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Groupe Renault, the European leader in electric mobility, recently announced the launch of Advanced Battery Storage, a stationary storage system for energy developed exclusively from EV batteries. It will have a storage capacity of at least 60 MWh, making it the biggest system of its kind ever built in ... Read more »
Due to record high temperatures and fuel constraints, wholesale electricity prices in the western United States reached their highest levels since 2008 this summer. According to the US Energy Information Administration, in the area served by the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), peak-period electricity prices in July averaged $101 ... Read more »
Hitachi Vantara recently announced enhancements to its Smart Data Center solution that elevates the use of AI and real-time analytics in an effort to optimize all aspects of IT operations across data centers. According to the company, these enhancements help enterprises deliver business outcomes by maximizing the power of ... Read more »
S&P Global Ratings published a new report that takes an in-depth look at the next generation of biofuels such as biodiesel, renewable diesel, and cellulosic ethanol. The credit ratings provider found that despite being cost prohibitive now, these fuels could contribute to global decarbonization.
HOMER Energy has released version 3.12 of its microgrid modeling software, HOMER Pro. The updated software now includes thousands of sample loads representing most of the world’s climate zones and load types, and a predictive dispatch algorithm that takes into account future load and weather data, the company says.
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Trillium now offers onsite power generation for battery electric buses (BEBs). The renewable fuels and alternative fueling solutions provider, a member of the Love’s family of companies, made the announcement this week at the American Public Transportation Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
Cargill, the largest privately held corporation in the US in terms of revenue, has invested $10 million to install a bottling line at its Sidney, Ohio, crush and refinery factory which the company says is the most efficient bottling technology of its kind. The technology will deliver an annual 75%
Jon Stanford, global principal for industrial security/IoT solutions at Cisco, discusses how organizations can strengthen their computer security and protect against attacks.
A new report from RE100 in consultation with Capgemini Invent shows that members of the global initiative are more profitable than their peers. RE100 members commit publicly to sourcing 100% of their electricity from renewables by a set year.
Rocky Mountain Institute and Urban Land Institute have published a new guide for portfolio owners and managers showing how to achieve cost-effective deep energy retrofits that lead to net-zero for their entire portfolio while increasing revenues.
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Levi’s has teamed up with Outerknown, a sustainable clothing company started by pro surfer Kelly Slater and designer John Moore, to produce a new line from recycled cotton. The men’s clothing for fall/winter 2018 uses Levi’s Wellthread process from both chemical and mechanical recycling.
Sandals Resorts International is the latest organization to announce an initiative to abolish single-use plastic straws and stirrers. The hospitality company says that all 19 Sandals and Beaches Resorts, across seven Caribbean islands, will eliminate more than 21 million straws used at the resorts each year. More eco-friendly, paper straws ... Read more »
For more than two decades, I have been discussing the value and the reasons for green cleaning in the professional cleaning industry. While the first few years of my journey – and it certainly has been a journey – were difficult, with few people attending my seminars or presentations, I ... Read more »
A coalition of NGOs is putting increased pressure on the insurance industry to stop insuring coal and tar sands projects and companies. Called Insure Our Future, the new campaign has been endorsed by groups that include the Sierra Club, the Waterkeeper Alliance, the Rainforest Action Network, and Greenpeace.
Energy and commodity trading firms are increasingly embracing cloud technologies as they seek to reduce costs and improve their technology infrastructures. Within the next 5 years,Commodity Technology Advisory (ComTech) predicts spending for Commodity Trading & Risk Management (CTRM) products in the cloud will outpace “traditional” on-premise installs, whose funding increases less ... Read more »
LLamasoft co-founder Toby Brzoznowski discusses sustainable supply chain management, including how companies are incorporating design into a data-driven process.
Floodwaters from Hurricane Florence breached a dam at Duke Energy’s L.V. Sutton plant near Wilmington, North Carolina late last week. The flooding prompted the utility to shut down its natural gas power units at the site, and raised concerns about a coal ash spill into the nearby Cape Fear River.
Tetra Pak plans to install a new solar array at the company’s US and Canada headquarters in Denton, Texas. Once up and running, the array will produce 1,027,638 kWh annually, according to the global food processing and packaging solutions company.
In-depth: With an aviation industry-wide goal to cap net greenhouse gas growth from 2020 onward, renewable jet fuel is a key aspect of some airlines’ sustainability strategies, and two big announcements this week underscored that fact. Here’s a look at what they - and other airlines - are doing to meet that goal.
Eaton launched the 9PXM uninterruptible power system (UPS), a scalable, modular backup power solution designed for a wide range of data center, industrial, and commercial applications.
Wealthy US investors had the slowest rate of adoption in the sustainable investing landscape compared to the rest of the world, according to UBS. The multinational investment bank and financial services company released the latest edition of its Investor Watch report this week.
A Microsoft data center in Texas overheated earlier this month, causing widespread outages that affected business users of the company’s cloud-based Azure services such as Office 365. The director of engineering for Azure DevOps recently explained what happened.
Studies, reports, press releases and story pitches about emissions overtook our inboxes this week. Here’s a quick round-up of what we saw when culling through the news.
JetBlue has launched a series of flights powered in part by renewable jet fuel blend: the airline’s first use of the blend was for the delivery of its latest A321 aircraft from Airbus, with four more A321 aircraft coming from Airbus to follow throughout the rest of the year. The ... Read more »
The effects of Hurricane Florence linger on as concerns about environmental damage escalated following reports of hog lagoon flooding at some of the state’s 2,100 industrial-scale pork farms. According to the Wall Street Journal, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality said it had received reports of breaches, or structural ... Read more »