Category: market maps
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Enabling the Decentralized Energy Revolution
The energy landscape is undergoing a generational shift. We built the grid with predictable demand and supply from large power plants in mind. This status quo is quickly changing and in this post, I’ll dive into the software tools we’ll need to adapt to the evolving grid. What’s Changing? Why? After decades of relative stagnation,…
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Decarbonizing Buildings
In this post, I dive into innovative companies and approaches that will help us attain net zero targets for the built environment. For a refresher on net zero commitments, see my prior writing here. Buildings contribute over 1/3rd of global CO2 emissions. This includes 27% from operational emissions (direct and indirect energy use to run…
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Business Approaches to Address Climate Change (Part 2/2)
In Part 2, I’m going to discuss interesting approaches to addressing emissions in transportation, industrial production, and agriculture. If you haven’t read Part I, I’d recommend starting there. Transportation The transportation industry by end-use is one of the largest contributors to GHG emissions (~28% of all emissions in the U.S.). On the bright side, vehicle…
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Business Approaches to Address Climate Change (Part 1/2)
Climate change has been particularly prominent in the public sphere recently. There are a plethora of ways in which anthropogenic activities contribute to emissions (and climate change). The public policy and private industry responses are similarly wide-ranging and disparate. This makes it challenging for an engaged citizen to identify & find activities that will help…