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Green news- As renewable energy economics shift, smaller buyers get creativeCompanies like Brown-Forman, Cardinal Health and REI are looking for simpler clean power deals located closer to their facilities. The post As renewable energy economics shift, smaller buyers get creative appeared first on Trellis.
- Legacy credits are tainting carbon markets. Here’s how to get rid of themThe opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis. Imagine a roulette wheel where only 20 percent of the spaces are black and 80 percent are red. Everyone is gathered around watching as you place your chips on black — but the chances the ball lands on red are […]
- How Patagonia, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and PepsiCo are working to rein in emissions Companies continue to weigh the risks and rewards of full transparency. The post How Patagonia, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and PepsiCo are working to rein in emissions appeared first on Trellis.
- How the “universal language” of impact accounting can integrate sustainability with financeData platform Everpure shared lessons learned from it’s three-year test of the approach. The post How the “universal language” of impact accounting can integrate sustainability with finance appeared first on Trellis.
- Apply to 15 Climate Tech Startups to Watch in 2026 by March 27The list recognizes early-stage startups innovating in three categories: data center solutions, material innovation, and climate adaptation. The post Apply to 15 Climate Tech Startups to Watch in 2026 by March 27 appeared first on Trellis.
- As renewable energy economics shift, smaller buyers get creative
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Battery Storage with Solar PV: The Next Logical Step
With solar installations continuing to grow in the residential, commercial and utility segments, one of the biggest criticisms of solar technology — that it is an intermittent source of power and does not generate electricity once the sun has set — is now coming up against the benefits and values of combining battery storage with solar PV systems. Combining banks of batteries with solar systems has primarily been an application occurring in the off grid market for those buyers living in more remote areas who have not had access to centralized electricity grid service.
The market for combining battery storage with solar has historically remained small due to, among other things, a lack of integration of varying parts of solar with storage systems. Another reason for the market’s small size is the belief that electricity pricing from electric utilities will remain reasonable and power from the grid will remain reliable. Continue reading
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Enel Moves Hybrid Renewables Forward Again with World’s First Biomass and Geothermal Project
Italy’s Enel Green Power is entrenching itself as a global leader in hybrid renewables engineering and construction with another announcement of a global first. In November, the company revealed that it would build a €15 million, 5-MW biomass plant to boost the Cornia 2 geothermal plant’s 13-MW capacity in Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, Tuscany, as “the first plant in the world to use biomass to heat geothermal steam and boost the energy efficiency and output of the geothermal cycle.” Continue reading
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