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  • How bitcoin drives cheap green energy production in Kenya

    April 01, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    To use up excess renewable energy and help finance the expansion of power grids, companies such as Gridless are connecting energy producers in African countries with cryptocurrency miners that are eager to buy up unused power. By selling off energy to cryptocurrency companies, one hydropower system was able to expand its electricity service to 500 more homes.

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  • Abandoned Coal Mines Are Becoming the Batteries of the Future

    February 27, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Gravity batteries can store excess renewable energy in abandoned mine shafts, offering coal-dependent communities economic and environmental benefits. This energy storage tactic is being used in various iterations around the globe.

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  • More Power

    February 17, 2025 |

    Chicoco Radio Viral Times |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Umoulu, Rivers State

    The Youth and Environmental Advocacy Center, in collaboration with NXT Grid, built a solar-powered mini-grid in a rural area to connect community members with power, some of whom were being connected for the first time. Community members donated to help fund the project, resulting in 200 of the 262 structures in the area receiving electricity.

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  • The solar-powered intervention improving access to health care at the General Hospital Maru

    February 07, 2025 |

    Gold City FM 105.5 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Maru, Zamfara

    Amidst electricity shortages, Health System Consultant Limited came to a local hospital’s aid, outfitting the medical center with solar panels to ensure patients can still access healthcare services. Since the installation, patients at the General Hospital in Maru say diagnosis speed and the quality of care they receive have improved.

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  • Power to Improve

    January 17, 2025 |

    Chicoco Radio Viral Times |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Rivers State

    To prevent utility poles from falling due to lack of maintenance, damaging homes and leaving residents without power, community members worked together to raise funds to build 18 new concrete poles without the help of any government entities or power companies.

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  • Green Microgrids Are Powering a More Resilient Future

    January 17, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Blue Lake Rancheria, United States, California

    Microgrids, small-scale energy systems that can operate either independently or as part of the larger electric grid, are growing in popularity and effectiveness. In one example on tribal land in California, a microgrid saves 25 percent of electricity costs and reduces Blue Lake Rancheria's carbon footprint by hundreds of tons of carbon annually.

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  • How the Navajo Nation is using mutual aid to connect families to the electric grid

    December 10, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Arizona

    Mutual aid program Light Up Navajo is helping families get connected to the power grid through volunteer workers and private and federal funding. Over the past five years, crews have built miles of powerlines across the reservation, powering nearly 850 households, many of whom are receiving power for the first time.

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  • As climate focus shifts to states, East Coast partnership offers model for multi-state collaboration

    December 03, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, currently joined by 11 U.S. states on the East Coast, is a cap-and-invest system for power generation. States put a limit on the carbon emissions power plants can produce, then each plant buys allowances for every ton of carbon dioxide they produce up to the cap. The proceeds go towards initiatives that reduce emissions and make energy more affordable.

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  • Hurricane Helene underscores need for more solar-battery microgrids

    October 18, 2024 |

    Canary Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Hot Springs, North Carolina

    A small community in the mountains of North Carolina, Hot Springs, relied on a solar-powered microgrid with battery storage when the substation that supplied its power washed away in the flooding after Hurricane Helene. Microgrids like that could be a critical part of building extreme weather resilience elsewhere, too.

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  • How a Technology Similar to Fracking Can Store Renewable Energy Underground Without Lithium Batteries

    August 27, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Three startups in Houston are using a technique similar to fracking, a practice used in the oil and gas industry, to store renewable energy without batteries. They use excess renewable energy to pump pressurized water into manmade caverns underground. When energy is needed, they open the caverns, sending the water back to the surface to turn a turbine and generate power.

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