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“I’m a real estate investor. I’m not a tree hugger…Capitalism is the absolute only thing that investors focus on, and additional profits and differentiation are critical.” Loved reading about my colleague Joseph Sumberg and Galvanize's Real Estate strategy in this Bloomberg piece authored by Frances Schwartzkopff: https://lnkd.in/dDBXBkeb

RPI doctoral student Ozioma Ozioko is on a mission to make #solarpower more accessible, especially in her home country of Nigeria. Through her research on enhancing luminescent solar concentrators and her work with SolaBlock, she aims to integrate solar power into building materials and improve efficiency. https://bit.ly/4fUknKj

NYSERDA is excited to welcome Brandon N. Owens as our new VP of Innovation! Brandon will lead NYSERDA’s clean energy innovation and research efforts, which guide development and investment priorities to address the goals of New York's Climate Act. Brandon previously served as CEO and Founder of Clean Energy Research and has over 25 years of experience as a clean energy innovation specialist. He is also an accomplished author. His 2019 book, ‘The Wind Power Story,’ traces the evolution of wind power from the nineteenth century to the present day and provides insights into the future. His next book on energy innovation will be published in 2025!

The Healey-Driscoll Administration (Office of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey) announced $10+ million in funding to 13 companies & universities across the state from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2). These funds will supercharge projects, cut carbon emissions, upgrade infrastructure & boost local supply chains. Thank you to Clean Crop Technologies, Inc., an M2I2 awardee, for the facility tour.    Learn more: https://lnkd.in/euT8QFcH.  #M2I2 #AdvancedManufacturing #Innovation #Sustainability #CleanTech 

Are you reducing carbon emissions for your project and designing for resilience? It’s hard but it’s exciting that we can help with cove.tool‘s consulting services. Lots of folks want to do the right thing but are overwhelmed or don’t have a budget. Now with low cost consulting we have been changing the game for architects across the world! This one graphic should impart the serious nature of these efforts to all of us! Hurricane Beryl is now a category 5 monster but the climate models predicted that this year would be far outside the norm and it’s going to keep getting more intense. Let’s team up to turn down the heat from buildings and bend the curve on climate change!

The Berkshire Innovation Center is thrilled to announce that we are one of seven organizations in the US to receive a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Phase II "MAKE IT" award! “Receiving this award is humbling and exciting, but it is just the beginning - the real work starts now,” said Ben Sosne, Executive Director of the BIC. “The Berkshires has such tremendous potential to be a leader in the clean energy transition, and we are fortunate to have such strong partners locally and across the Commonwealth. Developing and deploying technologies to mitigate the impact of climate change is critical for the health and wellbeing of future generations, and it is also a tremendous economic development opportunity, particularly for regions like ours.” Read the full Press Release here -> https://lnkd.in/eBEcSmm6

"Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — all of which have goals to power their operations with clean electricity — have acknowledged that simply buying wind and solar credits isn’t enough. To authentically decarbonize their operations, they need to source enough clean energy to make it through every day and night. This principle applies to society at large: The grid won’t be rid of fossil fuels until it can get reliable, clean electricity at any time of day. The trick is figuring out how to do that in today’s electricity system. Now mega-utility Duke Energy wants to make it happen. The power provider, which serves 8.4 million customers in the Carolinas and four other states, worked with those tech giants on a novel plan to let large corporate energy consumers purchase higher levels of clean energy than previously available, all the way up to the fabled 24/7 coverage. Essentially, these corporations would bankroll Duke’s construction of advanced clean energy technologies to deliver on their 24/7 commitments. For instance, the structure could fund early deployments of long-duration energy storage, like the iron-air battery that Form Energy is commercializing for multiday storage. The mechanism could even deploy small modular nuclear reactors, if that long-simmering technology class manages to clear regulatory approvals and produce a viable commercial product." https://lnkd.in/eNBSYe5H