Can a Nissan LEAF power a 6-story, 40,000 SF warehouse, built-in 1908? Yes, it can!
Buildings generate nearly 40% of annual global GHG emissions and the City of Denver has a plan to decarbonize commercial buildings in the city.
The Alliance Center, a nonprofit event and collaborative working space in the heart of lower downtown Denver, recognizes the urgency of the climate crisis and announced today that it found a solution to reduce the carbon footprint of its 112-year-old building, using electric vehicles.
The Alliance Center announced a partnership with Fermata Energy, a clean technology company based in Charlottesville, VA, to use the energy stored in an electric vehicle (a Nissan LEAF) and power their six-story, 40,000-square-foot office building originally constructed as a warehouse in 1908 (1536 Wynkoop St, Denver, CO 80202). This new partnership will result in energy cost savings and energy efficiency. (Link to News Release)
KEY FACTS:
The Alliance Center is a model for innovative green building practices, collaborative working techniques, and engaging educational programming—all designed to scale up the sustainability movement.
Fermata Energy’s V2G System has already proven to save building owners money, and with cities and counties struggling to not only secure additional funding amidst the pandemic but also on how to meet net-zero emission goals, this system will save The Alliance Center money and help the nonprofit reevaluate its energy use more efficiently.
Last month, The City of Boulder announced that it is working with Fermata Energy to test the ability to use an electric vehicle to dispatch power directly to one of its recreation centers. Fermata also recently announced new partnerships with Roanoke Electric Cooperative, Green Mountain Power, and Bigelow Tea.
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In a circular economy, you can make food from industrial waste, and it is happening now
How will we take care of the nation's mental health?
Behavioral Health is top-of-mind for many people today. I currently lead a collaborative of community mental health providers in Wayne County, Michigan, and another group of Substance Use Disorder Providers also in Wayne County. I prepared this memo for them outlining the mental health and SUD priorities for the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS) and for President-Elect Biden, hoping we can be a part of the conversation. The information was found on the President-elect’s transition website and from conversations with people at the MDHHS.
Why vehicle-to-grid technology is becoming critical to utilities and local governments climate and cost-saving strategy
For the governments and utilities to be meet their goals of transitioning to renewable energy and electric vehicles, massive battery storage is needed to scale. They can do that through the use of vehicle-to-grid equipped electric vehicles and the V2G system to help transfer the power from the vehicle to the building.
Roanoke Electric Cooperative To Pilot Cutting-Edge Vechicle-to-Grid Technology
Roanoke Electric Cooperative is the first utility to test the viability of vehicle-to-grid technology as a means to unlock additional value streams for the Cooperative’s member-owners while making the option to go electric more affordable while helping the utility use its grid more efficiently.
Bigelow Tea’s new venture into vehicle-to-grid technology will reduce building costs and its carbon footprint
For 75 years Bigelow Tea has focused on doing the right thing for the right reasons. As a Certified B Corporation, Bigelow Tea has reduced the emissions associated with transporting their products by finding more efficient shipping routes. To reduce its carbon footprint and create a more resilient energy grid, the specialty tea market leader announced this morning, an initiative with FermataEnergy, that will use the power from an electric vehicle (a Nissan Leaf) to supply electricity to their Louisville, KY plant during times of peak energy use. (Link to NewsRelease).
Sustainability Leadership - The Swedish Way
Companies are facing a number of crises, a global pandemic, a recession, systemic racism, and the climate crisis. For business leaders today facing a global challenges and the impacts of climate change, Sustainability Leadership: A Swedish Approach to changing Your Company, Your Industry, and the World (Palgrave), by Henrick Henriksson, CEO of Scania and Elaine-Weidman Grunewald, co-founder of the AI Sustainability Center and former Chief Sustainability Officer at Ericcson is a must read.
Business Leaders Seeking to Step Up their Sustainability Leadership Now Have a Roadmap
In a post-pandemic economy, business leaders should use their platform to not only transform their company but to improve the world. A book written for senior executives by business leaders, with insight and experience from a dozen CEOs of Swedish companies, Sustainability Leadership, written by Henrik Henriksson, Scania President & CEO, and global sustainability executive Elaine Weidman Grunewald, is the guidebook every CEO needs to make the leap and begin their sustainability transformation.
New Study Proves Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Is Now A Realistic And Important Solution For EV Owners
Removing Barriers to Employment for People With Disabilities
BUSINESS LEADERS FROM MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERALISM AS THE UNITED NATIONS TURNS 75
Daniel Cherrin is proud to join over 1,200 CEOs in endorsing the UN Statement on Renewed Global Cooperation and pledge to unite in the business of a better world.
Virtual Peaker Partners with Fermata Energy to Bring V2G Bidirectional Charging Technology to Utilities
As the electric vehicle market continues to grow with new technology emerging, I wanted to introduce myself and my work with Fermata Energy. I wanted to share with you, news about a new joint venture between Fermata Energy and Virtual Peaker. We are making it easier for utilities and their customers to combat climate change, manage two-way electric vehicle access to the grid, maximize the use of renewable energy sources, and reduce operating costs.
Affirming our support for the United Nations Global Compact
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What's your plan to return to work and how will you communicate it?
In a crisis, it is important that you let people know what you don’t know. Over these past few weeks, we have all learned all vulnerable we are and it is important for us, especially as leaders to let others know that we are all vulnerable. Accepting that, however, it is important to incorporate those vulnerabilities and what you do know into a strategic communications plan. What is your plan to get your team back to work?
The new normal & the return to work: A guide to get to back to work through strategic communications
The Next Health Care Crisis: Michigan’s Safety net at risk of collapsing
There is another health care crisis in America exacerbated by COVID-19. While doctors work to keep our emergency rooms clear, neglecting community-based mental health and other community-based social services will cause a further strain on hospitals that will soon be at capacity if they too do not get relief soon from the state.
Forced to break the news yourself
Earlier this week, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Harry and Meghan) broke the news that they were planning on having a more limited role with the Monarchy, in part because they story would have been told by the tabloids.
From a crisis management standpoint, it was important that they broke the news themselves rather than read about it in the tabloids. However, they forgot to inform the Queen and others within their family and consequently stepped out of one crisis and entered another.
I am not sure of the circumstances and I am not familiar with the protocols but I do know that in any crisis you bring your team together to make informed decisions as quickly as possible.
Ideally, they should have thought it through in regards to #Whatif.
What if the tabloids leaked the story?
What if the web designer was working on this project in a Starbuck’s and someone saw it?
If they prepared for these scenario’s they would have been in a better position to deal with the crisis, with the support of his grandparents and family?
Sometimes external forces force us to make a difficult and take our story to the media first. It happens a lot in politics or with public figures.
When they made their announcement they also launched their website, which I think was a bit premature since the details of their departure had not yet been approved by the Queen. So I would’ve held off on this rather than give more information for the press to review.
The website is clean and well done. More public figures should create their own websites like this to take control of their narrative and protect their brand. It is a sad reality but in the era of fake news and no news at all, we need to create and preserve our own public record.
There is a lot we can learn from the Royal Family and there is a lot that Harry has learned from his mom and how his mom was treated. That is most likely why it is the decision they made for themself and what let them to create the website in the first place. After each crisis, we need to internalize the lessons learned and prepare for the next crisis. Unfortunately, many of us just don’t plan ahead — We should!