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Why BC Should Reopen Clean Energy Opportunities for Indigenous Communities
A little more than a year ago, the BC government launched an inquiry into the regulation of Indigenous energy utilities and ordered the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) to provide recommendations on how Indigenous utilities should be regulated. The BCUC is set to issue its final report to Government on April 30. Although CEBC is not an official intervener, we submitted this document ...
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Mercom: Battery storage, Smart Grid, and Efficiency Companies Receive Increased Funding in 2017
Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy research and communications firm, recently released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the battery storage, smart grid, and energy efficiency sectors for 2017. In 2017, a combined $1.5 billion was raised by battery storage, smart grid, and energy effficiency companies, an increase from the $1.3 billion raised ...
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Cranfield Opens New Clean Energy Research Centre
Cranfield University’s new £2 million high-tech energy laboratory was officially opened on Tuesday by Jonathan Holyoak, Head of Policy for the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage, on behalf of Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Ministers. The Energy Technology Laboratory houses a range of near industrial-scale equipment for research and development of clean and renewable ...
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California's Clean Energy Research and Development Program Delivers 10x Return on Investment
A new report shows how California's premier public interest clean energy research and development program continues to add to its decade-long track record of advancing technologies to address the climate challenge while attracting new investment and creating jobs. Since its creation in 2012, the California Energy Commission's (CEC) Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) has invested $1.1 ...
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DOE Announces $126 Million for Small Businesses to Pursue Clean Energy Research and Development
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (Aug 25) announced 106 awards totaling $126 million in research and development grants for 90 different small businesses whose projects will address multiple mission areas across the Department, including clean energy and decarbonization, cybersecurity and grid reliability, fusion energy, and nuclear nonproliferation. Small businesses are the backbone of ...
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Bentley selected to join consortium for U.S.-China clean energy research center on building energy efficiency
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that it has been selected to join the consortium, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) focused on building energy efficiency. ...
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Arizona State, Idaho National Laboratory Team to Boost Clean Energy Research
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Arizona State University (ASU) have agreed to expand their joint efforts in clean energy research for the next five years. An agreement signed in October establishes a framework for both institutions to develop low-carbon processes for the energy and manufacturing sectors. One joint project works to improve and decarbonize methods to extract critical minerals ...
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Obama`s India visit generates science collaborations
India and the United States signed three science pacts, covering clean energy, disease surveillance and monsoon forecasting, during US president Barack Obama's Asia visit this week. The signing of the pacts was announced by Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh in a joint press briefing by him and Obama yesterday. Singh referred to Obama's statement on Sunday (7 November) that the India–US ...
By SciDev.Net
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Lockheed Martin`s Liz Porter Receives Prestigious Honor From U.S. Department Of Energy And MIT
Liz Porter, a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) employee whose energy leadership has had a major impact on the Corporation's clean energy research, education and sustainability programs, has been chosen as a first-ever recipient of the U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Initiative Award. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Clean Energy Initiative, the award is a ...
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Abu Dhabi opens worldwide nominations and submissions for Zayed future energy prize
2007 Nobel Laureate Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri and Masdar CEO, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber today announced the official call for nominations and submissions for the Zayed Future Energy Prize (ZFEP), an international awards program to recognize individuals, companies, organizations, and NGO’s who are leading the global search for future energy solutions. Named after the UAE’s Founding Father late HH ...
By MASDAR
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ENN Affirms Commitment to Tackling Global Climate Issues through Transnational Cooperation
ENN, China's leading private clean-energy innovator, spoke Dec. 6th at COP17's "China Pavilion" as one of the main Chinese corporate delegations. ENN, alongside partners such as Duke Energy is using the platform to announce initiatives that call on institutions around the world to join in tackling climate change. In recognition of ENN's contribution to clean energy and of the importance of ...
By Duke Energy
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EPRI and GTI Low-Carbon Resources Initiative Surpasses $100 Million in Funding from 33 Global Partners
The Low-Carbon Resources Initiative (LCRI), a joint project led by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Gas Technology Institute (GTI), surpassed a major milestone of $100 million in funding, adding its 33rd sponsor, Xcel Energy. This global collaboration is gaining momentum in delivering scientific credibility and objectivity to support international decarbonization. LCRI is a ...
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Lightning `could one day be harvested as energy`
Brazilian researchers say they have come a step closer to harnessing the power of ambient electricity that causes lightning and has the potential to become a source of clean energy. Early research has indicated it may be possible to develop devices that can capture ambient electricity, much as solar panels capture sunlight, while also preventing lightning before it can discharge, researchers ...
By SciDev.Net
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New Materials Could Turn Water into the Fuel of the Future
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have in just two years nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential for use in solar fuels. They did so by developing a process that promises to speed the discovery of commercially viable generation of solar fuels that could replace ...
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Consumer Attitudes Toward Smart Grid Improve as Public Education Efforts Increase
FARMINGTON, Conn., March 22, 2012/PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Global Information Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the new clean energy market research report, Smart Grid Consumer Survey by Pike Research, and available academic and government discounted registration for the related Next Generation Batteries 2012 Conference in Boston, MA this summer. Strong consumer interest in smart ...
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Will the Hydropower Industry Exceed $60 Billion by 2012?
Global Information, Inc. presents a new market research report, "The Hydropower Market 2011-2021" by Visiongain. One-sixth of the world's electricity is currently generated by hydropower. Hydropower, a low-carbon energy source, is likely to play an increasingly significant role in the future of the global energy supply as the world inevitably moves towards renewable energy in lieu of fossil ...
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Austria makes commendable progress on R&D and developing renewables
Recovery Processes“Austria has made good progress in bringing renewable energy technologies forward and is a leader in sustainable energy technology research”, said the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Nobuo Tanaka, today in Vienna. During the presentation of the publication Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Austria 2007 Review, Mr. Tanaka also praised the ...
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News Alert: Bentley selected to join consortium for U.S.-China cean energy research center on building energy efficiency
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that it has been selected to join the consortium, led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) focused on building energy efficiency. The new ...
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Mission Innovation Ministers Gather at COP22
Mission Innovation countries came together today (11,14) here at the UN climate change conference, otherwise known as COP22, to report on developments one year on from its launch. Finland and the Netherlands were welcomed as the most recent members to join this global effort to double clean energy R&D. In addition, a number of innovation challenges were launched to target development of ...
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Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos launch $1 billion clean energy investment fund
Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates is leading a $1 billion venture fund to combat climate change by investing in clean energy innovation. Some of the world’s wealthiest business leaders, including Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, will sit on the board of the new fund, known as Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV). The BEV fund aims to ...
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