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How can advanced energy technologies save Californians from reliving the fustercluck of the Public Safety Power Shutoffs of 2019? This was the (paraphrased) central question of the California Energy Commission’s energy resilience forum in Long Beach this week. The tone was both realistic and aspirational. The California Energy Commission (CEC) understands the urgency of the situation […]
Two-hundred and fifteen of the world’s largest companies value the climate risks to their businesses at $1 trillion, and almost all of them report that they integrate climate risk into their business strategies. Sarah Tuneberg co-founded the startup Geospiza to transform the way such businesses make decisions in the face of climate risk. A national […]
This article originally appeared on Ensia. If the 2010s were the decade when we confirmed we were right about climate change — with a growing number of people worried as fires, floods and droughts announce a climate emergency here and now — then the 2020s will be the decade when we’ll need to face the […]
This article is adapted from GreenBiz’s newsletter Energy Weekly, running Thursdays. Subscribe here. Right now, four homes in the rural town of Basalt, Colorado, offer a glimpse into what the future of energy resilience may look like: a network of distributed energy resources (DERs) that work together across buildings. Each house is tricked out with energy resources (solar […]
Chief Zogli looked weary as he scratched a notch in his doorpost to record the weather. “Still no rain,” he says with resignation. The chickens pecked lazily in the dust and the goats foraged for the last of the dropped grains beneath the emptying corn crib. In this rural community outside of Odumase-Krobo, Ghana, the […]
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