Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Rio Tinto has approved a new solar farm and battery storage at Weipa in Queensland, in a move that will more than triple the local electricity network’s solar generation capacity and help provide cleaner power to Rio Tinto’s operations. —Rio Tinto Aluminum Pacific Bauxite Operations General Manager Michelle Elvy.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2021

The community will be powered by Tesla’s Solar and Powerwall products, bringing sustainably generated energy to an incredibly exclusive and luxury housing community situated around a golf course designed by one of the most decorated PGA members of all time: Jack Nicklaus. All of the houses also have a flat roof design.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

Suncor also plans to divest its wind and solar assets. In 2002, Suncor partnered with Enbridge to build one of the first renewable. While Suncor is in the fortunate position of being long on opportunities, we are adjusting our portfolio for fit and focus. —Mark Little, Suncor president and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Incorporating energy efficiency measures can reduce the amount of storage needed to power the nation’s buildings entirely with renewable energy, according to analysis conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). —William Livingood.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition to the buses, the project will include installation of charging stations and solar panels. Funding is from the California Climate Investments (CCI), the state’s cap-and-trade program. GreenPower will build a manufacturing facility for all-electric buses and batteries, expected to open in 2018.

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

The IEEE Board of Directors formed an ad hoc committee on climate change in February to coordinate its response to the global threat. that provides buildings with energy-efficiency solutions. Rahman: Its charter is to develop a cross-IEEE strategy to synchronize and guide the organization’s response to changes in the global climate.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 11, 2024

continued] The post The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work — India Edition Transcript appeared first on CleanTechnica. The theme was Electrify Everything Everywhere All At Once. This was within the frame of the presentation I gave at the India Smart Utility Week on March 14th. In honor of the start of.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2021

Tesla China announced earlier that it has launched a solar-powered Supercharger facility in Lhasa, the administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region. “The annual average of 3,000+ hours of light let the gifts of nature be used efficiently and help build a new green travel and low-carbon life way.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Retail giant Costco has installed on-site solar generation at a new electric truck charging project in southern California. Costco contracted Washington-based Trinity Structures to design and build an off-grid rooftop solar system at its distribution center in Mira Loma. Trinity completed the project in four months.

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Teslarati

JULY 15, 2021

Tesla Energy’s ramp in the United States could accelerate soon as the Biden administration pushes to use a new tool that enables instant local permitting for rooftop solar installations. This has resulted in about a third of solar installations taking more than two weeks to process permits.

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Electrek

JULY 22, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US Department of Energy announces energy-efficient new building codes to save consumers money and fight climate change. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

But its cost is competitive with other electricity generation technologies, including new solar and wind projects, and can lead to a more secure, less disruptive energy transition. wind and solar PV—are to fill the shortfall in nuclear, their deployment would have to accelerate to an unprecedented level.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 15, 2021

By Gabrielle Habeeb & Ashok Gupta Eliminating carbon emissions from our building and transportation sectors will be critical to maintaining a healthy and livable climate. Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. Another expectation is that homeowners and businesses will become “ fully electrified ” by replacing oil, propane and gas furnaces with heat pumps along with gas fired stoves as well as installing solar power and battery systems. The answer is perhaps some, but maybe not too much.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2009

Establishing a key link between the solar cycle and global climate, research led by scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., across the solar cycle. The paper does not analyze the weather impacts of the solar-driven events.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

General Motors is the first automaker among 40 major US companies to sign a “ Climate Declaration ,” collectively asserting that responding to climate change is good business. The campaign is organized by sustainable business advocacy group Ceres and its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy, or BICEP, coalition.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Salem, Oregon — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Oregon.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

It not only solves our air quality and climate challenges by producing pollution-free hydrogen. Fluor, a global engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance company, which has best-in-class experience in building hydrogen-from-gasification plants, will provide front-end engineering and design for the Lancaster facility.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Bozemen, Montana — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Montana.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

ATLANTA, GA — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Solar radiation management (SRM) is one of the geoengineering techniques proposed as a potential means of offsetting some of the anthropogenic radiative forcing of climate as a means to reduce climate change. Contrary to some claims, they note, this could provide meaningful tests of the climate’s response to SRM within a decade.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Richmond, Virginia — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

It estimates that more than 3 billion tons of minerals and metals will be needed to deploy wind, solar and geothermal power, as well as energy storage, to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions sufficient to achieve a below 2°C future. Source: “Minerals for Climate Action: The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition”.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Augusta, Maine — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Maine.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Springfield, Illinois — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better agenda, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Illinois.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. But the opportunities are huge. It’s challenging in the energy field. It takes longer.” Do they know how to meet [these] commitments? Not really.” This is a hard problem,” Majumdar continued.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Trenten, New Jersey — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in New Jersey.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That’s why we are always encouraged to learn about and partner with other companies that are identifying innovative ways to fight the growing climate crisis. Today, we’re excited to share our new partnership with Arcadia , a tech company working to stop climate change by breaking the fossil fuel monopoly. . Many people across the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Mobility company Transdev , through its subsidiary Proxiway, which specializes in car sharing, has launched, in partnership with the Toshiba group, an innovative car sharing service using solar energy and quick-charge points in the eco-district of La Confluence, Lyon, France. The project will run for two years until December 2015.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Climate Foundation , the Seattle-based company behind the project, has found that this deep cycling makes kelp grow three times as fast as it can when kept in shallow waters, as seaweed farmers do now. It’s our hope in 2024 to validate our model and then, as [they] say in Silicon Valley, design it once and build it a million times.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Southern California Edison has proposed an integrated strategic framework for the state of California to meet its ambitious climate and air quality goals. The company found that the clean power and electrification path is the most affordable and feasible approach to reaching California’s climate and air quality goals.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

This spurred Julie Angus to cofound the startup Open Ocean Robotics to design, build, and operate oceangoing uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) drones. The startup offers marine data as a service using its solar-powered Data Xplorer ocean drones, which eliminate the need for traditional crewed vessels. She is the company’s CEO.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

3Degrees provides renewable energy certificates and carbon offsets to Fortune 500 companies, green building firms, and other organizations. Emission reductions produced by the project are verified by an approved third party and registered with the Climate Action Reserve. SunPower: residential solar with energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

The Solar Impulse 2 —the solar airplane that recently completed a round-the-world flight— used batteries from Kokam, based on that company’s advanced Ultra High Energy Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) Oxide (Ultra High Energy NMC) technology. The Solar Impulse uses four 38.5 The Solar Impulse uses four 38.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2021

The project will enable at least 44 buses in Ride On Montgomery County’s transit fleet to transition from diesel to electric, advancing the County’s goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035, reducing lifetime emissions by more than 155,000 tons, while delivering resilience to climate events and power outages.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 26, 2022

Learning from Sweden & their Pro-Climate, Energy Model By David Lapp-Jost As Russian tanks continue to roll into Ukraine, western European gas consumers pay the bill to the tune of many hundreds of millions of Euros daily and watch helplessly, unable to cut off the gas without shaving 6.5% This war highlights the […].

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