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The Uber Of Solar

Jim Conca

One small solar company in Washington State decided to approach the problematic business model of the solar industry by building a decentralizedservice platform in the otherwise centralized and old fashioned construction market - think the Uber of Solar.

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Sighten Launches Partnership with Sunnova

Sighten

Sighten has launched a major partnership with Sunnova , the leading privately-held U.S. residential solar services provider. Sighten software customers can now access Sunnova’s broad portfolio of financing products directly from the Sighten platform. Sunnova is active in 16 states and offers a wide range of solar financing, including PPA, lease, and loan options, in addition to a recently launched home solar protection plan.

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California Regulator Authorizes Savings Claims for More Efficient Purchases without Incentives

Enervee

PG&E to begin claiming savings for non-rebated efficient purchases achieved via Enervee Choice Engine® With its approval of the final utility energy efficiency Annual Budget Advice Letter (ABAL) filings for 2019 on April 2nd, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has given the green light for utilities to invest in online utility choice engine platforms powered by Enervee – and to claim the resulting energy savings achieved by eliminating market barriers and nudging shoppers towa

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Is the Green New Deal Realistic?

Andrew Winston

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.

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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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FERC and NERC Talk Grid Resilience and Cybersecurity

Energy and Cleantech Council

On March 22, 2019, Foley Hoag hosted the New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable , organized by Raab Associates. The roundtable featured keynote addresses by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“ FERC ”) Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur—who recently announced she will be stepping down later this year—and North American Reliability Corporation (“ NERC ”) CEO and President James Robb.

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Sea Level Rise: The Past As An Indicator Of The Future

Energy Innovation

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 AGCI’s John Katzenberger , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link].

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Corporate + Startup Partnerships: What Corporates Need to Know

Greentown Labs

Tips for Corporates. At Greentown Labs, we have the privilege of working with our corporate partners and startups within our Greentown Launch program to forge corporate partnerships. Our Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, Katie MacDonald , has compiled a few lessons for corporates pursuing startup partnerships. This is ‘Part 1’ of our two-part blog series focused on how to forge corporate + startup partnerships.

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Corporate Member: AutoGrid

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position: The Senior Marketing Manager/Director (MM). Location: Redwood City, CA. Description. The Senior Marketing Manager/Director (MM) is responsible for developing and executing digital, product and account-based marketing campaigns as well as managing events to accelerate revenue for AutoGrid. The MM will leverage industry, product and marketing knowledge to create relevant, compelling campaigns and scalable content, sales enablement tools and customer facing materials.

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Why I Joined AutoGrid: Jay Snyder

AutoGrid

As a project manager in the professional services group, I work directly with our energy company customers, mostly in the northeastern United States. I’m based out of Boston. Before I was recruited to join AutoGrid, I’d been working in the energy industry for a decade, first in utility back-office processes and then in utility and end-customer engagement.

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T-REX Taps Seasoned FinTech Executive Tricia San Cristobal as Chief Product Officer

T Rex Group

Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Vet Brings Deep Industry and SaaS Experience to Take T-REX Product Strategy to the Next Level. New York, NY, April 3, 2019 – T-REX, a leading data services and software provider for complex financial markets, today announced it has appointed Tricia San Cristobal as Chief Product Officer. San Cristobal joins T-REX on its mission to fill a critical technology gap for complex asset classes through modern data management and analytics solutions.

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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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Equipmake Collaborate on UK HIPERCAR Coming in 2019

Cleantech East

Cleantech East member and Hethel Engineering Centre tenant, Equipmake, have developed the AMP200 drivetrain for the new, high performance, electric sportscar in collaboration with UK Niche Vehicle manufacturer, Ariel. The High-Performance Carbon Reduction ( HIPERCAR ) project is on track for a 2019 release. Focused on high performance, agility, usability with ultra-low emissions the car will be built in Somerset, England in a collaborative effort between Ariel, Equipmake and Delta Motors.

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Corporate Member: AutoGrid

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position: The Senior Marketing Manager/Director (MM). Location: Redwood City, CA. Description. The Senior Marketing Manager/Director (MM) is responsible for developing and executing digital, product and account-based marketing campaigns as well as managing events to accelerate revenue for AutoGrid. The MM will leverage industry, product and marketing knowledge to create relevant, compelling campaigns and scalable content, sales enablement tools and customer facing materials.

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Why I Joined AutoGrid: Jay Snyder

AutoGrid

As a project manager in the professional services group, I work directly with our energy company customers, mostly in the northeastern United States. I’m based out of Boston. Before I was recruited to join AutoGrid, I’d been working in the energy industry for a decade, first in utility back-office processes and then in utility and end-customer engagement.

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WatersTechnology: T-REX Snaps Up San Cristobal for Chief Product Officer

T Rex Group

The former Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg exec will be responsible for guiding the vendor’s current and future product strategy and deployment. WatersTechnology.com. Written by Max Bowie. April 3, 2019. Read the full article here: [link]. The post WatersTechnology: T-REX Snaps Up San Cristobal for Chief Product Officer appeared first on T-REX.

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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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Government to Boost Offshore Wind in New Anglia

Cleantech East

In a new deal between the UK government and the wind industry, 30% of electricity will come from offshore with by 2030. This comes as Norfolk and Suffolk have been named as the UK’s leading centre for offshore wind. The further development of the Norfolk and Suffolk Offshore Wind Cluster is expected to bring in thousands of new jobs coming up to 2030, according to Doug Field, Chair of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, up to 6,000 people could be employed with the sector in the region

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[Blog] Building Performance Association?Live from Chicago

Home Energy

Check out that title! Monday, we were HPC, Tuesday we are a new association made up of three organizations, HPC, Home Energy, and Efficiency First, called the Building Performance Association. It’s been a change a long time coming, but seems like it’s happening all at once.

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The Best Smart Bulbs For Your High-Tech Home

Forbes Green Tech

Smart lighting makes it a whole lot easier to control your lights, largely because you can control them with your voice, phone and manually. Here are the best smart bulbs money can buy.

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Webinar: 100% Clean Power: What it Means for Business

Low Carbon Prosperity

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.

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[Blog] Building Performance Association?Live from Chicago, Thursday Edition

Home Energy

Wednesday was another rich day of inspiration and connection. My brain is nearly full. When you read this, I will likely be on the plane flying from Chicago back to Oakland; where I will have some time to digest it all. There are more sessions this morning though if you.

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[Article] The Energy/Water Nexus

Home Energy

Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over. —Mark Twain When anything is very inexpensive and not at the forefront in our minds, it can go undervalued and be misunderstood. Water falls into this dark hole. It’s not that we are running out of water; we are not. The problem is that the water isn’t always where we need it. The United Nations Environment Program reports that 97.5% of all water on earth is saltwater and 2.5% is freshwater.

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[Article] Air Sealing with AeroBarrier

Home Energy

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.

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[Article] Lessons Learned from a Smart Home Demonstration in New York City

Home Energy

While the concept of a smart home may still appear to be confined to the niche market, there now is a wide range of commercially mature, consumer-facing smart home devices that can improve comfort and convenience for a home’s occupants, and that also have the potential to save energy. These products all fall under a broad category of technology known as home energy management systems (HEMS).

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[Article] DOE Weatherization Assistance Program Update

Home Energy

Welcome to this new feature, which will appear regularly in Home Energy. In an ongoing effort to improve communication with the weatherization community, information relevant to DOE’s Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) will be conveyed to the weatherization community. The feature will include new training resources, recently issued Weatherization Program Notices (WPNs) and WAP Memorandums, and other relevant information. in case you missed it.

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[Blog] HPC National?Live from Chicago

Home Energy

It’s always a challenge at the HPC national to take in as much as possible until my brain tells me “I’m full” All these great topics, presenters and attendees is an embarrassment of riches.

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[Article] New Legislation in the House

Home Energy

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.

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[Blog] Welcome to the HPC National?Live from Chicago

Home Energy

For those of you here in Chicago for a Monday workshop, for those who will be registering today or tomorrow, and all of you members of the home performance community, welcome to a rich source of building science news and training—all provided by the experts—and a.

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[Article] Spring 2019 Contributors

Home Energy

Iain Walker “Ventilation and IAQ in New California Homes” Iain hopes readers get that a really good way to have good indoor air quality is to have a ventilation system. And to use it.

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[Article] Editorial: A Letter from the CEO

Home Energy

Dear Friends, Welcome readers and attendees at the 2019 National Home Performance Conference and Trade Show! Have you heard our news? It is with great excitement that we announce the launch of the Building Performance Association!

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[Article] Spring 2019 Calendar

Home Energy

April 1–4 2019 HPC National Home Performance Conference & Trade Show April 24–26 Thirty-ninth Utility Energy Forum

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