GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

The robotic, hybrid-electric future of agriculture. Shane Downing. Tue, 05/12/2020 - 00:15. While many around the world, ordered indoors amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, are coming up with innovative ways to plant small victory gardens in, around and on top of their homes, plenty of change is afoot in big ag — much of it driven by new technologies. A recent IDTechEx webcast, "Electric Vehicles and Robotics in Agriculture: $50 Billion Market Soon,” provided a brief overview of a 215-page report , "E

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 12, 2020

A new expansion for The Sims franchise lets players add solar panels, dumpster dive and craft homemade candles in a maker space — or let the garbage pile up.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Electricity grids can handle a lot of wind, solar and water resources. But what will help us get from 80% renewable energy to 100% renewable energy? The missing piece may be renewable synthetic fuels. “When we really want to decarbonize the whole electricity system, absolutely synthetic fuels will play a key role,” says Matti Rautkivi, the director of Business Development and Strategy at Wärtsilä In this episode, produced in collaboration with Wärtsilä, we’r

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 12, 2020

In the home of the Northern Lights, the Arctic Sauna Pavilion by Toni Yli-Suvanto Architects marries sustainability with incredible views.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Duke Energy is standing behind its plan to double its renewable energy base to 16 gigawatts by 2025 despite the depressing effect the coronavirus outbreak is having on its utilities. Duke's first-quarter income from its utilities business fell, and the results don’t reflect the full impact of the COVID-19 stay-at-home and business closure orders, CEO Lynn Good said on a Tuesday conference call.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 12, 2020

Here are tips to stay safe while enjoying the great outdoors during a pandemic.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 12, 2020

The Alice Airstream is truly a dream tiny home.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

The CEO of German utility giant E.ON has called on the German government to intervene to keep down the costs of renewable electricity and “fast-track” the energy transition. Johannes Teyssen said the government needs to cap the tariff added to customer bills to pay for the country’s renewable support schemes, known as the "EEG levy.

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altenergymag

MAY 12, 2020

The Elk Neck Behind-the-Meter Virtual Power Plant in Cecil County, Maryland will provide backup power for homes in an isolated community on the Chesapeake Bay while enhancing grid reliability and DER integration, and demonstrating the overall grid value of aggregated behind-the-meter residential battery systems to Maryland energy companies and policy makers.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Engie is on the lookout for more clean energy acquisitions in the U.S., where the company plans to ramp up its investments into grid-scale batteries, hybrid renewables projects and offshore wind, says North America chief Gwenaelle Avice-Huet. With a long history in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Engie has pivoted dramatically toward renewables over the past few years — a strategy that included the U.S. acquisitions of wind developer Infinity Renewables, solar installer SoCore Energy, and

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 12, 2020

Forskaren will rely on renewable energy to power its operations.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Span.IO, the San Francisco-based startup that makes a smart home electrical panel that can track and control behind-the-meter batteries, rooftop solar inverters, EV chargers and other key household loads via smartphone, has landed a $10.2 million Series A round to scale up deployment in key markets, including wildfire-prone California. Span CEO Arch Rao, former head of Tesla’s energy storage business, said the funding round will help ramp up deployment and build relationships with solar an

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Impact Alpha

MAY 12, 2020

ImpactAlpha, May 12 – A handful of philanthropic foundations have committed themselves to align 100% of their endowments with their social impact missions. Even before most of them reach that goal, some foundation leaders are raising the bar. The new stretch goal: changing who deploys the assets in the first place. The Heron Foundation in 2016. The post Stretch goal for foundations: Shift power, as well as assets, for the post-COVID economy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2020

Read time: 4 mins By Andrea Germanos , Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY - SA 3.0 US. Recent lobby filings from major oil and gas paint a picture of “disaster capitalism at its worst.”. So declares a report released Tuesday, May 12 by Friends of the Earth ( FOE ) showing how Big Oil is working to make sure the legislative response to the coronavirus crisis is beneficial to the industry.

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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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Solar Power World

MAY 12, 2020

First Solar, the world’s largest cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar panel manufacturer, has a new competitive neighbor in Northwest Ohio: Toledo Solar has set up in the former Willard & Kelsey Solar Group building in Perrysburg, Ohio, to manufacture CdTe panels for the residential and commercial solar markets. Atlas Venture Group (parent company of Toledo Solar)… The post Rooftop CdTe solar panel manufacturer starts up in First Solar’s backyard appeared first on Solar Power Wor

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GatesNotes

MAY 12, 2020

This first-of-its-kind surveillance program may help solve some of the most pressing questions about COVID-19.

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Grist

MAY 12, 2020

Disasters reveal our vulnerabilities and blind spots. Houstonians couldn’t ignore that they were living in flood zones when Hurricane Harvey submerged Texas in 2017. The utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric could no longer turn a blind eye to its failing equipment once its aging powerlines ignited the biggest California wildfire on record. In much the same way, the novel coronavirus has shown how woefully unprepared the United States was to face a pandemic.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 12, 2020

Journalists are using satellite imagery to discover and share visual indicators of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing timely information that can help people make better decisions about global issues. “The first folks that were asking for Planet data were the news media, who were just trying to understand [what’s happening on the ground], especially since they can’t send journalists [out on location] anymore,” said Planet CEO Will Marshall in a video interview with Bloomberg Businessweek’s Hello W

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2020

Read time: 11 mins Climate science deniers at think tanks with fossil fuel ties are doubling down on attempts to undermine the bases for regulating climate pollution, from attacking estimated carbon pollution costs used in regulatory analyses to urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) to reverse its own scientific finding that underpins federal climate rules.

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Solar Power World

MAY 12, 2020

By Sean Silvey, product application specialist, Fluke Operations and maintenance technicians love tools. They’re known for nerding out over the latest and greatest — but more importantly, they look to the reliability of their tools to help ensure they are reliable themselves. So, what do solar O&M techs have in their toolboxes? Everything they need… The post 5 must-have tools for solar O&M technicians appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Forbes Green Tech

MAY 12, 2020

COVID is pushing cities to quickly plan everything from pop-up bike lanes, temporary parklets, and transit recovery services to keep residents safe and moving.

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Solar Power World

MAY 12, 2020

Commercial and community solar company Pivot Energy completed a 431-kW solar carport installation for the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA), an electrical utility cooperative. The solar carport, located at IREA’s headquarters in Sedalia, Colorado, combines beautiful aesthetics with functionality, using high-efficiency solar panels and a sleek low-profile design.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 12, 2020

It’s time to plant natives, and despite spring sale event cancellations, you can still order your favorite native flowers, shrubs and trees online or by phone for curbside pickup. To find a native plant nursery or sale anywhere in the U.S., visit the Plant Native Directory or Choose Natives for options by city, county and state. Here are native plant sales in the Kansas City / Lawrence area in May and June.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

French cosmetics giant says it is 'essential not to not step back from the sustainable transformation that the world needs' as it delivers plans to invest in ecosystem repair and circular economy projects. L'Oréal Group has pledged to invest €100m over the next decade in projects that heal damaged natural ecosystems and advance the circular economy, as part of an "unprecedented social and environmental solidarity programme" prompted by the pandemic.

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Solar Power World

MAY 12, 2020

Ventura Energy Storage (VES), a 100-MW/400-MWh battery energy storage system in unincorporated Ventura County, California, has completed pre-construction development by Strata Solar. Tesla will EPC the installation of its Megapack battery system. Construction, using local union labor, is scheduled to commence in July 2020. Strata Solar’s Ventura Energy Storage project was competitively selected by Southern California Edison (SCE),… The post Strata Solar and Tesla partner on 400-MWh battery

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

New report from Just Eat and the Sustainable Restaurant Association notes that while restaurant food waste is up during the coronavirus lockdown, takeaway consumers' attitudes towards food waste is showing signs of improvement. Takeaway restaurants are generating 25 per cent more food waste during the coronavirus lockdown as they cater to unpredictable ordering patterns, according to findings published today.

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CleanTech Group

MAY 12, 2020

Attractiveness It’s no surprise that online food sales are surging in the wake of Covid-19. While exact figures are changing all the time.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Law firm claims individual drivers could receive as much as £10,000 in damages, but German parent company Daimler has promised to "vigorously defend" itself against any group action. Up to one million Mercedes-Benz drivers in Britain could have been unknowingly releasing illegal levels of emissions into the air after the German carmaker allegedly installed devices in diesel vehicles that could cheat emissions tests, lawyers have claimed.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 12, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Stretch goal for foundations: Shift power, as well as assets, for the post-COVID economy. A handful of philanthropic foundations have committed themselves to align 100% of their endowments with their social impact missions. Even before most of them reach that goal, some foundation leaders are raising the bar.

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altenergymag

MAY 12, 2020

Data analyzed on 3 gigawatts of solar installations, 9 million panels and 551 installations

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MAY 12, 2020

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Forbes Green Tech

MAY 12, 2020

GM VP Ken Morris says its new electric vehicle programs remain on schedule despite working remotely during the pandemic.

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Solar Power World

MAY 12, 2020

Span, the rising smart panel company led by executives and lead engineers from Tesla, Amazon Echo and Sunrun, has raised $10.2 million to transform the electrical panel into an intelligent gateway for every home and expand the adoption of solar, energy storage and electric vehicles. Span’s smart panel provides intuitive monitoring and controls for all… The post Span raises $10.2 million for electrical panel innovation to expand solar + storage adoption appeared first on Solar Power World.

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