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ThorCon Advanced Nuclear Reactor -- More Than Worth Its Weight In Salt

Jim Conca

ThorCon is a nuclear reactor with molten salt fuel containing thorium+uranium that is walk-away-safe. ThorCon would be completely manufactured in 150 to 500 ton blocks in a shipyard, assembled and towed to a site, with order of magnitude improvements in productivity, quality control, and build time.

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100% Clean is 100% Achievable

Defend Our Future

Climate change threatens our economy, our health and our children’s future. The United States can address this great challenge by moving to a 100% clean economy. Transforming to 100% clean means shifting the country away from polluting sources of energy. We need to stop adding climate pollution to the atmosphere by 2050 — producing no more than we can remove.

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EV charging sites now outnumber petrol stations in UK

Renewable Energy World

Newly released figures from Zap-Map, a charging point platform, reveal that the number of public charging locations in the country has now surpassed the number of petrol stations.

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New law makes it easier for British Columbians to buy electric cars

Clean Energy Canada

VICTORIA—Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statements in response to the B.C. government passing a new law that will require automakers to sell a growing percentage of electric vehicles in the province: “British Columbians are excited about electric cars and the chance to cut both their fuel costs and pollution.

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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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Nuclear Power - Where's The Uranium Coming From?

Jim Conca

Mostly from Canada and Australia. The bottom line is that there’s lots and lots of U in the world, and more keeps being discovered. U resources increased about 25% over the last decade, which has kept prices low. As long as we don’t go to war with Canada, we should be OK for a long time to come.

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People Are Telling Us What They Want From Cities, We're Just Not Listening.

Varuna

We speculate a lot about what people want from their cities. But for the most part, the conversations about what people want are based on the perspective of entities with biases about residents’ needs. People in city government assume citizens want more services and for the city to spend more, but suggest there are not enough funds to do what is required.

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4 Easy Ways to Pitch Solar to Your Management Team

Sun Valley Solar

Going solar can be a sizable investment for some, especially small and medium sized businesses. But, unlike many property additions, solar starts returning money to your bottom line the moment it's turned on and will keep producing free energy for decades. In addition to all the positive financial benefits, a solar energy investment also adds to the "green" reputation for your company, which will appeal to an increasingly environmentally-savvy marketplace.

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Press Release – Mayor Eric Garcetti and LACI Announce First Cohort for New Impact Acceleration Program for Small Businesses and Startups in City of Los Angeles

LA CleanTech Incubator

13 Small Business and Startup Founders from Low Income Neighborhoods and Underrepresented Populations Participate in Inaugural Founders Business Accelerator Program Created with the City of Los Angeles Los Angeles, May 30, 2019. The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) announces the first cohort of 13 small business founders selected to participate in the Founders Business Accelerator.

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Fuming Over Fumigation

Unsustainable

words and photographs by Christina De La Rocha My eyes are burning as I write this, and not just with rage. This morning, I went for a walk. Where I live, that means traipsing down country roads and the ancient paths between fields of grass, wheat, maize, rye, oil-seed rape, and fava beans. Even with the miraculous, multi-million dollar, labor-saving machinery of modern farming, the farmers are often out there doing things to their fields.

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Renewables set to outspend oil and gas exploration in APAC by 2020

Renewable Energy World

Renewables energy investment in Asia excluding China will overtake spending on upstream oil and gas projects in the region as soon as next year, according to Rystad Energy.

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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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[Article] DOE Weatherization Assistance Program Update

Home Energy

In an ongoing effort to improve communication with the weatherization community, DOE’s Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) will convey new training resources, recently issued Weatherization Program Notices (WPNs) and WAP Memorandums, and other relevant information in this new feature. in case you missed it.

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Clean Energy Alliance: Board Secretary

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Board Secretary. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is a new Joint Powers Authority formed to provide electricity services to retail customers in Southern California. With 32 member agencies, CPA is the largest Community Choice Aggregation organization in California, serving over three million residents and businesses though approximately one million customer accounts.

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People Tell Us What They Want From Cities. We’re Just Not Listening.

Seyi Fabode

We speculate a lot about what people want from their cities. But for the most part, the conversations about what people want are based on the perspective of entities with biases about residents’ needs. People in city government assume citizens want more services and for the city to spend more, but suggest there are not enough funds to do what is required.

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India's largest coal-fired power producer appoints renewables head to speed transition

Renewable Energy World

State-run NTPC Ltd., India’s largest coal-fired power producer, is appointing a new head of its renewables team to speed up its expansion into clean energy, according to a company official with knowledge of the plan.

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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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[Article] In Gratitude to Bill Miller

Home Energy

Bill Miller was our interim Executive Director (ED) during the merger of Home Energy Magazine and Efficiency First with the Home Performance Coalition, later to become the Building Performance Association. During the approximately two-year transition, Bill kept us moving in the right direction through the loss of crucial staff and other challenges. He did this while working full time as a program manager in the Energy Technology Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

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Clean Energy Alliance: Controller

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is a new Community Choice Aggregation/Joint Powers Authority formed to provide electricity services to retail customers in Southern California. With 31 member agencies, CPA will be the largest CCA in California and 5th largest electric utility in the State, serving over three million residents and businesses though more than one million customer accounts.

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Conectric and Avimesa Combine Solutions to Deliver Simplified Industrial IoT Value

CleanTech San Diego

Cleantech San Diego member and Southern California Energy Innovation Network company Conectric has entered into a strategic agreement with local Industrial IoT start-up Avimesa. Avimesa was founded to provide the industrial market with solutions used for intelligent equipment monitoring and failure prediction. Their core product, Avimesa Device Cloud, includes features like messaging, alerting, data filtering, and over-the-air (OTA) firmware updates, but eliminates the need to build the underlyi

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US government study indicates 60 GW of geothermal energy capacity under our feet

Renewable Energy World

This week, the U.S. Department of Energy released an analysis that shows how the United States could benefit from the vast potential of geothermal energy. The analysis culminated in a report, GeoVision: Harnessing the Heat Beneath Our Feet, which summarizes findings showing that geothermal electricity generation could increase more than 26-fold from today — reaching 60 gigawatts (GW) of installed capacity by 2050.

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[Article] Overcoming Obstacles to Advanced Air Sealing

Home Energy

We all know the basics of energy efficiency. Air seal high in the building, then low, then insulate. Seems simple, right? Stop the air from leaking into or out of the building. Save money. Increase comfort. Promote healthy indoor air quality (with the appropriate ventilation system, of course). However, when you go to execute these simple principles on a complex house, you find that this black-and-white directive dissolves into seemingly endless shades of gray.

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Clean Energy Alliance: Energy Resource Planner

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Energy Resource Planner. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is a new Community Choice Aggregation/Joint Powers Authority formed to provide electricity services to retail customers in Southern California. With 31 member agencies, CPA will be the largest CCA in California and 5th largest electric utility in the State, serving over three million residents and businesses though more than one million customer accounts.

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Amply Power Honored by Fast Company’s 2019 World Changing Ideas Awards for Innovative Charging-as-a-service Business Model for EV Fleets

LA CleanTech Incubator

AMPLY’s simple usage model of cents-per-electric-mile driven helps fleets migrate to electric vehicles within their fleets of truck, bus, van, and EV cars: zero capex, guaranteed ready for work every day, and fixed, budgetable cost. The post Amply Power Honored by Fast Company’s 2019 World Changing Ideas Awards for Innovative Charging-as-a-service Business Model for EV Fleets appeared first on LACI.

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Pedernales Electric Coop, Aggreko team on Texas energy storage system

Renewable Energy World

The 2.25 MW/4.5 MWh project will be situated in Johnson City, Texas. Aggreko software will manage the battery system, which will provide services into grid operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

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[Article] Introducing the Association's Policy Affairs Team

Home Energy

Kara Saul Rinaldi manages Building Performance Association’s government affairs team. Her team develops and advocates for policies and objectives that address obstacles to scaling the home performance industry, or that take advantage of new opportunities for contractors in that industry. Kara and her team go to bat at both the federal and state levels, working on issues such as the Federal Budget, regulatory issues with public utility commissioners, and legislative policies to advance buil

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Clean Energy Alliance: Power Origination Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Power Origination Manager. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is a new Community Choice Aggregation/Joint Powers Authority formed to provide electricity services to retail customers in Southern California. With 31 member agencies, CPA will be the largest CCA in California and 5th largest electric utility in the State, serving over three million residents and businesses though more than one million customer accounts.

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Clean Energy Efforts Start At The Local Level.

Jigar Shah

Clean Energy Efforts Start At The Local Level. Here Are 3 Ways You Can Make A Difference In Your Town’s Footprint You’ve probably seen it recently in the news: a group of activists referring to themselves as the Extinction Rebellion stripping down to their underwear in the British Parliament to advocate against government apathy in the fight against climate change.

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Microsoft and Eneco sign Netherlands wind energy agreement to power the cloud

Renewable Energy World

Microsoft Corp. has signed a new wind energy agreement to purchase 90 MW from the 731.5-MW Borssele III/IV offshore wind project, owned by Dutch sustainable energy company and wind farm developer Eneco.

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[Article] Welcome to Your Association

Home Energy

On April 2 we announced the formation of the Building Performance Association (the Association) at the National Home Performance Conference in Chicago. We are a national industry association organized under the 501(c)(6) section of the IRS code. As an industry association we represent the broad (and yes, sometimes contradictory) interests of everyone who is significantly involved in residential energy efficiency retrofits and home performance.

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Clean Energy Alliance: Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is a new Community Choice Aggregation/Joint Powers Authority formed to provide electricity services to retail customers in Southern California. With 31 member agencies, CPA will be the largest CCA in California and 5th largest electric utility in the State, serving over three million residents and businesses though more than one million customer accounts.

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Solar Jobs Creating Opportunity Across The Country

Mosaic

It has been a challenging couple of years for the solar industry, including the threat of solar tariffs creating uncertainty over much of 2017 and then implementation of these damaging tariffs in 2018. But just like the sun keeps shining, our industry has gotten up every day and worked hard to keep building the clean energy economy despite these obstacles.

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Bermuda Electric Light Company installs 10-MW/5.5-MWh energy storage system

Renewable Energy World

Yesterday, energy storage company Saft said it delivered and installed a turnkey Energy Storage System to Bermuda Electric Light Company (BELCO). The system provides up to 10 MW power for spinning reserves and frequency response to maintain grid stability and has a storage capacity of 5.5MWh, said the company. The official ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on May 16.

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[Article] Our Industry Is Alive and Well

Home Energy

The 2019 National Conference and Trade Show wrapped up on April 4, 2019, after four full days of workshops, sessions, events, and networking. We broke the record for the number of attendees at this year’s event—1,942 industry professionals from all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and three Canadian provinces.

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Clean Energy Alliance: Board Secretary

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Board Secretary. Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is a new Joint Powers Authority formed to provide electricity services to retail customers in Southern California. With 32 member agencies, CPA is the largest Community Choice Aggregation organization in California, serving over three million residents and businesses though approximately one million customer accounts.

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Clean Energy Efforts Start At The Local Level.

Jigar Shah

Clean Energy Efforts Start At The Local Level. Here Are 3 Ways You Can Make A Difference In Your Town’s Footprint You’ve probably seen it recently in the news: a group of activists referring to themselves as the Extinction Rebellion stripping down to their underwear in the British Parliament to advocate against government apathy in the fight against climate change.

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Brazil plans to add more solar to its hydro-dominated electricity generation mix

Renewable Energy World

Brazil is the second-largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world, after only China, and hydropower accounted for more than 70% of the country’s electricity generation in 2018. Brazil’s latest 10-year energy plan seeks to maintain this level of hydro generation while increasing the share of nonhydro renewables, particularly solar.