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Schneider Electric leads the smart grid revolution

Corporate Knights

In this weeks Corporate Knights drill-down, we focus on the importance of smart grids to transition to a sustainable economy, and Schneiders electrics investments in smart grid technologies. Smart grids are crucial for transitioning to a sustainable economy and addressing climate change.

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IONATE Raises $17 Million to Help Grids Meet Decarbonization and AI Needs

ESG Today

IONATE, a startup that makes smart electric transformers and software for electric grids, announced that it has raised $17 million in a Series A round, with proceeds to be used to fuel growth across key markets, launch its US operations, and advance its technology.

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“DC factory” picks up Energy Efficiency Award from German Energy Agency

Envirotec Magazine

Schaltbau’s NExT Factory in Velden, Germany has been in full operation since September 2023, incorporating advanced DC smart grid components and intelligent energy management, battery and thermal storage, and in a format that “can serve as a blueprint for green production in Europe” “When we decided to expand our production capacity (..)

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Budget 2023’s clean investments don’t add up

Corporate Knights

The table below shows new budget funding to address the climate crisis and opportunity imperatives this fiscal year. They add up to $386 million, 0.02% of Canada’s GDP. These kinds of loopholes may help explain why the federal government quietly updated its own projections for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in January.

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The benefits of being a climate optimist

Corporate Knights

In 2019, I was reminded how remote from the centre of the world’s energy future Samsø had felt when I found myself on another Danish island with big ambitions. Who knew where it would lead? The few of us who knew of Samsø’s ambitious experiment hoped it was a snapshot of our future, but there was no clear path from there to anywhere at all.

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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. It's been building out smart grid tech and testing out a virtual power plant. Close Authorship. Earlier this year, UPS kicked its EV plans into overdrive.

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Enabling a Sustainable Chip Industry Requires a Long-Term Vision and Near-Term Actions

3BL Media

Using 2019 as a baseline, we found that Use of Sold Products (Category 11) represents the lion’s share—nearly 80 percent—of our Scope 3 emissions. Renewable energy and smart grids rely on semiconductors, as do collaboration and remote monitoring tools that dramatically reduce the need for travel.