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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

Cars That Think

Having these [stations] in place will help fight climate change.” The London Stock Exchange identified GVE as one of the fastest-growing private companies in Africa in 2019. Perhaps I would have been an engineer working in either Chevron , Shell, or ExxonMobil today. Established by former U.S.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Energy Markets in a State of Change. Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ What does normal operation look like?

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When You See Something, Say Something: Climate Emergency Alarm Bells Ringing While Local Electeds Pretend Not To Hear

Creative Greenius

Not the City of Carson, its citizens choking and sick from its own nonstop polluting refineries, nor El Segundo a city run by the equally dangerous and lung-choking Chevron Refinery. Across the pond, so too have London, Bristol, Cornwall and 17 other United Kingdom cities and eight more cities in Australia. And that list is growing.

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