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Green news- Why AI carbon footprinting tools are prone to misleading resultsFrontier models produce accurate footprints but can’t replicate the steps involved in estimating the final result. The post Why AI carbon footprinting tools are prone to misleading results appeared first on Trellis.
- Sustainability leadership movesPagerDuty eliminates sustainability director; Bath & Body Works ESG lead retires; GHG Protocol’s global director steps down; and more. The post Sustainability leadership moves appeared first on Trellis.
- How asset manager Apollo turns sustainability into financial valueJaycee Pribulsky, who helped Nike operationalize sustainability criteria throughout its supply chain, leads a team that helps portfolio companies decarbonize. The post How asset manager Apollo turns sustainability into financial value appeared first on Trellis.
- Making sense of the latest GOP attack on corporate climate actionRepublican attorneys general have a new target: The Big Four accounting firms. The post Making sense of the latest GOP attack on corporate climate action appeared first on Trellis.
- What Microsoft learned from purchasing millions of carbon removal creditsThe company remains committed to going carbon negative by 2030, but a recent surge in emissions has made that target more challenging. The post What Microsoft learned from purchasing millions of carbon removal credits appeared first on Trellis.
- Why AI carbon footprinting tools are prone to misleading results
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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