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The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy, finds this year’s Global Wind Report from the Global Wind Energy Council.
The report finds the wind industry is entering a new era of accelerated growth driven by increased political ambition, manifested in the historic COP28 adoption of a target to triple renewable energy by 2030.…
View Full ResourceUtilities are moving quickly to decarbonize the grid. But they will also need to focus on internal initiatives to avoid potentially costly compliance challenges as new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) requirements take shape.
SAP Concur’s latest utility sustainability and spend management survey reveals how leaders are factoring ESG compliance into internal management policies and processes. Based on feedback from utilities across the U.S., the findings demonstrate how internal teams can deploy spend strategies to meaningfully contribute to decarbonization goals.
– Insights from utility industry leaders. Learn how utility and energy clients rank themselves on compliance and sustainability.
– Best …
Solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies are helping decarbonize the U.S. electricity system by harnessing a renewable energy source—the sun. However, manufacturing and operating a PV system consumes non-renewable energy and produces carbon emissions, as does end-of-life handling when PV systems are eventually decommissioned. To fully account for PV’s contribution toward decarbonization, these life cycle impacts must be quantified.…
View Full ResourceThis guidebook provides stakeholders in communities and electric utilities with information supported by analyses and document reviews about issues pertinent to the topic of coal-to-nuclear (C2N) transitions. Economic impact analysis and workforce transition issues make up the section geared towards community stakeholders. Cost considerations, policy opportunities, technology mapping, coal remediation issues, and siting considerations make up the section geared for utility stakeholders. Community stakeholders will find aspects of the utility-focused section helpful, e.g., ash remediation. And similarly, utility stakeholders will find aspects of the community-focused section helpful, e.g., workforce transition. …
View Full ResourceExplore how California Dairies, Inc. (CDI), the largest member-owned dairy cooperative in California, partnered with RTC Solutions Provider Skyven Technologies to decarbonize industrial process heat across two major facilities. This case study details the project’s integrated approach to deploying solar thermal technology, smart steam traps, and heat recovery systems expected to avoid a total of 7,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions annually. It explains how CDI implemented the renewable thermal projects with no capital expenditure by utilizing Skyven’s innovative Energy-as-a-Service model and combining direct investment, third-party financing, utility incentives, and state grants. The case study highlights the substantial emissions reductions …
View Full ResourceWhile environmental justice (EJ) concerns continued to drive policymaking in early 2024, EJ efforts increasingly faced headwinds coming from various and sometimes unexpected directions. This report will summarize recent developments in the EJ space and outline three areas to watch for the regulated community in spring 2024.…
View Full ResourceDNV’s Energy Industry Insights research – now in its 14th year – explores the confidence, sentiment, and priorities for the energy industry in the year ahead.
The research draws on our annual survey of more than 1,000 senior professionals and a programme of in-depth interviews with leaders and experts. It is developed and created by teams from DNV and FT Longitude (a Financial Times company).
The research was conducted during February and March 2024. Survey respondents were drawn from across the energy industry, including publicly listed companies and privately held firms, and spanning electrical power, renewables, oil and gas, industry …
Between 2020 and 2024, PSE Healthy Energy partnered with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) to identify opportunities to build solar+energy storage resilience hubs at schools, community centers, and places of worship across California. APEN defines resilience hubs as “physical institutions that offer space for community members to gather, organize, and access resilience-building social services on a daily basis, and provide response and recovery services in disaster situations.” Our analysis focuses on solar+storage resilience hubs, which can deliver distinct advantages for community resilience by keeping essential services online during power outages and providing …
View Full ResourceThe U.S. Department of Energy led the development of a Blueprint for decarbonizing U.S. buildings by 2050 to lay out a national strategy for aggressively reducing building greenhouse gas emissions while delivering equity, affordability, and resilience benefits to communities. The vision includes action the federal government can take to meet specific targets for increasing building energy efficiency, accelerating onsite emissions reductions, transforming the grid edge, and minimizing embodied life cycle emissions.
The national strategy reflects the central role that buildings play in achieving economy-wide climate goals while delivering cost savings, healthier environments, and high-quality jobs for the American people. Federal …
View Full ResourceUtility executives oversee a vast network of assets that includes transmission lines, power plants, substations and transformers. But all these assets are geographically dispersed and disconnected from each other. Without clear insights into the performance of these assets, how are utilities supposed to make data-informed decisions and improve productivity, resiliency and energy efficiency?
This latest playbook looks at how utilities can use the cloud, AI and other state-of-the-art technologies to modernize their asset management systems and increase the reliability and productivity of their systems. The report includes:
– Why it’s critical for utilities to modernize their asset management systems
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