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Funding the Next Generation of Efficient, Electric, Grid-Interactive Communities

GreenTechMedia

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs.

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Inside the Office for National Statistics' drive to map the UK's green jobs market

Business Green

And it has been at pains to insist that the move away from polluting energy, products, and services towards cleaner alternatives will avoid the mass unemployment prompted by poorly managed industrial transitions of the recent past. But the LCREE survey provides a somewhat patchy snapshot of green jobs in the UK. It is a challenging balance."

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Green recovery or bust? Six green things we learnt from the Budget (and a lot of things we didn't)

Business Green

In his speech yesterday, Sunak extolled the virtues of the growing green economy, setting out a vision of a "future economy" dominated by offshore wind power, carbon capture and storage, innovative clean technologies, and "decent well-paid green jobs". Green Homes Grant Scheme survives, but lagging continues to lag.

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How 4 Top US Utilities Are Grappling With the Energy Transition (or Not)

GreenTechMedia

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Cheap wind and solar have turned the industry's conventional economic wisdom on its head. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S.

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Sweeping Senate Energy Bill Could Come to a Vote This Week

GreenTechMedia

Senate will consider a bipartisan energy package this week that could be this year’s best legislative hope to increase federal funding for a number of energy technologies, from solar, wind and batteries, to more efficient fossil fuel-fired power and carbon capture. Renewable energy.