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Any Green New Deal Is Dead Without Nuclear Power

Jim Conca

Congressional members rolled out their "Green New Deal" in February that calls for a rapid shift to carbon-free energy. But the roll-out hiccupped a bit on the role of nuclear energy, at first dissing it, then saying “clean was OK”. Which is good since without nuclear it won’t work.

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The Role Of Smart Grids And AI In The Race To Zero Emissions

Forbes Green Tech

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.

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Laying Down Our Markers

Elemental Excelerator

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.

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BP and Environmental Defense Fund Collaborate to Reduce Methane Emissions

CleanTX

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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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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.

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Technological Trials to Future-Proof Roads in Suffolk

Cleantech East

In January 2019 £22.9m of funding was announced by the Department for Transport for research into technology that could improve roads across the UK in the near future. This £22.9 million has been divided between several local authorities, along with their partners, who will make up The Live Lab Projects. Right here in the East of England Suffolk County Council have been allocated £4.41 million of the fund to adapt lighting columns to make them suitable for use as charging points for electric car

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Would the Last Generator to Leave the Wholesale Competitive Energy Market Please Turn Off the Lights?

Energy and Cleantech Council

On Friday, Connecticut announced that it had reached agreement with Dominion, Eversource, and United Illuminating to keep the Millstone nuclear plant operating for 10 more years. Not coincidentally, on the same day, the six New England Governors announced their “Commitment to Regional Cooperation on Energy Issues.” An important element of that commitment is to work with ISO New England: to evaluate market-based mechanisms that value the contribution that existing nuclear generation resou

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Founder Stories: Steph Speirs of Solstice

Elemental Excelerator

When Solstice co-founder and CEO Steph Speirs was working on Middle East policy in Yemen for the Obama White House National Security Council, she would look out the windows of armored SUVs and see thousands of Yemenis waiting in line for fuel. She saw that affordable clean energy access should be a human right, yet the global economy’s addiction to oil left ordinary citizens without the power they needed.

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Onelife: Cleantech Hackathon

Cleantech East

TL;DR. Cleantech East took their Clean tech hackathon to University Technology College Norfolk where the winning team, OneLife, conceptualised an idea where a single app on your phone would bring together every electrical appliance in your house. The students at University Technology College Norfolk (UTCN) were set this challenge: What challenges does Norwich and the surrounding area face for the future, and how can we make communities more sustainable and resilient to environment

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Meet Neo, the floor-scrubbing robot

Treehugger - Technology

It's like a giant fifty-thousand buck Roomba.