Has green hydrogen’s time finally come?
GreenBiz
APRIL 10, 2020
Los Angeles is behind a two-phase, first-of-its-kind transformation that will turn a coal-fired power plant in Utah into one powered by green hydrogen by 2045.
GreenBiz
APRIL 10, 2020
Los Angeles is behind a two-phase, first-of-its-kind transformation that will turn a coal-fired power plant in Utah into one powered by green hydrogen by 2045.
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 10, 2020
Find out how fungi are saving the planet, from cleaning the water and air to providing medicinal benefits.
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GreenBiz
APRIL 10, 2020
With medical supplies and personal protection in short supply, hospitals and companies are embracing refurbishment and reuse.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 10, 2020
Big things are happening in California this week. In the political sphere, Gov. Gavin Newsom is invoking the powers of a “nation-state” to provide life-saving medical supplies that the federal government isn’t. In the power sector, another 100 megawatt battery just got contracted to support the grid near Los Angeles. Clean Power Alliance, a local power purchasing authority or “community choice aggregator” for 1 million customer accounts in the greater L.A. region, s
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.
GreenBiz
APRIL 10, 2020
Skeptics are sowing doubts about the carbon sequestration potential. The questions underscore the complexities of soil science.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 10, 2020
The world is experiencing a sudden, dramatic drop in all kinds of air pollution. The skies are dramatically different. People can hear birds they didn’t even know were there, and see landscapes that have been shrouded for decades. It’s saved thousands of lives in averted asthma and heart attacks. When this is all over, will people clamor for cleaner air?
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GreenTechMedia
APRIL 10, 2020
New York has closed all non-essential businesses to battle the country’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, and the resulting effects on electricity demand are becoming starkly apparent. State grid operator NYISO released data Thursday showing significant drops in energy demand across the state as the lockdown entered its third week. The drop is particularly striking in New York City — down as much as 18 percent at times — where the commercial sector uses a much higher
GreenBiz
APRIL 10, 2020
For starters, it's a material that is readily available, biodegradable and affordable.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 10, 2020
For years, the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been working on technologies that could turn distributed energy resources (DERs) — specifically, smart solar inverters and batteries — into tools for keeping the grid stable. It’s a tough task, requiring second-by-second coordination of behind-the-meter generators, batteries and loads to prevent them from throwing grid voltage and frequencies out of whack — or beyond that, to tap thei
GreenBiz
APRIL 10, 2020
Leaders from the two companies hope others will be inspired to do more to reuse or compost their products.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 10, 2020
International architecture and urban design practice CHYBIK + KRISTOF has unveiled designs for an energy-efficient greenhouse to commemorate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and Augustinian friar regarded as the founder of the modern science of genetics.
GreenBiz
APRIL 10, 2020
Plus, how COVID-19 could affect the future of building decarbonization.
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 10, 2020
One positive effect of the disastrous coronavirus is that air quality is improving in Los Angeles and cities around the world.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 10, 2020
As more U.S. transit agencies take their first steps toward electrification , an ecosystem of companies is bursting to life to help them with that transition. But with such novelty, it can be hard to find field data on the difference it makes to hire a professional fleet charging service. Now we have an early case study to point to. Amply Power, the fleet charging concierge startup from Green Charge Networks founder Vic Shao, just published the results from its first transit customer, Tri Delta
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?
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 10, 2020
More than 100 timber chimneys topped with solar panels help reduce energy demands for this public building.
Grist
APRIL 10, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has mostly yielded bad news for renewable energy. Disruptions to supply chains and slowdowns in permitting and construction have delayed solar and wind projects, endangering their eligibility for the soon-to-expire investment tax credits they rely on. There’s another form of renewable energy, however, that might see a benefit from the recent global economic upheaval and emerge in a better position to help the United States decarbonize its electricity system: geothermal.
Solar Power World
APRIL 10, 2020
While many jurisdictions have adopted no-touch permitting in recent weeks, San Luis Obispo County has gone a step further. It is now one of the first jurisdictions in California to offer instant permitting for solar. According to the building department: “The county’s online E-permitting system has been temporarily modified to accommodate the current COVID-19 shelter-in-place… The post California city launches instant online permitting for microinverter-based solar systems appeared f
The City Fix
APRIL 10, 2020
The impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic are still being understood, but it does seem clear that this crisis will make a mark on cities, physically and socially, that will echo for generations. How we plan our cities has always. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Solar Power World
APRIL 10, 2020
Southern California electricity provider Clean Power Alliance (CPA) inked its first Energy Storage Agreement (ESA) this week. Approved by the CPA Board of Directors on April 2, the 100-MW Luna Storage standalone battery storage project is the largest ESA deal for a CCA in California and one of the largest in the entire state. The… The post Los Angeles County will construct 400-MWh lithium battery to aid in closing gas-powered plants appeared first on Solar Power World.
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 10, 2020
Rather than a one-time infusion of capital, the green stimulus should be automatically renewed at 4% of GDP per year until the economy is fully decarbonized and the unemployment rate is consistently below 3.5%.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 10, 2020
Read time: 5 mins At a time when fossil fuel companies are using a public health crisis to demand financial and regulatory support , the governments of Baltimore and Rhode Island are calling out a “decades-long campaign of deception” by these companies in urging courts to advance lawsuits trying to hold polluters responsible for climate damages.
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 10, 2020
From LA to London, the lockdown is helping give the planet a much-needed breath of fresh air, with air pollution levels dropping dramatically in major cities worldwide, mostly due to travel bans and less cars on the roads.
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 10, 2020
The new memorial will honor the founders with a nature-inspired design.
Impact Alpha
APRIL 10, 2020
Since the U.S. government’s $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program kicked in a week ago, Williams and his team have processed $42 million in loan applications. Working through last weekend, Southern Bancorp in Little Rock, Ark., processed loans as small as $8,000 for an African American-owned radio station and less than $2,000 for a photography studio.
Charged
APRIL 10, 2020
Charging station manufacturer EVBox and eMobility platform provider has·to·be have teamed up to grant each other’s customers reciprocal access to the two companies’ charging networks. Both companies have integrated Open Charge Point Interface (OCPI) standards into their software, so they can communicate with various charging station management systems.
R-Squared Energy
APRIL 10, 2020
This is the front line crew working with Dr. Matt Tipton to care for COVID-19 patients. According to Dr. Tipton, “they do the heavy lifting.” Photo by MATT TIPTON. I typically do not digress into topics outside the energy sector. But I have spent a lot of time covering the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic because of the extraordinary impact it is having on the sector. .
Charged
APRIL 10, 2020
The electrification of global transport and buildout of renewable energy storage will require hundreds of millions of tons of nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese. As demand rises, so will concerns about shortages, and the environmental and social costs of producing these metals. DeepGreen Metals is a deep-sea minerals exploration and development company with a mission to supply metals for the green transition with minimal environmental and social impact.
Impact Alpha
APRIL 10, 2020
TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’re taking a “brief” break on Monday. We’ll be back in your inbox on Tuesday, Apr. 14. Keep the news, tips and submissions flowing. Weekly Briefing. On ImpactAlpha’s weekly podcast, host Brian Walsh talks with Amy Cortese about how community banks and local lenders are getting small-business relief loans to underserved communities (see No. 1, below), and.
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 10, 2020
California-based startup Finless Foods is growing endangered bluefin tuna in the lab - and it could soon be on your dinner plate.
Charged
APRIL 10, 2020
No one can yet say exactly what the charging infrastructure of the future will look like, but there’s certainly logic in the idea of installing DC fast chargers at existing gas stations. A small but growing number of station operators in the US have installed fast chargers. Total, BP and Shell are experimenting with EV charging at locations in the UK, the Netherlands and Singapore.
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 10, 2020
Capitalism is the economic expression of our species’ most powerful advantage – Adaptation. But capitalism operates according to the rules of a self-stabilizing complex system. We must change the rules of the system to give capitalism a chance to help us now.
Solar Power World
APRIL 10, 2020
By Sara Carbone and Ronald Jasmin. Originally posted on sunmodo.com and reposted with permission. That story can be found here. When planning to install a rooftop solar system for a business or home, it is important to make sure all the components of the solar mounting products are compatible with the roof. There are a… The post A little-known solar racking problem: EPDM and asphalt appeared first on Solar Power World.
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 10, 2020
Emerging transport designers are tasked to collectively examine the future of travel for their final year post-graduate show at the Royal College of Art’s Masters in Intelligent Mobility
EDF Voices
APRIL 10, 2020
Under pressure, big brands are stepping up their climate commitments, but will it be enough?
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