Jim Conca
MARCH 28, 2019
Four o’clock this morning, marked the 40th Anniversary of the partial meltdown of Unit #2 at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station. The accident achieved mythological status, even though no one was hurt and deaths occur every year at all other types of power plants except nuclear.
CleanTX
MARCH 25, 2019
Press Advisory from the CleanTX Organization. Embargoed Until 10:00am on Monday, March 25, 2019: Contact: Ryan Edwards (CleanTX Board Chair), ryan@cleantx.org. Joseph Kopser to Lead CleanTX Inaugural Advisory Board. Austin, TX – Former RideScout CEO and TX-21 Congressional candidate, Joseph Kopser, has joined the CleanTX organization as the Chairman of CleanTX’s inaugural Advisory Board.
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Bidgely
MARCH 24, 2019
Electric Vehicles (EVs) are here to stay. The US saw a spectacular 81% increase in EV sales in 2018, with a host of automakers bringing new EVs onto the market in 2019. What’s more, state climate and air quality mandates mean that millions of new EVs will hit the roads over the coming years. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) forecasts global EV sales worldwide growing steadily in the next few years, from the record 700,000 seen in 2016 to 3 million by 2021—the equivalent of adding
Energy Innovation
MARCH 25, 2019
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 Morteza Taiebat of the School for Environment and Sustainability, and Ming Xu of the School for Environment and Sustainability, both at the University of Michigan. A full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link].
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.
Jim Conca
MARCH 26, 2019
1 in every 9 people in the world go hungry every day, and it’s getting worse. Whether it’s war, climate change and extreme weather events, the downward spiral of poverty, bad government and economic policies, or gender inequality, most of the reasons for hunger and famine are the fault of humans.
Sunrun
MARCH 28, 2019
Your Rooftop Can Help You Gain Energy Freedom With solar panels, your rooftop can generate your own power and give you energy freedom. Your rooftop also offers peace of mind with today’s climate extremes and antiquated electrical grid. So find out how much power your roof can possibly generate when you go solar. A General Solar Equation There are various equations for calculating how many solar panels and the amount of power needed for a household.
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Energy Innovation
MARCH 26, 2019
The writing is on the wall: Coal generation in the U.S. has reached a “ coal cost crossover ” point, meaning the all-in costs of new local renewables is becoming less than the mere operating costs of old coal. Utilities and their regulators must adapt to changing energy economics before they’re stuck with stranded assets. New wind costs as low as $15 per megawatt-hour (MWh), and solar costs as low as $28/MWh.
Home Energy
MARCH 29, 2019
This past year, the home performance industry lost a dear friend. We pay tribute to one of our most tireless advocates and greatest contributors. The following obituary is from Mike’s wife Karen Sokol and his daughter Sabine. It first appeared in the Vermont online news outlet Seventh Day on December 26, 2018.
CleanTech San Diego
MARCH 29, 2019
Cleantech San Diego Named a Top 10 Finalist in the Smart Cities Readiness Challenge. Digital services. Collaboration around climate action plans. Intelligent approaches to transportation and transit. These are some of the challenges a number of municipalities are taking on as they explore smart city projects. That’s part of the takeaway from the proposals submitted by more than 100 jurisdictions from the United States, Canada and Mexico to the 2019 Smart Cities Readiness Challenge.
Jigar Shah
MARCH 29, 2019
With great wealth comes great responsibility. Whether it was due to the ghosts of the Great Depression or just plain humility, the wealthy used to feel an obligation to use their means to better humanity, often by learning about and tackling the greatest challenges during their lifetimes. Now, we see many billionaires?—?like Jeff Bezos?—?pursuing smaller initiatives instead of tackling the truly intractable and important problems of their age.
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.
Energy and Cleantech Council
MARCH 28, 2019
The Massachusetts electric distribution companies (“Distribution Companies”), together with the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, have asked the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities to approve a second request for proposal (“RFP”) for long-term offshore wind contracts in accordance with Section 83C of the Green Communities Act (“83C”).
Low Carbon Prosperity
MARCH 27, 2019
Observations and perspective on the effect of the cost cap provision on carbon and rate outcomes in reaching 100% GHG-free electricity by 2045. Summary. The 100% Clean Electricity bill (SB 5116) includes a cost cap intended to limit the risk of rate increases to utility customers. The cost cap also provides system engineers a specific target to use in their planning, i.e. a “Design for Cost” scenario.
Home Energy
MARCH 27, 2019
Nate “House Whisperer” Adams is the owner of Energy Smart Ohio. I caught him in his car on the way to see a new client. Leslie Jackson: The client intake questionnaire on your website is a lesson in home performance contracting. You’d probably love it if every contractor worked the way you do.
E8 Cleantech Angels
MARCH 25, 2019
E8, an angel investor community committed to investing in cleantech in support of both profit and ecological sustainability, is pleased to welcome Mike Rea as its new Executive Director. This addition comes at an important time, given the pace of cleantech innovation, the urgency of climate change, and signature policy efforts underway such as the pending Washington Clean Fuel Standard.
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.
Varuna
MARCH 27, 2019
Outdated Public Sector Technology Should Join the Silver Tsunami By Matt Novak, VP of Business Development at CityBase The public sector tends to get a bad rap for using old school technology, but there are plenty of cities, counties, states, and utilities that are making the hurdle to upgrade to industry-leading software solutions. For those out there weighing the pros and cons of investing in new technology, here are a few key reasons why you should make it a priority to move on from your lega
Elemental Excelerator
MARCH 28, 2019
Biology is the most ancient and powerful technology that we know of, yet the way that biology has been applied to industrial processes has changed little in the past 100 years. Fatemeh Shirazi, founder of Microvi, observed that microorganisms in the natural world behave and function very differently than those in the concrete basins and steel tanks that run our industrial bioprocesses.
Home Energy
MARCH 27, 2019
In less than a week, close to 2,000 members of the home performance community, including novices and experts in their fields, will gather in Chicago for the 2019 HPC National Home Performance Conference and Trade Show. No promises about the weather, though Chicago is hard to beat in the Spring, most of.
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