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As consumer preferences continue to shift toward purchasing locally sourced and organic produce, demand is growing for commercial greenhouses, or controlled environment agriculture (CEA), as the industry is labeled. This shift in preference to locally grown food is changing the way supermarkets and restaurants source their fruits and vegetables. COMMENTARY Many restaurants throughout the country […]

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Rethinking Hydropower for Energy & Environmental Sustainability

April 27, 2021 admin California, california hydropower, clean power, co2 emissions, grid, hydroelectric, microgrids, natel energy, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, research, US, us hydropower, virtual power plants

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 02:30:30 +0000

A California company, Natel Energy, is hard at work developing a low-head, low-impact hydropower approach that addresses one of the leading concerns of new deployment — impacts to natural stream flows. Of course, if environmental mitigation strategies take too big a bite out of revenues, the effort is a nonstarter. At the same time, the company […]

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Castañer, Puerto Rico Selected for New Solar Energy Microgrid Project

March 26, 2021 admin Charity, clean power, community solar, grid, hydroelectric cooperative of la montaña, microgrid project, microgrids, pathstone enterprise center, puerto rican solar business accelerator (prsba), Puerto Rico, Solar energy, the solar foundation, university of puerto rico, university of puerto rico in mayagüez

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:02:46 +0000

The village of Castañer, Puerto Rico has been selected to receive support for a solar energy microgrid project, as part of an initiative led by The Solar Foundation and Pathstone Corp. to strengthen and expand the solar industry in Puerto Rico and build more resilient communities. The microgrid project will include a solar energy and battery storage installation for small businesses that […]

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“Empowered By Light” Recycles Old EV Batteries For Microgrid Applications

March 22, 2021 admin batteries, bluevolt energy, clean power, empowered by light, Energy Storage, green economy, grid, leilani munter, lithium-ion batteries, microgrids, mugurameno, Off The Grid, Solar energy, western zambia

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:30:43 +0000

I saw a tweet by Leilani Münter in my feed recently that was rather inspiring. Leilani shared that she loved the latest Light Empowered battery installation and that it showed the potential of recycling old EV batteries for microgrid applications. Her tweet included a video and she noted that the lithium-ion batteries from an electric […]

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Tesla/Apple vs. Volkswagen/Samsung?

March 18, 2021 admin cars, clean transport, consumer technology, distributed renewables, Electric vehicles, green economy, grid, Manufacturing, microgrids, quantumscape, ubs, vehicle to grid, vehicle to home (v2h), Volkswagen, volkswagen power day

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:21:14 +0000

Volkswagen’s Power Day had lots of technical information available, none more important than its promise to introduce V2G technology to its electric cars beginning next year.

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The US CLEAN Future Act — What’s In It?

March 17, 2021 admin Air pollution, air quality, american recovery & reinvestment act (arra), buildings, carbon fee, carbon pricing, carbon tax, clean air act, clean electricity standard (ces), clean future act of 2021, clean power, clean transport, climate change, climate federalism, climate policy, climate star, co2 emissions, concrete, Congress, Department of Energy (DOE), electric buses, electric school buses, Electric vehicles, energy and commerce committee, energy efficiency, energy efficiency and conservation block grant program, energy star, environmental justice, EPA, ev charging stations, federal energy regulatory commission (ferc), grid, grid storage, house energy and commerce committee, hvac, insulation, methane emissions, microgrids, Plastic, policy & politics, policy research, public utility regulatory policy act (purpa), regional greenhouse gas initiative (rggi), research, safe drinking water act, Solar energy, solid waste disposal act, state climate plans, state energy-efficient appliance rebate program, steel, transportation climate initiative (tci), US, US Congress, waste reduction, wind energy

Credit to Author: World Resources Institute| Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 03:40:12 +0000

Originally published on WRI’s Resource Institute Blog. By Dan Lashof, Devashree Saha, Karl Hausker, Greg Carlock, Kevin Kennedy, and Tyler Clevenger U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, together with subcommittee chairs Bobby Rush and Paul Tonko, introduced the CLEAN Future Act on March 2, 2021. While numerous climate bills are introduced in each Congress, this proposal […]

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America’s Electrical Grid Has A Transmission Problem — How To Move Electricity From Here To There?

February 25, 2021 admin clean power, distributed renewables, grid, hvdc, microgrid, microgrids, Smart Grid, Solar energy, Transmission Lines, wind energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:35:31 +0000

Providing electrical power when and where it is needed will be a challenge as the Earth’s climate changes. Are humans up to the task?

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