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Net Zero North West | NORTH WEST CLUSTER PLAN

Energy Central

The North West is the leading region which already has all the elements required to deliver a net zero carbon industrial cluster by 2040 – including renewables, hydrogen, Carbon Capture Utilisation & Storage (CCUS), nuclear and smart grids.

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After the Army, She Followed Her Dream, Charted a New Career

3BL Media

She found a natural fit in Grid Management, where she works today, alongside other engineers who implement smart technology that helps ensure customers have power when and where they need it. The smart grid can reroute service around problems, reducing the likelihood a customer is impacted by an outage.

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Canada’s net-zero opportunities might skip some provinces

Corporate Knights

“The absence of a net zero emissions strategy for Ontario’s electricity grid could result in missed growth opportunities in promising new markets,” said the report, Net Zero Opportunities , pointing to renewables, smart grids and battery storage.

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Positive Impact of ESG on Display at VMware Explore

3BL Media

VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram's opening keynote highlighted VMware’s Zero Carbon Committed initiative, a collaborative effort that taps the enormous potential of VMware’s public cloud partner ecosystem. Another objective in this transformation was to create a more sustainable and secure environment by reducing carbon footprint.

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Illuminating Possibility: Duke Energy and Ford Motor Company Plan To Use F-150 Lightning Electric Trucks To Help Power the Grid

3BL Media

V2G can push and pull energy between a connected EV and the grid, supplying the grid with stored, charged power and helping balance energy consumption and production. Duke Energy is making improvements now to ready the grid for more renewables and technologies like vehicle-to-grid,” said Sideris.

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Demand-side emission reduction key to meeting decarbonization goals, report says

Renewable Energy World

In the race to meet aggressive decarbonization and net-zero carbon goals and regulations, a new study shows that utilities cannot afford to just focus on clean energy supply investments.

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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

But in early 2019, Amazon announced an industry-first for a delivery company: It pledged that half of all of its shipments would be net-zero carbon by 2030. The entire company (including transportation) will be net-zero carbon by 2040. It's been building out smart grid tech and testing out a virtual power plant.