Originally published on United Nations website and on the World Water Day website. This year’s World Water Day, with the theme “Valuing water,” asks: What does water mean to me? The value of water is profound and complex. There is no aspect of sustainable development that does not fundamentally rely upon it. For me, water means…
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Jeep is tiptoeing into the electric car era with a PHEV version of the Wrangler and a battery electric concept based on the Renegade.
Jarrett Walker at Human Transit shared a really good way to think about transportation: access. Instead of focusing on the number of riders, how many square miles are served, etc., he argues that we should be thinking about what the transit system actually gives them access to. He introduces the concept as “the wall around…
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US banks on flow batteries for rapid decarbonization, eyeballs at least 300 gigawatt-hours of battery-type energy storage online by 2030.
A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive.
What will a new era in all-electric transportation bring for drivers, manufacturers, and economies?
Over the past four years, the wind contribution to the energy generation mix in the state of Victoria has grown significantly. In fact, research from Cornwall Insight Australia shows, on average, across the entire day in 2020, wind delivered 14% of the energy generation mix in the state, doubling its output from 7% in 2017.…
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Electrification of everything is not necessarily the best path to decarbonization if was also want reliable energy delivery, argues David Cox. David Cox, Founder and CFO of the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas The power outages in Texas are an all too painful reminder how extreme weather events can expose weaknesses in our energy infrastructure.…
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Ameresco today announced that it achieved commercial operation at its solar energy site in Tiverton, Rhode Island and mechanical completion at its site in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Both milestones mark meaningful steps in the advancement of solar energy resources within the State. Installed on a former corn field, Ameresco’s Tiverton’s solar energy site comprises over…
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The first operational remote grid for California’s largest investor-owned utility will be made up of an integrated solar, battery, and generator system. If it works, the plan will be to roll out several hundred more across the state. Microgrid provider BoxPower announced this week that it is designing and installing a standalone power system in Briceburg,…
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