Mon.Feb 01, 2021

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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups

GreenBiz

Ocean-based sequestration heats ups. Jim Giles. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 00:30. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here. Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints.

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Biden's new executive order cuts fossil fuel subsidies

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a recent executive order, President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. The agencies are to find new opportunities that will "spur innovation, commercialization, and deployment of clean energy technology.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats up

GreenBiz

Ocean-based sequestration heats up. Jim Giles. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 00:30. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here. Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints.

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GM pledges carbon neutrality by 2040, expands electric fleet

Inhabitat - Innovation

General Motors has announced an ambitious plan to be carbon-neutral by 2040. The largest U.S. auto maker also aims to eliminate tailpipe emissions from light-duty vehicles by 2035.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'. Heather Clancy. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 02:00. The number of companies proclaiming their intent to go net-zero by 2050 has expanded exponentially in the past 12 months, but the ones short-cutting that commitment by a decade are a rarer breed. In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions sta

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Hydrogen fuel cells good or bad for the environment?

Inhabitat - Innovation

Will cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells save the environment? Possibly. But some major issues need solving before that can happen.

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Advene's handbag reduces plastic, not style

Inhabitat - Innovation

Advene has just restocked its Age bag, an accessory that is transparently constructed and designed to eliminate unnecessary plastics.

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Sponsored content: New generation of ecological degreasers and oil spill clean-up products now available

Envirotec Magazine

This article contains paid-for content created in collaboration with T&T Eco. T&T Eco has brought together a number of innovative ecological cleaning & degreasing products for Bioremediation as well as the cleaning up oil spills and other hydrocarbon contaminated surfaces. The company claims Oil Spill Eater II is the world’s most environmentally safe and cost-effective bioremediation product, for the mitigation of hazardous waste, spills and contamination.

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The River School places classrooms around a central courtyard

Inhabitat - Innovation

L’École du Fleuve (The River School) presents a plan that relies on locally sourced, sustainable and recycled materials.

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Beyond Declining Battery Prices: Six Ways to Evaluate Energy Storage in 2021

GreenTechMedia

The energy storage market in the United States is booming, with 476 megawatts (MW) of new projects installed in the third quarter of 2020 alone, up 240 percent over the second quarter, according to industry analysts at Wood MacKenzie. 2021 is expected to be another record-breaking year for storage, but with technological innovation accelerating across the market, renewable energy asset owners need to carefully select safe and reliable systems to protect their storage investments.

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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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KPM POWER ACHIEVES KEY SAFETY CERTIFICATION FOR ITS BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

altenergymag

UL1973 listing covers batteries for use in stationary, vehicle auxiliary power and light electric rail applications

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Teaching Your Kids How To Recycle And Why

U.S. Green Technology

With an ever-increasing population that still relies overwhelmingly on unsustainable resources, the world is relying on our children for its future. Our generation is making steady progress towards a greener planet. According to the European Union, we have reduced household waste by approximately 2% per annum since 2015. Nevertheless, we need to act faster.

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SunPower and EagleView Automate Home Survey Process for Faster, More Precise Solar Installations

altenergymag

-Computer vision, machine-learning enable dealers to create precise, construction-ready designs without drones or in-home surveys -Functionality reduces installation timelines by up to two weeks

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Sports and Environment: 6 Tips for Making Sports Facilities More Green and Sustainable

U.S. Green Technology

As time goes by, non-renewable energy sources come to the very brink of their purposefulness, and climate changes impossible to ignore. The questions of sustainability and green economy become some of the most frequently discussed topics. What’s even more important, these burning issues are now leaving the closed economic and industrial circles and now breach.

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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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Solving for climate justice is giving these Black investors an edge in the green economy

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb 1 – The design mandate for the green economy: Develop better and cleaner solutions that create jobs, improve health and drive demonstrably. The post Solving for climate justice is giving these Black investors an edge in the green economy appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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POSTPONEMENT OF THE SMARTER E EUROPE 2021

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The smarter E Europe with its four exhibitions Intersolar Europe, ees Europe, Power2Drive Europe and EM-Power Europe will be moved back by six weeks to the second half of 2021. The innovation hub for the new energy world will now take place from July 21–23, 2021, at Messe München. The smarter E Europe is Europe’s largest platform for the energy industry and the most important meeting point for the new energy world.

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Dassault Sytemes

GreenBiz

Dassault Sytemes. taylor flores. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 19:06.

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Rhombus launches new bidirectional charging solution for medium- and heavy-duty EV fleets

Charged

Rhombus Energy Solutions has launched a new bidirectional “EV charging dispenser.” The RES-D2-CS20 has been certified by Underwriters Laboratory (UL) and the CSA Group for use in medium- and heavy-duty fleet applications. The company calls it a perfect match for the Rhombus 60 kW and 125 kW Power Conditioning Systems. Rhombus’s bidirectional charger enables Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) functionality, which allows fleet operators to return energy to the grid during peak demand hours or to be use it to p

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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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Solar Energy Market: Industry Overview, Recent Developments, Updates, Policies, and Outlook Research Report

altenergymag

According to the primary CXO's of the global solar energy market, the market is estimated to witness a substantial growth of nearly 20% over the forecast period. The market was valued at USD 20 billion, in 2019 and is expected to be valued at over USD 200 billion. By technology segmentation, the concentrated solar power system category is expected to contribute the largest market share in the global solar energy market.

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Common mistakes EV battery manufacturers make that cost time and money

Charged

Sponsored by Nordson Sealant Equipment. Nordson Sealant Equipment is in Wixom, MI, USA and specializes in automated sealing and dispensing for 1-part and 2-part materials used in electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing. Nordson designs and manufacturers meters and valves to precisely dispense sealant and adhesives materials. We proudly partner with most of the top 10 automotive manufacturers globally to enhance their vehicle production.

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Exelon Threatens To Mothball Four Nuclear Power Plants Unless Paid A Premium For Their Zero-Carbon Electricity

Forbes Green Tech

Lawmakers often turn to federally chartered "Independent Market Monitors" to vet the nuclear industry's claims that its plants are money-losing. This is an investigation of how one of these expert groups arrived at its striking conclusion about two nuclear plants in Illinois.

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Overlooked gems in Tesla’s Q4 earnings call

Charged

Tesla’s latest earnings report was loaded with good news: the company’s sixth straight quarter, and first full year, of profitability; increased sales ($31.5 billion in 2020, compared to $24.6 billion in 2019); a healthy cash position ($19.4 billion as of year-end, compared to $6.3 billion at the end of 2019); and plausible plans for steady increases in production (an estimated 50% annual increase).

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Intersect power raises $600 million to expand utility-scale solar in the U.S.

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, February 1 – Solar power is the fastest-growing energy sector in the U.S. San Francisco-based Intersect Power has developed 1.7 gigawatts of solar. The post Intersect power raises $600 million to expand utility-scale solar in the U.S. appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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G20 COUNTRIES’ CLIMATE POLICIES FAIL TO MAKE THE GRADE ON PARIS PROMISES

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New G20 Zero-Carbon Policy Scoreboard assesses, ranks nations – and finds that despite impressive headline goals, follow-through efforts are badly lacking ahead of COP26

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The Reconstruction: Learning from history to create opportunities for equitable wealth-building (podcast)

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 1 – Talk about a signal. The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 kicked off the period of systemic reform, multi-racial progress and shared. The post The Reconstruction: Learning from history to create opportunities for equitable wealth-building (podcast) appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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US DOE funding research on how artificial intelligence could improve PV power plant efficiencies

Renewable Energy World

Case Western Reserve University last week announced that computer scientists and energy technology experts are teaming up to leverage the diagnostic power of artificial intelligence (AI) to make solar-power plants more efficient. “Solar is now the cheapest form of electricity in the world, but the efficiency of the actual power plants is being analyzed one at a time, and that’s just not tractable, especially for a fast-growing industry,” said Roger French, director of the Solar Durability and Li

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Circuit Clinical raises $500,000 for COVID-19 tests and medical research

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, February 1 – Buffalo, N.Y.-based Circuit Clinical supports clinical trials for medical research initiatives, including a saliva-based COVID-19 test. It received a $500,000. The post Circuit Clinical raises $500,000 for COVID-19 tests and medical research appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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The Ultramarine Ocean Summit Aims To Promote Ocean Conservation

Forbes Green Tech

By bringing together scientists, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and artists, this three-day summit aims to inspire action towards a healthier ocean.

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The Brief: The Reconstruction, investing for climate justice, criminal justice reform, utility-scale solar, honest IPO

Impact Alpha

Featured. The post The Brief: The Reconstruction, investing for climate justice, criminal justice reform, utility-scale solar, honest IPO appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Degrees Episode 11: Adam Heltzer

EDF + Business

ESG: Using finance to drive real change. Adam Heltzer is a self-described “do-gooder” who has always been driven to make a difference. After working at a series of more “typical” purpose-driven jobs, Adam had an epiphany: the private sector–and in particular the world of finance– was THE best place to create lasting change.

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Nexperia releases 80 V resistor-equipped transistor for 48 V automotive circuits

Charged

Nexperia has introduced its 80 V RET (resistor-equipped transistor) family. The company says the new RETs, or “digital transistors,” provide enough headroom for use in 48 V automotive circuits. RETs save space and reduce manufacturing costs by combining the bias resistor and bias-emitter resistor in the same SOT23 (250 mW P tot ) or SOT323 (235 mW P tot ) package as the transistor.

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The Oil Industry Has More To Fear From Elon Musk Than It Does Joe Biden

Forbes Green Tech

It’s a long-running debate — whether to rely on the traditional fossil fuels or to turn to the new economy for relief. And President Biden's positions are putting him at odds with oil producers.

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Solar Power World celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Top Solar Contractors list in 2021

Solar Power World

This year marks the 10th edition of Solar Power World’s celebrated Top Solar Contractors list. To mark the occasion, the solar media outlet will be hosting monthly roundtable conversations with installation companies leading to the 2021 Top Solar Contractors list reveal, as well as announcing four individual Top Solar Champions awards, which are open for… The post Solar Power World celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Top Solar Contractors list in 2021 appeared first on Solar Power