How to build climate resilience into the construction industry
GreenBiz
MAY 3, 2022
The need for investment in more resilient buildings is clear, but many countries lack the data to properly assess these risks.
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Building climate resiliency through corporate philanthropy
GreenBiz
JULY 2, 2024
The right strategic approach can boost impact while building a resilient future. Sponsored: Is your corporate sustainable philanthropy maximized for effectiveness?
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For a clean, resilient grid, look to EV infrastructure
GreenBiz
MARCH 24, 2021
For a clean, resilient grid, look to EV infrastructure. Electric vehicle charging infrastructure could provide a major benefit — boosting both clean energy and resiliency — for the power grid. Resilience. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 03/24/2021 - 00:30. Sign up for Transport Weekly , our free email newsletter. Pull Quote.
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Atlanta community resilience project seeks to become model for energy equity
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 11, 2021
The Breaking Barriers initiative is developing two resilience centers in Atlanta, one on the campus of a historically Black college that will be backed by a solar-powered microgrid with battery storage.
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When it comes to climate resilience, gender matters
GreenBiz
JUNE 21, 2022
Bringing a gender lens to climate resilience investments will help you to both identify and mitigate potential risks while at the same time uncover new opportunities for investment, innovation and impact.
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Regulators have failed to deliver a trusted and resilient water sector, says NAO report
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 28, 2025
In 2023-24, Ofwat was concerned about the financial resilience of 10 of the 16 major water companies. The need for investment coincides with a period of weakening financial performance, declining public trust and falling investor confidence. Ofwat estimates these projects will cost an additional 52 billion to build.
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A 'local electricity market': Rooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could boost power grid resilience
TechXplore
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
There's a lot of untapped potential in our homes and vehicles that could be harnessed to reinforce local power grids and make them more resilient to unforeseen outages, a new study shows.
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There’s more to energy resilience than keeping the lights on
GreenBiz
JUNE 14, 2023
Sponsored: In a future-proofed energy strategy, resilience goes beyond operational continuity to include economic and regulatory resilience.
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How to Evaluate Your Energy Resilience Needs
GreenBiz
JULY 25, 2023
Extreme weather, a changing resource mix, and energy price volatility – these factors are transforming the energy landscape and driving organizations to prioritize energy resilience. As a result, organizations are increasingly looking for solutions that align with their energy resilience goals.
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How hard is it to prevent recurring blackouts in Puerto Rico? A novel framework for grid resiliency
TechXplore
JANUARY 8, 2025
Researchers at MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) have shown that using decision-making software and dynamic monitoring of weather and energy use can significantly improve resiliency in the face of weather-related outages, and can also help to efficiently integrate renewable energy sources into the grid.
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Heathrow Airport Transformer Fire Prompts Urgent Inquiry, Exposes Cracks in Grid Resilience
POWER Magazine
MARCH 27, 2025
One week after a catastrophic fire at the North Hyde electrical substation plunged the UKs flagship Heathrow Airport into chaos, questions are mounting about what went wrongand what the incident […] The post Heathrow Airport Transformer Fire Prompts Urgent Inquiry, Exposes Cracks in Grid Resilience appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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Balancing resilient energy and clean energy
GreenBiz
AUGUST 27, 2021
With extreme weather becoming the norm across the United States, communities and companies are in need of clean backup power that can be deployed today.
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Investing in next-gen farmers will create resilient food systems
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 17, 2022
USDA to invest up to $550 million will help younger farmers access land and get support, an important boost.
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How Virtual Power Plants Enhance Grid Operations and Resilience
POWER Magazine
MARCH 19, 2025
A virtual power plant (VPP) is a network of decentralized, small- to medium-scale power generating units, flexible power consumers, and storage systems that are aggregated and operated as a single […] The post How Virtual Power Plants Enhance Grid Operations and Resilience appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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Cities are leading the way toward a sustainable and resilient future
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2023
How three cities, Cupertino, Orlando and Boston, are using their communities, new technology and buildings to fight the effects of climate change.
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Enhancing flood resilience in Brazil with analytics
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 2, 2023
A University of Glasgow project that’s increasing community resilience and enhancing the capacity of residents of flood-prone areas in Brazil to take protective action has been announced as an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Celebrating Impact Prize finalist. Flooding in Capivari, Sao Paulo state, in 2015.
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Pumps bolster Rotherham flood resilience
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
The centre of the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire suffered significant flooding following extreme rainfall in June 2007 and November 2019, affecting hundreds of homes and businesses, writes Helen Wilson, industry & infrastructure sales manager at Xylem.
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This vision of the post-pandemic food system looks a lot like a microgrid
GreenBiz
APRIL 24, 2020
Redundant, distributed, resilient, smaller scale and locally powered, yet connected to the larger world in ways that benefit it when safe.
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Native Americans get the $720 million for climate they deserve
GreenBiz
APRIL 5, 2023
The Inflation Reduction Act directs unprecedented funding to tribes and Native communities for climate resilience and solutions.
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Bulgaria and Romania grant Recovery and Resilience funding to gigawatts of energy storage
Energy Storage News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Bulgaria has revealed the results of its recent tender for its support scheme for renewables and storage, with winning projects needing to come online in the next 18 months.
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It’s Getting Hot in Here: Climate Resilient Infrastructure to Combat Urban Heat Island Effect
CleanTech Group
MARCH 6, 2025
The post Its Getting Hot in Here: Climate Resilient Infrastructure to Combat Urban Heat Island Effect appeared first on Cleantech Group. As global temperatures continue to rise, cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, where urban areas experience significantly.
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California utility SDG&E brings online 180MWh of community-resiliency microgrids
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), one of California’s main investor-owned utilities (IOUs), has brought online a portfolio of four ‘advanced’ microgrids equipped with 180MWh of battery storage.
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Europe’s largest battery powers up in Blackhillock, in Moray
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 15, 2025
Wrtsil is supplying its Quantum energy storage system technology and GEMS Digital Energy Platform with SMA grid forming inverters enabling a resilient power system with high power quality. The delivery by Zenobe of this grid forming battery is a major accomplishment and brings us a step closer to this goal.
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BESS to bolster community energy resiliency in Victoria, Australia, with new funding
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 8, 2025
Western Australia and Victorias AusNet have provided financial aid to support battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the energy transition and community energy resiliency.
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AI has great power in combating the climate crisis. How can it be used wisely?
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2023
Sponsored: Artificial intelligence carries great promise in advancing sustainability and resilience in sectors from agriculture to transportation. But it takes human intelligence to ensure AI solutions deliver positive outcomes.
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US BESS investment ‘already impacted’ by tariffs, but industry predicted to remain resilient
Energy Storage News
APRIL 14, 2025
Tariffs announced on Liberation Day have already caused battery storage project deals to fall through in the US, Energy-Storage.news has heard.
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Addressing link between climate and health will lower emissions, create resilient care systems
GreenBiz
MAY 21, 2024
The health care sector is a leading driver of greenhouse gas emissions; decarbonization will require intentional investment and systemic action throughout the industry.
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Training solar panels to dance with the wind: AI-driven solution enhances resilience
TechXplore
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Solar power is currently the fastest growing energy sector worldwide. Solar photovoltaic power plants convert sunlight into electricity and their vast potential for producing clean, renewable energy make solar power a cornerstone of the NetZero Emissions by 2050 initiative, which seeks to cut carbon dioxide emissions to zero by the year 2050.
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$10 billion Bezos Earth Fund director: ‘Next wave’ in green finance is climate adaptation
GreenBiz
JUNE 20, 2024
Two key areas for climate investment are resilience to warming temperatures and phasing down fossil fuels, says Paul Bodnar
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We're having a virtual power plant moment
GreenBiz
JULY 30, 2021
When distributed energy resources are aggregated, these assets can do more than just help the owners; they can help the entire grid become more resilient by providing new, dispatchable resources to utilities.
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Novel framework improves resilience to extreme weather
TechXplore
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Electricity production and distribution in the U.S. currently depends on more than 10,000 power plants, 642,000 miles of high voltage lines, 56,000 substations and 6.3 million miles of local distribution lines. Much of that infrastructure is over 30 years old.
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Aviation watchdog to look at ‘resilience’ rules after Heathrow closure
The Guardian: Energy
MARCH 27, 2025
CAA says it will consider whether to take further steps under Heathrows licence as part of review Britains aviation watchdog will review the rules on resilience after Heathrow was closed because of a fire at an electricity substation.
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Geospatial data and climate action: New UN report
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 11, 2024
It also supports governments and communities in making informed decisions, whether building resilient infrastructure or improving social and economic opportunities to reduce the vulnerabilities of specific communities. In terms of resilience, AI improves the monitoring and response to environmental changes, natural disasters and other crises.
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Why solar microgrids are the future of sustainable energy
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2023
Learn about the role microgrids play to maximize the value of solar energy and ensure resilient power. Sponsored: Are you maximizing the value of your solar?
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Taking climate justice seriously in the blue economy
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Asset-based development could be the secret to adaptation and resilience for threatened coastal communities around the world.
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Amazon, Google and Harvard demonstrate the value created by regenerative buildings
GreenBiz
JUNE 20, 2024
Featuring all-electric systems, water reuse and innovative solar power, these buildings improve “the health and resilience of economies, cultures, and people.”
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Climate finance must center frontline, underrepresented and underserved communities
GreenBiz
MARCH 20, 2023
Frontline communities have been underrepresented and underserved in climate resiliency efforts to date, mirroring their underinvestment in the investment field as a whole.
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Energy storage can make community solar more financially resilient in wake of bank failures
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Electriq Power CEO Frank Magnotti on how energy storage could help unlock the potential of community solar and enable more people to benefit.
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Collaborating for a Carbon Neutral Built Environment
GreenBiz
JANUARY 13, 2022
With the passage of the infrastructure bill and the urgent need to improve and expand our cities, it’s critical that we build in a way that is both resilient and sustainable. Among the topics: What sustainable and resilient infrastructure looks like in the future.
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Innovation arm of US Department of Defense trials flow batteries, mobile BESS for resiliency applications
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 5, 2023
The US Department of Defense Defense Innovation Unit will try out ‘prototype advanced energy systems’ based around LDES technologies.
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Solar and Steel Offer Resilience Against Breakage, Tariffs, Supply Chain Woes
POWER Magazine
APRIL 29, 2025
The post Solar and Steel Offer Resilience Against Breakage, Tariffs, Supply Chain Woes appeared first on POWER Magazine. Years of rapid growthdriven by exponentially falling costs and rising demandare running up against global supply chain instability, geopolitical tensions, and structural vulnerabilities in the latest module designs.
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Lloyd's is crafting insurance for clean energy, EVs
GreenBiz
AUGUST 18, 2021
The insurance giant fleshes out how it intends to support transition towards a greener economy, from new insurance projects to climate resilience, response and recovery framework for nations vulnerable to climate impacts
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Why Major Players Like NASA and Shell Partner with Bloom Energy
Hydrogen Fuel News
DECEMBER 21, 2024
Transforming Energy Generation with Resilient Microgrid Tech Bloom Energy has emerged as a leader in clean energy solutions, offering technologies designed to meet the rising global demand for reliable and sustainable power. A Look Behind Their Bloom Energys Energy Server stands apart due to the science behind its solid oxide fuel cells.
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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan
GreenBiz
JUNE 23, 2020
These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. . Entrepreneurs are on the verge of creating an era that will be marked by abundance, sustainability and resilience.
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