GreenBiz

AUGUST 14, 2020

So far, this year is a microgrid letdown. Here is what's next. Sarah Golden. Fri, 08/14/2020 - 00:45. I had high hopes for microgrids this year. The cost has fallen, out-of-the-box solutions are more common and businesses and homes understand the expense of losing power. All signs pointed to this being the year of the microgrid. . Yet here we are, at the start of the new fire season, and we’re just launching programs and soliciting proposals designed to add more resilience.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

Dan Seif is vice president for market development at 7X Energy, a Texas-based solar developer. Let’s stop pretending that we’re paying for “energy” via our home power bills and understand that we’re mainly paying for infrastructure. Home electric bills have long been priced volumetrically (per kilowatt-hour, or unit of electric energy consumed), with only some small additional fixed charges like a meter charge and/or local fixed surcharges.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2020

Rare large blue butterflies just experienced their most substantial reintroduction into the wild. About 750 of the globally endangered butterflies successfully hatched from larvae and flapped around Rodborough Common in Gloucestershire this summer.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 14, 2020

The American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) report reveals that many U.S. wind developers managed to get their projects over the finish line during the three-month period, despite the significant challenges associated with COVID-19.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2020

In New York’s Hudson Valley region, the public liberal arts college SUNY New Paltz has earned a LEED Gold certification award for its newly completed Engineering Innovation Hub building.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

A heat wave across the Western U.S. this weekend will push California’s grid to the limits, as the state charts a course to eliminating fossil fuel power. The weather forecast calls for several days of more than 100 degree Fahrenheit highs across the interior of the state, and close to that in coastal Los Angeles. The desert environment won’t cool down much at night, so air conditioning load is expected to crank continuously.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

“Electrify everything” isn’t just a good slogan. It’s the fastest way to decarbonize and create tens of millions of jobs — and it can be done using off-the-shelf technology. A respected squad of researchers did the math on a swap-out of every aging boiler, truck and power plant in the U.S. — and replacing it with equipment that won’t burn fossil fuels ever again.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2020

While healing from an injury in Nairobi, Shannon Wild found comfort in making beaded bracelets. She turned this passion into a new business.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

Investor interest in Mexico’s emerging renewables market was at an all-time high when Andrés Manuel López Obrador came to power in December 2018. Less than halfway through the president’s first term, expectations have hit rock-bottom, the market is in tatters — and the coronavirus pandemic is making things worse. The center-left nationalist government of AMLO, as the president is widely known, has focused on undoing market liberalization measures carried out by th

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altenergymag

AUGUST 14, 2020

-Landmark agreement with EDF Renewables North America will see Masdar expand its footprint in the US to California and Nebraska, and grow presence in Texas -The clean energy assets include wind, solar PV, and battery storage projects with a total combined capacity of 1.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 14, 2020

Read time: 12 mins Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. It was dark and the vehicles drove through deep snow, smashing through wooden signs and barriers that guarded the village of tiny houses, erected in the path of a long-distance oil pipeline that runs from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. .

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 14, 2020

Planet is set to launch three more new SkySats (SkySats 19-21) into Low Earth Orbit on August 18th (date subject to change), rounding out the fleet of SkySats already in operations and joining SkySats 16-18 that successfully launched aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 in June. Planet SkySats 1-15 operate in Sun Synchronous Orbits, a specific type of Low Earth Orbit that results in the Earth’s surface always being illuminated by the Sun at the same angle when the satellite is capturing imagery.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 14, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 14 – It’s been a busy summer for Maurice Jones. If community development financial institutions are an overnight sensation decades in the making, Jones and his Local Initiatives Support Corp., or LISC, are the belle of the ball. In June and July alone, LISC landed a $60 million inclusive economic development partnership with. The post Agent of Impact: Maurice Jones, Local Initiatives Support Corp. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Grist

AUGUST 14, 2020

Imagine a world where instead of threading the walls of your house with copper wires that deliver electricity from the grid, the walls themselves stored that energy, potentially drawn from a solar array on your roof. While the science isn’t anywhere near delivering that fantasy yet, Julio D’Arcy’s lab at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a proof-of-concept simple red construction brick imbued with the ability to store energy, as well as power small devices.

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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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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 14, 2020

Climate justice is an important dimension of climate adaptation. As the world becomes more urbanized, issues such as heatwaves, canopy cover, and green acreage, will require particular attention.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 14, 2020

TGIF, Agents of Impact! New norms. Perhaps the most striking thing about the selection of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate is that she was the conventional choice. Harris is the first Black woman and the first Indian-American on a presidential ticket. That a first-generation immigrant and graduate of Howard University, a historically Black.

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Charged

AUGUST 14, 2020

After at least a year in stealth mode, French startup Verkor has announced plans to build a battery gigafactory in France. The facility, which is to open in 2023, will have an initial annual capacity of 16 GWh, which could be expanded to 50 GWh at a later date. The new company says it will take a “fast follower” approach, using established Li-ion technology, rather than trying to develop new battery chemistries or formulas.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2020

Mightly's new clothing are made with organic, fair-trade cotton.

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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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Charged

AUGUST 14, 2020

Octillion Power Systems, a Tier 1 supplier of EV energy storage systems, has announced a new demonstrator battery-leasing program for fleet customers. Under the program, participating fleet operators will be allowed to source batteries through a five-year lease-to-own program, with no up-front payment. The goal of the demonstration program is to collect data on battery degradation, evaluate fleet operation usage models, and assess the viability of second-life applications for used batteries.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 14, 2020

MOU signed to launch innovative mCHP cogeneration systems that promote energy efficiency and resiliency

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Charged

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART), which serves the Tampa, Florida, metropolitan area, has secured a $2.7-million federal grant to buy four electric buses, which are expected to be in service in two years. The federal grant will cover half the total project cost, which also includes underground wiring and charging stations. HART and local utility Tampa Electric (TECO) will provide the balance of the funding.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Malin Newbuild teams up with Smart Green Shipping to advance development of zero emission shipping prototype. Scottish marine engineering company Malin Newbuild has this week announced that it is partnering with Wiltshire-based Smart Green Shipping on a ground-breaking project to slash emissions across the shipping sector. The company said it was hoping to demonstrate how a vessel powered by a combination of wind and renewable energy could lead to a revival of civil shipbuilding in Glasgow.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 14, 2020

Switch2 Energy releases 'Lockdown Learning' webinar series for heat network designers, developers and operators.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Investment is starting to flow towards efforts to tackle one of the biggest clean energy challenges going - industrial heat. You may not know it, but you rely on industrial heat every day. It helped make the bricks that hold up your home; the cement underfoot. It forged the steel and glass in your car, and it also cooked the aluminum, plastic and silicon in the very screen on which you may be reading these words.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 14, 2020

On July 23, 2020, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (“DOER”) filed final regulations implementing a “Clean Peak Energy Standard,” which formally went into effect on August 7, 2020. The final regulations are the latest step towards making reality out of an idea enacted through the 2018 Act to Advance Clean Energy and make Massachusetts the first state to adopt such a program.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

And now for some serious fun. Last week, I had the opportunity to facilitate an online conversation with Terreform ONE , a Brooklyn, New York-based nonprofit architecture and urban design research group whose humble mission is "to combat the extinction of planetary species through pioneering acts of design.". It was a refreshing jolt of inspiration and hopefulness during this otherwise dreary moment.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 14, 2020

In New York’s Hudson Valley region, the public liberal arts college SUNY New Paltz has earned a LEED Gold certification award for its newly completed Engineering Innovation Hub building. Designed by NYC-based firm Urbahn Architects , the $13.5 billion project champions energy-efficient and resource-saving design, from its diversion of nearly 90% of the project’s construction waste from landfills to the installation of double-glazed, low-E windows throughout.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, and Northumberland Councils to share £1m funding to map out pioneering habitat protection plans. Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, and Northumberland Councils have been selected to pilot studies to help map the most valuable sites in their areas for wildlife in a bid to aid nature restoration efforts, the government has announced today.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 14, 2020

As parents, protecting kids against chemical-laden fabrics and setting examples about conscientious purchases make an important impact. Brands like Mightly, a children’s clothing company, make it easier to ensure the clothes you buy are responsibly manufactured, both for the safety of the planet and the children. Launched in 2019 by co-founders Tierra Forte, Barrie Brouse and Anya Marie Emerson, Mightly started with the goal of making ethically made and organic clothing more affordable for famil

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 14, 2020

The National University of Singapore business student is determined to tackle the city-state's food waste issues through sustainable entrepreneurship.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 14, 2020

Milk may do a body good, but it’s not so … The post Good, Better, Best: The Climate Impacts of Milks appeared first on Earth 911. Read the rest here: Good, Better, Best: The Climate Impacts of Milks.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 14, 2020

Throughout his career, Jigar Shah has been a pioneer at the intersection of climate and business. From founding SunEdison —the leading solar company that established $0-down solar, which Shah sold in 2013—to authoring “Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy” to starting Generate Capital —a “one-stop shop for the Infrastructure Revolution”—Shah is an expert in harnessing market forces to power climate initiatives.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 14, 2020

When National Geographic filmmaker Shannon Wild moved to Africa in 2013 to make wildlife documentaries, she found herself in the hospital after a near-death experience in Masai Mara. After pushing her body to the point of complete exhaustion for her career, she was medevaced to Nairobi and became bedridden for three months. Unable to even hold a camera initially, and with the knowledge that going back into the field would take months of stamina-building physical therapy, she started a grueling 6

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