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South American Finance Ministers Discuss Incentives and Mechanisms to Finance the Decarbonization of their Economies

Sustainable Development Network

South America has abundant clean energy resources available and a huge opportunity to decarbonize power grids, transport, and industry across the continent, as well as to bolster natural carbon sinks and biodiversity. Macroeconomics of decarbonization, Day 2. Solutions for decarbonization, and Day 3. Green recovery.

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Why a seasoned energy executive sees a bright future in long-duration energy storage from ESS

Renewable Energy World

In fact, he was creating technology that electric utilities could use to make their grids smarter before the words “smart grid” were well known. In 2002, he founded Silver Spring Networks, which combined IoT with big data for smart grids. In 2013 Silver Spring went public and in 2018 it was acquired by Itron.