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🚀 Exciting Presentation Alert! 🚀 The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)'s Summer Study is almost here! On top of the in-person work you'll see from Santiago Rodriguez-Anderson, PE and Anna Kelly, we also have exciting work that we have done that will be presented by our partners! 📅 Date: Wednesday 🕣 Time: 8:30 AM 🏚 Panel 9: Energy Efficiency Policy: U.S. & Beyond (Room: NAUTILUS) 📜 The Paper: "Translating Potential into Performance: Assessing Compliance Costs and Policy Improvements to Maximize Building Performance Standards". 🤺 The Authors: This collab led by Faith DeBolt will be presented by Unrooz Solutions' Kirstin Pulles. 🏢 What to Expect: Deep Dive: Understand the financial investments required for compliance with building performance standards. Policy Insights: Learn about policy improvements that can maximize the effectiveness of these standards. Real-World Examples: Get insights from case studies and financial analyses of compliance costs. #BuildingPerformance #EnergyEfficiency #Sustainability #Compliance #PolicyImprovements #CleanEnergy

The #EUSEW 2024 Highlights include a selection of inspiring and thought-provoking moments from this year’s event. They include the quotes from two of our speakers during our session “From Waste to Renewable Energy: Biomethane and Renewable Energy Communities”, that was successfully attended by around 500 participants. 🌍 “We have to harness the potential that we have in these local communities. We have to invest in empowering them, in involving them, and also making sure that the knowledge that we have in this room gets even broader.” - Nevin Alija, Member of the Global Future Energy Leaders programme of the World Energy Council, member of the EUSEW Young Ambassadors and an EU Climate Pact Ambassador 👥 “We need to think about the future generation, so when we talk about communities, we also need to think about what the young people are thinking; what do they think they want our energy system to look like in the future? So, it's not just about us today deciding it should be like this and these are our targets, it's also listening to the younger generations.” - Mirjam Röder, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute at the Aston University of England ✨ Check out the full EUSEW 2024 Highlights: https://lnkd.in/dkFi5Mjp CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency

Thanks for the nice article, International Water Power & Dam Construction . It's a good read and a nice summary of another novel use case for utilities. Satelytics' mantra is to solve many problems with a single set of data. This article describes just such a scenario. #geospatialanalytics

Our August 2004 issue of International Water Power & Dam Construction is on its way to subscribers! In the meantime, don't miss the social media version of our July issue. 🔍 Inside this Issue: 🌍 African Developments & Sustainability: Explore diverse perspectives on hydropower’s sustainable development globally, focusing on gender diversity and financial considerations. 💧 Innovative Methane Extraction: Dive into Bluemethane’s cutting-edge project on methane measurement in reservoirs with insights from Dr. Eliana Bohórquez Bedoya. 📡 Utility Monitoring Revolution: Discover how Satelytics is transforming utility management with geospatial analytics. We had an exclusive interview with Jay Almlie to discuss their groundbreaking work. 🏢 Micro Hydro Generators: Learn about Electromaim LLC's installation of micro hydro generators in building water systems, as CEO Dylan Kassin shares the journey of this innovative venture. 🛠️ US Society on Dams: Get a glimpse into the recent annual conference, highlighting both the hard work and lighter moments. 📖 Check out the full issue here: https://lnkd.in/efuCz775

The amazing folk at The Committee for Brisbane have drafted a submission to the Queensland Government in response to the draft ShapingSEQ 2023 plan to shape the future growth of the LGAs in South East Queensland. Among the committee's considerations are: 1. A greater articulation of SEQ’s identity and a bolder vision for our future (including digital connectivity and the impact of global megatrends like AI and transport automation) 2. Detailed infrastructure and transport planning required to support growth (particularly the focus on developing SEQ’s digital capacity as a ‘data community’) 3. Housing strategy – clarification and future steps (particularly the focus on sustainability) 4. Government accountability and implementation (and the proposal to strengthen the governance framework) Read the full submission at the link in the first comment.

This week, I was at the NARUC Summer Policy Summit where I had the privilege of speaking as part of "The Tightrope: Utility CEOs’ Balancing Act" panel alongside Ken Thomas of AARP Florida and Darcie L. H. of California Public Utilities Commission. Utilities across the nation are in a constant balancing act. They're faced with the pressure to meet new policy and customer demands while ensuring reliable power for the future, a resilient grid, equity and affordability. It's a tough needle to thread, but not insurmountable. During my panel, I discussed how Exelon is tackling these challenges head on and building a smarter, stronger, and cleaner energy grid with options that meet customer needs at affordable rates and that prioritize equity in energy. As the nation's largest utility by customer count, our goal is to lead the way in creating resilient and equitable energy systems that benefit everyone in the communities in which we serve. #NARUCsummer24

⏰ Taking place today - the CEM/MI-IDDI Community Exchange 🗣️ This event focuses on sharing with the CEM and MI community key highlights of IDDI’s work over the past year and priorities for 2024/25, as well as clarifying the international landscape for industrial #decarbonisation. In this session, the IDDI team share insights from their work related to: 📊 Data collection and reporting for embodied carbon 📉 Emissions thresholds and low carbon standards 🌿 Green procurement and policy The Industrial Deep Decarbonization Initiative (#IDDI) is a coalition of 10 governments working with the private sector, think tanks and academia to stimulate the demand for low and near-zero emissions materials used for construction, starting with #steel, #cement and #concrete. IDDI advocates public procurement commitments through its Green Public Procurement Pledge to stimulate the demand for green products. Learn more about IDDI here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eur8C4mB Event open to the CEM and MI community. UNIDO, Clean Energy Ministerial, Climate Group, Mission Possible Partnership, World Economic Forum, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

The #GSHPA is pleased to announce the new leads of our Standards working group as Ken Gordon and Chris Davidson. They take this on from our esteemed member Robin Curtis. Our Standards include the vertical borehole standard, thermal transfer fluid and the open loop standard, which are used throughout the industry and are embedded in legislation as Statutory Instruments. We have now launched a new embodied carbon working group, chaired by Ken Gordon, Casper Sanany and Rob Gardiner. We look forward to member involvement in this new group and the results. #GSHPA #LeadershipAnnouncement #IndustryStandards #Geothermal #KenGordon #ChrisDavidson #RobinCurtis #VerticalBorehole #ThermalTransferFluid #OpenLoopStandard #EmbodiedCarbon #Sustainability #EnvironmentalImpact #Legislation #StatutoryInstruments #Innovation #MemberInvolvement #EnergyEfficiency #ClimateAction #SustainableFuture

Ground source heat pumps are overlooked and poorly understood by a supplier base looking to swap over from gas boilers. There is a huge wealth of knowledge amongst the GSHPA and our standards are important in shaping the future of low carbon heating and cooling.

Two weeks ago, we held a webinar on the key developments in policy and investments for Carbon capture and storage across Europe. Our panelists, Andreas Moeller from Wintershall Dea, Cristel Lambton from Equinor, Giacomo Matarazzo from Teréga and Colin McGill, gave some very interesting and valuable insights into some of the challenges faced across the value chain. The following points were raised in the different presentations and following discussion: 👍 There is a growing policy consensus internationally that deploying CCS is essential to reach climate targets 📈 Even though CCS is not a novel technology, large scale deployment to help with environmental objectives is still at an early stage – but some projects are already operational and many others are in planning. In particular, the EU has so far awarded PCI or PMI status to 14 CCS projects across Europe ❗ But the value chain from capture to storage is complex, and involves different risks that may call for policy interventions 🌍 Support mechanisms are already in place for e.g. in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the UK... and are being developed or implemented in France, Germany. But the design of intervention varies a lot across countries, especially on the transport and storage infrastructure aspects of the value chain ❓ There are likely to be key trade-offs between the complexity of the intervention versus the speed at which the sector needs to develop. We look forward to continuing working on the topic and seeing how the value chain develops in the coming years! 📽 You can use the link below to watch the recording. https://lnkd.in/esTTgrzN Johanna Reichenbach, Nick Lynd, Claire Thornhill, Catherine Galano (L’Hostis)