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Nuclear Power Just Doesn’t Need Much Fuel

Jim Conca

On May 8th, the Columbia Generating Station, the only nuclear power plant in the Pacific Northwest, disconnected from the grid for its biannual refueling. It refueled and connected back to the grid only 42 days later. Just in time for summer’s increased electricity demand.

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Measure What Matters: Corporate Sustainability and its Impact on Business Strategies

GreenBiz

Measure What Matters: Corporate Sustainability and its Impact on Business Strategies. Date/Time: July 15, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Join experts from data, benchmarking, and advisory services firm ISS Corporate Solutions for a discussion about ESG materiality and the positive impact it can have across your company's sustainability goals. Topics include: How corporations can efficiently leverage ESG rater data to benchmark and inform engagement strategy with shareholders and other stakeholder

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New publication asks: Is the UK government’s clean air approach good enough?

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: David McKelvey , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. Academics and experts at The University of Manchester are calling for large-scale behavioural change in a bid to improve the UK’s air quality (“the biggest environmental health issue facing the UK”), in a new publication, On Air Quality. The report was published on 17 June to coincide with Clean Air Day, an initiative aiming to bring together communities, businesses, schools and the health sector to improve public understa

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Record-breaking heat waves ravaging the West are not normal, scientists warn

Inhabitat - Innovation

This year, several states have witnessed persistent scorching temperatures that cannot pass for the normal summer heat.

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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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ERF has been “pivotal” in tackling COVID-19 waste, says Veolia

Envirotec Magazine

Reduced clinical waste disposal capacity in the UK has been met by rapidly adapting existing facilities. Resource management company Veolia says its latest data highlights the pivotal role that Energy Recovery Facilities have played in dealing with the safe treatment of clinical and medical wastes that have arisen as a result of COVID-19 in the UK. At a time of reduced clinical waste disposal capacity in the country, the firm says it has rapidly adapted to develop a response on medical waste, an

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LA's Barnsdall Art Park revives historic olive grove

Inhabitat - Innovation

The restoration project is in line with Los Angeles' climate strategy to plant more trees.

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Single-use food packaging waste nearly doubled during the pandemic

Inhabitat - Innovation

A new report from the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup has seen an uptick in single-use food packaging waste as well as masks collected during beach cleanups.

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Aviation milestone as first commercial flight takes off using fuel derived from wood chips

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Alan Wilson , CC BY-SA 2.0 license. Flight from Tokyo to Sapporo uses sustainable aviation fuel derived from gasified wood-chips. The UK-based sustainable fuels technology firm Velocys has announced that sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced by its proprietary technology using woody biomass residue feedstock has been used in a commercial flight by Japan Airlines (JAL).

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Ranch Dressing house sets example for modernization with minimal impact

Inhabitat - Innovation

Located in Mill Valley, California, this midcentury home has undergone an impressive, green renovation.

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Test Drive Results VW ID4 Electric Car

Green Living Guy

So I love the ID.4. For it is Volkswagen’s first all-electric SUV and the brand’s first global EV. Built on Volkswagen’s MEB electric vehicle architecture—the modular electric drive matrix—it marries the strengths of a purpose-built EV with performance, packaging and… Read More Test Drive Results VW ID4 Electric Car. The post Test Drive Results VW ID4 Electric Car appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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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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Google for Startups launches second $5 million Black Founders Fund

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 22 — Google launched its inaugural $5 million Black Founders Fund last year as part of its $175 million initiative to. The post Google for Startups launches second $5 million Black Founders Fund appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2021

Greentown Labs

Twenty-six startups joined our community in Q2 2021, working on innovations as diverse as kinetic wave energy, soil carbon measurement, efficient wind turbine installation, and electric, uncrewed surface vehicles. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Agtech + water. Haystack Ag ’s soil organic carbon measurement system employs elements of spectroscopy, dry combustion, remote sensing, and automation to help drive affordable, regenerative farmin

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A brief guide to the why, what and how of structured exits

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 22 – Traditional investment structures like debt and equity can present challenges for impact entrepreneurs. Debt is often inaccessible, unaffordable and too. The post A brief guide to the why, what and how of structured exits appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Therme Art unveils 3 urban sustainability projects at Venice Architecture Biennale

Inhabitat - Innovation

These three projects explore how urban design can contribute to wellbeing for all.

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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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S2G Ventures backs five blue economy startups

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 22 — SG2 Ventures last year raised $100 million for its Ocean and Seafood fund to invest in early- and growth-stage. The post S2G Ventures backs five blue economy startups appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Bus rapid transit line with Irizar e-buses launches in southwestern France

Charged

Transit provider Keolis , which operates fleets of electric buses in the Netherlands, Norway and several cities in France, has added two 100% electric bus rapid transit lines to its Chronoplus network, which serves eleven municipalities in the Basque Country in southwestern France. The electric buses serving the new lines were built by the Spanish manufacturer Irizar.

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Grid Interconnection Legislation Would Facilitate Renewable Energy Development through Grid Enhancing Technologies

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Chair Kathy Castor of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis introduced the Efficient Interconnection Cost Allocation Act of 2021. This bill would integrate Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) into the interconnection study process, requiring that they be considered as solutions to transmission constraints and ensuring that interconnection customers, such as renewable generators or energy storage providers, can request their use.

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Study: Net zero emissions can be reached by 2050 at 'low cost'

Business Green

New analysis from Good Energy and Energy Systems Catapult suggests transition to net zero emission energy system may require just £14bn of additional investment a year. The UK could deliver net zero emissions by 2050 at a cost of just £14bn a year of additional investment, according to the latest modelling on the future of the UK's energy system.

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Solar Photovoltaic Panels To Gain Momentum In Coming Years, Launch Of Novel Technologies Pave The Way

altenergymag

This is the age of automation and artificial intelligence. We crave smartphones with long-lasting battery power and computers with higher computing power. Not to mention, long-range electric cars are our prime attraction. In short, we want energy that does not depend on earth's limited resources. The demand for solar energy has increased over the last few years and for good reasons.

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'Major breakthrough for steel industry': Swedish plant produces sponge iron using hydrogen

Business Green

HYBRIT venture between Vattenfall, LKAB, and SSAB hails critical milestone on path to zero carbon steelmaking. A pioneering green steelmaking plant in Sweden has successfully demonstrated the feasibility of using fossil fuel-free hydrogen gas rather than coking coal for production processes, marking a "critical milestone" on the road to decarbonising the steel industry, according to the companies behind the high profile project.

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Arkansas co-op adds 4.8-MW/9.6-MWh storage to its solar PV plants

Renewable Energy World

Energy Toolbase today announced that it has commissioned two energy storage systems (ESS) with Today’s Power (TPI), a renewable energy company based in Little Rock, Arkansas that develops, owns, and operates renewable assets. TPI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (AECI), a Little Rock-based utility service cooperative owned by 17 Arkansas electric distribution cooperatives.

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Portland General Electric Turns to Data to Achieve “Net Zero by 2040” Goal

Bidgely

Hear Portland General Electric’s Larry Bekkedahl in a fireside chat, as we discuss the role that data is playing in helping the utility achieve “Net Zero by 2040” in the on-demand session from UA Summit 2021 called “ Unlocking Operational Outcomes: Digital Transformation and Clean Energy Initiatives with AMI Data.”. It won’t surprise you that as part of its “Net Zero by 2040” goal, Portland General Electric (PGE) is investing in clean and renewable energy generation, including wind, solar and hy

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Turning the renewed power of workers into a lasting pillar of stakeholder capitalism

Impact Alpha

These days, American workers could well be saying, as Richard Fariña wrote and Nancy Sinatra sang, “Been down so long it looks like. The post Turning the renewed power of workers into a lasting pillar of stakeholder capitalism appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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FLSmidth and Carbon8 Systems plot cement decarbonisation with commercial CCU partnership

Business Green

Deal will see engineering firm promote UK start-up’s carbon capture solution to to its global network. FLSmidth is to work with UK carbon capture start-up Carbon8 Systems to develop projects that enable the decarbonisation of the emissions-intensive cement sector, under the terms of a deal signed yesterday between the two firms. The partnership, which comes into effect immediately, will see the Danish engineering giant work to expand the reach of Carbon8 System's carbon capture and utilisation (

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Veritone Announces Device Learning Model for SMA Sunny Central Solar Inverters, Driving Grid Reliability in the Global Transition to Green Energy

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Planned compatibility furthers Veritone GRID initiative to accelerate clean energy adoption through simplified device integration and improved grid optimization and resilience

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United Natural Foods to deploy 53 electric refrigerated trailers with PV panels and Li-ion batteries

Charged

Food wholesaler United Natural Foods (UNFI) plans to add 53 all-electric refrigerated trailer units (TRUs) to its fleet based at the company’s Riverside, California distribution center. The all-electric TRU achieves zero emissions by using a high-efficiency refrigeration system powered by roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels, a “wheel-momentum generator,” lithium-ion batteries, and an auxiliary power unit that eliminates the requirement for a diesel generator to power the refrigeration system.

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Yotta Launches the Dual-Power Inverter Designed to Enable Deployments of Solar + Storage Technology

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Yotta Partners with APsystems to Deliver Advanced Inverter Technology

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Carbon pricing, risk disclosure, and net zero: Can the UK build a truly green financial system?

Business Green

Mandatory finance sector net zero goals, strengthened ETS, and nature-based risk disclosure requirements among Aldersgate Group's demands. The government must use its global green leadership position in 2021 to firmly embed climate action and nature protection into the rules governing the UK financial system, in addition to pushing for similar standards overseas, if it is to live up to its claims of being as a world-class centre for green finance.

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Recent Deals – 22 June

CleanTech Group

Looking for the latest information on cleantech deals? Find insight on recent innovation developments here. Agriculture & Food Motif Foodworks, a plant-based food technology company, raised $226.

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Krishnan Guru-Murthy takes up leading role with BAFTA for green news push

Business Green

Channel 4 anchor announced as Chair of BAFTA's recently launched news consortium as part its albert green broadcasting initiative. Channel 4 News Krishnan Guru-Murthy has today been announced as Chair of the BAFTA albert News Consortium, which aims to accelerate the adoption of environmental best practices across the broadcast news industry. The group was set up in January 2021 as part of the wider Albert green broadcasting initiative, which aims to promote the adoption of practices and technolo

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Trina Solar commences 112MW shipments of 670W ultra-high-power modules

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The modules are scheduled for use in the 100 MW Phase I of the Dachaidan PV Project, a massive facility that, when finished, will have a capacity of 1,000 MW. The project exclusively uses Trina Solar 670W series ultra-high power modules.

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CDP: Record number of investors with $17tr in assets call on corporates to disclose environmental data

Business Green

Netflix and the Alibaba Group are among companies urged to disclose their environmental data by fast-growing coalition of investors. CDP has announced that a record number of 168 global investors with a combined $17tr of assets under management, have joined the group's annual campaign to urge companies with high environmental impacts to publicly disclose their environmental data and climate risk assessments.

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Honeywell Launches Battery Energy Storage System Platform to Help Users Forecast and Optimize Energy Costs

altenergymag

- Battery storage will play a crucial role in grid stability as organizations transition to clean power generation - Scalable platform can improve resiliency, reduce supply costs and support corporate sustainability goals

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Drink responsibly: Toast sets sights on delivering nature positive beer

Business Green

Carbon neutral brewery announces it has secured B Corp re-certification. London-based craft brewers Toast have been awarded a prestigious B Corp recertification for the second time in its six-year history, as the company today published its latest annual impact report. Toast Ale - which specialises in using waste bread to brew beer, delivering significant emissions reductions in the process - became the first UK brewery to certify as a B Corp in 2018.