clean, affordable, innovative and resilient energy solutions.

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Tesla’s Electric Car Deliveries Sail Past Expectations, Driving Shares To Record Territory

Forbes Green Tech

Quarterly deliveries topped analyst expectations of about 70,000 vehicles, buoyed by lots of inventory and the ramp-up of China production.

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The Brief: Unlocking returns on inclusion, COVID lending in West Africa, Hamilton Lane’s impact fund, Rise Fund’s green infrastructure, capturing carbon – at a price

Impact Alpha

Featured: How to unlock the value of diversity and inclusion in impact investing. The post The Brief: Unlocking returns on inclusion, COVID lending in West Africa, Hamilton Lane’s impact fund, Rise Fund’s green infrastructure, capturing carbon – at a price appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Zero-emission excavation: JCB unveils 'world's first' hydrogen digger

Business Green

JCB reveals zero-emissions excavator in same week as Prime Minister hints in PMQs that the government intends to 'invest massively' in hydrogen. JCB has developed a hydrogen-fuelled digger that allows operators to excavate while generating zero greenhouse gas emissions. The construction equipment manufacturer revealed the model yesterday, hailing the 20-tonne machine as the world's first hydrogen-powered excavator.

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Societe Generale and CDC launch $100 million facility to spur lending by West African banks

Impact Alpha

The French bank and U.K. development finance institution want to encourage local banks to increase lending to local food and essential goods importers. The post Societe Generale and CDC launch $100 million facility to spur lending by West African banks appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Centrica throws weight behind UK heat electrification drive amid hydrogen cost fears

Business Green

British Gas owner says UK should target one million heat pumps by 2025 as it fears hydrogen domestic heating may be a decade away. British Gas owner Centrica has called for a national heat pump installation drive over the next decade in order to meet the UK's 2050 net zero target, arguing that a "proven technology [that is] available today" compares favourably with longer term and potentially costly plans to switch the gas network to green hydrogen.

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Hitting The Road Again: How A Norwegian Company Is.

Forbes Green Tech

For any car company pushing a green agenda, what to do with End of Life tires (ELTs) is an issue. How green is a car driving around on tires that can't be reused?

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Study: Climate change increasingly raised as a human rights issue in court cases

Business Green

Global review of climate litigation highlights increasing instances of activists and governments using courts to force climate action from businesses and governments. Climate change is increasingly being harnessed as a human rights issue in legal claims and court cases around the world, as the mass popularity of disruptive climate activism over the past year - such as the protests from Extinction Rebellion in the UK - starts to influence how courts address the issue.

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Infineon’s new silicon carbide power module for EVs

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At its virtual PCIM booth (July 1-3), Infineon Technologies will present the EasyPACK module with CoolSiC automotive MOSFET technology, a 1,200 V half-bridge module with an 8 m?/150 A current rating. With the introduction of the CoolSiC automotive MOSFET technology into the EasyPACK, Infineon is expanding the range of uses for the module family to include high-voltage applications in EVs with high efficiency and switching frequency requirements.

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Net Zero Festival: More top speakers confirmed

Business Green

Bosses at BT, OVO Energy, Shell, Anglian Water, and many others have joined the line-up for the world's first Net Zero Festival. More top green business leaders, campaigners, and academics have joined the line-up for the Net Zero Festival this autumn, as calls for a green recovery that accelerates the net zero transition continue to build momentum. The now fully virtual Festival will take place over three days from September 30th, providing a unique opportunity for business leaders, sustainabili

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Green ComputingTM and Intelligent Heating innovator launch first tranche of £300m green bond to accelerate growth

altenergymag

Synthesis Analytics, the Swedish innovator combining green high-performance computing (HPC) and intelligent, sustainable district heating, has launched the first £40m tranche of a £300m fund-raising round to fuel the next stage of its growth.

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Vattenfall gets green light for 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm

Business Green

BEIS gives nod to huge 1.8GW wind farm proposed by Swedish energy company, as it delays approval for Ørsted's Hornsea Three project for the fourth time. Vattenfall has been given the all clear to build the mammoth 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore windfarm off the east coast of England. Planning consent was granted earlier this week by Business Secretary Alok Sharma, following a decision in June to postpone the decision by a month.

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California makes VW funds available for zero-emission freight and marine projects

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The California Air Resources Board has announced that the first installment of $35 million in VW Environmental Mitigation Trust funding for Zero-Emission Freight and Marine Projects throughout California is now available via a competitive solicitation. A second solicitation offering an additional $35 million is expected to be released in mid-2022. Eligible projects: Scrap and replace forklifts (with >8,000 lbs lift capacity), airport ground support equipment (GSE) and port cargo handling equ

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Save our start-ups: A battle cry against coronavirus

Business Green

Europe is gripped by coronavirus. It is a scourge on our future, and an aggressor that we simply cannot fail to beat. This is a war, but together - as families, communities and nations - we are fighting it, and we will win. Yet, while we have much to do to win the war today, we must be as fervent in protecting tomorrow. The shock to our economies will be substantial, and it is not a moment too soon for us to begin rebuilding a more resilient, and brighter future for all.

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Déjà vu department: Tesla Q2 deliveries beat expectations, stock soars

Charged

It’s become a familiar ritual: Tesla announces quarterly deliveries that beat expectations, as most everyone (at least in the EV press) expected. It’s a choreographed quarterly concert that keeps Tesla in the news, and keeps the stock price climbing. This time however, a global pandemic and auto industry slump were in the mix, and there really was some uncertainty as to whether Tesla would make a respectable showing.

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Grid Edge Mega-Trends: The Challenge of Integrating Distributed Energy Resources on the Grid [GTM Squared]

GreenTechMedia

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Green Jobs: Top Three Jobs This Summer

U.S. Green Technology

Green technology is here to stay. Here’s a rundown on the top three green jobs to consider pursuing this summer. The post Green Jobs: Top Three Jobs This Summer appeared first on U.S. Green Technology.

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Mr Muscle bottles aim to help clean up ocean plastic

Business Green

Household cleaning brand SC Johnson launches ocean-plastic Mr Muscle bottle line following success of similar initiative with Windex in the US. Household cleaning brand SC Johnson has launched a new line of Mr Muscle window and glass cleaner bottles made entirely from ocean-bound plastic bottles. The new line will be gradually rolled out in shops across the UK over the coming months, the company said.

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How The Covid-19 Pandemic Is Impacting The Battery Sector

R-Squared Energy

The world is in transition between a lead-acid battery past, and a future in which lithium-ion batteries are poised to supplant lead-acid batteries and to displace increasing volumes of transportation fuels. But will this year’s Covid-19 pandemic affect this transition? Today’s article explores the impact the pandemic is having on the battery sector.

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Renewable energy transition in New South Wales needs to gather pace significantly

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Research from Cornwall Insight Australia highlights that the energy transition in New South Wales (NSW) over the next decade will need to gather pace significantly.

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