Burning questions about insurance and climate
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Will insurers and banks step up to help reduce risk and build resistance — or contribute to crashing the economy?
Mon.Oct 28, 2019
252 Specialist firm develops eco-solution for Japanese knotweed waste
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Japanese knotweed removal firm Environet UK has developed a method for converting waste from Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants into biochar, with the potential to eliminate the need for environmentally damaging and expensive landfill disposal in the future. The creation of biochar, a charcoal used as a soil amendment, from Japanese knotweed plant waste is a carbon negative process which harnesses the carbon-scavenging power of Japanese knotweed in a positive way and contributes to the
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The need to digitize traceability is key to enabling circularity
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 28, 2019
The jury is still out on blockchain, but without better process automation and better data, it will be difficult to scale product takeback.
Newly released video game challenges players to survive the climate apocalypse
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Ever wonder how you’ll survive an apocalyptic climate crisis? People can now get a simulated preview of their survival chances in a newly released, multiplatform video game, The Climate Trail.
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.
The view from 20: General Motors’ global sustainability energy manager reflects on changes at the automaker
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 28, 2019
The legacy company is expanding to encompass renewable energy procurement and EV integration, but innovation can be hard.
Illegal logging possibly contributes to majority of mislabeled wood in US markets
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Mislabeling often signals wrongful supply chain violations — illegal logging and deforestation — that consequently hamper endeavors to promote sustainable wood.
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Italys 2020 World Expo pavilion celebrates sustainable, circular design
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 28, 2019
The temporary structure embodies circular principles to minimize waste and integrate recycled materials such as coffee grounds, mycelium and ocean plastic.
Pressure Mounts for Public Control of PG&E as Shares Hit Record Low
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Large-scale fire-prevention power outages are becoming the new normal in California, and Californians are becoming increasingly unwilling to trust bankrupt utility Pacific Gas & Electric to maintain control over them. Over the weekend, as the Kincade Fire drove nearly 200,000 Sonoma County residents to evacuate their homes, PG&E instituted its biggest power outage yet.
Have an eco-friendly Halloween and aim for zero-waste this October
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Holidays and celebrations can take a toll on the environment. Between waste and consumption, Halloween festivities leave behind a giant carbon footprint. But with a little purposeful planning, your holiday can be fun and eco-friendly at the same time. Go plastic free Obviously plastic is problematic for the planet from the petroleum used in production to the lack of sustainable disposal options.
US research aims to advance AD processes for the production of biofuels
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 28, 2019
A multi-institutional team led by Colorado State University (CSU) has been awarded $5.1 million from the US Department of Energy to try to improve the profitability and efficiency of anaerobic digestion. Anaerobic digestion refers to a cluster of natural processes by which microorganisms consume carbon-rich organic materials and produce methane and carbon dioxide in an oxygen-free environment.
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.
Old van converted into solar-powered bohemian beach hut on wheels
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 28, 2019
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Fusion: Still Tantalizingly Far Off Despite Recent Signs of Momentum
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Governments are not giving up on nuclear fusion making a meaningful contribution to the global decarbonization efforts, despite the technology's obvious challenges. Last month, for example, the U.K. government pledged £220 million ($283 million) toward getting a fusion power plant up and running by 2040, as part of moves to cut the country’s emissions to net zero by midcentury.
Horizontal lifeline safety systems help with EA river maintenance
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Safesite Limited has installed a number of horizontal lifeline safety systems for the Environment Agency to allow essential maintenance and recordings of river levels around London and the South East of England. Rubbish and debris from the river need to be cleared regularly so that the water’s flow is not impaired, and the weirs kept clear to allow accurate recordings of river levels and flows to be taken.
How Utilities Are Transforming Outage Management Into Rapid Recovery
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 28, 2019
When Commonwealth Edison filed its plan for smart meters with regulators in 2011, leveraging the meters for power outages wasn’t explicitly laid out in the business case as a benefit. But the utility “aspired to have [its] meters connected to outage management,” Ryan Mayer, an operations dispatcher at ComEd, said during a presentation at Itron Utility Week 2019.
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.
Climate change is affecting the way Europe floods, experts warn
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Climate change is disrupting the rhythms of spring growing and river flooding across Europe, which could pose new problems for biodiversity and food security in floodplains, according to one group of researchers. New analysis of five decades of European flood and temperature data, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , demonstrates for the first time an increasing overlap between the onset of spring and the highest points of seasonal flooding.
Europe’s Storage Market Set to Grow, Along With Merchant Risk
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Europe’s energy storage sector is on the cusp of big new opportunities, but first it will need to get comfortable with merchant risk. Large-scale systems are seeing new potential revenue streams at the EU level and, in some markets, the national level too. But exploiting such opportunities will require navigating increased risks, said Rory McCarthy, senior storage analyst at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.
World class centre for renewable energy systems to be established in Cambridge
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Staff at the Renewables Innovation Centre launch event: (Left to right) Vladan Velisavljevic and Sean Curley, University of Bedfordshire; Heather Claxton, TWI; Mary Malcolm and Nicholas Lancaster, University of Bedfordshire; Angela Angulo, TWI; Jan Domin, University of Bedfordshire; Tat-Hean Gan, Ameni Lounissi and Cem Selcuk, TWI; and Dayou Li, University of Bedfordshire.
Community Solar Comes to the Sunshine State in a Big Way, Finally
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 28, 2019
The largest planned community solar program in the country, created by utility Florida Power & Light, cleared a hurdle this month when the utility reached a settlement agreement with groups who had raised concerns about its structure. Solar accessibility advocates and retail giant Walmart now stand behind the 1.5-gigawatt program, after initially expressing concerns about access for low-income customers, costs and the distribution of the program’s financial benefits.
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?
Huge Battery Investments Drop Energy-Storage Costs Faster Than Expected, Threatening Natural Gas
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 28, 2019
The global energy transition is happening faster than the models predicted, according to a report released today by the Rocky Mountain Institute, thanks to massive investments in the advanced-battery technology ecosystem.
This Halloween, scare your friends with some climate crisis vocab
Grist
OCTOBER 28, 2019
There’s no doubt about it: The climate crisis is scary. Have you read The Uninhabitable Earth yet? My sister made the mistake of reading it before bed recently and then had an “apocalypse dream” where she was “one of the remaining humans scrounging for life in a destroyed suburbia.”. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that climate change has brought us a ghoulish vocabulary.
Review Antaisolar at All-energy Australia 2019
altenergymag
OCTOBER 28, 2019
During 23-24, October, All Energy 2019 was held in Melbourne. In connection with industrial and commercial roof and large scale solar plant in Australia, Antaisolar showcased a full range of solar racking solution for metal roof, tile roof and large-scale ground solar projects, which is highly adapted to local market demand for C&I solar application.
Energy and Power Takeaways from Cleantech Forum Asia
CleanTech Group
OCTOBER 28, 2019
For two days, Cleantech Forum Asia hosted a plethora of local, regional and international players in the energy sector. Despite the mix of.
Enphase Energy Announces General Availability of Enphase IQ™ 7A Microinverters for Solar Modules Up to 450 W
altenergymag
OCTOBER 28, 2019
The IQ 7A microinverter augments the lineup of seventh-generation Enphase microinverters with support for modules up to 450 W, targeting high-power residential and commercial solar applications.
U.K.’s CDC Group invests $12 million in Nepalese internet provider WorldLink
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 28, 2019
ImpactAlpha, October 28 – Nearly 80% of the 28 million people living in Nepal have access to the internet. But internet penetration in rural areas remains low. U.K. development finance institution is investing in WorldLink, Nepal’s largest private internet service provider, to support its expansion in remote parts of the country. (Most of WorldLink’s network The post U.K.’s CDC Group invests $12 million in Nepalese internet provider WorldLink appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Wind and solar account for nearly 10% of U.S. electrical generation in first eight months of 2019
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) accounted for 18.49% of net domestic electrical generation during the first eight months of 2019, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of just-released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). A year earlier, renewables’ share was 17.95%. The latest issue of EIA’s “Electric Power Monthly”… The post Wind and solar account for nearly 10% of U.S. electrical generation in firs
Audi orders bdtronic impregnation machines for e-motor production
Charged
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Audi will install e-motor manufacturing equipment from bdtronic, a German mechanical engineering company, for its Premium Platform Electric (PPE) architecture in the coming years. bdtronic manufacturers impregnation equipment, which closes and seals the cavities in windings and coils within hybrid and electric motors to provide better insulation and vibration resistance.
Buildings are bad for the climate. Here’s what we can do about it.
GatesNotes
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Buildings are bad for the climate. Here’s what Bill Gates thinks we can do about it.
New study: 10 percent EV penetration could shift utility’s entire peak load
Charged
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Electric utilities around the world are exploring the potential of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems, which can reduce peak loads by using EV batteries to store renewably generated energy during the day and discharge it during peak consumption periods in the evenings. A new study from Jackson Associates analyzed 5,000 Southern California Edison (SCE) customers’ hourly loads and commuting behavior, and concluded that, if just 10% of them had EVs hooked up to a V2G system, the utility could shift its
Rabo AgriFinance to finance farmers’ transition to organic practice
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 28, 2019
ImpactAlpha, October 28 – It takes conventional farmers in the U.S. three years to transition and become certified organic. Financially, it can take a toll, because their yields often drop, but they cannot yet recoup income by charging premium organic prices. Rabo AgriFinance is rolling out a transitional loan product to support farmers going through The post Rabo AgriFinance to finance farmers’ transition to organic practice appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
ESS Inc. Raises $30 Million From Investor Group to Expand Company and Deploy Next-Generation Flow Battery Energy Storage Systems
altenergymag
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Breakthrough Energy Ventures and SB Energy lead major Series C round, with Evergy Ventures and GC joining earlier investors
Tesla announces new version of allusive solar roof product
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Tesla has major brand awareness in the solar industry, but when it comes to the company’s building-applied “solar roof,” results are essentially nonexistent. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first announced a “beautiful, affordable and seamlessly integrated” solar roof product in 2016, but successful application hasn’t expanded past a few pilot installations.
Green Jobs: 3 of the Top Ones Pay More Than $70,000 Per Year
U.S. Green Technology
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Meteorologist are among the top green jobs paying over $70,000 per year. (Image from [link] Going green is easily a reward in and of itself. However, getting paid to go green – well, that’s like icing on the cake. That’s why green jobs are becoming increasingly in demand at a time when more and more. The post Green Jobs: 3 of the Top Ones Pay More Than $70,000 Per Year appeared first on U.S.
Contractors Corner: John Mills Electric brings electrician skills to New York solar market
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 28, 2019
A trend in many smaller solar markets throughout the country is for electrical companies to evolve into offering solar installations. The expertise established in electrical work lends itself well to the solar industry — medium-volt cable work, transformer installs, conduit feeding. That’s exactly how John Mills Electric found itself as both a residential solar installer… The post Contractors Corner: John Mills Electric brings electrician skills to New York solar market appeared firs
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