GreenBiz

DECEMBER 6, 2021

After experiencing a devastating outage, government officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, decided to invest in energy infrastructure that would remain on, even when the grid went down.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 22, 2024

For the urgent modernisation of Europe’s distribution grids, investment needs to be doubled to €67 billion ($73 billion) per year from 2025 to 2040, dropping back to 1.7 Moreover, the anticipated upsides of reduced carbon emissions, greater energy efficiency and lower energy bills may not materialise, or at least not as quickly as needed.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. In the wake of COVID-19, when governments will provide massive stimulus funding to restart economies, it’s more important than ever to consider the long-term value creation of urban infrastructure investments. Roland Hunziker. Tue, 10/06/2020 - 01:00.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In its biggest investment in the nation’s grid, the White House announced a $3.46 billion investment for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability, invest in microgrids and enable more renewable energy generation across America.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Waves crashing against a sea wall (image credit: Ray-Bilcliff, available on Pexels) A seemingly pioneering research project that aims to strengthen the resilience of sea walls to increased coastal flooding has been launched by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 23, 2024

The importance of energy investment in Africa is not up for debate. However, the question of how to convince the public and private sectors to invest does not lead to straightforward answers. Africa may be the home of one-fifth of the global population, but the continent only receives 3% of the global energy investment.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 30, 2024

Chattanooga headquartered power distribution company EPB and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have launched the Collaborative for Energy Resilience and Quantum Science. As a result of this work, the EPB Quantum Network powered by Qubiteckk was launched to accelerate the commercialisation of quantum technologies.

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AutoGrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

One of the most energizing parts of my job is meeting with clean energy leaders to discuss where we are heading as an industry and how we can work together to achieve ambitious decarbonization, electrification, and resiliency goals. A view around the table of leaders from EV, utility, microgrid, and other clean energy companies.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A planning application was submitted in August, which set out an ambitious sustainability agenda of climate resilience and Net Zero requirements, integrated into the design, including ultra-low carbon emissions, an acute focus on energy efficiency, insulation, on-site energy generation and zero use of fossil fuels in the running of the building.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 11, 2022

The European Investment Bank’s (EIB’s) board of directors has approved a €310 million ($338.4 million) investment into renewable energy and water. This comes as part of a wider investment scheme into renewable energy, water, health, communications and rural and urban development. 863.5mn investment scheme.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Italy’s Enel Group has announced a new investment strategy for the period 2024-2026, doubling down on grid investments and being more selective in renewables. The nearly €19 billion for grid investments will focus on improving quality, resiliency and digitalisation of the power grid, alongside new connections.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 20, 2021

Heather Rock joined PG&E as director of climate resilience in 2018 -- just two weeks before a faulty PG&E line sparked the most destructive wildfire in U.S. ” Heather is one of the people trying to bring a culture of climate resilience into the mainstream. Back in November 2019, our host Shayle made a bet.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 16, 2024

As global leaders gather at Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024, those in attendance must push for the mobilisation of trillions of dollars from private money into sustainable investments to combat climate change. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at an investment round for Neara, an Australian company that has developed a platform that uses AI to help utilities design networks, enhance wildfire and vegetation management programmes and bring renewable projects online faster. million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 9, 2023

Featured: Impact Management Searching for signals in new impact reports from Elevar, Veris, Calvert and other investment managers. The post The Brief: Inside impact reports, green energy dealflow, healthcare for older women, climate resilience in Madagascar, revenue-based finance in Latin America appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Rhizome, a climate resilience planning platform for the power grid, announced its official launch, initial institutional capital raise of $2.5 Rhizome’s veteran team is focused on helping utilities and regulators make the grid more resilient without significant cost increases for communities.

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Bidgely

JUNE 15, 2022

Against the backdrop of Houston’s extreme weather and vulnerable communities, CenterPoint Energy has prioritized strong resiliency and electrification strategies to maintain its status as the energy capital of the world. It’s not one company, not one utility, that can solve the problem of resiliency,” she said. “We

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) latest World Energy Outlook (WEO) report finds that, as the world moves towards a more electrified and renewables-based energy system, which will be needed to prevent costs associated with potentially volatile fuel prices, investment in robust, digitalised grid systems will need follow suit.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

Coronavirus will create a $400 billion hole in energy investment in 2020, but the power sector is faring relatively well compared to oil and gas, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Going into 2020, the IEA had expected a 2 percent increase in global energy investments this year.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 13, 2020

On ImpactAlpha’s newest podcast, host Brian Walsh talks with Amy Cortese about the disruption in energy markets and Dennis Price offers a personal take on this week’s Agents of Impact. The post The Week in impact investing: Resilience appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Impact Briefing.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

There’s no shortage of “resilience” talk in the energy industry, but it hasn’t always been that way. Resilience 101: Where we’ve been. Thirty years ago, the concept of resilience held a very different and less pressing connotation than it does today.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 25, 2022

This decarbonisation demands above all a grid that is robust, resilient, and reliable, able to withstand both the internal impacts of constantly changing demand and supply patterns and bidirectional power flows as well as external impacts such as extreme weather events. US grid investments. Grid resilience and reliability.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that $3 million was being made available through its Climate Resilience Initiative to help municipal electric utilities and rural electric cooperatives. Climate Impact Vulnerability Assessments and Resilience Planning (max award $100K).

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In its annual Review of Energy Policy 2023, published on 14 December, the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) urges the next government to take urgent action on the policies needed to deliver the energy transition. These include council led insulation programmes and the development of heat networks.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 9, 2022

Honeywell and Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions (DESS) have agreed to jointly develop and deliver energy resiliency solutions to targeted U.S. Rooftop solar PV could reduce grid resilience, study finds Rethinking the energy grid: The evolution of mission-critical power. “A Originally published on power-grid.com.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With 2023 coming to a close, the impact of climate change and rapidly increasing electricity demand have illustrated the crucial importance of grid investment to ensure the grid is fit for purpose. Not investing in the grid is like accumulating cholesterol – you find out you are in bad shape.” With plans to spend €35.8 Register now

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced two separate loans of €462 million and €190 million for Poland’s Enea and Belgium’s RESA respectively for distribution network modernisation.

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Solar Power World

JUNE 15, 2022

By Georg Bettenhauser, VP business development, Upstart Power The two primary drivers for a homeowner to make a significant investment in home energy management equipment are resilience and economics of self-generation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

billion of funding for British manufacturing to increase investment in nine sectors. The sectors in question are: Automotive, Aerospace, Life sciences, and Clean energy (carbon capture, utilisation and storage, electricity networks, hydrogen, nuclear, and offshore wind). The UK government is making available £4.5 ”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Energy storage is a rapidly growing segment of the clean energy sector, and prices are dropping fast. Yet many are still struggling to understand how to value energy storage as an investment. Storage solutions are now a growing part of this energy transition, and will represent a $150 billion industry in the U.S.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

billion in funding today to upgrade the US’s aging electric grid, the largest investment to date in the grid. Stressed power grids need the money badly, both to prevent blackouts and bring more clean energy online. Altogether, the projects selected are expected to leverage $8 billion in both federal and private investments.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

First, what exactly is energy resilience? It’s a term used to describe when energy sources are independent from outside suppliers. It is also used when talking about more stable energy systems, higher quality products and products that can withstand erratic weather patterns. Because it helps them (and the industry).

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

First, what exactly is energy resilience? It’s a term used to describe when energy sources are independent from outside suppliers. It is also used when talking about more stable energy systems, higher quality products and products that can withstand erratic weather patterns. Because it helps them (and the industry).

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

investment in research projects which aim to help build a stronger supply chain of the critical minerals used widely in electronics and industry. This will enable the UK to meet its Net Zero ambitions, by serving renewable technologies such as wind energy and EV manufacturing.”

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Monarch Private Capital , an investment firm that develops, finances and manages a diversified portfolio of projects generating both federal and state tax credits, closed on tax equity investments in four solar energy projects totaling 305 MW in Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. million homes for one year. “As

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 8, 2020

Done right, the federal government’s stimulus and recovery efforts can create jobs, spur cleantech innovation, encourage economic diversification, cut both carbon pollution and illness-causing air pollution, and ultimately make Canada a more resilient country. To invest in sufficient, sustained and sustainable stimulus. SIGNATORIES.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In this week’s Smart Energy Finances, Blackstone and Vista’s acquisition of market simulation software provider Energy Exemplar and GE announced its official time frame for spinning off from energy business GE Vernova.

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