Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example the restoration of the UK’s degraded peatlands, which efficiently lock away carbon while hosting a unique array of biodiversity. The UK’s domestic policies and negotiating stance should be an example to the world as we seek international action to restore and protect the home we share.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

With enhancements to the existing hedgerows and planting of native grassland and wildflower meadow beneath and around the solar arrays, the site will encourage nesting opportunities for wildlife and improved habitat connectivity. The site will also create a significant biodiversity net gain.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 16, 2020

On December 10, 2020, the Massachusetts Office of the State Auditor Division of Local Mandates (“DLM”) issued The Impact of State-Owned Land PILOT and Solar Taxation Policies on Municipalities report. DLM Report. These efforts include amending M.G.L.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

Sangha Systems, developers of an 82-MW cryptocurrency mining facility at a former steel mill in Hennepin, Illinois announced that it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with AEP OnSite Partners to develop a 2 – 5-MW behind-the-meter solar power array to begin to migrate its electricity consumption towards clean energy. ”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There is a vast array of ingenious and varied ways of making the most of the new regime through power generation, storage and demand flexibility. At the recent Energy Storage Summit, Alasdair MacMillan, Head of Connections policy at Ofgem, acknowledged that more was needed and that this was an iterative process.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 5, 2021

But in some of these areas – like planning – national policy and regulations can hinder not help local climate action. National policies will only be delivered when supported by local decision making and behavioural changes. Any contradictions in policies and funding programmes must be removed.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 5, 2022

square-mile site in the Gulf of Maine to be home to the nation’s first floating offshore wind research array. The proposed array is to be made up of no more than 12 floating turbines capable of generating up to 144 MW of renewable energy. Maine recently submitted a research lease application for a 15.2-square-mile

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 30, 2021

Your roof is too small, you rent and do not own, you do not have disposable cash for a down payment on a solar array—the reasons are many, but community solar helps solve these problems. A number of states lack a policy framework that makes community solar broadly feasible, especially for customers of investor-owned utilities.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Illinois utility Commonwealth Edison has agreed to pay a $200 million fine in relation to a federal investigation over bribery charges that have cast a shadow over its policy efforts in the state capital. Roughly half of its annual $2.2

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 11, 2021

Forests provide a home for a diverse array of wildlife: creatures like birds, monkeys, deer, and innumerable species of insects that have adapted over millions of years to be perfectly suited to their environment. When they are cut down, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

But subsidiary utility Commonwealth Edison’s involvement in a bribery scandal has complicated this and other key policy efforts in its home state. “These new policies and oversight will ensure this will not happen again.” “We have taken robust actions to address these [issues]," Crane said.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Full array demonstration would then take place in stage five of the programme, and the company aims to introduce certified and warrantied wave energy converters to the market between 2023 and 2024, he explained.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But storage's trajectory differs from the early growth dynamics of solar power in a crucial respect: It transcends the geographic boundaries, dictated by sunshine and policy, that constrained solar's rise. said Daniel Finn-Foley, energy storage director at Wood Mackenzie, speaking Tuesday at GTM's Energy Storage Summit in Denver.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The researchers set out to see how policy changes from the Chinese government, which aimed to restore degraded landscapes and reduce the use of synthetic fertilisers, had affected the functioning of the land across the CZOs. Professor Timothy Quine, of the University of Exeter, is another co-author of the paper.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The array is then anchored to the shore of the pond or reservoir it is located on. The Windsor project is one of few floating solar arrays that have been deployed in the United States. Massachusetts has been kind of this laboratory to develop these policies that end up getting propagated out to the rest of the country,” he said.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 7, 2022

With solar power from an existing array, the pilot will offer up to 500 eligible customers the opportunity to sign up for a new solar rate, designed to encourage energy use at times when solar is plentiful. LO3 Energy deploys software to maximize renewable assets Blockchain in Europe’s energy sector – policy and regulation.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Economic and Social Considerations Biomass energy, leveraging organic materials for power, offers an array of economic benefits that extend beyond its environmental advantages. Policy Framework and Future Outlook Current policies greatly influence the adoption rate and scaling of biomass energy technologies.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Next week, the reworked — and renamed — Green Deal Recovery package will be presented in full, with a string of near-term policies added to act as an economic stimulus. A draft document obtained by Bloomberg and Euractiv lays out a series of planned policies. What’s else is included in the draft.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Retroactive policy changes and laws to prevent self-consumption decimated the sector in 2013. Some investors have spoken privately of an unwillingness to participate, however, given the nature of the policy changes in 2013. Spain enjoyed a subsidy-driven solar boom late last decade before suffering through a dramatic slowdown.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 9, 2024

The report details intercomparisons with an array of independent biomass datasets. These authors designed their analyses so that satellite data producers can convey a comparable, reliable, and consistent message on global biomass estimation methods to create actionable policy impacts. What’s in the report?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In addition to raising expected energy-lending volumes for the next five years to unprecedented levels, the EIB’s board of directors also adopted a series of technical and policy measures aimed at accelerating the pace and maximising the impact of the new investment.

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Charged

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The authors of “ Financing the Transition ” interviewed more than 30 fleet operators, as well as finance professionals and EV public policy experts. “To Many fleet electrification barriers—such as vehicle upfront costs—are known and accounted for in traditional Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculations.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Over 80,000 green jobs are currently being supported or are in the pipeline because of new government policies since 2020, with that expected to increase to as many as nearly half a million by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

This third report sparks an alarm for all governments; we need to deploy all the array of policies to really catalyze this transformation.”. Cristianne Close, leader at WWF Markets Practice, said: “Our current economic and financial systems are driving unsustainable consumption and degrading the natural environment.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 29, 2022

Only actions and policies that cut the cord with oil will save lives now. We already know what works on the technology side and the policy solutions to help accelerate them, and we need to scale up our policy response NOW — not next year or down the road. Circular Economy.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2022

Additionally, the ESO must be able to continue balancing the grid with an increasingly diverse and abundant array of renewable and low-carbon suppliers entering the market. Furthermore, regulatory policy changes continue to place additional stress on the ability to balance the system.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Its ten-point plan for a green industrial revolution, published in November to outline policy priorities for achieving a net-zero economy by 2050, is aiming for 600,000 heat pumps to be installed annually by 2028. But no further detail was given, and a major energy policy update has been long overdue. has big plans for heat pumps.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While these losses are reflective of the hardship faced by many industries during the pandemic, E2 reports reveal they also represent a ripe opportunity for economic recovery and growth through innovative policies that support energy efficiency in Colorado. Energy Efficiency?—?the the largest energy sector in the US?—?encompasses

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The 125-acre site already hosts a 1-megawatt solar array; fitting a container packed with zinc batteries won’t be an issue. Energy storage has considerable policy and investment momentum behind it as the state looks to solve this issue. Short duration batteries are well suited to serving this immediate need, Larsen noted.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The 'first-of-a-kind' Broker's Handbook aims to provides information on the opportunities and risks associated with green home retrofits, quality assurance standards, and the policy landscape for home energy efficiency measures.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 26, 2023

In 2023, zero-emission truck adoption will receive a boost from policy wins, transformations in technology, and an emergence of new business models. Policy gains pave the way 2022 saw a historic win for zero-emission trucks with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

First, what policies does Capgemini have in place, and how is accountability managed? The company's environmental policy statement is very broad and high level, covering material impacts, and driving down those material impacts, he says, but it deliberately excludes hard targets. Accountability.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 8, 2024

Companies should prioritize actions that can credibly and quantifiably reduce emissions, while continuing essential policy advocacy efforts. Every company will face its own array of material issues, have a unique set of stakeholders, and approach the world with its own values and theory of change for environmental impact.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The group today published a report - titled Retaining the UK's leadership in renewables - recalibrating policy in the midst of an energy crisis and increasing global competition - setting out a series of recommendations on how the UK can respond to revamped green industrial policies from the US and EU.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Now, in conjunction with accelerating climate change, El Niño means a wide array of exacerbated hazards may be coming down the pike. Even so, the past eight years were the hottest in recorded history , the result of the warming effects of climate change. Kinter said that because of this we might temporarily exceed the 1.5

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In 2019, two years after Hurricane Maria dismantled the island’s electric grid, the Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy Act was passed by the legislature to set the parameters for a forward-looking energy system that maximises distributed generation. A Sunrun VPP likewise fed the California grid 1.1GWh of energy during the summer heat waves.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 3, 2021

Dual-use projects involve elevating a solar array above its normal height to facilitate livestock grazing or crop growing underneath and between the rows of solar modules. Better policy is needed. These policies should include incentives that help offset the higher construction and operating costs that are needed.

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