Adapting to fire: How cities can enhance resilience with distributed energy
GreenBiz
MARCH 10, 2020
Solar-plus-storage and microgrids are among the powerful tools to help cities withstand nature disasters.
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A clean-energy school in southern France draws power from the sun
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 10, 2020
In addition to its energy-saving and -producing features, the Ada Lovelace Secondary School features a bold and contemporary design to help boost the neighborhood’s ongoing urban revitalization efforts.
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5 ways businesses can nudge their consumers to go green
GreenBiz
MARCH 10, 2020
Companies large and small are leaning into sustainability, but consumers remain stubbornly out of step. Here's how to flip the script.
Green design at Te Mirumiru center honors Maori history
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 10, 2020
Architecture incompasses a lot of things. It’s art. It’s function. It’s culture. The Te Mirumiru Early Childhood Education Centre is an example of all three, with the added achievement of a low environmental impact.
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.
Electric package trucks are (almost) ready for delivery
GreenBiz
MARCH 10, 2020
Local delivery fleets are ideal for electrification given their predictable routes and significant dwell times at the depot.
California Ports Turn to Microgrids for Energy Security, Demand Flexibility
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 10, 2020
As California policymakers strengthen the state’s climate and clean energy targets, billions of dollars are being invested to transition to zero-emission cargo-handling equipment at major ports. Swapping diesel-powered trucks for electric models and equipping ships to plug into the grid while at berth offers life-saving public health benefits.
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Coronavirus May Challenge Solar Industry’s Tax Credit Strategy
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 10, 2020
Solar developers working in the U.S. have spent years refining their plans to secure the federal Investment Tax Credit for as much of their pipeline as possible by “safe-harboring” projects in advance of the step-down taking place. As long as developers meet certain criteria, projects brought online after the step-down begins can still secure a 30 percent tax credit.
Why simplified approaches to reducing Scope 3 emissions don’t always work
GreenBiz
MARCH 10, 2020
How do you demonstrate dramatic GHG reductions when the way you measure doesn’t allow for it?
Renewable energy event picks up business award
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 10, 2020
Dan Thurlow, SEC’s Director of Exhibition Sales. All-Energy 2019 – the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference – and Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus (SEC) have been awarded Best Business Event at the national finals of this year’s Scottish Thistle Awards National Final held on 5 March at the EICC. The category celebrates the importance of business events in showcasing Scotland’s world-class credentials as a destination for congresses, meetings and incentives programmes from aroun
Costa Rican surf hotel gets stunning new athletic center
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 10, 2020
Hotel guests can feel connected to the surrounding trees and wildlife during their workouts.
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.
What Meal Kits Tell Us About the Energy Intensity of the Food System
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 10, 2020
When you get meal-kits delivered to your home, are they a net benefit to the environment? Or are these time savers carbon-heavy? Since 2012, there’s been a surge in meal-kit delivery options. Online buying and delivery is now the norm. There’s a surge in interest in healthy eating. And we’re all insanely busy. And that’s making Meal-Kits like Home Chef, Blue Apron and HelloFresh a $5 billion business.
3D-printed home inspired by a wasp's nest is made of local clay
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 10, 2020
These 3D-printed clay homes could be a solution to the housing crisis.
New Jersey Finalizes Transitional Solar Incentives, Giving Industry Price Certainty
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 10, 2020
New Jersey will offer a flat 15-year price for its Transition Renewable Energy Certificates, the program designed to carry the state from its successful legacy incentive program to its next, more moderate scheme. In an order issued on Monday , the state's Board of Public Utilities set the fixed price at $152 per TREC, which a project earns after generating 1 megawatt-hour.
Coronavirus Lockdown May Save More Lives By Preventing Pollution Than By Preventing Infection
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 10, 2020
The coronavirus lockdown may save more lives from pollution reduction than are threatened by the virus itself, said François Gemenne, director of The Hugo Observatory.
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.
Researchers convert durian and jackfruit biowaste into ultracapacitors
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 10, 2020
Who knew that putrid-smelling biowaste could pack an electrical punch?
Daimler launches charging infrastructure program for electric trucks
Charged
MARCH 10, 2020
The E-Mobility Group of Daimler Trucks & Buses is launching an initiative to develop a charging infrastructure for electric trucks. The eTruck Charging Initiative will begin by focusing on charging stations at the depots of truck customers in the US and Europe. The Japanese market will follow. The initiative will bring together e-truck customers, power grid operators, energy suppliers, charging hardware manufacturers and charging software providers, says Daimler.
Force majeure: What does the coronavirus mean for your solar contract?
Solar Power World
MARCH 10, 2020
By Tanya M. Larrabee, associate, Sherin and Lodgen LLP As the threat of coronavirus (COVID-19) intensifies, so does the likelihood that the virus will affect the solar and storage industries. If you have not yet begun to think about the coronavirus’s potential impact, now is the time to start planning. The first place to look… The post Force majeure: What does the coronavirus mean for your solar contract?
Backstopping local economies and small businesses in a global pandemic
Impact Alpha
MARCH 10, 2020
ImpactAlpha, March 10 – In the face of the coronavirus outbreak, local leaders are being forced to sacrifice local economic activity in the national interest. On Friday, Austin canceled SXSW, the tech and culture fest that contributes some $350 million to the local economy – and let go of a third of the festival’s full-time employees. The post Backstopping local economies and small businesses in a global pandemic appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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?
Colorado town subscribes to 3.6 MW of community solar to power all municipal facilities
Solar Power World
MARCH 10, 2020
The Town of Breckenridge has signed an agreement with Colorado community solar developer Pivot Energy, to subscribe to 3.6 MW of community solar capacity. The solar subscription provides the remaining amount of clean energy currently needed for Breckenridge to achieve its goal of reaching 100% renewable electricity for its municipal facilities by 2025.
Energy Drone & Robotics Leaders Join Coalition’s Advisory Board for 2020
altenergymag
MARCH 10, 2020
The Advisory Board’s mission is to provide assistance, direction and recommendations for the content, speakers, articles, industry reports, focus and growth of the Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition, as it builds and shares digital and live event resources for the entire community of industrial, energy and engineering unmanned systems proponents, operators, solution providers and regulators.
'Societal engagement is essential': New study shines light on net zero challenges
Business Green
MARCH 10, 2020
Less meat consumption and flying, huge scaling up of carbon capture and clean energy capacity, and transformational changes to land use are all to deliver net zero emissions by 2050, major new study argues. The UK will struggle to reach net zero emissions much before 2050 without "highly speculative" changes to consumer lifestyles, such as slashing flight numbers and meat production, an independent government and industry-backed research body has concluded.
Enphase Energy Powers Commercial Solar for Del Sol Energy
altenergymag
MARCH 10, 2020
Del Sol Energy deployed a 97 kW Enphase microinverter-based ballasted rooftop solar system for Delta Bowl, the newly remodeled experiential bowling and games center in Antioch, Calif. The solar system, which received its permission to operate (PTO) in February 2020, provides clean, reliable solar energy for Delta Bowl’s 35,000 square-foot entertainment facility.
Elon Musk’s Drive To $55 Billion Tesla Payday Slowed By COVID-19 Stock Slide
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 10, 2020
The breathless surge in Tesla shares raised expectations Musk would soon hit the first tranche of a jaw-dropping pay package worth at least $55 billion over a decade
Green ice cream: Mackie's debuts emissions-slashing biomass freezer technology
Business Green
MARCH 10, 2020
Scottish ice cream maker begins installation of multi-million pound freezer powered by ammonia made from on-site biomass boilers. "One of Europe's greenest and most ambitious" freezers is set to be installed at ice cream maker Mackie's family farm in Aberdeenshire, in a move designed to cut both costs and carbon emissions for the Scottish firm. Mackie's, which produces ten million litres of ice cream a year, said it hoped to cut CO2 emissions by up to 80 per cent and drive down its energy costs
Electrify America invests $2 million in Envision Solar infrastructure
Charged
MARCH 10, 2020
Electrify America will invest $2 million in solar-powered EV charging stations from San Diego-based Envision Solar. Envision’s EV ARC 2020 charger is equipped with a 4.28 kW sun-tracking solar array, 32 kWh of on-board battery storage, and two Electrify America Level 2 chargers capable of charging speeds up to 6 kW. The EV ARC 2020 is designed to be installed within minutes and to withstand winds up to 120 mph and floods up to 9.5 feet, according to Envision Solar.
Goldman Sachs, TELOS form joint venture to develop commercial solar projects
Solar Power World
MARCH 10, 2020
TELOS Clean Energy announced the closing of a joint venture with Goldman Sachs’ Alternative Energy Investing Group to develop, construct, own and operate distributed solar power projects. The solar projects will be expected to sell power to commercial, industrial and municipal customers. Goldman Sachs can invest up to $275 million to finance the activities of… The post Goldman Sachs, TELOS form joint venture to develop commercial solar projects appeared first on Solar Power World.
Opus Energy launches 100 per cent renewable power tariff for small firms
Business Green
MARCH 10, 2020
UK’s fifth largest business energy supplier, which is owned by Drax, offers fully renewable tariff for new and existing SME customers. Opus Energy has launched its first 100 per cent renewable electricity tariff for small and medium-sized companies, promising green electricity sourced from across Europe and the UK, including parent company Drax's biomass power plant in Yorkshire.
On Apple’s ‘Batterygate’: Why Settling For $500-Million Is The Wrong Move.
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 10, 2020
Although the estimated $25 per person payout may seem like a small victory for proponents of Fair Tech, it’s time that the public actually has its day in court versus Apple.
SolarEdge Expanding EV Charging Offering with Smart EV Charger Launch
altenergymag
MARCH 10, 2020
Increasing installation flexibility, the new level 2 EV charger (Maximum 9.6kW 40A@ 240Vac) supports installation either as a stand-alone unit or coupled with a SolarEdge PV system.
PowerMarket, Solar One parter on new mixed-income community solar project
Solar Power World
MARCH 10, 2020
PowerMarket, a community solar company connecting electric utility customers to clean energy projects, partners with Solar One to provide Con Edison customers guaranteed savings on their electric bills. Solar One is nonprofit whose mission is to design and deliver innovative education, training and technical assistance to make solar more accessible to New York City residents.… The post PowerMarket, Solar One parter on new mixed-income community solar project appeared first on Solar Power W
EVgo Announces Opening of 800th EVgo Fast Charging Location
altenergymag
MARCH 10, 2020
With record year of firsts in 2019, EVgo is leading the industry on renewable energy, Tesla connectors, and network growth
Liverpool waste collection to be powered by… waste
Business Green
MARCH 10, 2020
City council’s waste operator is to deploy Mercedes-Benz trucks running on renewable biogas. Waste and recycling in Liverpool is to be collected by trucks running on renewable biogas, following a deal with auto giant Mercedes-Benz. The company announced yesterday that it has delivered 20 new Mercedes-Benz Econic NGT (Natural Gas Technology) 2630 L trucks, which will between them cover more than 150,000 miles a year, mostly in the city centre.
Western Link outage and high wind sees constraint cost hit a record high
altenergymag
MARCH 10, 2020
The Western Link HVDC suffered an unplanned outage on 10 January, which caused it to remain offline until 8 February. This coincided with record-high levels of wind generation in GB with generation from transmission connected wind topping 6.3TWh. However, with 2.2GW of HVDC capacity unavailable, significant volumes of wind output had to be constrained.
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