GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2020

With political short-termism aplenty, Canada’s climate leaders are private companies.

Startups 517

Startups Politics 517

Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 29, 2020

Under the ethos of creating great architecture that is more accessible, affordable and sustainable, the dwellings are powerhouses of energy-efficiency, and they have a nature-based focus that encourages biophilic living.

Sustainability 305

Sustainability Energy Energy 305

GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2020

Buckle up: this year will be rough, but this road trip still looks promising.

Electric vehicle 499

Electric vehicle Electricity Transportation 499

Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 29, 2020

Eastwatch House is a highly durable home that also takes advantage of passive solar conditions to reduce energy demands.

Demand 308

Demand Energy Energy 308

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.

Energy

GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2020

The home textiles company — and other players in the textile recycling space — want to show what's possible.

Recycling 328

Recycling Recycling 328

Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 29, 2020

From recycled metal and gems to eco-friendly packaging and carbon-neutral production, Emma Aitchison jewelry is sustainable through and through. While Emma offers a line of handmade classics, she excels at giving old jewelry new life. This often means turning an antiquated.

Recycling 220

Recycling Recycling Carbon-neutral Packaging 220

Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 29, 2020

This modular, prefab home is perched atop a hill in the scenic Aosta Valley.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2020

Within the last two years, financial institutions representing $17.2 trillion have committed to align their portfolio emissions with the goals of the Paris Agreement. But there's still more to be done.

Investment 240

Investment 240

Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 29, 2020

The coal-free future looks bright.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2020

One silver lining: corporate sustainability professionals are comfortable with complexity and change, and our modus operandi is to plan for the long term.

Sustainability 256

Sustainability 256

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.

Transportation

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

DELHI — India has big ambitions for renewable energy. The rapidly evolving country of nearly 1.4 billion people is in the midst of an energy transition that is key to achieving global decarbonization. But that transition now faces setbacks stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. While India’s power grid is still dominated by coal, the country has been deploying wind and solar at a rapid pace to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s targets of 175 gigawatts of renewable energy cap

Energy 130

Energy Energy Construction Government 130

Charged

APRIL 29, 2020

NASA has released a series of concept images of the X-57 Maxwell electric airplane , showcasing aspects of its final Mod IV configuration during different flight modes. The artist’s concept image shows the Maxwell in its final configuration. This configuration, known as Mod IV, features a high-aspect ratio wing, relocation of the cruise motors to the wingtips, and 12 smaller high-lift motors with propellers for takeoff and landing.

Electricity 140

Electricity 140

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

Avangrid, the U.S. utility group and renewables developer, has withdrawn its long-term guidance for the 2018-22 period due to disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic and permitting delays. Avangrid, which is publicly listed but majority owned by Spain's Iberdrola, reported a higher profit in the first quarter of 2020, driven by an improved performance from its 7.5-gigawatt onshore wind power fleet.

Energy Monitor 130

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Wind power 130

Forbes Green Tech

APRIL 29, 2020

The invention enabling it? Bioceramic, the same material used to coat pipe and knee joint replacements and found in NFL quarterback Tom Brady’s TB12 “recovery sleepwear” clothing.

Carbon-neutral 133

Carbon-neutral Carbon Real Estate Innovation 133

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.

Sustainability

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

The public health crisis of COVID-19 has brought much of the U.S. economy to a halt. While the most visible impacts have been in hotels and restaurants, the advanced energy industry has been hit hard as well. Specific relief that’s needed now can sustain the industry through the crisis and ensure that it is ready to drive economic recovery when the crisis has passed.

Energy 130

Energy Energy Electric vehicle Law 130

CleanTech Group

APRIL 29, 2020

With half of the world’s population concentrated along coastlines, we now find ourselves in need of extraordinary solutions to combat the combined threats.

Resilience 113

Resilience Innovation 113

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

Iberdrola saw rising profits in the first quarter and expects that upward trend to continue throughout 2020, as the Spanish utility group and global renewables giant plans to invest its way out of the coronavirus crisis. Earlier this month Iberdrola set out a recession-busting plan to hire 5,000 more staff and invest €10 billion ($10.7 billion) in 2020.

Europe 130

Europe Resilience Investment Government 130

Solar Power World

APRIL 29, 2020

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds at the University of Washington, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Toledo have together formed the U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Consortium (US-MAP), which will work to accelerate commercialization of perovskite technologies.

Solar Power 107

Solar Power Technology Energy Energy 107

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?

Carbon

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

Five of Ørsted’s U.S. offshore wind projects totaling nearly 3 gigawatts may face delays due to the coronavirus crisis and slowed permitting, in a blow to U.S. ambitions to animate a thriving offshore wind industry over the next few years. Denmark’s Ørsted, the world’s top offshore wind developer, built a formidable early lead in the U.S. market, with contracted projects stretching from New England down to Virginia, including two huge projects totaling nearly 2 gi

COP 130

COP Construction Energy Energy 130

altenergymag

APRIL 29, 2020

Despite uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, the U.S. wind industry experienced a strong start to the year, with the first three months of 2020 seeing record construction and power purchasing activity.

Construction 93

Construction 93

Charged

APRIL 29, 2020

Finnish energy conglomerate Fortum has agreed to sell the majority of its public charging network operator Fortum Recharge to Infracapital, a subsidiary of investment manager M&G. Fortum Recharge owns approximately 1,300 public chargers, mostly DC fast chargers, and operates an additional 1,400 charging points in Norway, Finland and Sweden. After the transaction Fortum’s ownership in Recharge will be 37%.

Investment 105

Investment Energy Energy 105

Impact Alpha

APRIL 29, 2020

It’s time to shift some attention from fighting the current crisis to fighting the crisis that is fast upon us. I’m not arguing that we should stop sheltering in place or supporting our local hospitals. This is not a “Liberate (insert your favorite state here)” kind of message. No, this is about the economic pandemic. The post ‘Enterprise PPE’ and ‘financial vaccines’ for COVID’s economic pandemic appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

Innovation 103

Innovation 103

Bidgely

APRIL 29, 2020

Unlocking Value for Gas and Dual-Fuel Utilities with UtilityAI . Though smart meter infrastructure is most often associated with electric utilities, gas smart meters are also being deployed, and collecting sampling data at the same rate as electric smart meters. Though not yet as pervasive as electric smart meter infrastructure, the prevalence of gas smart meters is increasing and providing new opportunities for gas and dual fuel utilities to learn a great deal more, at a granular appliance leve

Home Energy Monitoring 88

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Electricity 88

Impact Alpha

APRIL 29, 2020

ImpactAlpha, April 29 – Mountain View, Calif-.based AMPLY Power provides charging infrastructure and optimization software for commercial electric vehicle fleets, including East Contra Costa County’s Tri Delta Transit. Infrastructure-as-a-service models, such as AMPLY’s, are catching on as a way for companies and municipalities to deploy sustainable services without the hefty upfront costs.

Electric vehicle 101

Electric vehicle Sustainability Electricity Blockchain 101

Forbes Green Tech

APRIL 29, 2020

The billionaire CEO angrily vented about extended stay-at-home efforts that are curbing the spread of COVID-19, amping up frustration he'd expressed earlier on Twitter.

Innovation 102

Innovation Policy Transportation 102

Green Market Oracle

APRIL 29, 2020

We are headed for a paradigm changing economic collapse. COVID-19 is exacting a massive toll on human life and it will devastate our economies, but this tragic turn of events may also augur hope. It may very well prove to be the catalyst that helps us to avert even bigger crises. Wildlife Conservation Society's Joe Walston explained it this way: "It actually, sadly, takes people to die on people's doorsteps, for people to die in people's families, for that wake-up call to happen, which is always

Climate change 98

Climate change Biodiversity Medicine Health 98

Greentown Labs

APRIL 29, 2020

For Reference: An Open Letter: Our Investor Commitment in Response to the Coronavirus. To Our Current and Future Investors, We are grateful for your unified commitment to the well-being and long-term viability of our cleantech ventures. Your support has played a critical role in helping get our companies to where they are today and your recent gesture has bolstered our resolve to not only survive the crisis, but to emerge from it stronger.

Startups 96

Startups Resilience Policy Health 96

Solar Power World

APRIL 29, 2020

Enrollment is now open for Thurston County, Washington’s largest community solar project. The 100-kW Hummingbird Project will be located atop the Hands on Children’s Museum in downtown Olympia and installed in November 2020. The project features 297 SunPower solar panels and a 100-kW SolarEdge inverter. The Hummingbird Community Solar Project has 800 solar units available… The post Olympia Community Solar announces unit availability in first community solar project appeared fir

Solar Power 96

Solar Power 96

Impact Alpha

APRIL 29, 2020

The COVID crisis has seen an outpouring of public capital for public good. And trillions of dollars in ‘stimulus,’ ‘bailouts,’ ‘liquidity’ and ‘easing’ represents public capital for private good. Investors (including some senators) are playing the volatile markets and pocketing the profits – that’s private capital for private good. Impact investing has posited the role.

Investment 94

Investment 94

Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global Energy Review notes that renewables will be the only energy source to expand in 2020 despite a dramatic nosedive in energy demand worldwide caused by Covid-19's shutdown of economic and public life. Global carbon emissions are set to drop a record eight per cent this year, with lockdowns on public and economic life introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic delivering an unprecedented blow to fossil fuel demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Carbon 100

Carbon Carbon-negative Natural gas Demand 100

Impact Alpha

APRIL 29, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Apr. 29 – Social distancing is becoming social mobilization. As some U.S. states move to re-open their economies while lowering the risk of new COVID-19 outbreaks, they are taking lessons from China, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong. Other countries, including Germany and Australia, have been successful in suppressing the virus by going beyond.

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altenergymag

APRIL 29, 2020

When commercialised, renewable energy from tidal streams will become a significant energy resource to balance other, unpredictable renewable energy sources. This is the preliminary result of studies made as a part of a PhD project on the energy balance and stability of the Faroese electrical system.

Energy 78

Energy Energy Electricity 78

Charged

APRIL 29, 2020

We’re learning more about the coronavirus every day. Now it seems that it infects EVs, but not ICE vehicles. Ford and Rivian have canceled their plans to jointly develop an EV for the Lincoln brand, citing the “current environment” around the ongoing coronavirus crisis as the reason. Although development of some of Ford’s new gas-powered models has been delayed due to the health crisis, it doesn’t appear that any will be cancelled.

Automotive 97

Automotive Startups Electric vehicle Health 97