Forbes Green Tech
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
A massive project being planned in in Australia’s sunny Northern Territory would combine the world's largest solar farm, the largest battery, and longest undersea electricity cable.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Total number of faith groups to join anti-fossil fuel movement hits 400 as pressure builds on governments to end public funding for oil, coal, and gas projects. The global divestment movement expanded further today, as 47 faith institutions from 21 countries announced they are to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry in a bid to help tackle the climate crisis.
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Green Living Guy
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Having power can streamline every business or establishment’s daily activities and it can also keep families safe and comfortable in their homes. When it comes to commercial applications, power can come in several different forms. Whether you own an officebuilding, hotel, hospital, school, supermarkets, malls, or even condominiums, having a. The post Perfect Power Sources for Commercial Applications appeared first on Green Living Guy.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Car giant earmarks half its total investment spend for EVs, hybrid cars, AI and autonomous driving over the next five years. Volkswagen plans to increase its investment in electric, hybrid, and digital technologies to €73bn over the next five years, as the German car giant races to meet growing consumer demand and regulatory pressure to accelerate the shift away from fossil fuel cars.
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.
Ideas 4 Sustainability
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : The Western Cape province of South Africa is well known for its grain and wine production.? However, the agricultural sector in the semi-arid, water-stressed country is highly climate sensitive.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Funding boost gives company access to around £450m to accelerate deployment of energy storage and EV infrastructure. Clean energy infrastructure specialist Zenobe Energy is poised for rapid expansion, after securing a £150m investment from Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of M&G Plc. Infracapital's funding is set to support the growth of Zenobe's grid-scale battery services and electric vehicle (EV) and charging infrastructure services, the company said.
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Business Green
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Major wind pipeline deal struck between Edinburgh renewables company and Copenhagen-based developer will see partners collaborate for five years. Danish energy company European Energy and UK renewables firm Locogen have inked a deal to build a major pipeline of onshore wind farms in Scotland over the next five years. Announcing the tie-up last week, the partners said the venture would see them finance and develop "at least" 800MW of onshore wind, providing enough electricity to power hundreds of
Low Impact
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
OK, so this isn’t really about squirrels or pigeons – it’s about any animal; we’re back to the veganism vs meat-eating discussion. But just focusing on squirrels and pigeons for the moment, I guess everyone accepts that they are of course food for other animals. They’re in a food chain, after all. Pine martens don’t need to wrestle with this question – squirrels are most definitely food for them.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Poll of 500 executives also points to growing dissatisfaction of corporate climate efforts among company staff. Almost three-quarters of company executives in a major global survey believe their businesses lack the critical skills required to deliver the net zero transition, raising concerns that a failure to upskill their workforce in order to confront climate-related risks could pose a serious threat to economic stability.
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
I've been lucky to have several chats with Tesla CEO Elon Musk over the past few years. Unsurprisingly, what he has said in private chats is mostly the same as what he regularly says in public (including on Twitter).
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.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Prototype self-driving vehicles set to be tested in real-world conditions at the Future Mobility Campus Ireland in County Clare. Jaguar Land Rover has outlined plans to work with a clutch of software, mobility, and telecommunications companies to develop a 'smart city hub' in Ireland where autonomous electric vehicles will be trialled in real world conditions.
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
We recently saw the International Energy Agency (IEA) report that solar power offers the cheapest electricity in history. That was a global report. A US-focused report from Lazard recently reported something similar, but even better news.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Digital technologies have been crucial to the wind industry's success, but far more also needs investing in worker skills, argues ARMSA Consulting's Rakesh Maharaj. The advances in automation, digitalisation and artificial intelligence are all around us, from the dreaded supermarket checkouts to the curated Spotify playlist we listen to during the long wait for the shop assistant.
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Last year and for several years prior, a US taxpayer who installed a solar power system on their roof could get a 30% tax credit on the cost of that system. In 2020, that tax credit was reduced to 26%, and it will drop to 22% next year.
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.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
VIDEO: World's longest-serving environmental journalist and BusinessGreen Lifetime Achievement winner discusses his decades-long career with James Murray. Believed to be the world's longest serving environmental journalist, Geoffrey Lean - Lifetime Achievement winner at the recent BusinessGreen Leaders' Awards - has been drawing attention to critical, yet often overlooked, green issues for around half a century.
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Our nervous system is managing everything in our bodies for free and unnoticed. The steering, control, and execution of every function in our body is managed perfectly well, but we take it for granted. If it does not work, nothing works.
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Tesla just installed a total of 56 of its new V3 superchargers in Firebaugh, California, along Interstate 5, which is the main stretch for West Coast drivers traveling between San Francisco and.
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
About 12% of all US greenhouse emissions come from heating and cooling buildings, according to Vox. Much of the energy used to heat large buildings — factories, office buildings, universities, schools, and so forth — could come from geothermal sources. The Earth’s core is made up of molten iron, geologists say, though no one has [&hellip.
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?
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
New night shots at Giga Texas were taken this weekend by Jeff Roberts, who is a member of the Quad Squad, a group of drone pilots who were granted permission by Elon Musk to operate drones over Giga Texas to document Tesla's daily improvements.
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
The Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa’s factory in Silverton, Pretoria, South Africa is getting a massive 13. 5 megawatt (MW) solar system. This will make it one of the largest solar PV systems installed at a factory worldwide.
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Financial deliberation to rebuild after the pandemic should be directed to climate crisis mitigation.
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Last year, when I decided to buy a Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus, the two biggest questions I had were whether to get the Full Self-Driving package and whether to get the white seats. One year and a couple months on from that, I thought I'd share how I feel about those decisions now.
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