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Microsoft Pledges To Cut Emissions By 75% By 2030
Microsoft has announced this week that it intends to cut its carbon emissions by 75% by 2030 against a 2013 baseline, making continued progress with its carbon neutrality and renewable energy...
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WattTime & Microsoft Combine To Provide European Consumers Choice Of Clean...
Announced last week, WattTime and Microsoft are combining to provide European consumers the opportunity to better understand and reduce their carbon emissions by providing real-time information on the...
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Microsoft “AI For Earth” Project Will Democratize Access To Climate Change Data
Microsoft will invest $50 million over the next 5 years to make AI tools available to more people so they can access climate data themselves and decide how to adjust their personal lives and businesses...
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Blockchain For The Grid: Major Blockchain Technologies
It's safe to say that cleantech is going to involve blockchain and similar distributed ledger approaches. And it's also safe to say that each of the technologies and approaches represented here have...
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Microsoft Signs 60 Megawatt PPA With Singapore’s Largest Solar Project
Microsoft announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Singapore's largest clean energy provider, Sunseap, to acquire 100% of the electricity generated by the country's largest solar project
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Microsoft Inks First Renewable Energy Deal In India
Microsoft has this week announced that it has inked its first-ever renewable energy deal in India, a small solar Power Purchase Agreement with Atria Power in the Indian state of Karnataka.
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Microsoft Signs “Largest” US PPA For 315 Megawatts Of Virginia Solar Farm
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it had signed a Power Purchase Agreement for 315 megawatts (MW) of energy from the 500 MW Pleinmont I and II solar farms in Virginia, calling it the "single...
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Are Google & Apple Really “Powered” By Renewables? Understanding Corporate...
With Google and Apple boasting they met their 100% renewable energy targets in 2017, here is a closer look at how big companies go about acquiring the necessary renewable energy, and the difference...
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Caribbean Nations Partner With Global Superstars & Corporate Giants For $1...
An impressive coalition made up of 26 Caribbean nations, more than 40 private sector giants, 8-time Olympic gold medal winner Usain Bolt, and global music superstar Sean Paul are combining to launch...
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Microsoft To Add 90 Megawatts Of New Wind In Pennsylvania
Technology giant Microsoft signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement this week for the electricity generated at the 90 megawatt (MW) Big Level wind facility currently under construction in...
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Major Corporations Urge EU To Simplify Investing & Sourcing Renewable Energy
Almost 100 organizations led by major corporations such as Amazon, Google, and Heineken have signaled their willingness this week to do more on climate action and have urged European governments to...
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World’s Greenest Companies Are Consistently Outperforming Their Non-Green Peers
The world's greenest and most sustainable companies have been highlighted in two parallel reports published this week by CDP, the non-profit global environmental disclosure platform, and Canadian media...
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Greenpeace & Amazon Trade Blows Over 100% Renewable Energy Claims
Global non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace and internet giant Amazon are trading blows over a report published earlier this week by Greenpeace, which claims that Amazon Web Services...
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Smart Cities Aren’t Just IoT, But Also Opioid Response, Transit, Streets, &...
Smart cities aren’t IoT sensors for everything on every corner all of the time. They aren’t just dumb CCTV cameras everywhere providing post facto blame allocation for crimes and accidents. Sensors are...
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Uber Elevate: Will Be Same Cents Per Mile In Air As On Roads
Uber Elevate means business when it comes to electric vertical take-off & landing (eVTOL) urban air mobility (UAM) solutions. Recently, Uber Elevate quoted that eVTOL air miles would cost the same...
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The Mystery Of Tesla Model 3 Demand
Demand is a mystery that can only be measured once supply is provided, and at that point, it's not demand anymore. You only know what demand you really had after its gone. Supply is a fact you can...
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Microsoft Announces New 90 Megawatt Offshore Wind Energy Agreement In The...
Technology giant Microsoft announced last Thursday a new wind energy agreement in the Netherlands developed by Dutch-based wind farm developer Eneco, wherein Microsoft will purchase 90 megawatts (MW)...
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Corporate Heavyweights Back EU Move To Eradicate PPA Barriers
A group of some of the world's largest corporations, including Amazon, Google, IKEA, and Microsoft, have backed an industry call for the European Union to eradicate the barriers to corporate renewable...
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Corporations & Renewables: Taking The Bull By The Horns
Commitment to sustainability has required untiring efforts from corporates. The race does not stop at 100% renewables. For taking up the sustainability reins, an attack is the best form of defense. At...
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Heat (The Elephant In The Room)
I came across a very interesting statistic the other day from the IEA's Renewables 2018 report. The statistic is that 50% of total energy consumption globally is used for the production of heat for our...
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No, Machine Learning Does Not Have A Huge Carbon Debt
The increase in CPU cycles to advance machine learning has been accompanied by advances in efficiencies of computer technology and lower carbon electricity, but it's worth paying attention to. It's...
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The 2 Big Questions Regarding Volkswagen’s Future
Volkswagen is launching into what could be a huge electric decade that reinvents and rejuvenates the large global automotive group. Yes, the Volkswagen ID.3 — which is sort of supposed to be the VW...
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Big Tech Has Entered The Oil Business
Big tech has entered the oil business. Well, not all of big tech, because we do have Tesla out there trying to decrease our dependence on fossil fuels. Companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google,...
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Responsible Battery Coalition Applauds University of Michigan Research on...
The Responsible Battery Coalition (RBC) — a leading coalition of companies, academics and organizations dedicated to the responsible management and environmental sustainability of batteries — applauded...
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Industry 4.0 — The Spark Behind Big Tech & Tesla’s Q1 2020 Strength
How has Tesla kept profits flowing in Q1 against odds
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2.3 Gigawatts Of USA Wind & Solar Projects Get Investment From ENGIE & Hannon...
A little more than a month ago, I reported on an EY report, its biannual Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI), that indicated once again the United States was #1 for renewable energy...
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Holy Floating Solar With Green Hydrogen Offshore Wind Farm, Batman
Green hydrogen is in the mix for a new offshore wind farm that will double as a demonstration site for emerging clean tech
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Tesla’s Long Game Reminiscent Of Other Successful Tech Giants
By now, most of you are probably familiar with the prevailing narrative about Tesla’s Battery Day: the punditocracy was expecting instant gratification, and they didn’t get it (in more ways than one)....
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Radiative Cooling And Carbon Capture: New Technologies For An Overheated World
Some of you may have been absent the day your high school science teacher gave a lesson on how ancient people living in hot climates made ice without refrigeration. According to the Washington Post, at...
View ArticleThe Corporate Carbon Accounting Market
Change happens gradually and then all at once. For years, a quiet revolution has been brewing in ESG corporate disclosure advocacy. With voluntary standards like CDP and metrics guidelines like SASB,...
View ArticleWith “Hyperscale” Renewable Energy Storage, Energy-Sucking Data Centers Suck...
Data centers are getting a bad rap on energy consumption, but new hyperscale renewable energy storage technology could save their reputation
View ArticleMicrosoft Invests $2 Billion In Cruise In Bid To Lead Autonomous Driving...
Microsoft will invest $2 billion in Cruise, the autonomous driving division of General Motors. Its Azure cloud computing platform will be used by Cruise to improve its TaaS model.
View ArticleVolkswagen Tries To Catch Up On Autonomy With Microsoft
Volkswagen has announced that it is teaming up with Microsoft to “advance its self-driving vehicle technologies.” Volkswagen’s Car.Software arm will collaborate with Microsoft to create a cloud-based...
View ArticleInternet Explorer Shows Us What “Legacy” Really Is
Microsoft recently announced that it is finally going to kill off “The Blue E”, Internet Explorer. Not only is it not going to ship with Windows 11, but it can’t be installed, either. Any attempt to...
View ArticleArrival, Microsoft Developing Open Data Platform on Azure
From where we are and how fast we’re going, to how we decide when to stop and turn a corner, the amount of data we produce from behind the wheel of a car is staggering — and that’s before you start to...
View ArticleApple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, & Disney Lobby Against Biden Climate...
Major corporations are working to defeat Biden's climate agenda.
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Microsoft, Schneider Electric, & LG Solar USA Come Together For The Footprint...
Earlier this fall, or late summer, Hurricane Ida devastated my state. I was left without power for almost a week, and during the first 24–36 hours, we had very little communication. Baton Rouge was one...
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The Electrification Movement Will Keep Trainspotters Jumping
The leading global railway supplier Progress Rail is doubling down on the electrification trend with battery-powered electric locomotives and fuel cells, too.
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Microsoft Partners With Carbonfuture On Carbon Removal Purchases
This month it was announced that Microsoft had selected Carbonfuture to be an integral part of its carbon removal portfolio. This deal aims to support Microsoft’s ambitious climate pledge to become...
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Peptoids Add Spice To New Biofuel Formula For Aircraft & More
As much as we love electric airplanes over here at CleanTechnica, zero emission flight at any significant scale is still years away. That’s why aviation stakeholders are so keen on biofuel. Cost and...
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Tesla’s Autopilot Team & Cybertruck Visit New Orleans For CVPR
Tesla’s Autopilot team recently visited New Orleans for the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Software, shared a photo of...
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Microsoft’s Drone AI Pilot Training Lab
It makes sense to perform the most hazardous activities in simulations when you’re testing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicle prototypes, or simply automobiles in general. An...
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Waste Heat From Data Centers Can Bolster District Heat Systems
Globally, data centers are estimated to account for 1 to 2% of electricity usage. The percentage is higher in Europe, where data centers there consumed 104 TWh of electricity in 2020 — about 3% of all...
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Microsoft & Qcells Announce Strategic Alliance To Build Resilient Solar...
In a previous article, I discussed two corporate solar energy deals that we’ve covered previously, but to make a real trend, you need at least three (because twice is only a coincidence). Truth be...
View ArticleGoogle, Microsoft, OpenAI, & Anthropic Launch Responsible AI Partnership
This is not clearly or directly cleantech, but it’s a tech matter that touches everything and will surely touch cleantech as well. Also, while cleantech is a core solution to a major global problem,...
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