The electric lawn maintenance movement is gaining ground as lawn care companies and individuals choose electric equipment to get the job done. The US market jumped in five years from 32 percent in 2015 to …
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A new program is making battery storage affordable for affordable housing (and everyone else)
Article originally published by Utility Dive. The battery storage market for homes and businesses has been steadily growing over the past few years, driven by falling battery prices, demand for reliable backup power and the …
Building Resilience Through the Efficiency-Resilience Nexus
US DOE’s Better Buildings program created building resilience resources and tools under Efficiency-Resilience Nexus. The resources are intended to help organizations across different sectors take steps to build resilience and increase their ability to bounce back from …
New Methane Detecting Satellite Technology Rises Up
The Environmental Defense Fund announced a deal to launch a methane-detecting satellite by the nonprofit, MethaneSAT, and an EDF subsidiary. The launch is anticipated for October 2022 on the Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX. The $88 …
U Hawai’i Maui Achieves Net Zero Energy Campus
Article originally published by University of Hawai’i News. Through a combination of on-site photovoltaic energy, distributed energy storage and energy-efficiency measures, the University of Hawaii’s Maui campus is now completely fossil fuel free. The solar …
Workshops for Educators to Learn to Teach Renewable Energy
The KidWind Project has launched an additional round of virtual workshops for this spring designed to help educators of 6-12th grade or community college science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) teach about renewable energy during distance and hybrid …
Energy Efficiency State Scorecard 2020
Due to the pandemic, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy‘s (ACEEE) 2020 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard revealed challenges as momentum for state energy efficiency goals slowed with a loss of nearly 500,000 energy jobs, A number of states foster equity …
New Wave of Urban Vehicles
The City of Madison has tested an electric-assist cargo bike with no tailpipe emissions developed by Saris, a Madison-based company. Madison’s network of bike paths and routes, allows employees in different government departments and jobs to …
Turn a Chevy Gas Guzzler into an EV in ‘21
General Motors (GM) will be marketing eCrate electric motors and batteries in a kit to convert a range of their aftermarket cars into electric vehicles (EVs) the second half of 2021. They plan to offer …
This flying car startup will bring a “vertiport” to Orlando
Article originally published by The Architect’s Newspaper. It looks like German flying taxi startup Lilium is beating Uber to the skyways, as the Munich-based company revealed yesterday that it’s planning to build a “vertiport” in Orlando, Florida, with …