Fri.Nov 13, 2020

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New Solar Array With Battery Back-Up Latest Step Forward To Clean-Energy Future

Jim Conca

The not-for-profit Energy Northwest in WA State cut the ribbon on its new utility-scale solar and battery project with more than 11,400 new solar panels that are paired with battery storage - exactly what President-Elect Biden’s new Climate 21 Project is supposed to encourage.

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Chemicals Giant Ineos Targets the World’s Cheapest Green Hydrogen

GreenTechMedia

It seems everyone wants to get in on the ground floor when it comes to green hydrogen. Utilities and oil majors both have a head start with their mixture of renewable power capacity, gas transmission assets and an existing set of end users. But chemical manufacturers could be a third class of big green hydrogen players. AkzoNobel began investigating a 20-megawatt electrolyzer as far back as 2018.

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The Philippines halts coal proposals to explore green energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Philippine government has halted the country's coal exploration. While announcing this news, Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said that the government is seeking alternative, green energy sources as it steps away from coal power. The moratorium means that investors intending to pursue any projects related to coal power will have to look into alternatives.

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Smart welding battery packs

Charged

Sponsored by Hesse Mechatronics. Benefits of Smart Welding. There are many types of welding used for the interconnection of battery packs. Laser, resistance, spot, etc. are just a few of the common types. Smart Welding was developed by Hesse Mechatronics to offer an alternative option. Smart Welding is “wire bonding without the wire” as it continues to use ultrasonic energy to help form the interconnection.

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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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Vellabox delivers natural, artisan candles to your door

Inhabitat - Innovation

As we spend more time at home than ever, these monthly boxes can break up the monotony of daily life, too. With sustainability and affordability in mind, Vellabox delivers candles and eco-friendly goodies to your door, and it is a perfect little act of self-care.

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Powering the rise of e-mobility

altenergymag

Transport power quality specialist REO UK will be exhibiting at the UK's premier low-carbon vehicle event CENEX-LCV, from 18-19 November, 2020. The event, which had record-breaking numbers of attendees in 2019, will be held virtually this year and is a chance for attendees and exhibitors alike to share practical insights, industry knowledge and announce new innovations, products and initiatives.

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Changing the face of solar tech

Solar Power World

By Lori-Ann Livingston, marketing and business development, Boxbrite Technologies A solar tech company based in Ontario, Canada, has discovered the value of a diverse workforce, as well as its challenges and benefits. Boxbrite Technologies develops software solutions for renewable energy systems. 70% of the company’s workforce is made up of highly skilled, highly educated newcomers… The post Changing the face of solar tech appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Will gene editing and cloning create super cows that resist global warming?

Inhabitat - Innovation

Livestock emit about 14.5% of all greenhouse gases, and now their gassy ways are coming back to haunt them.

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SMA America Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Pioneering Solar Technology

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This year marks the 20th Anniversary for SMA America. German-based SMA Solar Technology has been in business since 1981, expanding into the United States two decades ago. Over that time, SMA America has established itself as an industry pioneer in solar technology and photovoltaic inverters for clients and partners.

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Architects envision a lush, solar-powered oasis to cool Abu Dhabi

Inhabitat - Innovation

Oasys is a winning conceptual design to help 'Cool Abu Dhabi'.

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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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Q&A with Eric Pasi, author of new book “Clean Wave”

Solar Power World

Eric Pasi, chief development officer at Minnesota solar installation company IPS Solar, recently published CleanWave: A Guide to Success in the Green Recovery, a book about the past, present and future of cleantech with interviews, stories and advice for green career seekers. Solar Power World recently asked Pasi some questions about his book. SPW: What inspired… The post Q&A with Eric Pasi, author of new book “Clean Wave” appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Taiga electric snowmobiles and personal watercraft to come with ABB chargers

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Taiga Motors , a Montreal-based startup that was founded in 2015, plans to begin delivery of its electric snowmobiles this winter season and to bring its Orca electric personal watercraft to the market next spring. The skyrocketing sales of “powersports” vehicles may take a disproportionate toll on the environment, because many of these vehicles are not required to have catalytic converters.

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Elon Musk Says He Tested Positive For Covid-19

Forbes Green Tech

The billionaire entrepreneur who railed against public health efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 earlier this year appears to have come down with it.

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Norway’s Supreme Court to Decide on Climate Lawsuit Challenging Offshore Arctic Oil Drilling

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins The Supreme Court of Norway is set to rule in a high-profile climate change lawsuit challenging the Norwegian government’s licensing of new offshore oil drilling in the fragile and rapidly warming Arctic region. The forthcoming decision from Norway’s highest court could, for the first time anywhere in the world, invalidate offshore petroleum production on climate change grounds.

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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 You Can Take Climate Action Now: Insights from the 2020 Climatetech Summit

Greentown Labs

On Nov. 5 and 6, more than 2,200 climate champions poured in from Somerville, Houston, Nairobi, Warsaw, New Delhi, Vancouver, Kuala Lumpur, Phoenix, Atlanta, Moscow, and more places across the country and around the world with a common mission: scaling climate action to create a sustainable future for all. Greentown Labs’ first-ever Climatetech Summit brought the climate ecosystem together to engage across what we see as the pillars of climate action—technology, finance, policy, and justice—disc

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PVEL's Mobile Team Reaches Milestone of 1 GW of Damaged Solar Projects Tested in the Field

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PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) assessed the health of solar power plants affected by incidents such as wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and hailstorms

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Global corporate net zero drive 'resembles Wild West', BNEF warns

Business Green

Lack of standardisation or regulation for setting net zero targets risks undermining credibility and legitimacy of corporate climate action, influential analyst firm warns. Many of the world's largest companies are now racing to set net zero emission goals, but the varying quality of these targets and a lack of regulation or standardisation means the current landscape for decarbonisation programmes "resembles the Wild West", Bloomberg NEF has warned.

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The Importance Of Food Recycling

Green Living Guy

With the current situation of the environment today, it’s only ideal for everyone to start contributing in efforts to save it. There have been a lot of campaigns about save the earth, such as using less plastic or recycling plastic bottles. Food recycling is another way to conserve resources. It’s. The post The Importance Of Food Recycling appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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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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6 Major advantages of Organic Liquid Fertilizers 

U.S. Green Technology

The world is going green in all sectors, including agriculture. This necessitates the shift from synthetic fertilizers to organic fertilizers that are less toxic to the environment and the people. Organic fertilizers come from materials such as recycled plant matter and animal waste, which are organic. Due to the materials used in their manufacture, organic.

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Electrify America opens its 500th public charging station

Charged

Nationwide fast charging network Electrify America has now opened over 500 public charging locations across the US, including more than 2,200 individual DC fast chargers. Since opening its first site in May 2018, Electrify America has been opening an average of nearly four stations per week. Each station has between three and ten individual DC fast chargers.

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6 Eco-Conscious Ways to Care for Your Lawn and Garden

Green Living Guy

If you’ve only recently ventured into the world of eco-friendly lifestyles, you may fail to realize the environmental destruction lawn and garden care can cause. While lawn maintenance may appear seemingly harmless, gas-powered lawn mowers spew copious amounts of harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. If not used with an. The post 6 Eco-Conscious Ways to Care for Your Lawn and Garden appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Almost 80% of European EV sales have been in the six wealthiest countries

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The European Association of Automobile Manufacturers (ACEA) has published an interactive map that illustrates the correlation between the adoption of plug-in vehicles (which the organization, apparently feeling that the industry needs yet more acronyms, refers to as “electrically-chargeable vehicles,” or ECVs) and per-capita GDP. The ACEA reports that plug-in vehicles accounted for 3.0% of all new cars registered in the EU in 2019.

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Bold leaders. Taking action. Driving impact.

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 13 – Bold leaders. Taking action. Driving impact. That’s the tagline on the snappy Agents of Impact section on the new ImpactAlpha.com.

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Domaine Carneros Selects EDF Renewables North America for Solar and Storage Resilient Microgrid

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System Designed to Island the Facility During a Power Outage

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The 30th Named Storm Of Hurricane Season Is About To Form

Forbes Green Tech

Iota would be the 30th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. It may form soon.

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Science Based Targets Network branches out with call for companies to help design targets to stem nature's decline

Business Green

A new programme from the Science Based Targets Network aims to enable firms to adopt credible targets to support efforts to reverse the ongoing decline of nature. The Science Based Targets (SBT) Network yesterday issued a call for organisations to help it road-test a new programme designed to enable companies, consultancies, and industry coalitions to establish tools and targets to tackle the global decline in nature.

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Cornwall Insight comments on Renewables Obligation mutualisation

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Commenting on the announcement that Ofgem has confirmed mutualisation has been triggered for the 2019-20 compliance period (CP 18) of the Renewables Obligation (RO), Tim Dixon, Wholesale Team Lead Cornwall Insight, said:

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Plans submitted for major onshore wind farm in southern Scotland

Business Green

Community Windpower claims the 525MW project would house 75 turbines and energy storage capabilities, delivering £1.8bn of economic benefits. Plans for a major new onshore wind farm in southern Scotland have been submitted to Dumfries and Galloway council, marking the third major wind power project Community Windpower is hoping to develop in the region.

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North Carolina, and Duke Energy’s Vision for Distributed Energy [GTM Squared]

GreenTechMedia

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How circular cities can put people first

Business Green

Elsa Wenzel explores how circular economy models, when executed right, can unlock a raft of co-benefits. Addressing social inequality, climate change and material waste all overlap in some revolutionary visions by advocates of circular cities. The social aspects only recently have become front and center. The original snapshot of a circular economy by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, for example, mostly centered upon material factors: buildings; transportation; and products.

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GM Recalls Nearly 69,000 Chevrolet Bolts To Fix Risk Of Battery Fire

Forbes Green Tech

In one case a Bolt caught fire in the owner’s driveway. The owner reported to NHTSA that fumes from the fire drifted into his home, causing some occupants to suffer headaches.

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United Utilities turns tap on new climate pledges

Business Green

Company unveils new wave of environmental goals to align it with wider UK water industry plan to reach net zero emissions by 2030. UK water services firm United Utilities committed yesterday to a series of climate targets aligning the company with the wider UK water industry's newly announced goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2030. The new targets commit United Utilities, which supplies seven million customers in north west England, to powering its water and wastewater services with

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The Week in impact investing: Transition

Impact Alpha

Featured: Agents of Impact: Bold leaders, taking action and driving impact.