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Use These Cleantech Marketing Tactics To Identify Your Ideal Customer

Michael Grossman

Why Cleantech Marketing Can't Be Overlooked In Today's Market. We've already discussed the influx of investment dollars into the cleantech sector over the last couple of years. And though savvy cleantech investors understand the patience required for their dollars to yield dividends, that patience isn't unlimited. The green economy is still capitalist, and investors know your cleantech business is still a business.

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How organizations are planning for a carbon credit supply crunch

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Demand for carbon credits is expected to outpace supply, leaving corporate carbon credit buyers at risk of not meeting their climate commitments.

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UK’s biggest CCU plant opens

Envirotec Magazine

Presented as a key milestone in the UK’s race to meet its net zero targets, a new Carbon Capture and Usage (CCU) plant has been opened in Northwich, Cheshire by Tata Chemicals Europe. Liquid CO2 storage at the new CCU facility. The £20 million plant is set up to capture 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year – the equivalent to taking over 20,000 cars off the roads and reduces TCE’s carbon emissions by more than 10%.

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Challenges and Developments in Wind Energy Market

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The growth of global wind energy market is attributed to the growing installation of wind turbines. Wind energy is used to create power from locomotive energy. Wind energy is converted into power-driven energy by the wind turbine, which is subsequently converted to electrical energy by the generator.

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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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Sustainable Event Planning: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

The importance of sustainable event planning. The time is now for event planners to host eco-friendly events using an effective sustainable event planning strategy. Organizations that hold or manage large events such as conferences, business meetings, concerts, fairs, weddings, or any large get-together need to consider the impact these events have on the planet. “ The typical conference attendee produces more than four pounds of waste and nearly 400 pounds of CO 2 emissions a day. –

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Is biochar suitable as a construction material?

Envirotec Magazine

Biochar is a porous material made from the pyrolysis of wood and other plant material. Diksha Pandey writes. Biochar performs well on humidity control. It might help avoid interiors becoming too dry, reducing indoor air pollution, attractive in countries like India. Biochar has applications in soil improvement, waste management, geo-engineering and climate mitigation.

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Top energy award win for Switch2 cost & carbon saving heat network technology

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Switch2 Energy has won a prestigious Energy Award for its innovative ICON connected heat interface unit (HIU), which is transforming heat network performance to reduce costs and carbon emissions.

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How Green Is Your Solar Company? A 5-Step Sustainability Guide For Your Business

Green Business Bureau

The importance of solar company sustainability. Solar company sustainability is vital for an industry that aims to curb climate change. As a renewable energy provider, you wouldn’t expect your solar company to be environmentally damaging. Yet, practices can lead to a vast amount of unnecessary waste, habitat destruction, and carbon emissions depending on how you choose to operate.

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Clean tech drives record-breaking energy investment, IEA report finds

GreenBiz

A recent report predicts global energy investment will rise eight percent this year, driven by surging investment in clean energy infrastructure.

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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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A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change

Grist

In early May, a woman in her 90s was hospitalized in Connecticut with a strange assortment of symptoms: confusion, nausea, chest pain, chills, and fever. Two weeks later, on May 17, she died. The culprit was a blacklegged tick, a minuscule arachnid about the size of a sesame seed when fully grown. Blacklegged ticks, commonly known as deer ticks, carry a wide range of illnesses.

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GEOTHERMAL DE-RISKED. GEOTHERMAL SOLVED.

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DTS Technologies' DGS system is 5+ gigaton technology that makes 25MW geothermal wells anywhere with above average geologic heat. DGS eliminates all problems preventing geothermal's becoming the major clean energy source, namely the excessive costs and risks of exploration, drilling, seismicity, and water use.

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Sustainable Fashion Guide: 8 Tips to Kick-Start Your Sustainable Fashion Brand Company

Green Business Bureau

Build a resilient fashion brand company using sustainable fashion. Sustainable fashion has come to save the fashion industry. Today, the fashion industry is widely regarded as the second most polluting industry in the world, releasing 1.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. This means fashion accounts for 10% of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally, using more energy than both air travel and shipping combined.

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Recognizing 11 servant leaders in sustainability

GreenBiz

This year’s Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards honorees represent a more diverse range of industries than ever, from consumer products and aviation to climate tech and green buildings.

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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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IEA’s Global EV Outlook 2022 is packed with market info

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Each year, the International Energy Agency releases a report that assesses the state of the EV market. The latest edition notes that EV sales “powered through 2021 and have remained strong so far in 2022,” but cautions that “ensuring future growth will demand greater efforts to diversify battery manufacturing and critical mineral supplies to reduce the risks of bottlenecks and price rises.”.

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TrinaTracker insights on How to Increase Energy Yield with Intelligent Integrated Tracking Solutions

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Continuous reduction of LCOE is the driver of grid parity and will speed up the application of solar projects. Spain is the biggest market for solar trackers in Europe, with years of tracker projects development, more and more complex terrains bring challenges to solar tracker design and installations.

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Bakery Sustainability Guide: Ideas on How To Make Your Bakery Eco Friendly

Green Business Bureau

Bakery sustainability is the future of bakeries. Sustainable development in business cultivates both earth-safe and cost-effective solutions, which in this case, can achieve true bakery sustainability. These solutions reduce waste, business emissions, and pollution, ultimately reducing the ecological footprint of an entity. Once more, the business case for sustainability is irrefutable, by improving efficiency, a sustainable design creates lean processes that lower overall business costs, and im

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How the financial system can — and must — account for climate risk

GreenBiz

During a keynote conversation at GreenFin 22 last week, Sarah Bloom Raskin discussed how the financial regulatory system can — and must — account for climate risk.

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Brookhaven researchers describe benefits of electrolyte additive

Charged

A team led by researchers at DOE ’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has investigated the benefits of a lithium difluorophosphate additive for electrolytes in lithium batteries with nickel-rich layered cathodes. According to Brookhaven, the possibility of high-energy-density cells composed of nickel-rich layered cathodes and lithium metal anodes is limited by processes that reduce their capacity.

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Natural Power appointed for Mersey Reactive Power contract

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Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has been appointed by PeakGen to deliver high voltage management services for the Mersey Reactive Power Limited (MRPL) Frodsham Shunt Reactor project at Frodsham 400kV substation in Cheshire.

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We Need Electric School Buses, And We Need More Students Walking and Biking to School

The City Fix

As our colleagues have covered previously, there are clear health and environmental benefits to adopting electric school buses instead of their diesel counterparts, which account for more than 90% of the U.S. school bus fleet and result in harmful exhaust. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Regrow partnership with food giants aims to scale regenerative agriculture

GreenBiz

Regrow Agriculture has partnered up with some of the biggest food companies in the industry to bring immense monitoring capabilities to sustainable farmers.

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EV subscription service Onto adds 600 Peugeots to its fleet

Charged

UK electric car subscription service Onto plans to add 600 new Peugeot EVs to its fleet. 300 of these are e-208 Allure Premium models, and 300 are e-2008 GT models. Onto has been offering Peugeot EVs since 2018, and the brand is a popular choice among Onto subscribers. Onto currently has over 6,000 active subscribers, and offers a wide selection of EVs.

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15th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum in London to Examine Latest Advances in EMEA, APAC and LATAM

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How DER Growth Feeds Growing Synergy Between VPPs, DERMS and Microgrids

AutoGrid

How DER Growth Feeds Growing Synergy Between VPPs, DERMS and Microgrids. By Peter Asmus. According to Guidehouse Insights , the amount of capacity being added to power grids globally from 14 different distributed energy resources (DER) — everything from rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, electric vehicle (EV) charging, and a variety of other loads being converted into demand response (DR) assets – surpassed the new capacity coming on-line from centralized power sources (such as coal

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Accelerating to Net Zero: The Business Imperative

GreenBiz

Many companies are making net zero pledges, but few have developed comprehensive implementation plans, and even fewer have made meaningful progress on delivering results.

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Schaeffler launches new 4-in-1 e-axle

Charged

Electric drivetrain manufacturer Schaeffler has introduced a new 4-in-1 e-axle. “Such highly integrated complete systems are attractive for both established automobile manufacturers and new players,” says the head of Schaeffler’s E-Mobility business division, Dr. Jochen Schröder. The e-axle’s 4-in-1 layout combines the electric motor, power electronics, transmission and thermal management system into one unit.

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Floating Energy Allyance selects Natural Power for Buchan Offshore Windfarm

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Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has been appointed by Floating Energy Allyance to lead the environmental impact assessment for its Buchan Offshore Wind project at the ScotWind NE8 site.

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How to Move From One State to Another in an Eco-Friendly Way

Green Living Guy

If you’re like most people, you probably don’t think too much about the environmental impact of moving from one state to another. But did you know that moving can be quite harmful to the environment? This blog post will discuss how to move from one state to another in an eco-friendly way. It will cover […]. The post How to Move From One State to Another in an Eco-Friendly Way appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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Solution or Band-Aid? Carbon capture projects move ahead

GreenBiz

Long discussed but rarely used, carbon capture and storage projects — which bury waste CO2 underground — are on the rise globally. Some scientists see the technology as a necessary tool in reducing emissions, but others say it simply perpetuates the burning of fossil fuels.

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Volkswagen presents new electric sedan concept in China

Charged

For better or for worse, new EVs from global automakers increasingly seem to be making their debuts in China. That’s where Volkswagen recently chose to present the ID. AERO electric sedan, which the automaker calls a “close-to-production concept car.”. “The future model will be positioned in the premium mid-size sedan segment,” says VW. The production version for China is expected to go on sale in the second half of 2023, and a European version is expected to go into production at VW’s Emden pla

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Fluence Announces India Technology Centre, Underscoring Commitment to the Region and Execution of Global Product Strategy

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