GreenBiz
APRIL 3, 2020
People are returning to work and their daily lives but there is a lot companies must do to resume their normal productions and respond to the economic effects of the crisis.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 3, 2020
As battery prices continue to fall and the penetration of variable wind and solar generation rises, power plant developers are increasingly combining wind and solar projects with on-site batteries, creating “hybrid” power plants. The variability of wind and solar power requires balancing to meet the demands of the system they operate in.
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GreenBiz
APRIL 3, 2020
Will the spectacular drop in natural gas prices throttle the movement to electrify buildings? What's driving the coming collision.
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 3, 2020
PANGAIA creates fabrics that are responsibly made to the benefit of the environment and your wardrobe.
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.
GreenBiz
APRIL 3, 2020
Two sustainable business leaders, JLL's Cynthia Curtis and PwC's Jeff Senne, join us for a frank chat.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 3, 2020
A contender for the largest solar plant in the U.S. is still waiting for a key permit after a federal agency missed its March issuing deadline. The Gemini Solar Project, a 690-megawatt array Arevia Power is developing in Nevada, needs a Bureau of Land Management permit pertaining to its impact on historic sites, according to reporting from Reuters. The delay for that permit, called Section 106, has paused a review from the Army Corps of Engineers required under the U.S.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 3, 2020
Chickens are a lot of work. Now is not the time to panic buy chickens you can't properly care for.
Solar Power World
APRIL 3, 2020
New York State public authorities and agencies announced the passage of legislation as part the FY 2020-2021 state budget to dramatically speed up the siting and construction of clean energy projects to combat climate change and help jumpstart the state’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 health crisis. SEIA as well as a broad coalition of… The post New York passes renewable energy growth act in state budget appeared first on Solar Power World.
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 3, 2020
Sasaki Associates will preserve native species and emphasize aquatic life in this landscape architecture project.
Econaur
APRIL 3, 2020
The commercial success in the era where we have to take serious steps towards safeguarding environment is taking wrong twist and turns. The recent awareness about composting the organic waste in decentralized manner has picked up the momentum. As a hungry commercial monster human being is also defying the process of natural composting by accelerating it.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 3, 2020
The Leisure 28 is a modern, electric motorboat made from recycled plastic.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 3, 2020
Read time: 12 mins Last Friday, the Iowa Utilities Board issued an order that would allow the Dakota Access pipeline ( DAPL ) to double the amount of oil that flows through the state from 550,000 barrels a day to 1.1 million barrels a day. The utilities board, which also announced it had waived a hearing on the matter, made its move over the objections of environmental organizations and other civic groups opposed to DAPL operator Energy Transfer’s expansion plans.
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 3, 2020
This modern farmhouse boasts several energy-efficient features.
Solar Power World
APRIL 3, 2020
SMA’s VP of sales, Charles Ellis, sent the following email to customers on April 3 with an update on inverter production: To responsibly meet health requirements, SMA has closed physical offices worldwide but all functions remain operational. We may be working remotely, but you can still count on us for your solar sales and service… The post SMA says inverter production is still on target despite COVID-19 appeared first on Solar Power World.
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.
altenergymag
APRIL 3, 2020
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) today issued the following statement after the New York Legislature passed a state budget that includes critical improvements to the way that renewable energy projects are sited and developed in the state.
Charged
APRIL 3, 2020
Tesla pulled off a massive upset, announcing record first-quarter deliveries despite disruptions due to the coronavirus crisis. Analysts were expecting to see a delivery figure of around 77,000 vehicles for Q1 2020. The Great Electrifier delivered 88,400, its best first-quarter performance ever. The production figure was 102,672 vehicles, just a shade off the record of almost 105,000 set in Q4 2019.
altenergymag
APRIL 3, 2020
Presented across five informative sessions, this online course explains and illustrates the key impacts of renewable power integration into modern energy systems, based on global lessons and examples. Most importantly it provides attendees with a market assessment framework and recommended approach to identifying and quantifying how these integration challenges change the specific new opportunities and risks facing their own businesses.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 3, 2020
Read time: 9 mins At the same time a price war is raging in the global oil markets, a regional price war is playing out in the shale fields of Texas. The Texas oil war is between the major oil companies ExxonMobil and Chevron and the many independent shale oil producers.
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?
Solar Power World
APRIL 3, 2020
The Solar Workgroup of Southwest Virginia released a Request for Information (RFI) for a “co-development concept” for commercial-scale solar projects throughout the seven-county coalfield region. The workgroup seeks to enter into an agreement to collaboratively identify, design and develop cost-effective, commercial-scale solar and solar + storage installations informed by the RFI responses.
Business Green
APRIL 3, 2020
Green investor Earthworm ups its support for London food technology firm as it eyes significant growth for urban and indoor farming. The UK's nascent vertical farming sector appears to be attracting growing investor interest, with London-based Vertical Future securing an additional £1.1m backing from green impact investor Earthworm. Having already been the lead investor in Vertical Future's £4m seed investment round last autumn, Earthworm yesterday announced it has injected a further
Solar Power World
APRIL 3, 2020
OMG Roofing Products has introduced PowerGrip Universal 7 (PGU-7), a rooftop attachment anchor for mounting solar racking systems and other products to commercial roofs. PGU-7 units are designed to reduce or eliminate the need for ballast in solar racking systems, so there are less weight, material handling and labor on the roof. Designed with wind… The post OMG Roofing Products unveils new universal commercial solar roof mount appeared first on Solar Power World.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 3, 2020
Impact Alpha
APRIL 3, 2020
ImpactAlpha, April 3 – They are the ones who are going to get us through this. Not the bankers and CEOs, hedge fund managers nor even impact investors. Essential workers are the ones who are *not* working at home because they are, well, essential – ostensibly meaning valuable, not expendable. Workers rose up across the. The post Agents of Impact: Essential workers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Business Green
APRIL 3, 2020
Civil society, researchers, and business leaders argue that multi-million pound transport industry bailouts must come with climate-friendly conditions attached. While the length of the current health crisis is near impossible to predict, debates on the size, shape, and allocation of bailouts to the UK's transport sector are already in full swing, with many commentators urging the government seize the chance to bring laggard transport sectors up to speed with climate priorities.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 3, 2020
Read time: 8 mins Aviation has been one of the sectors worst hit by the fallout from the COVID -19 pandemic. With revenues expected to drop by 44 percent this year, many airlines will go bankrupt without government aid, airline trade body the International Air Transport Association ( IATA ) has warned. Across the world, the industry is now asking for huge sums of government money to help it get through.
Business Green
APRIL 3, 2020
Food redistribution charities urged to apply for funding to help prevent 14,000 tonnes of surplus food going to waste amid Covid-19 disruption. More than £3m is being offered by the government to help prevent food waste during the coronavirus crisis, with the funding aimed at supporting the redistribution of up to 14,000 tonnes of surplus food amid widespread disruption to food supply chains wrought by the current lockdown.
Impact Alpha
APRIL 3, 2020
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On ImpactAlpha’s new weekly podcast, host Brian Walsh talks with Jessica Pothering about flattening the curve of small and growing business failures in emerging markets (see No. 1, below), and with Amy Cortese about this week’s Agent of Impact. Check out this week’s show, and subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 3, 2020
Public opposition to social distancing policies is so far muted. But as the crisis prolongs, social distancing policies will probably begin to face a political backlash. "Just containment" policies could deprive populists of the pretext to blame economic hardships on public health experts.
altenergymag
APRIL 3, 2020
Following is a statement from David Gahl, senior director of state affairs, northeast for the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA):
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 3, 2020
Meet the carbon skeptic hedge fund investor who's up 32% amid the oil bust. When's the bottom? “Eighty percent of these companies are going bankrupt," he says.
LA CleanTech Incubator
APRIL 3, 2020
LACI CEO is urging cities to align priorities around COVID-19 mitigation and climate action while the federal government sleeps on funding. The post The CARES Act won’t support cleantech, but cities still can appeared first on LACI.
Christopher Kemper
APRIL 3, 2020
The below is an article I published in Forbes over a year ago. Today, in the Covid-19 period, where the business is day-by-day, our… Continue reading on Medium ».
Energy and Cleantech Council
APRIL 3, 2020
On April 2, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) Chairman Neil Chatterjee announced additional steps the Commission is taking as regulated entities struggle to balance ensuring continued operations on one hand and regulatory compliance burdens on the other during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Chatterjee, while “the Commission will continue its market surveillance efforts to protect market participants and consumers from the effects of anticompetitive behavior,
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