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Humanising the energy transition: Diversity and creativity as sources of innovation

The new challenges of the transition to green energy demand new ways of thinking, says, Elena Bou, InnoEnergy, and that requires attracting a more diverse range of people into the industry.

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New urban use cases to propel cities' rapid uptake of digital twins

News06 Jan 2021

Key factors behind the growth of digital twins include Covid-19 requirements in terms of achieving increased resilience levels and optimised asset and demand-response resource management.

City of Medford upgrades more than 7,000 streetlights

News28 Oct 2020

Improvements are being financed by a low-interest loan and include converting all city- and utility-owned streetlights, as well as additional park and parking lot locations.

Solar rail pioneer receives first commercial funding

News18 Sep 2020

Riding Sunbeams will use the investment to develop a pipeline of new renewable energy projects in South East England and the Valleys in South Wales.

AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge finalists announced

News15 Sep 2020

The 11 start-ups chosen are committed to tackling common urban challenges in areas such as air quality, carbon emissions, digital inclusion and congestion.

Tampere government's 2030 carbon neutral roadmap approved

News07 Sep 2020

The Finnish city’s goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent compared to 1990 and the remaining 20 per cent will be offset.

Pilot-project for peer-to-peer energy trading launches in Singapore

News20 Aug 2020

The year-long pilot project has a near-term goal of deploying peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading capabilities for residential and business clients of Senoko Energy.

Spin sets carbon negative sustainability goal by 2025

News05 Aug 2020

The Ford micro-mobility company will seek to achieve sustainability goals through a combination of electrifying operations, renewable power and “aggressive mode” shift away from private automobiles.

London mayor progresses plans to power tube with green energy

News20 Jul 2020

Sadiq Khan wants to change the way the Transport for London tube network is supplied with electricity and make the move towards a greater use of renewable energy.

Masdar and Uzbekistan announce utility-scale solar PPP project

News31 Oct 2019

The renewable energy company won the bid to develop the 100-megawatt utility-scale solar plant in the Navoi region of the country under the Scaling Solar programme.

UMass signs deal for campus solar energy project

News30 Sep 2019

University of Massachusetts will generate and store renewable energy to be used when electricity costs are highest so reducing the campus’s grid dependence and energy spending.

San Diego progresses green energy transition

News23 Sep 2019

The US city has approved proposals to create a joint-powers entity with cities across the region to lower energy costs and reach 100 per cent renewable energy by 2035.

Humanising the energy transition: Diversity and creativity as sources of innovation

Opinions09 Sep 2019

The new challenges of the transition to green energy demand new ways of thinking, says, Elena Bou, InnoEnergy, and that requires attracting a more diverse range of people into the industry.

World's northernmost energy-positive building unveiled

News06 Sep 2019

Powerhouse Brattørkaia aims to set a new standard for the construction of buildings by producing more energy than it consumes over its lifespan

Plymouth City Council trials vehicle-to-grid for its EV fleet

News03 Sep 2019

The UK council, which has set a goal of being carbon neutral, is partnering with E-Flex, a demonstration project led by Cisco.

Rust could be a new source of renewable energy, scientists say

News29 Aug 2019

Scientists from Northwestern University and Caltech have produced electricity by flowing water over extremely thin layers of rust.

UN Social Impact Investing Initiative opens Helsinki office

News12 Aug 2019

The global initiative supports Helsinki’s goal of achieving a more significant role for cities in implementing the sustainable development goals.

Boston ranked top for energy efficiency

News29 Jul 2019

In the 2019 City Clean Energy Scorecard, the city earned the highest score for its building policies and a perfect score for its energy efficiency outreach and programmes.

UK's climate change credibility rests on action, now

News11 Jul 2019

The Committee on Climate Change’s new progress report reveals that the UK Government has delivered just one of 25 critical policies to lower emissions in the past year.

Floating wind platforms "on the verge of lift-off"

News25 Jun 2019

Floating wind platforms will begin to deliver “multiple gigawatts” of electrical power within the next five years, racing to almost 20 GW of capacity by 2030, says report.

LA shines brightest in US solar ranking for the second year

News10 Apr 2019

Environment America Research & Policy Centre’s annual report also reveals that solar power has doubled in most major cities over the past six years.

£102.5 million demonstrator programme aims to jump-start UK's energy revolution

News04 Apr 2019

Four demonstrator projects have been chosen, which aim to show how businesses can develop local smart energy approaches at scale and create better outcomes for consumers.

Lyft commits to help rebuild cities around people

News01 Apr 2019

Through its City Works programme, the ride-sharing company will invest $50 million or 1 per cent of profits in locally-driven transportation or other initiatives.

Solar-powered charging hubs roll out in the Bay Area

News26 Mar 2019

ChargeWheel has secured investment to build a network of its energy trailers aimed at micro-mobility fleets and electric vehicles.

European countries partner for floating offshore wind project

News20 Mar 2019

The €31 million project aims to demonstrate survivability and cost-competitiveness of floating offshore wind technology.

Marines to work with San Diego on smart city applications

News27 Feb 2019

The two sides have signed a MoU to work together on smart technologies such as unmanned aircraft systems, renewable energy and smart streetlights

Transportation innovation a 'hot' sector in CleanTech 100

News05 Feb 2019

Companies listed represent the most innovative and promising ideas in cleantech and that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s challenges

Start-up aims to turn homes into personal power stations

News16 Jan 2019

Resilience Energy is aiming to become the Uber of electricity and help UK homeowners to become energy self-sufficient

Smart grid test bed accelerates clean energy vision

Smart grids15 Oct 2018

Portland General Electric claims it is integrating smart grid technology on a scale never attempted before in the US and partnering with customers to decarbonise the grid

Mitsubishi joins Moray offshore project

Wind power26 Mar 2018

Construction of one of the UK’s largest offshore wind farms off the coast of Scotland will begin this year

Egyptian electricity company to add 120MW of new wind power

Wind power12 Dec 2017

Extension of the Gabal El Zayt substation will connect up to 120 MW of wind power to the national grid from one of the region’s largest wind farms

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