The Jobs Of Tomorrow — How Do CleanTech Skills Fare?
Shifts to decarbonization will demand new cleantech job skills and thinking.
Shifts to decarbonization will demand new cleantech job skills and thinking.
California is continuing its push towards zero-emission vehicles with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) voting on the Innovative Clean Transit measure this week. If approved, the proposed measure will set a firm date for all public transit agencies in the state to convert their fleets to 100% zero-emission vehicles by 2040.
Renewable energy could supply up to 48% of America’s total ICT industry electricity supply by 2020, reports the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Originally published on EnergyPost. By Karel Beckman NEC Corporation has announced the commissioning of an Energy Storage System (ESS) for Enel Group subsidiary Enel Distribuzione, Italy’s largest distribution system operator. The ESS can store two megawatt hours (2MWh) of renewable power for release into the grid as required, making it the … [continued]
The growing could of mobile data could quadruple power demand of wireless networks by 2015, with massive emissions impacts.
Good thing that a new study from the GreenTouch consortium outlines energy efficiency measures that could cut net energy consumption 90% by 2020.
Verizon and the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced a first-of-kind partnership aimed at finding innovative ways to reduce energy consumption in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry, which currently accounts for 3% of US electrical power consumption.
Yeah, that’s what I said — What?! Apparently, Bell Labs has launched a global effort to overhaul the internet and other communication networks to make them 1,000 times greener by the year 2015! Bell Labs is the research arm of telecom giant Alcatel-Lucent. In this effort they are coordinating … [continued]