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The many faces of energy resilience

GreenBiz

The term "resilience" can be applied to a vast array of natural, built and social systems and refers to the ability to recover function following a significant, potentially unpredictable disruption. Large corporate energy buyers and utilities, in particular, hold the opportunity to build better and make things right. On resilience.

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Rooftop solar skyrockets if an alternative to monopoly utility models is employed

Renewable Energy World

When the first solar arrays were installed at homes, it made electric meters — as unprepared as the utility that owned them — run backward. In the chart, CSG refers to “community solar gardens,” Rooftop DG refers to rooftop “distributed generation,” and High DG to Xcel’s “High Distributed Generation” forecast.

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New York Climate Action Council Approves Draft Scoping Plan to Achieve the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions

Energy and Cleantech Council

The Council’s draft plan recommends a broad array of regulatory measures, legislation, and other state actions across every sector of the state’s economy – any and all of which could have significant implications for New York’s clean energy markets for decades to come. state energy] plan.”.

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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times

DeSmogBlog

“It’s definitely not over, just talk to the folks at Coal River and they will tell you that’s not the case,” said Matt Hepler, an environmental scientist with the environmental group Appalachian Voices , referring to the Coal River Mountain area in southern West Virginia, where coal production has remained relatively high in recent years.

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Insurance Giants Under Fire from First Nations for Backing Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline

DeSmogBlog

Indigenous peoples in Canada and a coalition of environmental groups launched a “Global Week of Action” for June 14-21 , aimed at pressuring an array of insurance companies to cut ties with a long-distance tar sands pipeline under construction in Canada. Better #StopTMX or expect our beautiful movement to hound you until you do!

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Will PG&E’s Blackouts Catalyze California’s Microgrid Market?

GreenTechMedia

When people think of microgrids, they typically refer to permanent equipment that allows a local area to produce, store and control its own electricity. She said she hopes the new process, prompted by a law passed last year to help the commercialization of microgrids, will clarify some of the opportunities.

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Over a Half-million Americans Live Near Oil Refineries With High Levels of a Cancer-causing Air Pollutant, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. Our site cleanup work would have no impact on the ambient air readings you are referring to.”. More than a dozen U.S.