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3 ways startups 'do ESG' well

GreenBiz

Rather than starting with one product in one department, ESG considerations are integrated into the fabric of the business, so profit and progress on environmental and social fronts are fused together.

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H3 Dynamics Launches Autonomous Drone Stations to Help Monitor Large Solar Farms

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-Drone Stations from H3 Dynamics Avoids Sending Drone Pilots to Remote Solar Farms -H3 Dynamics Partners with Sitemark to Provide Autonomous Analytics as a Service from its Drone Stations

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Are CEOs walking their talk on climate change?

GreenBiz

Almost 63 percent of executives think their company is leading on climate-change. But only one-fifth of companies are actually steps on sustainability.

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National Association of Home Builder’s Show Home The New American Home Remodel® Highlights Energy and Aesthetics with Solaria® PowerXT® Solar Panels

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Solaria® PowerXT® high performance solar panels are featured in the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) The New American Remodel® (TNAR) 2022.

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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.

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What does it mean to raise the bar on sustainable business?

GreenBiz

Assessing a company’s sustainability performance is no small task. A modest proposal on how to change that.

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Australia’s Telstra Energy signs 10-year smart meter deal with Intellihub

Smart Energy International

Australian utility Telstra Energy has signed a 10-year deal with Intellihub for the provision of smart metering services. Telstra Energy has secured approval in 2021 to operate as an energy retailer and seek to leverage the growing number of distributed energy resources (DERs) including solar systems installed on consumer sites to ensure energy resilience and decarbonisation in Australia.

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“That’s not clean:” Forrest fires both barrels at Taylor’s hydrogen greenwash

Renew Economy

Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Future Industries takes out full-page newspaper ads calling out federal government's hydrogen greenwashing. The post “That’s not clean:” Forrest fires both barrels at Taylor’s hydrogen greenwash appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Resale finds its second life

GreenBiz

What's in store for 2022? A growing recommence sector in the circular economy.

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Independents and Greens hope to break climate deadlock by seizing balance of power

Renew Economy

Tim Wilson suggests debate cooling over emissions targets, but Labor, the Greens and Independents are ready for an election climate fight. The post Independents and Greens hope to break climate deadlock by seizing balance of power appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Euphree Pioneers Cost-effective Ebikes, Designed for Women and Older Riders

Greentown Labs

Daniel Basaldua decided to change career paths when he realized his well paying job in traditional energy left him unfulfilled. “I started looking at what industries would change for the future, and transportation seemed primed for change,” he says. He resolved to apply to jobs in transportation and developed an interest in how micromobility can allow cities to reclaim valuable real estate that’s dedicated to parking.

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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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Fully renewable grid by 2030, no new coal or gas: CEC lays down new roadmap

Renew Economy

Clean Energy Council calls on Australia’s political leaders to commit to a 100% renewable electricity grid by 2030, and no new coal or gas plants. The post Fully renewable grid by 2030, no new coal or gas: CEC lays down new roadmap appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Carrier partners with ConMet to add regen braking to Class 7 and 8 trailer wheels

Charged

Transport refrigeration technology company Carrier is partnering with commercial vehicle part supplier ConMet to add a regenerative braking system to trailer wheels on Class 7 and Class 8 vehicles. ConMet’s PreSet Plus eHub system consists of an in-wheel electric motor that can recover energy from coasting and braking, store it in high-capacity batteries and send it to different parts of the vehicle as needed.

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“Forget about hydrogen cars:” Industrial demand to push exponential growth in electrolysers

Renew Economy

Industrial demand is pushing interest in hydrogen electrolysers, with Australia ranking highly but questions raised over venture between Fortescue and Plug Power. The post “Forget about hydrogen cars:” Industrial demand to push exponential growth in electrolysers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Meters and More in the energy transformation

Smart Energy International

Carlo Maria Drago, General Manager of Meters and More, discusses the topic of the energy transition, describing the association’s role in this process and its experience gained in the past 11 years. Interested in more content from Meters and More? Visit their content library here.

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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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Why “100% Renewables” is a Dangerous Chimera

Energy Central

Part 1: The EROI Issue In August 2014, Barry Brooks uploaded a guest post by John Morgan that became one of the most widely viewed and heavily commented postings ever to The Energy Collective. It was titled "The Catch-22 of Energy Storage", and can be found here. In 2014, Morgan was an adjunct professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT (Royal.

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Puerto Rico partners with US departments on grid modernisation and renewables

Smart Energy International

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has partnered with the US Departments of Energy and Homeland Security and Urban Development to implement grid modernisation initiatives. The initiatives are aimed at strengthening grid resilience and preparing the energy system for next-generation business models. The partnership will kickstart with the implementation of the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transition to 100% Renewable Energy (PR100) study, a roadmap Puerto Rico will follow to achieve a target of 1

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UGL nets $185m contract for Kurri Kurri’s ‘hydrogen ready’ turbines

Renew Economy

UGL will supply two 'hydrogen ready' gas turbine units for Snowy Hydro's Kurri Kurri gas plant under $185 million contract. The post UGL nets $185m contract for Kurri Kurri’s ‘hydrogen ready’ turbines appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Australia largest microgrid is now operational

Smart Energy International

The Western Australian coastal town of Kalbarri can now be powered by a 100% renewable energy-intelligent microgrid. The microgrid, developed by the state distribution company Western Power in partnership with the power company Synergy, is comprised of 1.6MW of wind, up to 1MW of rooftop solar and a 5MW/4.5MWh storage battery. Its aim is to support peak demand requirements and to improve the reliability of power supply for the town, which has a resident population of about 1,500 and as a popular

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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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Renewable energy records blown away in January as wind farms match coal output

Renew Economy

One wind farm delivers capacity factor of 64 per cent in record-breaking January, meaning its output ranked higher than many coal generators. The post Renewable energy records blown away in January as wind farms match coal output appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GenCell Launches Revolutionary Off-Grid Ammonia-to-Power Solution for Mobile Operators

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GenCell FOX™ Offers Agile, Smart & Zero-Emission Hydrogen-on-Demand Fuel Cell Technology to Run Off-Grid Telecom Towers Anywhere

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Total’s East African Crude Oil Pipeline ‘Struggling’ To Find Financiers, Say Campaigners

DeSmogBlog

Total’s “incredibly risky” crude oil pipeline may still lack the financial backing it requires, campaigners have claimed, as the controversial project moved one step closer to completion. Once finished, the 1,443km east African crude oil pipeline (EACOP) could transport up to 216,000 barrels a day from the Lake Albert region in landlocked Uganda to Tanga in Tanzania, with the first oil expected in 2025.

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Underwater Solutions Now Offers A Complete Line Of Infrastructure Management and USAM Services

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Underwater Solutions, your national water infrastructure specialists, offers a new service to help you manage your facilities better and more cost-effectively.

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Market intelligence to add value to energy storage

Smart Energy International

Storage provider Fluence and renewable trading platform provider Pexapark are partnering to combine market intelligence and energy storage insights. Under the deal, Pexapark’s suite of analytical tools and services for energy management and trading will be made available to Fluence customers through its IQ digital ecosystem. The aim is to provide customers with data-driven market intelligence to maximise the value of energy storage investments and optimise further deployments.

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Government delivers £179m to boost energy efficiency of social housing

Business Green

Government announces first recipients of Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund as Ministers hail plans to upgrade 20,000 social homes to help curb energy bills and carbon emissions. The government has unlocked £179m of funding to help curb energy use and carbon emissions from social hosing properties with poor levels of energy efficiency performance.

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Microgrids to become a $206bn market by 2031 – report

Smart Energy International

The global market for microgrids will increase by 11.3% between 2021 and 2031 resulting in an increase in revenue generation from $63.5 billion to $206.1 billion, according to a new report released by Transparency Market Research. According to the study, factors driving an increase in the adoption of microgrids include: The inability of grids to meet growing energy demand.

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Survey: Most small business would ditch suppliers that break green promises

Business Green

UK poll of 500 small and medium business owners finds over 60 per cent would consider cutting ties with partner firms on environmental grounds. More than 60 per cent of small and medium UK companies would consider cutting ties with suppliers and partners which fail to live up to their environmental pledges, a survey of business leaders has found. The latest quarterly SME barometer survey commissioned by Mercedes-Benz Vans UK quizzed around 500 small and medium business leaders nationwide on a va

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What for Net Zero if Boris Johnson goes? Or if he stays…

Terra Infirma

I’ve always thought Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister at the time of writing, was a shameless huckster who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near high office. I can’t deny a big dollop of schadenfreude as his ‘rules don’t apply to me’ career trajectory hits the brick wall of public decency over the lockdown parties at No10 Downing St.

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Insurance giant Travelers to ditch coal plant underwriting

Business Green

Insurer also beefs up climate policies on tar sands and wider investments. Travelers has become the latest insurance giant to rule out underwriting for new coal-fired power plants worldwide, as it yesterday unveiled a clutch of strengthened green investment and insurance policies. Following the firm's decision last year against insuring the controversial new Adani coal mine in Australia , Travelers has bolstered its investment and insurance policies for coal-fired power plants, thermal coal mini

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Innovation for Grid Futurability

Smart Energy International

An exclusive i nterview with Marina Lombardi, Head of Innovation Enel Global Infrastructure and Networks & Open Innovation Lead Gridspertise. Lombardi unpacks Enel’s approach to grids future and the energy transition. Interested in more content from Enel? Visit their content library here.

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New housing developments in England accused of 'locking people into car dependency'

Business Green

New analysis reveals how for every new home up to three car parking spaces are being built, prompting calls for planning policy overhaul. Housing developers in England are still consistently failing to incorporate sustainable transport into their designs, with almost all new developments examined by fresh research released today found to actively encourage car-dependent lifestyles.

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Great Solar Business Podcast: Solar industry forecasts for 2022

Renew Economy

What’s ahead for the solar industry, with Warwick Johnson from Sunwiz. The post Great Solar Business Podcast: Solar industry forecasts for 2022 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How to make our economy truly circular

Business Green

The circular economy is an opportunity to create a new way of thinking, boosting both business and the environment, writes BSI's Martin Townsend. It is fair to say that even before the events of 2020 and 2021, which reshaped our world, we were already undergoing a momentous change from a sustainability perspective. These changes were accelerated and, in some cases, thrown into chaos.

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Power Integrations offers two new ICs with 1,700 V SiC MOSFET

Charged

Integrated-circuit (IC) maker Power Integrations has launched two new AEC-Q100-qualified, 1,700-volt-rated ICs. They are part of the InnoSwitch 3-AQ product line, and are intended for 600- and 800-V EVs and fuel cell cars, electric buses and trucks, and industrial applications such as renewable energy, battery storage, motor drives and metering. According to Power Integrations, the new ICs are the “industry’s first automotive-qualified switching power supply ICs to incorporate a silicon carbide