Renewable Energy

Energy

New EU Deal Targets Buildings Renovations, Rooftop Solar & Net Zero

December 20th, 2023
Energy

Net Zero Buildings Explored: NASA Sustainability Base

December 15th, 2023
Complimentary Article Video Surveillance Sustainability
Security

Video Surveillance has its Eyes on Sustainability

Security and sustainability are two aspects of modern buildings that don’t often overlap. Security evades sustainability by being more important in many respects, protecting people and assets today, while sustainability protects them for the future. However, as the number of video surveillance products in action proliferate rapidly, the environmental cost of such security has become […]

US Zero Emissions Building
Energy

Defining a Zero Emissions Building from the Top Down

A zero emissions building is not as easy to define as you may think. Should it include embodied carbon, for example, should efficiency and clean energy generation be specific parts of the definition or should it simply refer to the level of emissions, whatever the approach? These are the kinds of questions being discussed in […]

VPPs Virtual Power Plants
Energy

DoE Claims US Can Save $10 Billion in Annual Grid Costs Using VPPs

The US Department of Energy (DoE) believes the nation can save as much as $10 billion in annual grid costs by 2030, simply by tripling the existing deployment of virtual power plants (VPPs). As the US ramps up sustainability processes in line with environmental targets VPPs are becoming an increasingly important factor in their success. […]

Net Zero Buildings Gigafactory Nevada USA
Energy

Net Zero Buildings Explored: Tesla Gigafactory, Nevada

Like most of the projects Elon Musk is involved in, the plans laid out for the Tesla Gigafactory are on another scale to other net zero buildings and the project has rewritten the rules on how to design, build, and operate a facility. Covering a footprint of approximately 5.4 million square feet, for comparison that […]

New York Buildings Energy Performance
Energy

Building Energy Performance Codes Pushing Decarbonization Efforts

On Tuesday September 12th, last week, New York City (NYC) Mayor Eric Adams launched “Getting 97 Done,” a new strategy to cut harmful carbon emissions from the city’s many large buildings as obliged under Local Law 97 of 2019. The plan aims to deliver the goals outlined in the broader “PlaNYC: Getting Sustainability Done,” New […]

Net Zero Buildings SEE Institute
Energy

Net Zero Buildings Explored: The SEE Institute, Dubai Sustainable City

The SEE Institute is a flagship for net zero buildings in Dubai Sustainable City, an environmentally responsible mixed-use and residential district in the desert. The 50,000 square foot net zero commercial building will be dedicated to the advancement of sustainability knowledge, technology, and innovations through research, training, events and incubation of tech startups working on […]

UrbanVolt Solar PPA
Energy

UrbanVolt Enables SME Market to Benefit from Energy Efficiency-as-a-Service

In this Research Note, we examine UrbanVolt, a clean energy partner for small to medium-sized commercial and industrial businesses that specialises in the provision of energy-efficient lighting and solar panels, without the burden of upfront costs. Founded in 2015 in Dublin, Irish Republic, UrbanVolt gained an early foothold in the LED Lighting-as-a-Service sector. Instead of […]

Nostromo-IceBrick
Energy

Nostromo Behind-The-Meter Energy Storage Business Examined

In this Research Note, we examine Nostromo, the Israeli public company developing Behind-the-Meter thermal energy storage solutions for commercial buildings. Founded in 2017, Nostromo Energy is a developer of sustainable energy storage and energy demand management solutions for commercial buildings that use chiller-based air conditioning. The system is based on proprietary IceBrick encapsulated ice cells […]

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