Mon.Dec 23, 2019

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America’s Nuclear Navy Still The Masters Of Nuclear Power

Jim Conca

America’s Nuclear Navy is one of the oldest and largest nuclear organizations in the world, and has the world’s best safety record of any industry of any kind. There are over a hundred nuclear reactors, which are actually small modular reactors, that power 86 submarines and aircraft carriers.

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Thrift-store shoppers, hand-me-down wearers and 8 scrappy startups making reuse possible

GreenBiz

Today’s burgeoning recommerce and online rental markets offer high-end gadgets and swanky fashion.

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Matthew McConaughey unveils tiny eco-retreat in Australia

Inhabitat - Innovation

Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey is jumping on the tiny cabin movement, and it's "alright, alright, alright" with us.

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The UK fashion sector is already on trend to miss 2020 waste targets

GreenBiz

Population growth, rising consumption levels, lack of collection infrastructure and fast fashion is blocking industry progress on waste, report finds.

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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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16 must-see environmental documentaries

Inhabitat - Innovation

Here are some top environmental documentaries to watch if you’re looking for a show that keeps sustainability in focus.

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An ode to the sustainability profession

GreenBiz

Sustainability, it turns out, has both rhyme and reason.

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LS Power Acquires Electric Vehicle Fast-Charging Specialist EVgo

GreenTechMedia

LS Power has added EVgo's electric vehicle public fast-charger business to its portfolio of power plants and businesses. The acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, sets up a new stage in EVgo's evolution, with the backing of a company that's willing to put lots of capital to work for energy infrastructure that moves the grid in a more flexible direction.

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White, latticed exoskeleton wraps a LEED Platinum office in Madrid

Inhabitat - Innovation

The energy-efficient building makes the most of its wedge-shaped plot.

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The Most Influential Deals, Stats, Twists and Buzz Phrases of the Decade

GreenTechMedia

It’s our last episode of The Interchange for the decade! We’re looking back over the last 10 years and making our choices for: The most important statistic. The most impactful piece of research. The top buzz phrase. The most unexpected twist. The most pivotal deal. And the dark horse trend of the 2020s. If you're looking for more listening through the holidays, make sure to check out The Energy Gang , Watt It Takes , or go back through our Interchange archive.

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Your essential guide to eco-wellness in Tampa, Florida

Inhabitat - Innovation

Tampa is a big city that loves to live outside. Thanks to recent development along the Hillsborough River, Tampa is very pedestrian-friendly. It’s a winning combination of sunshine, beaches and big city amenities.

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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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Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Still Looks Like a Distant Prospect

GreenTechMedia

It’s been more than half a decade since grid watchers first began talking about the concept of trading energy with your neighbors across peer-to-peer platforms. Since then, the idea of selling the power generated by your rooftop solar panels to other individuals in the same way you might let your spare room through Airbnb has gained plenty of attention thanks to the pitches from blockchain platform developers such as Grid+.

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Research partnership aims to put mattress waste to bed

Envirotec Magazine

A new partnership is aiming to forge a more sustainable approach to mattress design and disposal, tackling the estimated 600,000 mattresses disposed of in Scotland each year. Zero Waste Scotland, Scotland’s circular economy experts, and the National Bed Federation (NBF) are to work together on a three-year research project to increase mattress recycling and encourage more sustainable design.

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Michigan’s Grid Is Not as Resilient as It Could Be. Energy Storage Can Help

GreenTechMedia

In Michigan, we’re lucky to have one of the largest pumped storage facilities in the world. At the Ludington Pumped Storage facility, water is transported uphill when there is excess, cheap electricity and allowed to flow back downhill through a turbine when electricity is needed. Despite its clear value to the grid and to the increased integration of renewables, the 1,872-megawatt facility took four years to build and is unlikely to be replicated.

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How The 22-Year-Old Founder Of Scale AI Built A Billion-Dollar Business

Forbes Green Tech

Here's how Scale AI Founder and CEO Alexandr Wang built a billion-dollar company with customers including Airbnb and Lyft at the age of 22.

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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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Blackburn Energy Brings Clean Electricity to Diesel Trucks

Greentown Labs

Photo courtesy of Blackburn Energy. Andrew Amigo came up with the idea for Blackburn Energy while sitting in traffic. As he watched a truck’s drive shaft spin, he realized he could harness its lost kinetic energy and convert it into renewable electricity. “Everything clicked into place for me,” Amigo says. “Right there in my car I started taking notes, and started scratching out the idea of using the drive shaft and the wasted energy of the truck to create clean electricity, store it, and then r

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A Decade Of Elon Musk—And The Dawn Of The Electric Car

Forbes Green Tech

The impulsive South African-born entrepreneur is a multibillionaire on the cusp of delivering much of the clean transportation future he mapped out in a 2006 manifesto–and still polarizing.

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What is horizon shading and why is it important for solar?

Solar Power World

When forecasting how much energy your solar PV system will generate for a customer, accuracy is paramount. If your modeling software overlooks something important, like the stringing configuration of your system or shading from a nearby tree or other obstruction, it could result in errors and an unhappy customer. Advances in solar software have given… The post What is horizon shading and why is it important for solar?

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How Iceland’s Banking Collapse Created An Opportunity

Forbes Green Tech

The collapse of Iceland's banks just over a decade created an opportunity for fintech. As Iceland moves into the third decade of the 21st century, however, it faces different challenges, not least the effects of mass tourism and climate change.

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New Jersey approves 77.61 MW of community solar serving low- and moderate-income communities

Solar Power World

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) approved 45 applications to participate in the first year of its Community Solar Energy Pilot Program. While NJBPU reserved 40% of the pilot program’s capacity for projects in which at least 51% of the capacity serves low- to moderate-income (LMI) communities, 100% of the approved renewable energy… The post New Jersey approves 77.61 MW of community solar serving low- and moderate-income communities appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Celebrate 18 fellow ‘Agents of Impact’ you met on ImpactAlpha

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 23 – Before Greta Thunberg was TIME’s Person of Year, the young Swedish activist was an ImpactAlpha Agent of Impact for jumpstarting global climate strikes that have put business and political leaders on notice. Each week, ImpactAlpha highlights Agents of Impact who are making things happen, have something to say and whom other agents will want to know.

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AWEA Applauds Extension of Wind Energy Production Tax Credit

altenergymag

The President recently signed into law a spending and tax bill that includes an extension of the wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) for one year. The bill also raises the value of the PTC to 1.5 cents/kilowatt hour.

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Electric Truckmaker Rivian, Backed By Amazon, Ford, Raises Whopping $1.3 Billion

Forbes Green Tech

The startup has now raised about $3 billion to get its battery-powered pickups and SUVs into production.

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Major upgrade of Alamo 1 solar farm leads to increased performance

altenergymag

"Alamo I is now equipped with industry-leading tracker technology and a block of bifacial modules which will be used for field testing and data-gathering," said Jason Thompson, Construction Manager for OCI Solar Power.

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UnitedSiC announces SiC FETs with RDS(on) of less than 10 mohms

Charged

Range and horsepower may get the headlines, but to powertrain designers, drain-source resistance, also known as RDS(on), is a sexy spec. Those in the know are excited over the news that UnitedSiC , a New Jersey-based manufacturer of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors, is introducing four new SiC field-effect transistors (FETs) that boast RDS(on) levels of as low as 7 milliohms.

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Scout Closes $210 Million Construction Financing for Indiana Wind Farm

altenergymag

-Construction is underway with Mortenson -Power Purchase Agreement secured with Constellation -Tax equity and construction debt secured

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LS Power to acquire EVgo

Charged

Utility holding company LS Power will acquire charging network operator EVgo from Vision Ridge Partners. EVgo operates more than 750 charging sites with over 1,250 fast chargers across 34 states. The transaction is expected to close in early 2020. David Nanus, Co-Head of Private Equity at LS Power, said, “This acquisition provides LS Power the opportunity to support the continued expansion of EVgo’s unmatched charging infrastructure platform, already present in 66 metropolitan markets, and

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The Stories That Defined the US Solar Market in 2019 [GTM Squared]

GreenTechMedia

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Statistic of the decade: Amazon has lost 8.4m football pitches of rainforest

Business Green

Royal Statistical Society names its stats of the decade which highlight Amazon rainforest loss, air pollution deaths and rise of SUVs.

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White, latticed exoskeleton wraps a LEED Platinum office in Madrid

AGreenLiving

On the side of a large roundabout in Madrid, Spanish architecture firm Rafael de La-Hoz has realized the eye-catching Oxxeo project, a five-story office building with a LEED Platinum Core & Shell certification. The energy-efficient building makes the most of its wedge-shaped plot with an asymmetrical, three-sided design, of which the geometry is emphasized with the building’s three large-scale, lattice facades with a white, rhomboidal pattern.

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Anglo American pledges to align lobbying with Paris Agreement

Business Green

Activist investors celebrate after mining giant promises to realign all its lobbying activity, including that done on its behalf by industry associations, with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Kuehn Malvezzi tops a brick office building in Germany with an energy-efficient greenhouse

AGreenLiving

In the historic center of Oberhausen, Berlin-based architectural firm Kuehn Malvezzi has created a job center topped with a greenhouse in an unprecedented example of “building-integrated agriculture” in Germany. Named Altmarktgarten Oberhausen, the mixed-use facility symbolizes old and new: the brick-and-steel material palette references the area’s historic architecture, while the greenhouse serves as a place for innovative urban farming research.

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Regional leaders call for flood-focused COBRA committee as fresh floods hit

Business Green

Some 300 flood alerts in place over the weekend, including almost 100 flood warnings, as experts call for overhaul of flood policy.

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What You Need to Know About Electricity

AGreenLiving

For Americans, electricity use is a major component of our … The post What You Need to Know About Electricity appeared first on Earth911.com. See more here: What You Need to Know About Electricity.

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More Than 90 Percent of Consumers in the U.S. Want a Utility Takeover

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Westhaven Inc.

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