Energy Efficiency, GHG Emissions, Sourcing Renewables  -  July 1, 2023

Weekend Reads: Addressing Scope 3+ for Decarbonization; Solar Power Proves Worth During Heat

It’s the long holiday weekend! Kick back and catch up with these must-read articles from around the web:

From scope 3 to scope 3+: Scaling innovations to accelerate decarbonization (World Economic Forum) The window we have to safeguard our society from catastrophic climate disasters is fast closing if we do not act now. If we don’t innovate new approaches to expedite GHG emission mitigation, we will lose the battle against climate change. The largest innovations are the ones that are aimed toward the value chains. The controlling of scope 3 emissions involves tracking activities across the entire value chain. It is needed to take sustained collective action across the industries.

Solar power proves its worth as heat wave grips the state (The Texas Tribune) While Texans drag through another heat wave, people have watched the state’s power grid. Under the sun, the state has produced significant amounts of electricity from solar panels. The heat pushed demand to a new record, but the state’s grid operator has only requested that residents lower their power use, when electricity from wind and power plants that use coal, nuclear or natural gas fell short of their past output.  

This Net Positive Project Screams Big Opportunity For Greener Homes (Forbes) With hundreds of products, designing a home is a very imprecise science, most notably when it comes to the home’s actual operational performance. After tracking 3 months of operations, the performance proved to go well beyond expectations. The performance difference is significant. Original projections indicated that 22% of kilowatt hours (kWh) would be exported to the grid across all of the project’s lots.

6 Things You Should Know About the Energy Economy Right Now (Department of Energy) The numbers are in from our annual United States Energy & Employment Report. The report is a summary of workforce, industry, and hiring information to better track employment within the key energy sectors. Empowered by this data, we’re able to better understand the growth of the energy industry. This year, we have a clear picture of the positive impact of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.

Innovation Will Take Electric Trucks Further, Faster (Environmental Defense Fund) Electric trucks have come a long way in just a few short years. While electric trucks have proven they are already capable of performing many of the needs fleets have today, they have also demonstrated they continue to get ever better. This innovation expands the horizon for how far electric trucks can take us down the road to a zero-emission future.

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