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EV charging sites now outnumber petrol stations in UK

Renewable Energy World

Newly released figures from Zap-Map, a charging point platform, reveal that the number of public charging locations in the country has now surpassed the number of petrol stations.

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New law makes it easier for British Columbians to buy electric cars

Clean Energy Canada

VICTORIA—Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statements in response to the B.C. government passing a new law that will require automakers to sell a growing percentage of electric vehicles in the province: “British Columbians are excited about electric cars and the chance to cut both their fuel costs and pollution.

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People Are Telling Us What They Want From Cities, We're Just Not Listening.

Varuna

We speculate a lot about what people want from their cities. But for the most part, the conversations about what people want are based on the perspective of entities with biases about residents’ needs. People in city government assume citizens want more services and for the city to spend more, but suggest there are not enough funds to do what is required.

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Microsoft and Eneco sign Netherlands wind energy agreement to power the cloud

Renewable Energy World

Microsoft Corp. has signed a new wind energy agreement to purchase 90 MW from the 731.5-MW Borssele III/IV offshore wind project, owned by Dutch sustainable energy company and wind farm developer Eneco.

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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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People Tell Us What They Want From Cities. We’re Just Not Listening.

Seyi Fabode

We speculate a lot about what people want from their cities. But for the most part, the conversations about what people want are based on the perspective of entities with biases about residents’ needs. People in city government assume citizens want more services and for the city to spend more, but suggest there are not enough funds to do what is required.

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Bermuda Electric Light Company installs 10-MW/5.5-MWh energy storage system

Renewable Energy World

Yesterday, energy storage company Saft said it delivered and installed a turnkey Energy Storage System to Bermuda Electric Light Company (BELCO). The system provides up to 10 MW power for spinning reserves and frequency response to maintain grid stability and has a storage capacity of 5.5MWh, said the company. The official ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on May 16.

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Rhode Island utility commissioners approve Revolution offshore wind PPA

Renewable Energy World

The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved the PPA with utility National Grid for 400 MW in wind power capacity from the Revolution Wind project. Project developer DWW Rev 1 LLC is a joint venture of New England utility Eversource and Ã?rsted U.S. Offshore Wind.

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[Article] Summer 2019 Contributors

Home Energy

Sarah Poe “Reaching the Underserved” Sarah wishes readers to see “the collaborative approach that our team has taken to reach underserved customers through our WarmChoice program.

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Alabama Municipal Electric Authority signs 100-MW solar PPA

Renewable Energy World

Today, Alabama Municipal Electric Authority (AMEA) and Lightsource BP announced the development of a 100-MW (AC) solar energy project in Montgomery County, Alabama. Lightsource BP will finance, develop, build, own, and operate the solar facility and will deliver energy to AMEA under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA). The project, situated 15 miles from AMEA’s headquarters in Montgomery, will supply clean energy to AMEA’s 11 Member utilities located across the state and will generate enoug

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Conectric and Avimesa Combine Solutions to Deliver Simplified Industrial IoT Value

CleanTech San Diego

Cleantech San Diego member and Southern California Energy Innovation Network company Conectric has entered into a strategic agreement with local Industrial IoT start-up Avimesa. Avimesa was founded to provide the industrial market with solutions used for intelligent equipment monitoring and failure prediction. Their core product, Avimesa Device Cloud, includes features like messaging, alerting, data filtering, and over-the-air (OTA) firmware updates, but eliminates the need to build the underlyi

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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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Amply Power Honored by Fast Company’s 2019 World Changing Ideas Awards for Innovative Charging-as-a-service Business Model for EV Fleets

LA CleanTech Incubator

AMPLY’s simple usage model of cents-per-electric-mile driven helps fleets migrate to electric vehicles within their fleets of truck, bus, van, and EV cars: zero capex, guaranteed ready for work every day, and fixed, budgetable cost. The post Amply Power Honored by Fast Company’s 2019 World Changing Ideas Awards for Innovative Charging-as-a-service Business Model for EV Fleets appeared first on LACI.

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[Article] Summer 2019 Calendar

Home Energy

June 3–7 NYC—Certified Passive House Designer Training June 6–8 AIA Conference on Architecture

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