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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm takes an EV road trip, deals with charging challenges

Charged

US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm recently took an EV road trip from Charlotte, North Carolina to Memphis, Tennessee in order to draw attention to the billions of dollars in funding the White House is making available to promote electric vehicles. Imagine how big clean energy industries will be in 13 years.

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California: We Need 1GW of New Long-Duration Energy Storage by 2026

GreenTechMedia

California officials expect that the state needs 1 gigawatt of new long-duration energy storage by 2026 to advance its clean-energy transition. But it adds 11 gigawatts of utility-scale solar by 2030, nearly 3 gigawatts of wind and a groundbreaking amount of energy storage.

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We need fresh thinking about the role of digital technologies in our food system

Business Green

In the UK, supermarket shelves have been stripped bare, foodbanks have faced unprecedented demand and producers are now calling for a 'land army' to prevent fields of crops from going to waste. For example, robots Tom, Dick and Harry are learning to monitor and tend to crops autonomously, under AI oversight from Wilma.

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Grid Edge Trends From 2019 (So Far)

GreenTechMedia

The themes of digitalization, decentralization, flexibility and resilienc" keep cropping up, touching sectors from EV infrastructure to microgrids, demand response and beyond. In July 2019, Tendril (after a series of acquisitions in customer analytics) announced a merger with Simple Energy to become Uplight. Flexibility.

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'A poor use of public funds': Should the government subsidise biomass and carbon capture technology?

Business Green

The long-running debate over whether biomass energy can deliver promised emissions savings has been reignited this morning, after fresh analysis from think tank Ember warned plans for the UK's largest biomass with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plant could undermine the UK's net zero transition and land the taxpayer with a hefty bill.

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Over 650 scientists urge world leaders to stop burning forests for energy on eve of UN nature summit

Envirotec Magazine

Estonia, and Canada – and the UK–the world’s top importer of wood pellets for biomass energy. The scientists warn that burning wood from forests for energy harms biodiversity and worsens climate change, thereby undermining countries’ ability to meet nature commitments, including those under the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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'This is not a scary transition': Six key takeaways from the CCC's net zero progress report

Business Green

As ever, the CCC's assessment of the potential costs of net zero offers a powerful tonic to the loud minority of political and media commentators who have taken to bemoaning the price tags attached to the projects that can help avoid catastrophic climate impacts. We could have more and healthier woodlands.