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[Blog] 10 Construction Trends Impacting the Industry

Home Energy

The construction industry is continuing to grow and evolve as new technology emerges. Companies and workers will need to adapt or risk being left behind as the entire industry shifts into something new and different. Let's take a closer look at some of the biggest construction trends that are currently.

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The link between extreme weather and climate change

Clean Energy Canada

Over the last few years, record-breaking temperatures across Canada have been accompanied by unprecedented wildfire seasons and floods. The 2017 and 2018 wildfire seasons were the worst two on record in British Columbia. Ottawa has experienced two one-in-100 year floods in only three years. While these events are indeed linked to climate change, direct attribution is often approached by media with hesitation.

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PowerSwitch 6 and 100% Clean Energy For All

Mosaic

Mosaic is six years old, and we’ve got a lot to celebrate! Since our early days as a solar crowdfunding pioneer, Mosaic has gone on to become a leading provider of home solar loans in America – and helped nearly 100,000 households go solar through our financing platform in the process. . To mark the occasion, we’ve launched the next generation of home solar loans: PowerSwitch 6.

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CleanTX Announces Founding Members of Advisory Board

CleanTX

CleanTX is pleased to announce the ten founding members of the CleanTX Advisory Board. The Advisory Board’s purpose is to align thought leaders across multiple industries that will help CleanTX achieve its mission of accelerating the cleantech industry in Austin, the state of Texas, the region and the nation. . CleanTX’s Board Chairman, Ryan Edwards, shares his intent with the build out of the CleanTX Advisory Board.

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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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PNM plans early retirement of coal plant with massive addition of solar + storage

Renewable Energy World

On July 1, Public Service of New Mexico filed a plan with regulators in the state for how it plans to get to a 100 percent emission-free power by 2040. The utility reviewed four scenarios, all of which involved the early retirement of the San Juan Coal Plant, to arrive at its recommended path forward.

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Smart material reuse and sustainability innovations reduce construction and operation carbon.

Fairsnape

Smart material reuse and sustainability innovations at British Land development will reduce carbon in construction and operation by 33% … British Land Development at 1 Triton Square works closely with design teams and contractor to retain much of the original building. Smart material reuse and sustainability innovations mean that the building will produce 33% less carbon in construction and operation than best practice new build equivalents – a reduction of 35,600 tonnes of CO 2 e.

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Plant-Based Meat Startups Have Cracked Beef, But What About Chicken?

AFN Sustainable Protein

Plant-based ground beef has become a staple at several fast food restaurants across the US. Now food retailers are demanding other alternatives, but creating viable plant-based alternatives for other food types like dairy, seafood, muscle cuts, and poultry could prove trickier. Impossible Foods has already started warning retailers like Burger King and Red Robin that shortages of its Impossible Burger patty are impending.

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It's time for energy freedom in Alabama

Renewable Energy World

Alabama is ranked 13th in the nation as having the greatest solar potential, yet only 0.26% of its energy comes from solar, leaving the state far behind others when it comes to total installed solar capacity. According to an annual report produced by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), Alabama ranked 29th in the United States for solar production in 2018.

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Sustainable Language

Fairsnape

“As part of our sustainability journey, the language of construction also needs to evolve – from one that is perhaps too combative, technical and confrontational to one that is mindful, and embraces a language of collaboration, sharing, care and love. There are signs that the language of business is changing as it incorporates more diverse, open and inclusive approaches” FutuREstorative 2016.

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Fall Armyworm Hampers Malawi Farmers’ Recovery Efforts

Unsustainable

Across large parts of Africa, recovery efforts from Cyclone Idai are being hampered by the increasing threat of the Fall Armyworm. words and primary photographs by Deogracias Benjamin Kalima additional photographs and video by Hilda Lem Aneyas Kalichero is a hardworking subsistence farmer from the Shire Valley district of Chikwawa, Milawi, where she owns and manages a crop field by the banks of the Shire river.

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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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Plant-Based Meat Startups Have Cracked Beef, But What About Chicken?

AFN Sustainable Protein

Plant-based ground beef has become a staple at several fast food restaurants across the US. Now food retailers are demanding other alternatives, but creating viable plant-based alternatives for other food types like dairy, seafood, muscle cuts, and poultry could prove trickier. The post Plant-Based Meat Startups Have Cracked Beef, But What About Chicken?

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How a perfect storm is driving microgrids into the mainstream

Renewable Energy World

Given the diverse benefits that microgrids provide – reductions in energy costs, business risk, and carbon emissions, and increases in resiliency and power reliability – one wonders why discussion of microgrids has only started to take off recently.

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Meet our Alumni: Mycorena

Green Tech Challenge

In recent years, there has been an awakening in the general public when it comes to environmental responsibility, putting immense pressure on companies to deliver sustainable and eco-friendly products.Almost all industries you can imagine produce some type of waste material, an example being the food processing industry, where large amounts of liquid waste are produced. … Meet our Alumni: Mycorena Read More » The post Meet our Alumni: Mycorena appeared first on GREENTECH CHALLENGE.

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A Seat at the Table: Reflections on the Environmental Justice Convening

Defend Our Future

“My uncle died about five weeks ago because of the cancerous chemicals that are coming out of Exxon, and his kids are scared now, and I’m even scared now.… This [Washington, DC] is new to me, at least this air…It’s weird to be here breathing fresh air for the first time in my life.” – Diego Guadalupe Loredo, 15 years old, Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services. 15-year old high school student Diego Guadalupe Loredo shares his story of living most of his life living next to an Exxon refine

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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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June Cleantech Roundup: Beyond Carbon, Beyond Tariffs, Beyond Plastics, Beyond Fission?

Clean Energy Trust

Credits from left: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images, Union of Concerned Scientists, Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press, TechCrunch/Getty Images Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, from policy changes to technology updates and investment news. Cleantech News Michael Bloomberg announced he was donating $500 million as part of the “Beyond Carbon” campaign, with a goal of eliminating all fossil fuel power plants in the United States.

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Massachusetts incentivizes energy storage systems for commercial property owners

Renewable Energy World

Commercial property owners with existing energy storage systems, or owners considering implementing an energy storage system, may be able to benefit from a recent order by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) allowing utility companies to pay customers who agree to rely upon their energy storage systems and dispatch the energy during peak events.

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The number of public charging stations for EVs in China surges 50.5% in May

Renewable Energy World

According to data recently released by the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Association, the number of public charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) owned and operated by its members totaled 401,000 units as of May 2019, of which 229,000 were AC charging stations, 171,000 were DC and 500 AC/DC were integrated, representing a year on year increase of 50.5 percent and 9,658 units from the previous month.

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Clearway Energy sets up blockchain test to trade renewable energy credits

Renewable Energy World

Clearway Energy Group, one of the U.S.’s largest clean power developers, is launching a pilot electronic marketplace for renewable energy credits as more states push for solar and wind projects.

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Air conditioning is the world's next big threat

Renewable Energy World

The vast majority of Americans have air conditioning but in Germany almost nobody does. At least not yet.

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New solar permit software could reduce costs and expand residential markets

Renewable Energy World

Solar Foundation and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) are joining the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), several national residential solar companies, and other nonprofit organizations to develop new automated permit software for distributed solar and storage, reducing the cost of solar installations and saving resources for local governments and taxpayers.

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Educating today’s utilities about tomorrow’s innovations

Renewable Energy World

Last week in San Antonio, Texas, about 150 DISTRIBUTECH stakeholders convened to discuss industry trends, best practices for marketing and sales in the utility industry and set the educational agenda for the 2020 event.

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Clean Power Alliance signs PPA for 12-MW Isabella small hydro project in California

Renewable Energy World

The Clean Power Alliance (CPA) has signed three long-term power purchase agreements, including two new solar projects and one existing small hydro project.

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China drops electricity subsidy price for offshore wind power

Renewable Energy World

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (the NDRC) issued a Circular on Policies of Improving the Electricity Price for On-Grid Wind Power (the Circular) at the end of May 2019. According to the Circular, the price of electricity from offshore wind power projects is cut to 0.8 yuan per kWh [US $0.12 per kWh] in 2019 and will further drop to 0.75 yuan [US $0.11] per kWh in 2020.

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Dominion Energy begins construction on Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project

Renewable Energy World

Dominion Energy has begun construction on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, which will feature two 6-MW wind turbines and power about 3,000 homes.