Category: Renewable Energy

This Game-Changing Solar Company Recycles Old Panels Into New Ones

10/11/2020

At a recycling plant in Ohio, next to the company’s manufacturing facility, First Solar uses custom technology to disassemble and recycle old panels, recovering 90% of the materials inside. It runs similar recycling systems in Germany and Malaysia. Right now, the holistic lifecycle approach isn’t common among other solar producers. But Wade says that now is the time to think about the problem. “Our aim for solar is to help our customers decouple their economic growth from negative environmental impacts,” he says. “So it is kind of a mandatory point for us to address the renewable-energy-circular-economy nexus today and not 20 years from now.” - Fast Company

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Walmart Outlines Climate-Friendly Goal to Decarbonize Operations Within 20 Years

9/21/2020

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Walmart plans to power all of its 11,500 locations worldwide with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar by 2035. So far, the company powers around 30% of its operations from renewable energy. The company is targeting 50% by 2025, before hitting its newest target of 100% by 2035. "That's the biggest part of our emission footprint today, so it's really important for us to make sure and get to that target," Zach Freeze told Yahoo Finance. According to Freeze, another critical area for the company is electrifying and zeroing out emissions from its vehicles, including its fleet of long-haul trucks, by 2040. - Yahoo Finance

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Google Pledges to Be 100% Carbon-Free by 2030

9/17/2020

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Google already is 100% carbon-free on a net yearly basis, but by 2030, the massive company will produce enough carbon-free electricity each hour of every day to match its usage. - Google

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BP Report: Oil is Dying, Long Live Green Energy

9/15/2020

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BP stated in a forecast published today that oil may have reached its peak due to the pandemic and that renewables will take the place of fossil fuels. BP has released its 2020 Energy Outlook, which is remarkably different from its 2019 report, when BP’s base case only expected oil consumption to grow over the next decade, reaching a peak in the 2030s. The report looks at three scenarios to explore energy transition to 2050. BP writes that “the scenarios help to illustrate the range of outcomes possible over the next 30 years, ‎although the uncertainty is substantial and the scenarios do not provide a comprehensive ‎description of all possible outcomes.‎" - Elektrek & BP Energy Outlook Report

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This Game-Changing Solar Company Recycles Old Panels Into New Ones

Walmart Outlines Climate-Friendly Goal to Decarbonize Operations Within 20 Years

Google Pledges to Be 100% Carbon-Free by 2030

BP Report: Oil is Dying, Long Live Green Energy

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