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Green news- The nonprofit exec who makes corporate philanthropy credibleKate Williams is the longtime CEO of 1% for the Planet, which verifies donations for 5,000 businesses, including Patagonia, Tumi and New Belgium Brewing. The post The nonprofit exec who makes corporate philanthropy credible appeared first on Trellis.
- GM’s pioneering emissions goal looks out of reach. What can it do?The automaker was once all-in on electric vehicles. Then the economics and politics changed, leaving its new CSO with an increasingly common leadership challenge. The post GM’s pioneering emissions goal looks out of reach. What can it do? appeared first on Trellis.
- How the new land-sector carbon accounting rules will impact your companyAfter five years of discussion, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol has finalized its standards — with one important exception. The post How the new land-sector carbon accounting rules will impact your company appeared first on Trellis.
- 5 interview questions IBM’s CSO asks candidatesChristina Shim looks for people who don't just understand sustainability issues but can actually get things done. The post 5 interview questions IBM’s CSO asks candidates appeared first on Trellis.
- The real carbon hotspots in fashion aren’t where brands look firstData highlights energy-intensive Tier 2 suppliers as the industry’s biggest decarbonization opportunity — and challenge. The post The real carbon hotspots in fashion aren’t where brands look first appeared first on Trellis.
- The nonprofit exec who makes corporate philanthropy credible
Daily Archives: 24/12/2014
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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