What decarbonizing buildings teaches us about climate priorities
A new Urban Land Institute report captures something valuable about this moment: the maturation of professionals’ understanding of what key trends mean and the complexity of how to get there.
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Oatly wants farmers to plant more oats. Here’s how it’s helping
Oatly is working with farmers and millers to bring oats into their crop rotations for food, economic and environmental benefits
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Oatly wants farmers to plant more oats. Here’s how it’s helping
Food, ag and forestry get their own science-based targets
Land-conversion emissions have always been hard to measure and reduce but these new guidelines will help lay the path for the food, ag and forestry sector.
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Food, ag and forestry get their own science-based targets
Advanced Rate Designs Harnessing Vehicle-Grid Integration Technology
As we transition to an intelligent electric vehicle (EV) future, charging loads pose a potential major challenge for utilities without proper planning and management. Vehicle-Grid Integration (VGI) technologies convert EVs from a potential grid strain to a valuable new grid resource. EV customers want to minimize their EV charging costs, which are governed by their utility’s rates. Through Vehicle-Grid Integration, managing the time and power of this charging can create costs or benefits throughout the value chain. Time-of-Use (TOU) rates are by far the most common EV rate implemented by utilities, but these do not fully realize potential VGI benefits. Advanced metering, declining technology and communication costs, and rapid commercialization of smart charging technologies make advanced rate designs a viable and broadly available VGI pathway. Honda has set a target to sell 100 percent electric vehicles in North America by 2040. This paper, commissioned by Honda and authored by Energy + Environmental Economics (E3), presents a roadmap to new rate designs that harness active VGI technology and EV charging aggregators with the goal of benefitting customers, utilities, and the grid. To receive the companion paper, “Design Principles and Options for Retail Tariffs that Support Vehicle-Grid Integration,” click here.
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How NextEra is gearing up to be the energy giant of tomorrow
Jim Robo’s quest to turn a dirty old electric utility into the world’s mostly-green energy powerhouse.
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How NextEra is gearing up to be the energy giant of tomorrow
How the commercial real estate sector is building a greener future
The reasons to take action to cut carbon emissions from real estate are overwhelmingly greater than the reasons to do nothing.
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How the commercial real estate sector is building a greener future
Winning the war for ESG talent in an era of distrust
Employees’ expectation of an authentic, transparent and data-driven commitment to tackling the climate crisis is here to stay.
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Winning the war for ESG talent in an era of distrust
Whither climate tech? A new fund, plus some predictions
Energy Impact Partners is raising a $350 million fund focused on supporting “deep decarbonization” technologies.
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Whither climate tech? A new fund, plus some predictions
What 50 years of public-private partnerships lends to the world’s green transition
The economic and societal benefits of airtight trust in persistent policies despite the inevitable shoestring tackles all struggles societies face.
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What 50 years of public-private partnerships lends to the world’s green transition
How to center environmental justice in conservation finance projects
Three case studies in righting past wrongs from the Swinomish Indian tribe, the town of Peoria, Illinois, and the Doris Duke Foundation.
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How to center environmental justice in conservation finance projects