GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The open source movement takes on climate data. Heather Clancy. Thu, 09/03/2020 - 00:15. As GreenBiz co-founder and Executive Editor Joel Makower wrote earlier this week, many companies are moving to disclose " climate risk ," although far fewer are moving to actually minimize it. And as those tasked with preparing those reports can attest, the process of gathering the data for them is frustrating and complex, especially as the level of detail desired and required by investors becomes deeper.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A £3.4m investment project to help reduce the risk of sewer flooding in Tarbert, Argyll and Bute began on 31 August. The improvement work will help tackle the issue of sewer flooding by increasing the capacity of the local sewer network. It will involve the upsizing of almost 350 metres of sewer pipe, with large diameter sewers being installed along Barmore Road, Harbour Street, and on a short section of School Road.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Two capital markets days in the space of a week have offered a forensic look at wind turbine supplier Siemens Gamesa and its new parent company, Siemens Energy. The latter’s IPO is now just weeks away, planned for September 28, and after much speculation, guesswork and a change in leadership, Siemens' wider role in the energy transition is becoming clearer.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The Ffestiniog scheme in North Wales: Pumped storage can resolve a perceived conflict between boosting economic activity and encouraging a sustainable green agenda, said ILI Group’s Mark Wilson. Land development firm says long term energy storage is ‘crucial’ for the net zero energy system of the future and keeping consumer bills lower. A morning programme at the final day of the Scottish Renewables Conference (3 September) – an online event this year – addressed the topic R

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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.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The proposals, which all take inspiration from nature, address one or more of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Today, Van Jones is best known as a CNN host and author of three best-selling books. But long before the Green New Deal, Jones was on the front lines of clean energy, trying to bring green jobs to black and brown communities. He helped spearhead the Green Jobs Act of 2007, the first time the country deliberately trained workers for the future clean economy.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

California is becoming a poster child for the risks utilities face from climate change, from power lines starting wildfires to heat waves forcing increasingly renewable-powered grids to the brink of system collapse. But utilities around the world are facing similar risks as they seek to decarbonize their generation fleets and make their grids more resilient to extreme weather events that are becoming more extreme and more common.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The Lake Cabin can only be accessed by a woodland trail and enjoys uninterrupted views across the lake and to the countryside beyond.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The U.S. microgrid market is growing, with a record 546 microgrids installed during 2019. Most of those projects were below 5 megawatts. This is a continuation of the trend starting in 2017: The number of smaller, more modular projects has consistently grown each year. As the market has grown, it has also attracted increasingly diverse financiers, according to a new Wood Mackenzie report.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Where do solar panels go when they are no longer useful?

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Even as the coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy into free fall this spring, the energy storage industry delivered its second-best quarter ever in terms of megawatts installed. Despite social-distancing orders, more customers than ever before added batteries in their homes to store solar power and provide backup power amid hurricanes, wildfires and other types of grid outages.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Battery-less control and monitoring units will be able to draw energy from electrical cabling. Two French firms have developed an innovative energy harvesting platform that is based on induction. The technology – the fruit of a collaboration between e-peas, an energy harvesting specialist, and magnetic components manufacturer TCT – is being positioned for an important role within building automation and smart-grid deployments.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Michael Pariser is on the origination and power marketing team at EDF Renewables North America. *. Many of the largest corporate electricity consumers in the U.S. have committed to reducing their carbon footprint by powering their operations with renewable energy. However, the renewable energy they purchase might be generated at times that don’t coincide with their actual energy use, and the facility might be located in a different part of the electrical grid.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

SenseHawk's cloud-based platform and application modules solve several challenges in the development, construction and operation of solar sites. Its application modules enable solar companies to reduce costs, enhance workforce productivity and improve solar site performance leveraging sophisticated AI and machine learning models.

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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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U.S. Green Technology

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Water is vital for all life on Earth. It’s what humans need to survive — in more ways than one. Whether it’s for drinking, doing laundry, cooking or practicing hygiene, clean water must be available at all times. Without the right infrastructure, water access is at risk. Public health then comes into question as well. The post How Water Infrastructure Can Be More Sustainable appeared first on U.S.

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Solar contractors working in expanding regions along the East Coast have the unique challenge of installing PV arrays that can withstand upwards of 100-mph winds. Every June to November, those coastal states, especially Florida, are susceptible to the annual superstorms as they travel northwest from the Caribbean. When the entire solar array is assembled, it… The post Mounting a solar system to survive a hurricane appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The company is making lab-grown chicken for pet food a reality.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ImpactAlpha, September 3 – Indonesian insurance tech company PasarPolis partners with large insurance firms to develop health, vehicle and life insurance products for lower-income customers. The five-year-old company expanded into Vietnam and Thailand last year. LeapFrog invested in the company’s $54 million Series B round. The impact investor was joined by ride-hailing company Gojek’s venture.

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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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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Research from Cornwall Insight's Capacity Market Forecast highlights that the recent changes in Capacity Market (CM) rules and the technology mix will see greater competition and change in the technology entering* the T-4 auction in March 2021 compared to the previous T-4 auction.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

On September 2nd, 2020 (September 3rd, 2020 UTC), the Vega rocket successfully lofted 26 SuperDoves, Flock 4v , on Arianespace ’s VV16 SSMS-POC flight, along with several other small satellites. The first 14 SuperDoves were successfully deployed into an approximately 500 km Sun-synchronous orbit, and Planet’s mission operations team is already shepherding those satellites through the commissioning process.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The future energy system will mark a radical overhaul of the energy business ecosystem, with traditional industry diving lines set to be blurred. Speed and timing will be crucial for those looking to stay on the right side of the transition.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I like doing thought experiments. I often use them to help me envision the parameters of a complex problem. For example, a dozen years ago I attempted to calculate the area required to supply the entire U.S. with electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) power. Admittedly, these thought experiments require major simplifications. To completely run the U.S. on solar power would require a substantial amount of backup power or storage for when the sun isn’t shining.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Leading renewable energy platform announces launch of European projects on renewable energy Marketplace, hires European leader, and establishes headquarters in Spain

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Six young people from Portugal have filed an unprecedented climate change lawsuit against almost all of Europe, targeting 33 European nations for failing to take adequate action on the climate crisis that they say threatens their human rights. It is the latest in a series of legal actions brought by young people around the world demanding urgent climate action to protect their fundamental rights and safeguard their futures.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

• Opening addresses from research and industry • A moderated panel discussion on the Green Deal and the EU Recovery Package.

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Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

With more of a focus than ever on sustainability and environmentally-friendly practices, now is the time to start making greener choices for your business. Not only can more sustainable workplace practices help to lower your energy bills but it can help to improve your company profile with today’s increasingly-conscious consumer. The post 5 Ways to Encourage Sustainability Within Your Workplace appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

French government puts climate action at heart of €100bn stimulus package, as Germany successfully delivers first sovereign green bond. The EU's two leading economies, France and Germany, have this week drastically beefed up their green recovery plans, earmarking billions of Euros for a new wave of green infrastructure projects and emissions reduction programmes.

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Forbes Green Tech

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

GM’s goal is to introduce 20 new electric vehicle models by 2023. Honda has said it intends to make its entire European product lineup electric by 2022, including the launch of six new models.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Recolight CEO Nigel Harvey speaks to BusinessGreen after being among 250 arrested for their part in Extinction Rebellion actions in London this week. A chief executive who was arrested during Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests in Parliament Square on Monday has told BusinessGreen that the urgent need to rebuild a greener economy from the coronavirus crisis inspired his actions.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ImpactAlpha, September 3 – Nearly half of retail investors in the U.K. want impact investment options. Triodos Bank U.K. is responding with an impact bond fund that starts at £20 per share. The Triodos Sterling Bond Impact Fund, launching in early November, will invest in corporate, social and green bonds, and U.K. “gilts,” or sovereign. The post Triodos Bank develops impact bond fund for U.K. retail investors appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Tech giant becomes latest big name addition to the European Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. Tech giant Microsoft has this week formally joined the European Corporate Leaders Group (CLG Europe), building on its recent commitment to become a net negative emission company. CLG Europe brings together influential European businesses which share the aim of delivering climate neutrality through "progressive public policy".

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Forbes Green Tech

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Volta Trucks is launching what it called the world’s first purpose-built electric 16-tonne commercial vehicle, and it is expected to be well-received in the market-place. The Volta Zero will be launched later in 2020 and go into production in 2022.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

New research has illuminated some of the challenges the UK government faces as it works to decarbonise the UK's heating system. The British public overwhelmingly backs the net zero transition, but underestimates some of the key challenges the UK will face as it seeks to decarbonise the economy. That is the conclusion of new government research published this week, which in particular highlights a lack of awareness of the contribution to climate change made by heating buildings and reveals limite

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