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  • Pasture Voltaics

    News

    We're excited to announce that Pasture Voltaics LLC and its unique SunTracker technology have joined the PlanitWorks partner family. Using raised, high-tensile cables positioned nine feet above the ground to control a solar grid [...]

  • Tribal-interconnection-requests

    Alternative Energy, Decarbonization, Electrification, Energy Efficiency, Resilient Energy, Solar

    Federal hurdles, including onerous fees and development delays, are seriously hampering tribal nations' efforts to implement ambitious alternative energy projects that could generate reliable power, new jobs, clean energy, and massive new economic opportunities. [...]

  • EV sales climbing

    Electric Vehicle (EV)

    Despite what may seem like a steady drumbeat of bad news regarding electric vehicle (EV) sales and leases, the industry is actually enjoying sufficient growth to suggest it soon may achieve a 10 percent [...]

  • Battery storage systems

    Battery Storage, Solar

    Last spring California quietly achieved a milestone that, despite its ramifications for homeowners, businesses, and the planet itself, generated few if any headlines: the use of battery-stored energy surpassed that of natural gas. In [...]

  • Modernize HBCUs and Tribes

    Affordable Housing, Decarbonization, Energy Efficiency

    What if a nation struggling with reducing its heavy carbon footprint, an affordable housing deficit, and substandard energy efficiencies could tackle all three at the same time? Well, it can and we're going to [...]

  • Hammarby Works heat pump

    Decarbonization, Energy Efficiency

    It's no secret that heat pumps are gaining in popularity. They're more energy-efficient, eco-friendly, and thrive on the very same conditions (moderating winters, intensifying summers) that are the signatures of climate change. But where [...]

  • HBCU energy modernization

    Alternative Energy, Decarbonization, Energy Efficiency, Resilient Energy

    At a time when so much of the country is transitioning to green, efficient energy systems, many if not most Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) face numerous and significant impediments to joining that [...]

  • Distributed energy systems

    Decarbonization, Distributed Energy, Energy Efficiency, Microgrid, Resilient Energy

    Distributed Energy Systems (DES) are the central nervous system of the green energy revolution, which is why we're so big on the thinking behind it, the tools that are modernizing it, and the widespread [...]

  • Solar growth forecast

    Decarbonization, Energy Efficiency, Solar

    A new market survey claims global spending on solar panels will reach $273.15B by 2029, up from $187.69B in 2023, representing a CAGR of 6.45%. This growth is being driven by a number of [...]

  • DOE distributed energy hub

    Alternative Energy, Decarbonization, Distributed Energy, Energy Efficiency

    Eager to support public and private sector organizations focused on meeting the nation's rapidly growing demand for distributed energy services, the Dept. of Energy (DOE) has released a list of tools and services the [...]

  • Red Sea Microgrid

    Microgrid, Resilient Energy

    In case the world still hadn't caught on to the power and potential of microgrid technology, the world's largest off-grid, solar-powered microgrid is beginning to take shape along Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast. Aptly [...]

  • Brian McLaughlin

    Decarbonization

    This article is a reprint from The Washington Informed, dated May 15, 2024. Brian McLaughlin, an experienced leader with more than 26 years of professional experience in the nonprofit, public and for-profit areas, has [...]

  • Renewable energy

    Alternative Energy, Decarbonization, Energy Efficiency, Resilient Energy

    With the global thirst for energy expected to double by 2050 (driven by AI, EVs, and data centers), experts believe renewable energy is going to take center stage in helping to meet those demands. [...]

  • Microgrids in africa

    Electrification, Energy Efficiency, Microgrid, Resilient Energy

    In an age when missions to Mars are actually in the planning stages, it seems difficult to imagine that nearly two-thirds of Africa's population lack access to reliable power and the innumerable benefits that [...]

  • Heat pumps and forests

    Decarbonization, Energy Efficiency, Resilient Energy

    Few recognize that heat pump technology has been around for nearly two centuries. Fewer still know this technology was invented in large part to improve energy efficiencies and help the planet as part of [...]

  • Heat pump popularity

    Decarbonization, Electrification, Energy Efficiency, Resilient Energy

    If you're not a fan of heat pumps, you either don't have one (yet) or aren't familiar with the many ways these machines are improving energy efficiencies while reducing carbon emissions. Suffice it to [...]

  • Heat pumps

    Decarbonization, Electrification, Energy Efficiency

    The heat pump which, not so very long ago, was more of an afterthought than a go-to solution for heating and cooling residences and businesses, is rapidly moving into the mainstream thanks to the [...]

  • Renewable energy

    Alternative Energy, Decarbonization, Energy Efficiency, Resilient Energy

    With the global thirst for energy expected to double by 2050 (driven by AI, EVs, and data centers), experts believe renewable energy is going to take center stage in helping to meet those demands. [...]

  • Microgrids in africa

    Electrification, Energy Efficiency, Microgrid, Resilient Energy

    In an age when missions to Mars are actually in the planning stages, it seems difficult to imagine that nearly two-thirds of Africa's population lack access to reliable power and the innumerable benefits that [...]

  • Heat pumps and forests

    Decarbonization, Energy Efficiency, Resilient Energy

    Few recognize that heat pump technology has been around for nearly two centuries. Fewer still know this technology was invented in large part to improve energy efficiencies and help the planet as part of [...]

  • Heat pump popularity

    Decarbonization, Electrification, Energy Efficiency, Resilient Energy

    If you're not a fan of heat pumps, you either don't have one (yet) or aren't familiar with the many ways these machines are improving energy efficiencies while reducing carbon emissions. Suffice it to [...]

  • Heat pumps

    Decarbonization, Electrification, Energy Efficiency

    The heat pump which, not so very long ago, was more of an afterthought than a go-to solution for heating and cooling residences and businesses, is rapidly moving into the mainstream thanks to the [...]