Tue.Nov 03, 2020

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Why IKEA is investing in sustainable mobility

GreenBiz

Why IKEA is investing in sustainable mobility. Holly Secon. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 00:30. Swedish home furnishing company IKEA isn’t just focusing on what’s happening inside your home anymore. The company is also thinking about what's happening in the streets outside. That is, the company is pumping cash into a new sustainable mobility program. For the company known for its delicious meatballs and DIY shelves, the investment isn't actually that surprising.

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Less than half of company executives see sustainability as high priority

Envirotec Magazine

A new report by ENGIE Impact appears to reveal that attitudes to sustainability are lagging among company executives – only 45% of execs who participated in ENGIE Impact’s global 2020 study see sustainability as a top or high priority. However, 75% believe it will be a high priority in five years and that excellent execution of a leading sustainability strategy will provide a competitive advantage.

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How to value solar plus storage

GreenBiz

How to value solar plus storage. Adam Aston. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 01:00. In the wake of California’s summer of wildfires, blackouts and planned outages, many consumers and businesses are clamoring for more resilient options. The crisis has turbocharged interest in systems that deliver power even when the grid is down. Solar plus storage is fast emerging as a top choice, both at scale on the grid and also "behind the meter," installed in a home, apartment or commercial building. .

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UK’s largest battery ready to help balance the grid

Envirotec Magazine

Edinburgh based Flexitricity is optimising the Gresham House c.50MW / 75MWh battery, located in Thurcroft, South Yorkshire, generating revenue for the site while helping National Grid ESO balance supply and demand. The asset went live in the Balancing Mechanism (BM) Reserve from Storage Trial and was then live in the BM immediately afterwards. The BM is a key tool National Grid ESO uses to balance supply and demand on the electricity system in real time.

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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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How China Came to Dominate Clean Energy Technologies, and How the US Can Catch Up

GreenTechMedia

The United States’ competition with China, which last year escalated to a trade war that cost tens of billions of dollars , has been a primary focus of the current administration’s effort to "put America first." But from the steep economic costs of that trade war to America’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization, America is losing its position as the world’s leading superpower and economy.

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Scottish utility water testers’ robotic helping hand

Envirotec Magazine

An Edinburgh science hub has a new helping hand – a-state-of-the art automated robot which is being used to test water quality. The benchtop robot has been installed at Scottish Water’s Juniper House laboratory in Currie. It is used by the utility’s Scientific Services department which carries out a range of vital tests on all of the country’s drinking water.

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What’s the Future of Solar Development in Latin America?

GreenTechMedia

Despite coronavirus-related setbacks, 2020 will be one of the biggest years for solar demand in Latin America. The period 2020-2025 will see utility-scale distributed solar grow in many countries in the region, led by Mexico, Brazil and Chile, with distributed solar expanding most rapidly in Brazil. But despite falling system costs, growth in the region will be fairly constrained, and much of it will be offset by bottlenecks in Mexico slowing its pace of renewable energy development.

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Tree-planting drones aim to cool a hot planet

Inhabitat - Innovation

Professional tree planters typically plant upward of 12,000 trees per week. Flash Forest has a plan to plant 100,000 trees a day — with drones.

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Why Vestas Brought Its Offshore Business In-House

GreenTechMedia

Global turbine leader Vestas has taken sole control of its offshore wind joint venture, a move that says a lot about Vestas' current standing in the sector and even more about where wind power is headed. The €700 million ($814 million) all-stock deal revealed last week, will give Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) a 2.5 percent stake in Vestas, while MHI Vestas will be folded into Vestas immediately.

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U.S. contributes 5 times more ocean plastic than previous estimates

Inhabitat - Innovation

Most of our plastics aren't actually recyclable, and many are ending up in the oceans.

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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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How to Calculate How Much Solar Power You Need?

U.S. Green Technology

Depending on your goals and power needs, it is easy to calculate your energy needs for a DIY solar install. Some questions to ask yourself will include: Do I want to supplement a portion of my requirements? Should the system provide power during an outage? Will my system be off-grid or grid-tied? What amount of. The post How to Calculate How Much Solar Power You Need?

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Mercedes-Benz releases lightweight yet powerful eScooter

Inhabitat - Innovation

This eScooter is powerful enough to take you over hills and light enough to carry onto public transit.

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A community remembers an environmental leader

Greenability Magazine

Dennis Murphey, retired chief environmental officer for Kansas City, MO, led the city’s effort to fight climate change for 13 years, putting Kansas City on the map for its 40-percent reduction in municipal greenhouse gas emissions. He died of COVID-19 on October 27. Murphey joined the city in 2006 and retired in June 2019. During his tenure, Kansas City experienced a paradigm shift that positioned environmental considerations as an integral part of all city planning, policy and activities.

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Hauser & Wirth gallery, where adaptive reuse and art thrive

Inhabitat - Innovation

West Chelsea has become a home for innovation, art and culture. The new Hauser & Wirth building in West Chelsea celebrates this culture by preserving the community's history and allowing art to flourish all in the same space.

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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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UK’S LARGEST BATTERY READY TO BALANCE THE GRID

altenergymag

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund and flexible energy specialist Flexitricity have announced that the UK’s largest battery is now live.

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Equity crowdfunding grows up with new $5 million limit on ‘Reg CF’ offerings

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 3 – Businesses from microbreweries to football clubs to electric vehicle makers and ‘mom & pop’ shops have made use of Regulation Crowdfunding under the JOBS Act, which created pathways for small and mid-sized businesses to “crowdfund” capital from everyday investors. Now, the Securities & Exchange Commission has approved amendments that increase the.

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THE ENERGY TRANSITION: WEATHER AND YIELD FORECASTS SUPPORT SMART POWER GRIDS

altenergymag

The energy sector is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Decentralization, a rise in the number of electrical loads such as e-vehicles and heat pumps, and the growing share of volatile renewable energies are increasing the complexity of the energy system.

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Norway’s Statkraft to buy solar power developer Solarcentury

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 3 – Statkraft is paying $151.34 million to acquire U.K.-based Solarcentury. Solarcentury has developed 1.3-gigawatts of installed solar power since 1998 and claims to have a pipeline of projects totaling 6-gigawatts. The deal inches Statkraft, the Norwegian state-owned utility known for its hydro-power production, closer to its goal of owning 8-gigawatts of wind.

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When the good outweighs profit: Solar companies go philanthropic 

Solar Power World

Energy access is a global issue, and funding isn’t always found where it’s needed most. That’s why many in the solar industry choose to blaze their own paths, setting up nonprofit organizations to bring PV to communities across the world that could use the help. Here’s a look at three success stories in philanthropic efforts:… The post When the good outweighs profit: Solar companies go philanthropic appeared first on Solar Power World.

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VW: German auto industry push to subsidize hydrogen is “nonsensical”

Charged

The latest battle in the War of the Energy Storage Media has broken out in Germany, where the Volkswagen Group and an auto industry lobbying group (the German Association of the Automotive Industry, or VDA) are at daggers drawn over the government’s proposed plan to implement the EU’s renewable energy directive. Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Environment (BMU) has proposed a plan to establish a market in renewable energy credits for transport, modeled on a similar plan in France and existing

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Q&A: How ESG pioneer Amy Domini is finding impact alpha in ‘sustainable solutions’

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 3 – At an earlier peak of COVID pandemic, Domini Impact Investments launched a mutual fund that looked a little different than its previous funds. The new thing: identifying major human and ecological needs and investing in companies with the solutions to those needs. The Sustainable Solutions Fund went beyond merely selecting public equities.

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Earth Observation Can Play A Critical Role in the European Green Transition. Here’s how:

Planet Pulse

The World Economic Forum reports that over half of global GDP depends on nature and the services it provides. To work towards a healthy, prosperous and sustainable future, we must leverage the best tools and technology to accurately monitor the environment and its connection to the economy, as well as our lifestyle related to them both. With this generational challenge in mind, the European Commission is proposing a European Green Deal, an ambitious new agenda that aims to transition Europe into

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Chingona Ventures backs SUMA Wealth to help U.S. Latinos build wealth

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 3 – Beatríz Acevedo built mitú, a media and entertainment company for young Latinos. Now, she has adapted the engagement tools for SUMA Wealth to deliver financial education for millennial Latinos in the U.S., offering tools like a home-buying calculator, credit card payment planner, and savings advice. The new company’s $1 million pre-seed.

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Help out at Make a Difference Mondays

Greenability Magazine

During November, the KC Parks Ambassadors are looking for volunteers to help with community litter clean up at Make a Difference Mondays. The new initiative helps tackle the litter problem on boulevards and in city parks. Volunteers will work from 9:30 – 11 a.m. on Mondays, November 9, 16, 23 and 30 near 57 th and Paseo Boulevard. Since launching in April, KC Parks Ambassadors and volunteer groups have contributed more than 1,800 hours to clean up parks and boulevards, which the KC Parks Departm

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Researchers claim their graphene “SuperBattery” achieves a 15-second charging time

Charged

Skeleton Technologies and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) say they have developed a graphene-based battery with a 15-second charging time, as well as charging cycles counted in the hundreds of thousands. The so-called SuperBattery’s key component is Skeleton’s patented Curved Graphene carbon material, which enables the high power and long lifetime of ultracapacitors to be applied in a graphene battery. “The SuperBattery is a game-changer for the automotive industry.

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Take a farm tour & more at Let’s Grow!

Greenability Magazine

Join farmers, artists, chefs and musicians at a three-day Let’s Grow! conference of virtual and on-farm events at the KC Farm School at Gibbs Road this weekend. The schedule includes: Friday, November 6: An on-farm event will feature live music from KC Bear Fighters, a raku demonstration from KC Clay Guild and local treats from Vietnamese Coffee, Café Ca Phe, Sone Ze Ya and Boulevard Brewing Company from 4-8 p.m.

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Environmental Groups Oppose Shell Request to Increase Air Pollution Limits for Pennsylvania Plastics Factory

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins Citing design changes, Shell Chemical Appalachia has asked Pennsylvania’s state regulators to issue air permits that would allow the company’s massive plastics manufacturing plant under construction outside Pittsburgh to emit significantly more climate and other air pollution. Yesterday, as most of the nation turned its focus to the presidential election, a coalition of environmental and community organizations wrote to Pennsylvania’s environmental regulators, asking them to ei

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A Quantum Leap for Energy and Power

CleanTech Group

From our coverage of other moon-shot technologies this year, you may be quick to roll your eyes at another seemingly far-out innovation. Quantum.

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'Build back greener': Government announces £180m wave of green business funding awards

Business Green

From pothole fixing robots to retro electric motorcycles, over 1,000 recipients of coronavirus response, clean tech innovation funding have been announced. The government has today announced clean tech innovation funding totaling £134m for over 1,000 projects across the UK, just 24 hours after confirming the award of £49m to a raft of green automotive initiatives.

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The Brief: Q&A with Amy Domini, building Latino wealth, bridging skill gaps, Norway’s solar buy, SEC boosts equity crowdfunding

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Share your hot takes on today’s U.S. election. Whatever the results, and whenever we know them, today’s election will reset the landscape for impact investing and sustainable finance. ImpactAlpha is looking to Agents of Impact to start charting the new narrative. What’s next for impact investing and sustainable finance?

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What will UK cities look like in 2100? Ben and Jerry's gazes into the future to inspire climate action

Business Green

Ben and Jerry's has partnered with University of Lancaster's Serena Pollastri to imagine what the skylines of London, Manchester, and Birmingham could look like in 2100. Rain-absorbing skyscrapers, clean transport infrastructure, inner city wetlands, and buildings encased in living walls could be commonplace in the cities of future, according to Ben and Jerry's.

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UK’S LARGEST BATTERY READY TO BALANCE THE GRID

altenergymag

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund and flexible energy specialist Flexitricity have announced that the UK’s largest battery is now live.

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EDF inks heat pump partnership as calls grow for post-boiler strategy

Business Green

Energy giant partners with Daikin for heat pump offer, as new report warns 'boiler backlash' could derail net zero agenda. EDF has this week announced that it has joined forced with green heating technology specialist Daikin UK to offer heat pump systems to customers. The firms said the partnership would guarantee EDF customers access to a range of high-quality heat pumps from Daikin, alongside tariffs backed by zero carbon electricity, as part of the government's recently launched Green Homes G

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Seven Businesses Helping Britain ‘Build Back Greener’

Forbes Green Tech

Green Entrepreneurship finds that UK business owners are on board with the green agenda.