Does Carbon Pricing Work?
Carbon pollution is the number one contributor to climate change, so shouldn’t the biggest polluters be the ones paying for its impacts?
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EVEN Electric + Microsoft Sweden Team Up To Sell Electric Cars
Swedish entrepreneur Gisli Gislason is the CEO of EVEN Electric. He says selling cars today is based on a model developed a century ago — a model that is inappropriate for selling electric cars. In order to promote his vision of fossil fuel free future, he is partnering with Microsoft Sweden to further develop a new a EV sales and trading platform designed exclusively for the needs of electric car buyers and sellers.
2017 Is Shaping Up To Be An Important Year For Microgrids In Remote Countries
2017 could be a big year for the development of microgrids in remote and non-electrified regions and countries, with storage companies and technology behemoths leading the way on installing and investing in storage micro-grids and solar for regional and island countries and communities.
Global Suppliers Achieve 434 Million Tonnes Of Emissions Reductions
A new report has shown that the world’s largest purchasing organizations, large private and public sector organizations, not only have the ability to drive down emissions across their supply chains, but are actually doing so, achieving reductions equivalent to 434 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2016.
Microsoft Announces Its Largest Wind Energy Purchase — 237 MW
Microsoft announced on Monday its largest purchase of wind energy to date in two agreements together representing 237 MW, bringing the company’s total investments in wind energy projects in the US to over 500 MW.
Microsoft Sets New Renewable Energy Target Of 50% By 2018
Once the darling of the tech world, Microsoft is nevertheless still a software and hardware juggernaut, and the company has revealed that it intends to reach a renewable energy target of 50% by 2018. Microsoft’s chief environmental and cities strategist Rob Bernard, writing on the company’s Green Blog in the wake … [continued]
Microsoft Visited By Zinc-Air Battery Startup (Video)
By Alexander Hirner Zinc-air batteries are widely used in devices like hearing aids for their good performance-to-price ratio. The tricky part is of course to make them rechargeable. This is one of two technologies that ZAF Energy Systems has been working on for the last couple of years. [Note that … [continued]
A Brief History Of Silicon Valley … Or … The Soil That Sprouted Tesla
Pop quiz: You arrive at the annual church picnic in your brand new Tesla. You park amidst a variety of gasoline, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Having the only pure electric vehicle at the event, you are soon surrounded by a crowd of gawkers, cooing and praising your beautiful automobile. … [continued]
Welcome To A New Chapter Of Corporate Renewables Purchasing
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Victoria Stulgis, Paolo Natali, Ph.D., and Lily Donge More than 250 executives attended the 2016 Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) Summit at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, last week, with the objective of accelerating corporate procurement of renewable energy. REBA is a fast-moving partnership … [continued]
Data Centers Using 30% More Coal As Microsoft Takes Things Underwater
Despite best intentions to go green, data centers have underestimated their coal usage by 30% or more, according to a new report. Data-services companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are well known for their recent efforts to transition their entire operations to 100% renewable energy. Google especially has been … [continued]
