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Big Business Wants Renewable Energy, But It Ain’t Easy
Empowered by aggressive climate and energy targets, companies more than ever before are driving the transition to renewable energy—but that effort is not without hurdles.
Reinventing Buildings
From the neighborhood corner pharmacy to the skyscraper taking up an entire city block, office and retail buildings use a lot of energy. The big question is how to transform the energy use in these buildings to efficiency and renewables.
Higher Education’s Energy Lessons
We tend to think of colleges, and especially their students, as our future. We’re not only talking about the students themselves, who will become the next generation of leaders, but the actual campuses, and what we can learn from them about our electricity future.
Renewables’ Bird Problem
In the lively conversation about how to integrate variable renewables such as wind and solar into our electric grid’s generation mix, an unlikely player has entered the fray: a duck.
Smart Parking Solutions Can Transform Our Cities
When deployed as a system, smart parking reduces car emissions in urban centers and permits cities to carefully manage their parking supply.
