This may eventually turn out to be the biggest announcement for MGX Renewables Inc. (doing business as “Zinc8 Energy Solutions Inc.“; pending name change) on the road to commercialization of its low-cost, long-duration battery energy storage system. New York State appears to be the perfect place and the New York Power Authority the perfect partner […]
2020 Outlook: Utilities will be pushed to further embrace distributed energy resources
The 2010s saw the concept of the “utility death spiral” — the idea that improvements in distributed technology like rooftop solar and behind-the-meter battery (BTM) storage will make the electric utility business model increasingly irrelevant — become commonplace. Throughout the decade, there were fierce policy debates between advocates of distributed energy resources (DERs), for whom […]
Brundt ice sheet
Iceberg twice the size of New York City set to break off Antarctic ice shelf Scientists are unsure what this could mean for the future health and stability of the Brunt Ice Shelf. Previously stable for about 35 years, a crack in Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf recently started accelerating northward as fast as 4 kilometers […]
Hunger rising due to extreme weather
Progress made in the past decade has been reversed, with climate extremes such as droughts and floods identified as a main cause Global hunger has reverted to levels last seen a decade ago, wiping out progress on improving people’s access to food and leaving one in nine people undernourished last year, with extreme weather a […]
How Microsoft’s new carbon-negative plan will test the idea of a climate economy
Microsoft shook up the debate about global warming last week by vowing to make its operations carbon-negative — meaning it will take more carbon out of the environment than it emits by 2030, and move rapidly to mop up the equivalent of every bit of carbon it has put into the atmosphere since its founding […]