Jim Conca
MARCH 5, 2019
As more Polar Vortices, Bomb Cyclones and massive hurricanes pummel America, nuclear plants keep putting out max power when other sources can’t. Last month, the Pacific Northwest’s onlynuclear plantwas ordered to keep the heat during record cold and snow because wind and gas couldn’t keep up.
Sunrun
MARCH 6, 2019
Solar is Changing The Way We Power Our Nation Solar panels seem like their made for the Sunbelt. Yet, solar panels perform well across the country. Even in cold, northern latitudes and rainy climates, solar power is a reliable and resilient energy source. A solar installation generates clean, renewable energy—year round. Solar panels actually produce electricity more efficiently in cold weather.
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Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 20, 2019
A “Smart grid” is more than just power delivery. The main pillar of a smart grid is a two-way connection of energy and information. For maximum effectiveness and efficiency, a smart grid infrastructure should also include two more pillars: distributed generation and AI.
Home Energy
MARCH 11, 2019
Are you aware that a crucial part of your roof, the soffits, are vital to establishing energy efficiency throughout your home? In this article, we’ll take a look everything you need to know about about soffits and energy efficiency.
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.
Front And Centered
MARCH 7, 2019
Photo by Eden, Janine and Jim/Flickr. Republished and modified according to Creative Commons 2.0 license. The Washington State Senate passed a bill on Friday that would require Washington utilities to reduce and ultimately eliminate the use of fossil fuels to power our electricity grid. Senate Bill (SB) 5116 could be a historic win in climate justice : a just transition toward clean energy in the electricity sector that distributes clean power benefits more equitably.
CleanTX
MARCH 25, 2019
Press Advisory from the CleanTX Organization. Embargoed Until 10:00am on Monday, March 25, 2019: Contact: Ryan Edwards (CleanTX Board Chair), ryan@cleantx.org. Joseph Kopser to Lead CleanTX Inaugural Advisory Board. Austin, TX – Former RideScout CEO and TX-21 Congressional candidate, Joseph Kopser, has joined the CleanTX organization as the Chairman of CleanTX’s inaugural Advisory Board.
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Elemental Excelerator
MARCH 19, 2019
What is your North Star? At Elemental Excelerator, we are working to create a world where the environment and communities thrive together. In order to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect our planet, we will need to creatively redesign and reinvent our underlying energy, agriculture, water, mobility, and economic systems. Not gradually and one at a time — urgently and all at once.
Andrew Winston
MARCH 31, 2019
There are some important discussions on the big, bold Green New Deal running around the climate change twitter and social media spheres. Jerry Taylor, President of the DC think tank Niskanen Center, put out a tough love letter to Green New Deal supporters. He opines about whether it's realistic to try for policy that big (and ill-defined for now). Vox's Dave Roberts had his own, different take on it.
Home Energy
MARCH 1, 2019
There is cause for celebration this week not just for the Home Performance Coalition, (HPC) but for all players in the home performance industry, as H.R. 1315 was introduced to the 116th Congress.
Bidgely
MARCH 24, 2019
Electric Vehicles (EVs) are here to stay. The US saw a spectacular 81% increase in EV sales in 2018, with a host of automakers bringing new EVs onto the market in 2019. What’s more, state climate and air quality mandates mean that millions of new EVs will hit the roads over the coming years. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) forecasts global EV sales worldwide growing steadily in the next few years, from the record 700,000 seen in 2016 to 3 million by 2021—the equivalent of adding
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.
Sun Valley Solar
MARCH 14, 2019
Energy storage has long been heralded as the final critical link in the self-generation, renewable energy evolution. After all, when you can store your excess solar energy for use anytime, you're empowered with an around-the-clock alternative to dirty and increasingly expensive grid power. Batteries are also useful in squashing demand fees or to keep the most critical parts of your business operational during unexpected power outages.
Jim Conca
MARCH 28, 2019
Four o’clock this morning, marked the 40th Anniversary of the partial meltdown of Unit #2 at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station. The accident achieved mythological status, even though no one was hurt and deaths occur every year at all other types of power plants except nuclear.
Elemental Excelerator
MARCH 14, 2019
Startups, you’ve got a month left to apply to Elemental Excelerator’s 8th cohort ! Our Qualifying Application takes only 5 minutes and the deadline to apply is April 12th. During the month of March (and year-round for that matter), we recruit the most talented female entrepreneurs across the agriculture, energy, mobility, water, and circular economy sectors to apply for up to $1 million in funding, uniquely designed for steel-in-the-ground (and data-in-the-cloud) demonstration projec
Varuna
MARCH 8, 2019
Systems and Loops Systems are continuous loops. Unintended consequences are just scenarios we did not consider during our development of the system. Human actions are part of the continuous loop of systems and they are a critical input in the assessment of the possible outputs or direction which a system will go in. The water system is a simple but complex one that, due to the continuous action of humans, is constantly having to adapt to maintain balance.
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.
Energy Innovation
MARCH 25, 2019
Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The research synopsis below comes from Morteza Taiebat of the School for Environment and Sustainability, and Ming Xu of the School for Environment and Sustainability, both at the University of Michigan. A full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link].
Bidgely
MARCH 24, 2019
Electric Vehicles (EVs) are here to stay. The US saw a spectacular 81% increase in EV sales in 2018, with a host of automakers bringing new EVs onto the market in 2019. What’s more, state climate and air quality mandates mean that millions of new EVs will hit the roads over the coming years. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) forecasts global EV sales worldwide growing steadily in the next few years, from the record 700,000 seen in 2016 to 3 million by 2021—the equivalent of adding
Energy and Cleantech Council
MARCH 1, 2019
Our client, Sunrun , the nation’s leading home solar, battery storage and energy services company, won an historic bid to deliver home solar and batteries as a capacity resource in ISO-NE’s recent Forward Capacity Auction (“FCA”), for the capacity commitment period June 1, 2022- May 31, 2023. Sunrun’s participation in New England’s capacity market is the first time in the country that home solar and battery storage has directly participated alongside traditional generation resources in a wholes
Jim Conca
MARCH 12, 2019
Liquid fuel and water comprise most of the mass transported to military forces. Resupply of fuel and drinking water for troops in-theater costs lives, half of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. To reduce these, our military wants small nuclear reactors whose resupply is once every several years.
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?
Elemental Excelerator
MARCH 5, 2019
Christine Su and George Lee left corporate jobs to pursue a shared vision of helping farmers build a better food system. They launched PastureMap in 2016 to help ranchers make profits building carbon-friendly meat supply chains. Christine, CEO of PastureMap , sat down with Melissa, Elemental Excelerator Chief of Staff, to tell us her story. – Melissa: You have a great story about finding your first customer.
Treehugger - Technology
MARCH 1, 2019
Scientists have created a mobile bioprinter that when filled with a patient's cells, prints skin directly into a wound.
Energy Innovation
MARCH 26, 2019
The writing is on the wall: Coal generation in the U.S. has reached a “ coal cost crossover ” point, meaning the all-in costs of new local renewables is becoming less than the mere operating costs of old coal. Utilities and their regulators must adapt to changing energy economics before they’re stuck with stranded assets. New wind costs as low as $15 per megawatt-hour (MWh), and solar costs as low as $28/MWh.
Bidgely
MARCH 1, 2019
Bidgely’s been leading the Utility AI and disaggregation space for eight years now, and it’s exciting to see how other vendors and energy utilities are embracing the technology. We want to extend a huge welcome to all companies attempting energy disaggregation science. There is no doubt that load disaggregation has crossed the chasm of early adoption.
Sunrun
MARCH 28, 2019
Your Rooftop Can Help You Gain Energy Freedom With solar panels, your rooftop can generate your own power and give you energy freedom. Your rooftop also offers peace of mind with today’s climate extremes and antiquated electrical grid. So find out how much power your roof can possibly generate when you go solar. A General Solar Equation There are various equations for calculating how many solar panels and the amount of power needed for a household.
Jim Conca
MARCH 26, 2019
1 in every 9 people in the world go hungry every day, and it’s getting worse. Whether it’s war, climate change and extreme weather events, the downward spiral of poverty, bad government and economic policies, or gender inequality, most of the reasons for hunger and famine are the fault of humans.
Home Energy
MARCH 31, 2019
In many parts of the country, house envelopes are notoriously leaky, with unintended air infiltration that results in additional space-heating and -cooling equipment loads. While voluntary codes and standards for envelope tightness have existed for decades, only recently have these codes become a requirement. Current manual methods for sealing house leaks, even when diligently applied, can fall short of the ultimate tightness goal, due to unrecognized leakage pathways.
Low Carbon Prosperity
MARCH 31, 2019
This webinar covers the emerging details of the House and Senate 100% greenhouse gas free power policies, and presents findings from our own modeling of the anticipated carbon reduction and cost impacts from these policies taking effect. Important distinctions between different utilities are explored. We also reviewed a recently introduced proposal to link with other states in establishing an economy wide GHG Cap.
CleanTech San Diego
MARCH 29, 2019
Cleantech San Diego Named a Top 10 Finalist in the Smart Cities Readiness Challenge. Digital services. Collaboration around climate action plans. Intelligent approaches to transportation and transit. These are some of the challenges a number of municipalities are taking on as they explore smart city projects. That’s part of the takeaway from the proposals submitted by more than 100 jurisdictions from the United States, Canada and Mexico to the 2019 Smart Cities Readiness Challenge.
Jigar Shah
MARCH 29, 2019
With great wealth comes great responsibility. Whether it was due to the ghosts of the Great Depression or just plain humility, the wealthy used to feel an obligation to use their means to better humanity, often by learning about and tackling the greatest challenges during their lifetimes. Now, we see many billionaires?—?like Jeff Bezos?—?pursuing smaller initiatives instead of tackling the truly intractable and important problems of their age.
Energy and Cleantech Council
MARCH 28, 2019
The Massachusetts electric distribution companies (“Distribution Companies”), together with the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, have asked the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities to approve a second request for proposal (“RFP”) for long-term offshore wind contracts in accordance with Section 83C of the Green Communities Act (“83C”).
E8 Cleantech Angels
MARCH 25, 2019
E8, an angel investor community committed to investing in cleantech in support of both profit and ecological sustainability, is pleased to welcome Mike Rea as its new Executive Director. This addition comes at an important time, given the pace of cleantech innovation, the urgency of climate change, and signature policy efforts underway such as the pending Washington Clean Fuel Standard.
Home Energy
MARCH 31, 2019
There is cause for celebration this spring for all players in the home performance industry, as H.R. 1315 was introduced in the 116th Congress on February 27, 2019. New legislation that would support training for home performance contractors was introduced in the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, “Clean Energy Infrastructure and the Workforce to Build It.” Chairman Bobby Rush invited Leticia Colon de Mejias to testify before the U.S.
Low Carbon Prosperity
MARCH 27, 2019
Observations and perspective on the effect of the cost cap provision on carbon and rate outcomes in reaching 100% GHG-free electricity by 2045. Summary. The 100% Clean Electricity bill (SB 5116) includes a cost cap intended to limit the risk of rate increases to utility customers. The cost cap also provides system engineers a specific target to use in their planning, i.e. a “Design for Cost” scenario.
CleanTX
MARCH 20, 2019
Joint effort focuses on developing technologies and management practices to accelerate reductions of methane emissions across the global oil and gas industry. BP and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced today a three-year strategic commitment to advance technologies and practices to reduce methane emissions from the global oil and gas supply chain.
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