Tag: Energy

New Upstate business builds tiny homes that create more energy than they use

by Catrina P. Smith on February 4, 2021 in project business

TRAVELERS REST, SC (FOX Carolina) — The next big thing in tiny living is being developed right here in the Upstate.

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Justin Draplin, the owner and CEO of the Creek Walk Tiny Home Community in Travelers Rest, is breaking ground on a new project today: net-positive tiny homes, which create more energy than they use.

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Draplin’s new business, Tiny Box House, will be the first in the US to mass produce homes like these.

“From an environment standpoint not only creating more energy than we use, but also from just a personal individual human health standpoint,” Draplin said. “[It’s] way better than what people walk into on a daily basis already.”

The tiny homes feature fully-integrated solar rooftop shingle systems, extra efficient Ohmic Array water heaters and a panelized composite interior wall building system that is

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Drax team put energy into lockdown storytime venture

by Catrina P. Smith on February 1, 2021 in project business

Workers at Drax Electric power Station have been putting their vitality into supporting each individual other’s households all through lockdown.

About 40 men and women doing work for Drax Group have each individual read through and recorded a several chapters of well-known children’s guides for a storytime audio library job.

The audio library has been released in the course of National Storytelling Week, with the tales posted on the Drax Team personnel intranet company for individuals to download and listen to at dwelling. If well-known, even more tales will be recorded with titles decided on by way of an on the internet ballot.

The strength organization run Drax Electricity Station which is the UK’s major one web site renewable electricity generator and the biggest decarbonisation undertaking in Europe subsequent its conversion from coal to use sustainable biomass.

Main government officer Will Gardiner, who recorded the initial chapter of Roald Dahl’s

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SimpliPhi Electricity Announces the Thought: Committing 1% of Once-a-year Profits Every 12 months to Substantial Influence Jobs to Produce Energy Access

by Catrina P. Smith on January 28, 2021 in project business

OXNARD, Calif., Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SimpliPhi Electric power (“SimpliPhi”) has launched the Plan: a campaign to Supply Energy Accessibility. The Idea is a effective world wide dedication focused on producing large influence, sustainable vitality initiatives with a community of partners to address climate modify and empower communities with renewable electrical power. Due to the fact its founding ten years ago, SimpliPhi has committed to the Plan of supplying 1% of yearly profits to persons and communities in require of access to clean up electricity and is now inviting other companies and corporations to sign up for the movement and dedicate – as collaborative supporters or beneficiaries.

“At SimpliPhi Electricity, we feel that access to clean up and very affordable electrical power is elementary to economic growth, social fairness and environmental duty – and constructing our collective future globally,” mentioned Catherine Von Burg, CEO and president of

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The Biden Energy Plan, “Made In The usa,” New Enterprise & Work In A $1.6 Trillion Sector

by Catrina P. Smith on January 27, 2021 in project business

“The United States Authorities should really, whenever feasible, procure merchandise, merchandise, materials, and expert services from resources that will enable American companies contend in strategic industries and assistance America’s workers thrive.” Executive Purchase on Making certain the Upcoming Is Manufactured in All of The us by All of America’s Employees, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

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The Biden Administration is up and operating with a bang — thirty-7 Govt Orders so far (as of the conclude of the day, January 26th, 2021). Monday’s “Made in America” focuses consideration – and a new business in the White Home – on federal procurement and monetary assistance insurance policies that increase the use of solutions developed, and companies supplied, in the United States. The emphasis on federal government procurement is, by itself, as the President may well say: “a massive deal.” It is

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Indigenous company gets funding boost for clean energy projects in N.W.T.

by Catrina P. Smith on January 22, 2021 in project business

Grant Sullivan has been given plenty of assurances that he is on the right path with Nihtat Energy Ltd.

During a presentation at the Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE) E-Gathering on Tuesday, it was announced that Nihtat Energy Ltd. (NEL), of which Sullivan is president and the only employee, would receive $800,000 in federal funding in order to complete clean energy projects in the Northwest Territories.

Funding was made available through the federal Indigenous Off-Diesel Initiative (IODI), which is part of a $20 million Impact Canada Initiative, a venture geared towards helping new projects reduce the reliance of diesel in remote Indigenous communities.

The IODI was announced back in February 2019, following 18 months of engagement with Indigenous organizations, rights holders and stakeholders.

The initiative is delivered in partnership with the Indigenous Clean Energy Social Enterprise and the Pembina Institute, a non-profit think tank which was founded in 1985.

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Eversource considers Worcester for renewable energy

by Catrina P. Smith on January 21, 2021 in project business

Imagine a future where you don’t need natural gas in and around your home … yes, that explosive substance where combustion is necessary for use, which decreases indoor air quality, which is associated with childhood asthma and other respiratory diseases, and suffocates trees as it leaks into the ground.

Well, that future may be closer than you think.

The fact that Worcester has had more than its fair share of gas leaks is not up for debate. Dominic Nicholas, director of Home Energy Efficiency Team or HEET, shared data extracted directly from the gas utility’s most recently available quarterly leak inventory reports (Q3 — ending Sept 2020) showing that the city had 498 leaks of which only 115 were repaired. That is far more than other towns in Worcester County — Leominster had 99, Southbridge had 53, Milford had 47, Shrewsbury had 38, Fitchburg had 4 and Gardner had 1.

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Skyharbour’s Partner Company Azincourt Energy Completes Geophysical Program and Adds Drill Targets at East Preston Uranium Project

by Catrina P. Smith on January 19, 2021 in project business

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 18, 2021 — Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:SYH) (OTCQB:SYHBF) (Frankfurt:SC1P) (the “Company”) partner company Azincourt Energy Corp. (“Azincourt”) is pleased to announce the recent ground-based geophysical exploration program at the East Preston uranium project, located in the western Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, has been completed with several additional drill targets having been identified.

Unconformity-related uranium deposits associated with the Athabasca Basin are closely associated with basement conductive packages. The HLEM survey was utilized to refine and prioritize

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Azincourt Energy Completes Geophysical Program, Adds Drill Targets at the East Preston Uranium Project

by Catrina P. Smith on January 19, 2021 in project business

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 18, 2021 — AZINCOURT ENERGY CORP. (“Azincourt” or the “Company”) (TSX.V: AAZ, OTC: AZURF), is pleased to announce the recent ground-based geophysical exploration program at the East Preston uranium project, located in the western Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada, has been completed and the results indicate several new drill targets have been identified.

The program comprised a horizontal loop electromagnetic survey (“HLEM”) originally consisting of a total of 33 line-km of line-cutting and surveying. An additional 5 lines of cutting and surveying were added, bringing the total survey coverage to 40.5 line-km in six grid target areas. Previous updates on this survey were provided by the Company in news releases dated November 23, 2020 and December 9, 2020. Unconformity related uranium deposits associated with the Athabasca Basin are closely associated with basement conductive packages. The HLEM survey was utilized to refine and prioritize target areas

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From a collaborative craft malting facility to renewable energy projects, Gippsland is getting regional development right

by Catrina P. Smith on January 11, 2021 in project business

A collaborative craft malting facility for brewers, distillers and bakers, and the development of new bio and geothermal renewable energy sources, are just a few of the new pilot projects about to get underway in Gippsland, as the region charts a new path beyond coal-fired power generation.

Located in the east of the Australian state of Victoria, Gippsland is demonstrating how a joined-up strategic approach can revitalise regions outside big cities by harnessing local creativity and innovation to develop a productive and sustainable economy.

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It is based around adopting a so-called “smart specialisation strategy”, which is now the endorsed process in the European Union’s regional development policy and was adapted for Gippsland by our researcher team from the University of Melbourne and RMIT working with the local Latrobe Valley Authority (LVA).

Our recently published project report argues that the new forms of

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Spring Labs Develops Data-Sharing Network for US Home Energy Projects

by Catrina P. Smith on December 16, 2020 in project business

Blockchain startup Spring Labs has put its initially fraud-avoidance resource into generation working with a permissioned edition of Ethereum. The Los Angeles-primarily based firm is now functioning with two loan providers in the Home Assessed Thoroughly clean Power (Pace) financing place and onboarding two other folks, explained co-founder John Sun.

Every single loan company now shares borrower and property data by means of the Spring Labs protocol, in which it is possibly tokenized or sharded so that only the entity who contributed the knowledge can view it. The creditors have been testing the system considering that June and believe that that it could save up to $10 million in fraud or 1% of the industry’s complete personal loan transactions.

“They designed a genuine-time databases that I could ping to see if there are any other assessments on a home now or coming up,” Mike Schmidt, main working officer of Pace

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