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

JANUARY 8, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $70 million in funding to support research into resilience technologies to reduce risks to energy infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters and climate-change fueled extreme weather events.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 31, 2020

Here's the buzz about the energy transition from DistribuTech.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2024

Based on a model of the Texas power system, scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK have developed a new method to identify and harden critical lines against tropical cyclones and increase power system resilience.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 26, 2023

With over 20 years of legacy, this is an unmissable event for those looking to sculpt their company’s sustainability strategies to deliver prosperity, resilience and longevity. Responsible Business USA is the only event bringing together CEOs, senior sustainability, legal, communications and finance.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Delegate feedback from the event: “Simon delivered a superb CPD workshop explaining and unravelling the complexities of the circular economy from the perspective of designers and manufacturers. The educational event explores the latest guidelines, standards, and legislation, Life Cycle Assessments and associated metrics.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2022

Greenability offers a free, online calendar listing to promote events that are environmentally sustainable, resilient and restorative. Calendar listings can be related to organic food, energy-efficiency, recycling, renewable energy, zero-waste, native plant gardening, nature, resilient living and many other environmental topics.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. There is an urgent, global need for building urban resilience to heat and, as usual, business has a key role to play. Over the past months, it has become clear that resilience strategies for COVID-19 in cities could help us approach other threats as well.

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Energy Central

APRIL 22, 2024

By Dakoury Godo-Solo By Dakoury Godo-Solo The adoption of electric trucks is on the rise, but as fleets make the transition, the idea of switching from diesel to electricity as a fuel source can raise concerns about reliability in the event of a power outage.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 11, 2020

The Collective Resilience Summit will take place May 12 - 17, 2020. This free, online and highly interactive summit will explore how to develop and sustain the individual and collective resilience we need to meet our increasingly complex global challenges with wisdom, skill and compassion.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The ability to remotely operate microgrids, says SDG&E in a release, offers real-time monitoring, faster response to grid events, more efficient energy storage management and enhanced grid resilience.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

University of Oxford-led water security reserch programme ( REACH ) publishes its interdisciplinary Water Security for Climate Resilience Report. Report makes specific recommendations to increase resilience in water systems. New institutional models that improve water security will be critical for climate resilience.

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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. Grid resilience and reliability.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Batteries enrolled in the programme retain enough energy to meet personal, essential needs in the event of a local power outage in their area. In exchange, customers received an upfront payment of $750 and a free smart thermostat for participating. ”

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The virtual centre is set to launch in April and has been tasked with supporting data analysis and research into resilience in the natural and built environment by providing a reliable, safe, and accessible online space to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing.

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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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Greenability Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Help keep toxic materials out of the landfill by recycling your old computers and e-waste at upcoming free electronic recycling events. Kansas City, MO – Saturday, May 20 On Saturday, May 20, Kansas City, MO is hosting an electronic recycling event for its residents at the Manual Career Tech Center, 1310 E Truman Rd., from 8 a.m.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

When it comes to grid resilience, coupling data on extreme weather conditions with the concept of asset fragility is the clearest way to quantify long-term utility asset risks from extreme weather events, writes Rahul Dubey of Rhizome. It’s clear: the impacts of climate change are here, and plans must be made to weather them.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

Greenability offers a free, online calendar listing for events that encourage environmental sustainability, resiliency and restorative living ideas. Events can be related to organic food, energy-efficiency, recycling, renewable energy, zero-waste, native plant gardening, nature, resilient living and many other environmental topics.

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Bidgely

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Recognizing that this mindset is driving consumer behavior is particularly important as the utility industry increasingly needs the partnership of their consumers to participate in peak events and otherwise help alleviate peaks on the grid. Avoiding Peak Event Fatigue. Personalizing Peak Events. Please use less.”.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 3, 2021

Leaders in Housing Development Training and Community Resilience. and Puerto Rico, NeighborWorks America is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to achieve housing affordability and community resilience across the nation. Employee Engagement and Organization-Wide Events. Building Community Resilience for a Secure Future.

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TechXplore

APRIL 4, 2024

Climate change and global warming are expected to increase the risk of these events occurring, which could significantly disrupt activities in the area. The Gulf Coast of the United States is often hit by tropical cyclones (TCs), hurricanes and other extreme weather phenomena, which can cause widespread electricity outages.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 26, 2022

‘Resilience’ was the theme for this year’s iteration of the annual DISTRIBUTECH conference, which saw energy experts and stakeholders networking to solve various challenges within the industry. Jennifer Runyon, senior content director Clarion Events, presents a roundup of DISTRIBUTECH day one.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Nature-based urban resilience infrastructure in Milan, Italy. A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Technology pilots.

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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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POWER Magazine

MARCH 13, 2024

Scientists who maintain the world’s temperature records, which date back to 1880, calculate a global temperature anomaly each year to determine how much temperatures have changed compared to temperatures from […] The post How Utilities Are Planning for Extreme Weather Events and Mitigating Risks appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

For example, in Texas, AutoGrid has so far helped one municipal utility shed 54 MW during 63 separate events. AutoGrid also works with electric cooperatives that serve rural America and to date has culled over 89 MW in DR from 27 dispatch events. Every megawatt of load reduced from the grid network can help bolster reliability.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The result of this, however, is a rising demand for smart water systems to integrate into smart city-esque infrastructure to bolster resilience against such events; so states a new research report. Extreme rainfall and flooding are no longer a spectacle, but rather unfortunately another newspaper headline.

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Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have electronics that are no longer in use, give them a second life or recycle them responsibly at seven electronic recycling events in the Kansas City metro area and at nationwide locations. For more details, click on the link to the recycling company hosting each event. Lake Lotawana Electronics Recycling Event.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2020

Researchers from University of Cambridge found that climate change could add around 20 percent to the global cost of extreme weather events by 2040. They are urging businesses to evaluate their own exposures to the growing risk to improve their resilience and sustainability.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

Help keep toxic materials out of the landfill by recycling your old computers and e-waste at two free electronic recycling events. Electronics Recycling Event, Kansas City, MO. Central Presbyterian Church will host an Electronics Recycling Event from 9 – 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 5 in the church parking lot at 3501 Campbell St.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Great Britain's trees and woodlands contribute more than £400m a year to the economy through their contribution to flood resilience, new research has calculated. New report from Forest Research examines how trees, woodlands, and forests reduce and slow down rapid run-off that causes flooding.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

Credit: Sarah Fish, PNASH Center, University of Washington As climate change accelerates, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as megafires and heatwaves are on the rise. These extremes compromise not only our air quality, but often how a community is able to adapt to such events. Communities across the U.S.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 20, 2023

India experienced almost one extreme weather event per day in the first nine months of 2022. And the state of Rajasthan is no stranger to this phenomenon, with its capital city, Jaipur, ranking 22nd on the Global Climate Vulnerability Index.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 16, 2021

Virtual Event. Virtual Event. This event is complimentary for all WCS members. Building Blocks of Resilience: Learn what resilience really is – what it isn’t – and how to source new energy on demand. Event Agenda (PT): September 8th: Workshop Agenda – Balancing Grid & Grace: Part 1. September 8, 2021.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. In its biggest investment in the nation’s grid, the White House announced a $3.46

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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. During the ‘80s and ‘90s, many U.S.

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