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Duke Energy Collaborates With AWS To Develop Smart Grid Solutions To Better Serve Customers And Drive Its Clean Energy Transition

Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), one of America’s largest energy holding companies, and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), are entering into a multiyear strategic collaboration to accelerate the utility’s development of industry-leading grid solutions that will benefit customers and help advance Duke Energy’s clean energy transition. As part of this agreement, Duke Energy will build new smart grid software and services on AWS and expand its Intelligent Grid Services – a suite of custom-built applications that help the utility anticipate future energy demand and identify where and how to update the power grid. AWS, in…
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A New Clean Energy Purchasing Model To Drive Decarbonization

When Google set out to achieve 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) in our operations by 2030, we committed to share insights and lessons that could help others move in the same direction. In 2021 we published a detailed methodology for 24/7 CFE, and earlier this year we released a roadmap for policymakers to enable 24/7 CFE for all and accelerate grid-level decarbonization. Today, we’re releasing a white paper that details our experience with a new energy transaction model that we call a Carbon-free Energy (CFE) Manager. We hope the insights in this white paper will support organizations’ move to source round-the-clock…
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Kaluza: Powering Greener, Smarter Energy Usage With Google Cloud

Editor’s note: Kaluza is a UK-based technology company that provides energy retailers with real-time billing, smart grid services, and seamless customer experiences. In this blog, Tom Mallett, Sustainability Manager, Kaluza, explains how Kaluza leverages Google Cloud to improve energy visibility throughout the company. He also explores how better emissions data informs sustainability solutions that make the world’s energy greener, smarter, and more reliable. Consumers are facing tough times right now, with energy bills a very real and rising cost. But meanwhile, the climate crisis hasn’t gone away – and sustainability is very much still front of mind for both consumers…
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Apple’s $4.7B In Green Bonds Support Innovative Green Technology

  Investments from Apple’s $4.7 billion in Green Bonds have helped jump-start the development of new low-carbon manufacturing and recycling technologies, the company announced today. Apple has issued three Green Bonds since 2016, with projects showcasing how the investments can reduce global emissions and bring clean power to communities around the world.   As part of this work, Apple is purchasing direct carbon-free aluminum following a major advancement in smelting technology to reduce emissions. The aluminum is the first to be manufactured at industrial scale outside of a laboratory without creating any direct carbon emissions during the smelting process. The company intends for…
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Apple Expands Renewable Energy Footprint In Europe

World’s largest onshore wind turbines in Denmark and new clean energy efforts in Germany advance Apple’s new 2030 carbon neutral goal. Apple announced it will invest in the construction of two of the world’s largest onshore wind turbines, a source of clean, renewable energy that will bring its supply chain and products one step closer to carbon neutrality. Located near the Danish town of Esbjerg, the 200-meter-tall turbines are expected to produce 62 gigawatt hours each year — enough to power almost 20,000 homes — and will act as a test site for powerful offshore wind turbines. The power produced…
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