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AI-Powered Clean Tech: Transforming Business Operations

Tom Spencer

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful tool in transforming various industries, including renewable energy. Consulting firms play a crucial role in guiding businesses through the integration of AI-powered renewables into their operations.

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Renewable Energy and its Impact on Consulting

Tom Spencer

Government incentives for investment into renewable energy sources, such as subsidies and tax credits , are becoming an increasingly popular way for governments to meet national pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Secondly, renewable energy is naturally occurring and based on resources that are continually replenished.

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The Long-Term Costs of Wind Turbines

Harvard Business

Wind energy is experiencing a boom, but in a pattern eerily reminiscent of the nineteenth century Pennsylvania oil boom, wind farms are building ever larger turbines to farm wind energy further and further from shore. This trend carries risks, especially as turbines come with largely hidden costs.

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How Companies Can Mitigate AI’s Growing Environmental Footprint

Harvard Business

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly ubiquitous in business and governance, its substantial environmental impact — from significant increases in energy and water usage to heightened carbon emissions — cannot be ignored. By 2030, AI’s power demand is expected to rise by 160%.

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Is Your Organizational Transformation Veering Off Course?

Harvard Business

These can range from exogenous shocks, such as inflation, supply-chain disruption, or political events; operating-model issues, such as the need to change technology, governance, or ways of working; or human dynamics, such as employee confidence in or ownership of the change.

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Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments

Martinka Consulting

The headlines about the Texas freeze and energy disaster caught my attention. The bottom line is Texas officials had been warned many times over the last 30 years about their energy infrastructure not being winterproof. Get to the point you do as little as possible with the day-to-day operations. Shed your ego.

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A climate of change fuels growth in energy market

The Source

The event, heralded for its significance by both Greenpeace UK and the WWF, may only be one step in the very long and arduous journey to transforming the UK’s power generation portfolio, but it represents a much wider trend of change, and disruption, in the energy industry. in 2017—a great improvement on the much more subdued 1.6%

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