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Companies are playing an increasingly big role in tackling climate change, but they’ll go much farther, faster, if they collaborate on technological innovation than if they go it alone.
As climate change threatens the very existence of the planet, the role of companies to battle back is finally hitting a fever pitch because they recognise that the future of the global economy is a low carbon one.
https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Green-Tech/How-open-source-technology-collaboration-can-help-in-the-fight-against-climate-changeOver the past few years, corporations and cities wanting to up their game in the effort to combat climate change have pledged to run on 24/7 carbon-free energy. But for these kinds of pledges to become reality, 24/7 carbon-free energy requires something that so far has been lacking: a commonly accepted standard for how to track and confirm those hour-by-hour carbon-free energy trades.
Source: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/corporate-procurement/can-24-7-carbon-free-energy-become-a-global-standard?utm_campaign=canary&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=208703586&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9qzYpmjwCjvQLrtRlD-0h2rDOpo1vyjQCODR5p0D6cZfFnZ-4TwwJ8Q__LPq89cXvXvrfJua5VAJpI7NNCbi5_6DeDS_jEgTkpT8r4HA1bqhWpnIk&utm_source=newsletter
Shuli Goodman talks a lot about building the next generation of clean energy, but she doesn’t just mean erecting fields of solar panels and wind turbines. As the director of Linux Foundation Energy (LF Energy), launched by the nonprofit Linux Foundation in 2018, she’s interested in another kind of infrastructure that she says will be essential to moving the world’s grids away from fossil fuels and cutting carbon dioxide emissions: open-source software.
Today, much of our power system essentially runs on a hundred-year old model. Centralized power plants, often running on fossil fuels, produce a constant stream of energy, which is pushed out along a grid: first along long-distance, high voltage transmission wires, and then into lower voltage community energy systems.
Source: https://time.com/6162201/open-source-green-grid/
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today, and with transportation contributing about one-fifth of global carbon emissions, overhauling those systems will no doubt be critical in solving the climate crisis. However, there are a number of barriers impeding the widespread adoption of electric vehicles, namely the lack of interoperability and compatibility between the different charging systems that electric vehicle manufacturers offer, which means that individual EV owners and charging network providers (also known as electric vehicle service providers or EVSPs) are often locked into one particular proprietary system, each with its own app and pricing system.
This lack of seamless integration between different charging networks is one major roadblock to scaling up EV infrastructure, and some organizations are taking steps to tackle it head-on. One of these emerging movers is LF Energy, which is part of the Linux Foundation and aims to provide a neutral, collaborative space to develop open source tools that will help ease the transition to electric mobility. One of LF Energy’s latest projects, EVerest, focuses on developing an open source software stack for EV charging infrastructure, so that charging stations can be deployed more easily on a massive scale.
Source: https://thenewstack.io/the-linux-foundations-open-source-stack-for-ev-charging-infrastructure/
