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The Yucaipa Valley Water District (YVWD) has broken ground on a state-of-the-art #cleanenergy water and #wastewater project in collaboration with ENGIE.   With the increase in power outages and Public Safety Power Shutoffs across #California, communities are facing massive pressure to find new ways for critical operations to not be impacted by grid outages. By leveraging the estimated $82 million in project savings, ENGIE can deliver resiliency to critical facilities and reduce #energy costs significantly.   Learn more about how the project is ensuring the YVWD #community remains safe and operational here: https://lnkd.in/gFfvYnbt

A great article that shines a light on the fact that air pollution from the Port Lands gas plant is fundamentally at odds with Toronto's evolving vision for waterfront revitalization. Keeping the plant open risks undermining billions of dollars of development activity and thousands of badly needed new homes. While we can't close down the plant tomorrow, there are plenty of longer-term options to phase it out. Just last year City Council provided preliminary endorsement for a 200MW battery storage facility in the Port Lands. There is also massive potential for energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed renewables. The question to date has been "how much will it cost to replace the Port Lands gas plant", but we should be asking how much it will cost to keep it open. https://lnkd.in/g6eKuBZn

How will you make a change this World Environment Day? With a focus on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience, this year’s theme highlights the magnitude of critical environmental challenges we currently face. Together we must empower change. Our land. Our future🌍 #Greenscape #RenewableEnergy #SolarPanels #Renewables #WorldEnvironmentDay #Sustainability

One of the many, many reasons I love being a part of the #mytru community is our commitment to sustainability. At the end of August, we broke ground on the new Low Carbon District Energy System (LCDES). This project continues to demonstrate TRU's leadership in climate action and environmental stewardship. The LCDES, once completed, will move TRU from reliance on natural gas fired boilers to electrified heating through a two stage air source and water source heat pump system. By 2030, TRU will be become the first University in North America that will be carbon neutral, without purchasing offsets. This, of course, is not the easiest thing to do, but the right thing to do. If you would like more information on our commitment to #sustainability, #climatechange and a green future, or would like to know how you can support our work and become a #heroforzero, don't hesitate to reach out! #postsecondary #environment #LCDES

Grassroots efforts are the best Grassroots efforts to drive homes off fossil fuels and electrify, even better! The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EEBC) effort by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) stands to help hundreds of communities to build knowledge and capacity at the city-level to drive adoption. This is a big deal and will push many cities waiting on the sidelines wait for funding to wade into these waters. Bravo DOE for recognizing this need and to the The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) for taking action to deliver! ______________ I'm Grant Gunnison Click my name + follow + 🔔 to learn how to get off gas and electrify P.S. If you'd like early access to our platform, repost this! #decarbonization #heatpumps #electrification

What solar, wind, renewable energy, net-zero and climate policies have not accomplished. Here is what net zero and climate policies have not accomplished. Solar, Wind, and Peak Oil. 1. Despite the impressive number of new Wind and Solar plants and their gigawatts of energy produced, the reality is that Wind and solar have only supplied 45 Exajoules of energy in the last 27 years, averaging 1.7 exajoules per year. 2. To put this into perspective, each exajoule equals 174 million barrels of oil. The urgency of the situation becomes clear when we consider that until Wind, solar, and renewables can grow exajoules by 9.4 exajoules per year for the next 26 years and have an electricity generation capacity of approximately 250 exajoules of energy by 2050, the "energy transition" will never replace peak oil. 3. Reaching net zero would require more nuclear, hydro, hydrogen, batteries, and whatever other sources of energy we can create. 4. It's crucial to acknowledge the global scale of the issue. From 1997, the year of the Kyoto Protocol, to 2022, the world's dependence on fossil fuels has grown significantly, as the energy use of crude oil has increased by 180 exajoules, a staggering figure. This stark reality underscores that crude nor coal, demand has not peaked. 5. Let's delve into the specific case of China. China has increased its use of crude oil from 5 million barrels per day in 2011 to 11.3 million barrels per day in 2023, representing a rise in energy consumption from 10.49 exajoules to 23.7 exajoules. 6. This increase reflects China's growing reliance on fossil fuels, driven by its rapid industrialization and economic growth. India is also importing more oil per day, a trend that mirrors its own economic expansion. Only when the developing nations' demand for crude oil, coal, and natural gas stabilizes and they have industrialized will there be a peak in oil demand. 7. Additionally, China's coal use in exajoules [EJ] has grown from 22 exajoules in 1998 to 88 exajoules by 2022, an increase of 400%. India's coal use has grown from 457 million tons, or 13.39 Exajoules. to 1155 million tons in 2023, or 33.77 Exajoules, an increase of 252%. Globally, coal consumption has increased from 4.4 billion tons, or 129 Exajoules of global energy, to over 8 billion tons by 2023, or 234 Exajoules, an increase of 181%.  8. Just accounting for coal and crude, the increase in exajoules of fossil fuels consumed is 180 exajoules for crude oil and 105 [234-129], an increase of 295 exajoules in the use of coal and crude.   Article on peak oil: https://lnkd.in/gE_mwmp8. Facts from Vaclav Smil, report on Achieving Net Zero, 2024. I formed a group on Electricity Generation Worldwide, https://lnkd.in/graRy4uz

The system will provide centralised heating, cooling and domestic hot water throughout the community using an interconnected network of underground pipes, drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional systems. Once built, the system will be Ontario’s first and Canada’s largest system of its kind. Lakeview will also be North America’s first use of wastewater treatment to heat and cool buildings. #wastewaterrecycling #wastewater #sustainability #sustainablecity #urbanplanning #energyefficiency #energymanagement

A fantastic example of eco-economic decoupling as both innovation in product engineering and application. Beam Global collaboration with Benzina Zero - Electric Mobilty ⚡️🛴🛵 brings EV mopeds to the areas where needed, whilst reducing environmental impact. This partnership demonstrates how clean, sustainable solutions can fuel new market opportunities whilst reducing carbon footprints, serving a legitimate need and paving the way for others to follow. #EVs #Innovation #CleanTech #SustainableInnovation #GreenEconomy #ecoeconomicdecoupling

#FERC new siting rule will prioritize communities, Tribes, and the environment. ✅ Read NWF’s recommendations for responsible transmission planning and siting 📲 https://ow.ly/eG1G50RyRWY #ClimateChange #CleanEnergy #transmission

Another win for the US citizens and enforcing engineering judgement not only on policy decisions but bringing accountability to ensuring grid reliability. The EPA is lawless and out of control with policies that are built upon nothing more than wishful thinking and climate alarmisms. If this passes it can help put the breaks on this wasteful useless expansion of low energy density intermittent unreliable energy generation investments whilst preventing early retirements of our affordable reliable baseload thermal generators. #EPA #NERC #FERC #accountability #Manchine #coal