Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
What happened in Texas is now commonplace. Natural gas feel short but the propane sector says it can fill a critical gap and keep the lights on.
Grist
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Taxes on international transport could provide new flows of finance to developing countries to help them reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of climate breakdown, a group of climate finance experts have said. Rich countries are failing on their pledge to provide $100 billion a year to help poor countries cope with the climate crisis, and the way in which cli
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Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Although hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and its potential as a fuel source has been well understood for decades, substantial challenges have long stood in the way of the development of a thriving hydrogen fuel industry.
U.S. Green Technology
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Local governments have to fight to keep up with the constant demand for current services and availability as technology progresses at a breakneck speed. There’s a strict need for organization, a legal responsibility to be as clear and correct in math as possible, and a moral desire to be transparent with the area’s people. Unfortunately, The post 3 Ways Municipal Software Helps Governments appeared first on U.S.
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.
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Carbon-free electricity requires rapid expansion of renewable capacity. In addition, it must confront three challenges: expanding the grid to move an increasing volume of electricity over long distances (transmission), balancing intermittent generation with peak demand (storage), and financing both.
Mearth
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Mearth celebrates its partnership with Ron Bennett’s Big Men’s Clothing as both brands introduce a new and better way to commute or travel for big men. The partnership aims to promote heavy-duty electric scooters, such as the Mearth GTS electric scooter , as a convenient and comfortable alternative to public or private transportation for big men in Australia.
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Bidgely
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
To learn more about how Bidgely can help utilities demonstrate the full value of their AMI investments, download the latest AMI Insights Report. Advanced Metering Infrastructure — including the smart meters, communication networks, and data management systems — is a key element of grid modernization that, according to the Edison Foundation’s most recent Electric Company Smart Meter Deployments: Foundation for a Smart Grid report, has grown to serve an estimated 80 percent of U.S. households as o
Low Impact
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
This is part 2 of a conversation with Brett Scott, author and specialist in the money system. Here’s his excellent YouTube channel , and I’ll add links to other things we talk about as well. Part 1 is here. This is part of a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing about building a new kind of economy, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core.
Bidgely
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
To learn more about how Bidgely can help utilities demonstrate the full value of their AMI investments, download the latest AMI Insights Report. Advanced Metering Infrastructure — including the smart meters, communication networks, and data management systems — is a key element of grid modernization that, according to the Edison Foundation’s most recent Electric Company Smart Meter Deployments: Foundation for a Smart Grid report, has grown to serve an estimated 80 percent of U.S. households as o
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Coal in India may be past its days of growth as the share of solar and wind energy projects continues to rise. According to a recent report by a think tank, India may have passed peak coal share in its electricity mix in 2018. Energy think tank Ember reports that the share of coal-based electricity […].
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.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Originally published on EV Annex. Tesla has always been in the crosshairs of short sellers on Wall Street. Traditional financial media outlets, for years, preyed on Elon Musk for any misstep. Things have changed though. Tesla is now part of the S&P 500. And Wall Street insiders who once derided Musk and Tesla now appear to […].
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Natural disasters. They are seen by many as a reason to buy Tesla solar panels and a Powerwall, or any rooftop solar plus energy storage setup. A home energy storage system isn’t cheap, and in places where an energy storage system doesn’t earn you enough money to pay itself off over time, I’ve often thought […].
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Efforts by the Indian government to promote domestic solar cell and module manufacturing are now getting a response from companies. Premier Energies has announced plans to set up a new solar cell and module manufacturing line with 1 gigawatt of capacity. The company will invest Rs 4.8 billion ($68 million) into the new plant. The […].
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Having spoken with several battery mineral experts about this, 100% electric vehicle sales by 2030 globally seems impossible, and Elon Musk himself recently estimated that the market would probably be a bit over 50% by around 2030. However, leaders are leaders, and that can go for cities and states as well as automakers. California has […].
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.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Tesla could have made more in profits from its recent bitcoin investment than it has made selling EVs, Yahoo! Finance reported. When bitcoin hit the $50,000 mark for the first time ever, this continued the 2021 rally that has been sending it higher on increased adoption. Tesla purchased $1.5 billion in bitcoin last month, and […].
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Clearly, the news story of the week — well beyond CleanTechnica — has been Texas and some neighboring regions freezing over and losing electricity. The vast majority of the power plants that went offline were thermal power plants (mostly natural gas). They were not equipped enough for the cold. A number of wind turbines were […].
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Austin, Texas, which is home to Tesla’s hottest developing Gigafactory, was affected by the winter storm this past week just like other areas of the state. The area where the new Gigafactory is being built is known as Del Valle. The community of Del Valle is rather poor, and it was mentioned to me by […].
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Blue gas is an expensive shell game being promoted by the fossil fuel industry with help from automotive industry executives who are stuck in the sunk costs fallacy about their investments in internal combustion engines.
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?
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
So, as we know, Tesla has now invested $1.5 billion into bitcoin and there are a lot of different opinions about that. In fact it’s an entirely new discussion because never before has a company trying to transition the world to sustainable energy embraced an experimental technology whose side effects are so contrary to its […].
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