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Jeremy Bentham: How Can We Achieve a Low-Carbon, High-Energy Future?

Jeremy Bentham Shell
February 06, 2015
The energy system is at the beginning of an inevitable transition, driven by numerous convergences: growing prosperity, changes in resource availability and technology and cost developments, to name but a few. Tackling the climate change challenge is a fundamental factor we must account for in this shift. However, it is not the only one; we must also address the rising demand for energy — especially in emerging markets.
 
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Charles McConnell: Don’t Worry About Low Oil Prices

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
February 04, 2015

How shifts in energy markets present an opportunity to invest in a sustainable future.

 

Lower oil prices will likely be with us for the next several years, given how market cycles tend to have lags. The oil and gas industry faces a choice: Adopt a defensive crouch until a recovery takes hold or push forward and invest in a future of sustainable energy.
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Fueling the Future — Q&A with Lorenzo Simonelli

Lorenzo Simonelli GE
February 03, 2015

Beyond headlines about oil prices, innovation is helping to bring about a more efficient oil and gas industry.

 

The oil and gas industry is experiencing a transformation, one that is broader and more long-term than what you read in the headlines about market swings. There’s a fundamental shift underway toward more innovative, efficient practices across the whole oil and gas value chain.
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GE Oil & Gas Annual Meeting, Day 1 Recap — Tackling Sustainability and Complexity

February 03, 2015
Kicking off the first customer day of the GE Oil & Gas Annual Meeting, Lorenzo Simonelli, president and CEO of GE Oil & Gas, set the tone by outlining two key industry challenges: sustainability for the long-term prosperity of the global economy and ongoing provision of energy to the world and cost management in this era of complexity to help drive productivity and performance. These themes echoed throughout the day in keynote speeches, panel discussions and technology sessions.
 
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Carlos Pascual: Making Green Projects ‘Greener’

Carlos Pascual Ihs
February 02, 2015

Trillions of dollars need to be invested in power over the next two decades. Here’s how to make emissions-reducing projects more attractive.

 

Over the course of 2015, large parts of the energy and environmental world will focus attention on achieving a new form of legally binding climate agreement in Paris under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Ban Ki-moon: Why 2015 Will Be the Year of Sustainability

Ban Ki Moon United Nations
January 28, 2015
2015 will be an historic year for the United Nations. The Organization will celebrate its 70th anniversary, offering a chance to look back on its contributions to peace, human rights and development since its creation in 1945. The year will also be an opportunity to look forward — and in particular how to ensure that people everywhere can thrive on our one and only planet. 2015 is when we will set our course for a sustainable future.
 
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future of energy

Steve Bolze: Investing in the Future of Electricity

Steve Bolze GE
January 21, 2015

The world is in the midst of a major power shift. Not political power, but actual electricity power being generated by an increasingly diverse and distributed range of sources — from natural gas to renewables.

 
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Power to the People! It’s Boom Time for Distributed Power

December 26, 2014
A whisky distillery in Scotland uses mash residue to power its factory and produce steam for distilling while a brewery in Germany uses its own waste water to generate the electricity, steam and hot water needed to make its products. Elsewhere, tree bark, sewage sludge and even rubbish from landfill are all turning into one thing: power.
 

More and more companies are using waste products for power generation, thanks to the growth of distributed power.
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Charles McConnell: Energy Sustainability Through a Global Lens

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
December 17, 2014
Transformative technology continues to be the single largest enabler for a sustainable energy future in this world, and any number of studies also point to the fact that there is no more important contributor to the health and well-being of people than the supply of energy.
 

In future columns, I’d like to discuss in detail these technologies and how they are so important to a sustainable future. But what is energy sustainability, and how can it be viewed globally?
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How LED Is Lighting the Way Toward Indoor Farming

December 16, 2014
A warehouse full of lettuce might not be the first place you would expect to find the next Industrial Revolution. But follow the LED lights and you’ll discover a glimpse of the future of agriculture — industrial-scale, indoor farming.
 

Advances in LED technology are helping to create an environment where vegetables can be produced at scale for maximum impact — with higher yields and shorter grow cycles, no matter what climate.
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