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Why wholesale markets matter to big power buyers

GreenBiz

Why wholesale markets matter to big power buyers. Adam Aston. Thu, 11/05/2020 - 01:30. When a big brand such as Google, General Motors or Walmart unveils an eye-popping commitment to use more renewable energy, the news usually gets attention. And as these pledges have multiplied in number and scale, corporate energy buyers are having impacts beyond the headlines.

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These elevated wooden cabins can only accessed via hiking trail

Inhabitat - Innovation

Elevating the cabins and limiting access to pedestrians only preserves the forested landscape.

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Drainage firm announces free seminars on geocellular structures, surface water and other topics

Envirotec Magazine

Drainage expert ACO Water Management has launched its autumn/winter webinar series , spanning topics and applications to support professionals across all levels within construction. The free CPDs cover a number of key construction applications, including geocellular structures, highways, and rail. As we head into the winter months, and with October already having recorded the wettest day on record, it is critical that those tasked with delivering construction projects understand the key consider

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Sunderlands riverfront to house UKs first carbon-neutral community

Inhabitat - Innovation

Northern England’s post-industrial port city of Sunderland will soon welcome a major riverside regeneration as part of an eco-friendly masterplan designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects and Proctor & Matthews Architects.

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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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North London Waste Authority launches online clothes swaps to divert unwanted textiles from disposal

Envirotec Magazine

North London Waste Authority (NLWA) has partnered with London Waste and Recycling Board’s (LWARB’s) eco-fashion campaign Love Not Landfill to launch Stop & Swap, described as “a unique series of online clothes swap events and Instagram Live talks designed to divert unwanted textiles from disposal.” The online swapping events are aimed at supporting residents to take effective action on textile waste – even in the face of COVID-19 restrictions.

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Danger looms as world's largest iceberg heads toward a critical wildlife habitat

Inhabitat - Innovation

If A68a grounds on South Georgia Island, it could harm many creatures.

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US formally exits Paris climate agreement

Inhabitat - Innovation

One of President Trump’s early moves in office was to announce the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

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UK Urged To Get Strategic About Offshore Grid Planning

GreenTechMedia

Kettles, washing machines, cookers, heating, plug-in electric vehicles — these are some of the appliances that will be powered by offshore wind someday, prime minister Boris Johnson promised U.K. citizens in an October speech. But to make that promise a reality, the country may need to re-envision how to plan, and pay for, the transmission networks that will carry that multi-gigawatt resource to its shores.

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Software for robotic lawnmower wins Swedish circular technology challenge

Envirotec Magazine

Husqvarna’s Automower 440 model. Machine learning software to be used in a robotic lawn mower is the winner of a sustainability innovation competition run by Swedish manufacturer Husqvarna Group. Ekkono Solutions, a Swedish software startup, won the opportunity to develop Husqvarna’s Automower® robotic lawn mowers using its Edge Machine Learning software.

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How Robots Could Change the Environmental Impact of Agriculture

U.S. Green Technology

The agriculture industry is vital to human life and the supply chain. With it, grocery stores, restaurants and every other retailer operate smoothly. However, agriculture is not without faults. The industry is a top contributor to harmful emissions and greenhouse gasses. Environmental technologies like robots are now key to solving the harmful environmental impact of.

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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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A clever, garden-filled facelift revives a derelict building in Denmark

Inhabitat - Innovation

An "ugly" building has undergone a green renovation — literally.

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Report highlights the potential for lithium recovery from California’s geothermal industry

Charged

Developing lithium from the Salton Sea in California could help anchor a multi-billion-dollar domestic EV battery supply chain, according to a report from New Energy Nexus. The report details the potential to recover lithium as a by-product from the Salton Sea geothermal resource area. “The world is in a race to dominate the EV market—the Europeans have made their Battery Alliance a priority and the Chinese are chomping at the bit,” said New Energy Nexus CEO Danny Kennedy.

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Eos Energy Storage and Global Renewable Developer Hecate Energy to Deliver Over 1 GWh of Energy Storage Projects Across the United States Over the Next Two Years

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Eos will design, manufacture, and deliver its zinc-based battery solutions to Hecate over the course of the next 24 months across Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The projects are a mix of standalone battery storage and storage paired with solar photovoltaics (“PV”) for renewable energy capacity.

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Charlotte investors commit $58 million to preserve affordable housing

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 5 – The Housing Impact Fund, managed by Ascent Housing, has raised $58 million to acquire and preserve affordable 1,500 units in gentrifying Charlotte neighborhoods at risk of losing affordable housing. The fund is backed by $20 million from the Charlotte Housing Opportunity Investment Fund, a public-private impact fund managed by Local Initiatives.

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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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Anti-pollution Advocates Cheer as Army Corps Reviews Formosa Plastics Permit in Louisiana

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins Environmental and community groups in Louisiana are elated after what they see as two back-to-back wins in their fight to protect fenceline communities from additional petrochemical industry pollution. This week, a key federal permit for a $9.4 billion petrochemical complex under construction in St. James Parish, near largely Black and poor communities, is on pause, and Louisiana voters rejected an amendment that could have let petrochemical companies off the hook for paying pr

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Microchip releases new AEC-Q101-qualified 700 V and 1,200 V SiC SBDs

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Microchip Technology is introducing its newly-qualified 700 V and 1,200 V SiC Schottky Barrier Diode (SBD) power devices, providing EV system designers with solutions that meet AEC-Q101 quality standards across a wide range of voltage, current and package options. Microchip says the SBD family’s avalanche performance allows designers to reduce the need for external protection circuits, reducing system cost and complexity.

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Creating a Zero Carbon Industrial Cluster: BusinessGreen webinar to explore the net zero future for industrial hubs

Business Green

New free to attend webinar to take place from 11am on Thursday 19th November. BusinessGreen has today announced it is to host a new webinar that will provide a unique opportunity to explore one of the biggest technical, economic, and political challenges facing the global push to build a net zero emission economy, namely how do you decarbonise the energy and carbon-intensive industries that provide many of the building blocks for the modern world?

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Manufacturers transition to minimal-flashing solar roof mounts

Solar Power World

Aluminum and other metallic solar flashing requires installers to pry composite shingles up to slide the sealing roof attachment beneath. Depending on the condition of the roof covering, shingles can break in the prying process, leaving installers responsible for sourcing and replacing them. Back in 2012, solar roof mount manufacturer QuickBOLT (SolarRoofHook at the time)… The post Manufacturers transition to minimal-flashing solar roof mounts appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Electrify America introduces B2B charging solutions with launch of Electrify Commercial

Charged

Electrify America already provides DC fast charging to EV drivers across the US. Now the company is branching out into the commercial realm with the launch of Electrify Commercial , a new business unit designed to deliver turnkey EV charging solutions to utilities, fleet owners and businesses seeking to manage their own networks of chargers. Electrify Commercial will draw on the experience gained from building EA’s vast fast charging network in order to support its customers in the planning, pro

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Equipped for the future: PV*SOL premium 2021 now maps sector coupling

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With the new version PV*SOL premium 2021, which will appear in November 2020, the coupling of a PV system with a heating and hot water system can now be designed.

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KEB introduces apps for its T6 Auxiliary Inverter

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KEB has released an Embedded App Pool for its T6 Auxiliary Inverter. KEB’s embedded applications are pre-programmed function blocks that give OEMs options such as motor torque/speed control and CAN J1939 communications. “KEB’s T6 Auxiliary Inverter has an embedded controller inside, which makes it easy to implement advanced control functionality, even when managing multiple motor axes,” said KEB Business Development Manager Tony Heiser.

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The Brief: Election narratives, back to Paris, affordable housing in Charlotte, seaweed carbon capture, pandemic relief in Wisconsin, telehealth in Portugal

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices As votes are tallied, Agents of Impact begin to chart a new narrative. “The election results highlight just how divided our country has become and the roots of those divisions are often more about perception than actual differences,” shared George Ashton of Local Initiatives Support Corp. (see, “Why.

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Britain's biggest battery storage project to date goes live

Business Green

Flexitricity has begun optimising Gresham House’s 50MW asset in South Yorkshire for a number of grid services markets. The UK's biggest battery storage project to date has been switched on in South Yorkshire by energy specialist Flexitricity and owner Gresham House Energy Storage Fund. The energy storage site is now live in National Grid ESO's Balancing Mechanism (BM), which allows electricity providers to increase or decrease their generation or demand in real-time, after successfully participa

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ULEMCo Collaborates with JCB on New Hydrogen Vehicle

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Road Sweeper Will Deliver Further Carbon Reductions for Aberdeen City Council

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Petronas announces net zero by 2050 'aspiration'

Business Green

Malaysian oil and gas giant becomes the latest major fossil fuel company to publicly set its sights on delivering net zero emissions. Malaysian energy giant Petronas has become the second global oil and gas major this week to commit to achieving net zero emissions, following hot on the heels of Norway's Equinor which unveiled its own net zero vision on Monday.

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Massachusetts Blazes its Own Trail on Distributed Energy Policy [GTM Squared]

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'Blade-walker': Repair robot scales offshore turbine blade

Business Green

Inspect-and-repair robot for offshore wind turbine blades developed by BladeBug and ORE Catapult has scaled its first turbine in real-world conditions. A six-legged repair robot has been set to work inspecting the blade of an offshore wind turbine in Scotland, in an achievement that has been heralded by researchers as a major breakthrough that could make blade inspections and repairs less expensive for wind farm operators.

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Webinar: Unlocking Insights from the 2020 Solar Technology Benchmark Survey – December 3

Solar Power World

Thursday, December 3, 2020 2 pm ET / 11 am PT 2020 has pushed installers to adopt new technologies that are making their businesses more agile, efficient and cost-effective. In this webinar, Aurora Solar will share which technologies businesses are adopting, as well some of the opportunities and risks this poses. Aurora’s proprietary… The post Webinar: Unlocking Insights from the 2020 Solar Technology Benchmark Survey – December 3 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Government urged to step up promotion of climate-friendly diets

Business Green

UK Health Alliance on Climate Change sets out sweeping proposals to boost demand for low emission foods, including plans for a new food carbon tax. A powerful alliance of senior health professionals has called on the government to introduce a raft of new measures to reduce the carbon footprint of the food industry by encouraging consumers to shift towards more 'climate friendly' diets.

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EV Adoption Breaking Down Barriers – GBatteries makes the 2020 50 to Watch List

CleanTech Group

While taking a backseat to the health crisis in the last few months, climate change is increasingly shaping our daily experience with wildfires,

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Covid-19 and 'stakeholder capitalism': Actions speak louder than words

Business Green

There is growing evidence that companies which put their stakeholders first on ESG issues perform better, explains Schroders' Katherine Davidson. The idea that companies should be run for the benefit of all their stakeholders, not just shareholders, is not new. 'Stakeholder capitalism', as it's become known, was actually the dominant corporate model long before 'shareholder primacy' (i.e. prioritising shareholders) really took hold in the Anglo-Saxon world in the 1970s.

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These elevated wooden cabins can only accessed via hiking trail

AGreenLiving

Norweigian architectural firm Spacegroup has released renderings of the Movikheien Cabins, a development of raised wooden cabins in Hagefjorden, Norway. The property design purposefully does not include car-accessible roads; this limited access, along with the elevated cabins, aims to exhibit minimal physical encroachment on the natural terrain. According to the architects, the global COVID-19 pandemic that initially hit in mid-March has opened new opportunities in local travel industries despit

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Responsible fund retail flows reach record £7.1bn in 2020

Business Green

Investors add £975m in third quarter as responsible and sustainable funds continue to enjoy impressive momentum. Responsible investment funds have seen record retail net inflows of £7.1bn in 2020, with investors adding £975m in the third quarter of the year, figures from the Investment Association (IA) show. The latest IA fund flows data, published today, show responsible fund assets totalled £40bn at the end of September and now represent three per cent of industry AUM.

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A clever, garden-filled facelift revives a derelict building in Denmark

AGreenLiving

Copenhagen-based architecture firm Tegnestuen LOKAL has radically reinvented one of the “ugliest” buildings in a Frederiksberg neighborhood with an innovative facade renovation that brings residents closer to nature and each other. The project — dubbed Ørsted Gardens — is the transformation of a 1960s concrete building that was notorious for its unwelcoming and dilapidated appearance.