GreenBiz

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Inside the world’s first VR circular fashion summit: 4 key takeaways. Lilian Liu. Wed, 10/14/2020 - 01:30. COVID-19 has radically accelerated the need for the fashion industry to innovate. The second edition of the Circular Fashion Summit bears fruit of this new socially distanced reality. The world’s first virtual reality (VR) fashion summit Oct. 3 and 4 was pioneered by founders Lorenzo Albrighi and ShihYun Kuo of Lablaco , a company that uses technology to accelerate the transition towards a

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2020

After 13 months of collecting data, history's largest Arctic research expedition returned with grim news. "We witnessed how the Arctic Ocean is dying," mission leader Markus Rex told Agence-France Presse.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Fluence, a leading integrator of large-scale energy storage systems, has acquired grid software startup AMS. The deal hands an exit to AMS investors, including former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who bought into the startup's early vision of turning commercial buildings into flexible grid assets. After winning pivotal utility contracts in California, AMS ran up against the capital constraints of managing a multi-year infrastructure buildout as a venture-backed company.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2020

SOM’s proposal targets a low-carbon scheme that makes use of the region’s abundant natural resources — the sea and the sun — to generate renewable energy and reduce the development’s environmental footprint.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Utilities operating fossil-fueled power plants, and the low-income and disadvantaged communities that face the brunt of their pollution, may have a new model for resolving their differences. On Tuesday, the New York Power Authority signed a landmark agreement with the Peak Coalition, a group of five environmental justice and clean energy groups, to study ways to replace or reduce emissions from NYPA’s six gas-fired peaker plant sites in New York City and Long Island.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Near the border of Ohio and Kentucky, a stunning sustainable home has hit the market for $3,249,000.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Biomethane Certification Scheme (BMCS) has been given a makeover throughout the last 12 months and is now hosted on the Green Gas Trading (GGT) website. The BMCS is a UK based registry for administering biomethane certificates that are commonly known as green gas certificates. GGT owns and operates the scheme for producers, traders, suppliers, and end-consumers of green gas and biomethane.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Manish Hebbar architects billions of dollars worth of equity and debt deals in clean energy. He’s able to stay methodical and calm in the middle of deals that are very stressful, involving multiple buyers and counter-parties. “M&A transactions are those types of deals, where it's a fast-paced environment, every minute and every hour matters.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Massive deaths of marine life off of the Russian Pacific Coast have left many scientists baffled.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

SunDensity, a solar startup promising 20 percent module efficiency gains due to specially coated glass, raised $2.5 million in initial financing to begin commercializing its product. If commercially successful, the technology could measurably increase the output of solar panels, reducing the number of modules needed to produce equal amounts of electricity and cutting installation costs.

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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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altenergymag

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Trelleborg’s applied technologies operation will exhibit its innovative cable protection system, NjordGuard, at Global Offshore Wind, a virtual conference and exhibition which takes place online from 28 to 30 October, 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

This is an excerpt from the full Q3 2020 U.S. Energy Monitor report. Cabinets are all the rage today. For energy storage systems, anyway. Traditionally, cabinet-based energy storage enclosures have been more popular for smaller front-of-meter (i.e., those with around 10 megawatt-hours of capacity). But as the market comes to realize the benefits of cabinets over containers, there is growing interest in using this system housing for larger projects as well.

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CleanTech Group

OCTOBER 14, 2020

While taking a backseat to the health crisis over the last few months, climate change increasingly shapes our daily experience. Wildfires, droughts, hurricanes.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Solar’s global shift from fringe to mainstream is a story Made in China. The likes of Jinko Solar, Trina Solar and Longi have dominated. They scaled first and fast — with more than a little help from the authorities — to capitalize on PV technology’s development into a 100 gigawatt-plus annual market. Solar is establishing itself as the cheapest form of power across much of Europe, giving it a pivotal role in the continent’s drive toward net-zero.

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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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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The U.K. maker of battery-powered buses and vans will use the funds to gets its first "microfactories" running in England and South Carolina next year, with more on the way.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Two devices are helping to clear the air about pollution.

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Charged

OCTOBER 14, 2020

XL Fleet has developed a proprietary electrified powertrain platform that transforms fossil fuel-powered fleet vehicles into hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles as they are manufactured. XL’s systems are currently available on a variety of Class 2-6 vehicles manufactured by Ford, Chevrolet, GMC and Isuzu, and the company is on track to provide its systems in Class 7-8 vehicles in 2022.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 14, 2020

ImpactAlpha, October 14 – Solar is “some of the lowest cost electricity ever seen,” according to the International Energy Agency. While costs have fallen sharply, the efficiency of solar panels improved only incrementally. SunDensity claims its “smart coating” can increase efficiency by as much as 20%. The panel coating enables the panels to convert high-frequency.

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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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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 14, 2020

This fall, a brand new solar company announced a major addition to U.S. manufacturing with its gigawatt-production plans. Violet Power is setting up in a 600,000-sq.-ft facility across the street from REC Silicon in Moses Lake, Washington, and will have 500 MW of crystalline silicon solar cell manufacturing capacity by Q2 2021 with another 500… The post Everything we know about the newest U.S. solar panel manufacturer — Violet Power appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The excitement continued throughout the second day of our annual user conference, Planet Explore 2020. There was no shortage of great content from Planet and our community of users, partners, and influencers. Here are a few highlights. . Planet co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Robbie Schingler, took the stage to discuss three major trends impacting the remote sensing and geospatial industries: the digital transformation, the business of the environment and sustainability, and truth and tra

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The pandemic’s impact on transportation has also sparked a conversation on the future of mobility and its environmental impact.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Government export finance agency's ongoing support of oil and gas projects overseas is harming the environment, tarnishing the UK’s reputation as a climate leader, and limiting its potential to create jobs, according to a new analysis published today. The UK's export credit agency could support up to 42,000 jobs around the UK by 2035 if it switches it support for overseas fossil fuel projects to renewables and clean energy infrastructure, according to a major new analysis from Vivid Economics.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 14, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 14 – As passive ESG funds emerge as the hottest trend in financial services, active asset managers are touting their ‘impact alpha.’ Rather than simply tracking the market, they are looking for outperformance with strategies around the low-carbon transition, a more inclusive economy and the Sustainable Development Goals. Already this year, U.S. funds.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Seabed interconnector linking Britain and France to allow trade of surplus green power enters testing phase. Britain's latest undersea electricity cable, running 149 miles across the seabed between Portsmouth and Normandy in France, is soon set to begin trading surplus clean power between the two countries, after National Grid today officially announced completion of the £700m project.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 14, 2020

This was a $1.4 million project with a Power Purchase Agreement, (PPA) built at no cost to PBS. PBS just purchases the green solar electricity at a much lower rate than from the utility.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

New funds to help deliver solar arrays, LED traffic lights, cycleways, and nature protection projects. The UK's first local government green bond reached a successful close yesterday, reaching its £1m target five days ahead of the deadline. Green investment platform, Abundance Investment, which managed the issuance for West Berkshire District Council said it had attracted 640 investors who each invested an average of £3,500.

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2020

What if the answer to climate change is right beneath our feet? Here's how pioneering technologies could make it possible to capture global carbon emissions in the same soil we grow our food in.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 14, 2020

COVID-19 has affected almost all aspects of transportation. For the public sector, economic shutdowns have gutted the tax revenue needed to buy and maintain government vehicle fleets. Perhaps no municipal entity has been hit harder than public transit agencies, which. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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CleanTech Group

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In recent years, predictive maintenance has become a hot topic across the industrial world. Companies like SparkCognition have raised hundreds of millions of.

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Charged

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Swiss electronics giant ABB will supply its brand-new 11 kW bi-directional charging technology, specially designed for V2G, as part of a contract with France’s DREEV, a joint venture between Électricité de France (EDF) and intelligent charging specialist Nuvve. ABB’s solution, integrated with DREEV software, will enable EV drivers to export surplus power back to the grid.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Two more days. Complete our five-minute subscriber survey by tomorrow, Oct. 15, and enter to win a free ticket to next week’s SOCAP Virtual. Take the survey. Signals: Ahead of the Curve Asset managers compete on impact as investors move beyond ESG. As passive ESG funds emerge as the hottest trend. The post The Brief: Competing on impact in public equities, solar energy efficiency and access, Black venture capitalists, survey deadline appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Technology advances and evolving market rules such as the recent US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order No. 2222 require new approaches to integrating distributed energy resources (DER) with the grid.

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Sustainability Consulting

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We will remember the summer of 2020 as the time when the US couldn’t catch a break. The summer experienced record-breaking temperatures along with a record number of wildfires and surging COVID-19 cases. Is there a connection between high temperatures, wildfires and COVID-19? Could climate change be playing a role in all of these things? Let’s discuss each case and their connection to climate change.

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