Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Value of Smart City Initiatives Offer New Twist on Old Question of Affordability

Black & Veatch’s 2017 Strategic Directions: Smart City/Smart Utility Report reinforces lessons learned in the past year—although governments and municipalities believe strongly in the smart city model, they continue to struggle to fund these efforts. According to survey data, only 16 percent of municipalities can self-fund a smart city initiative, a little over a third cannot.

Energy & Infrastructure

MARTINI® Energized by Hydropower from the Italian Alps

Inclusion & Opportunity

Meet Shabari Basu, Wind Director

We’re celebrating Women’s History Month this March by introducing you to 10 women who help power your life at Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas. They advance our company with their vision, talent, hard work and creativity. These trailblazing women – including a nuclear engineer, astrophysicist and lineman – reveal inspiring stories of persistence, pluck and achievement in largely male-dominated fields. A diverse workplace isn’t just a nice idea, it’s a competitive necessity. Today, meet Dr. Shabari Basu, a director of wind assessment for renewable energy based in Charlotte, N.C.

Energy & Infrastructure

Communications Network is the Foundation of Smarter Cities and Smarter Grids

By building communications networks that can more tightly integrate business drivers and goals with the day-to-day load demand for their customers, utilities are taking the initial steps toward integrating the smart grid with smart cities. The foundation for both utility systems integration and smart grid/smart city integration is the communications network.

Energy & Infrastructure

Red Wing Shoe Company Embarks on 25-Year Solar Energy Partnership with NRG

When complete, the NRG Community Solar projects Red Wing is subscribed to will ultimately prevent 66,218 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from entering the environment — equivalent to eliminating 7.4 million consumed gallons of gasoline or 3,000 garbage trucks of landfill waste.

Environment

In Africa, Natural Events and Surging Demand Place New Spotlight on Microgrids

The impact of natural disasters on power grid resilience is increasingly gaining attention worldwide. Adapting lessons learned from high-profile incidents that have occurred elsewhere for the African continent, where energy supply is already intermittent, may provide opportunities to enhance the region’s energy system reliability through smart grid infrastructure solutions.

AI & Technology

Carnival Corporation’s Exhaust Gas Cleaning Technology Installed on 60 Percent of Fleet

MIAMI, February 28, 2017 – Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest leisure travel company, today announced it has completed the installation and certification of Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS) on an industry-leading 60 ships across its brands.

Energy & Infrastructure

Commercial Energy Storage: Sustainability’s Low-Hanging Fruit

It is easy to talk about sustainability, especially when the timeframes for achieving quantifiable results are comfortably far in the future. It’s much harder to actually implement feasible sustainability programs that will have a significant business impact. A survey of more than 3,000 executives by the MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group found that while nearly 90 percent of respondents consider a sustainability strategy essential to remaining competitive, only 60 percent have such a strategy. And only 25 percent have developed a clear business case for sustainability.

Energy & Infrastructure

First Tidal Energy Turbine with Lockheed Martin Technology Deployed Off Scotland Coast

Atlantis Resources Limited has deployed the first AR1500 tidal energy turbine with new Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) technology off the coast of Scotland. The installation is the latest development in the MeyGen project designed to harness the motion of the tides to provide clean, sustainable, predictable power for up to 175,000 homes in Scotland.

Energy & Infrastructure

A Different Perspective on “Solar Power”

By one definition, the United States generated 79.9% of its electricity from solar power in 2015. Should we be celebrating that fact? Not really.

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Collaboration and Partnership

Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...

Policy and Regulation

Cascale shares insights regarding policy and regulation impacting the consumer goods industry, and highlights how it's supporting members prepare for...

Disaster Relief

During times of natural disaster and other events Verizon will provide emergency relief to the area(s) impacted.

Health in Action

Our Prescription for a Better World framework is organized around three key pillars: building healthy communities (Health in Action), protecting the...

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

Health in Action

Our Prescription for a Better World framework is organized around three key pillars: building healthy communities (Health in Action), protecting the...

Kingfisher Around the World

The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...

Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)

The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...