The Economic and Environmental Impact of Electric Scooters

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The Economic and Environmental Impact of Electric Scooters

Written by Hubert Pablo – Mearth, Guest Contributor at Cleantech Geek

Electric scooters are now more than just a leisurely ride for children and teenagers. They now help clean the transportation sector. Cities across the globe have been seeing the benefits of legalising and implementing shared and private electric scooters on city roads and lanes. 

For one, it helps replace car trips and reduce road emissions in highly congested cities. In fact, shared e-scooter scheme Lime reported that their e-scooters helped save 330 tons of carbon emissions in Paris. Because of its emission-free nature, more countries have legalised electric scooters in public, including Germany, Switzerland, and Denmark.

Aside from its environmental impact, several studies also found that electric scooters help contribute to a city’s economy. From providing low-cost transport alternatives to increasing tourism in cities, electric scooters also offer economic benefits as it helps move people within cities.

With this, here are some of the economic and environmental benefits of riding electric scooters. 

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Discussion about renewable energy in Greece – new technologies, best practices and more

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My latest online discussion (in Greek, unfortunately for my non-greek speaking visitors) with Mr. Pougaridis on e-ptolemeos.gr – one of the largest news agencies in Western Macedonia. The discussion revolves around renewable energy in Greece; More specifically we talk about the best practises in the industry based on the European and UK model, the role of resistance from local communities on adoptation of renewables, new technologies such as energy storage and the growing importance of renewables in areas where coal is phased out, like West Macedonia in Greece.

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How Green Technology Makes the Environment Green

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How Green Technology Makes the Environment Green

Written by Hubert Pablo – Mearth, Guest Contributor at Cleantech Geek

There’s a notion that technology such as machinery and chemical products destroy our environment. After all, most technological advancements either pollute the earth or release harmful gases. 

However, scientists and engineers are making this right by developing green technology. In fact, the green tech market is expected to grow from $8.79 billion in 2019 to $48.36 billion by 2027. That’s a rapid growth of 24.8% in just 8 years. Green technology will seek better and efficient energy and minimise the impact on the environment while enhancing economics and the people’s quality of life.

Green tech may seem like a thing of the future, but it’s already here and many are already accessible to the market such as home solar panels and personal electric scooters. However, how do these technologies affect the environment? Do they truly help the environment? Here are just some of the ways green tech makes the environment greener.

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Inside Cleantech – S2E3 – A Climate Change Engineering Startup Story

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At this series we discuss with experts, senior executives and influencers from the Cleantech and Renewable Energy Industry as well as from the Entrepreneurship and Investment World. Find out about their opinions on the future of Green Entech and Cleantech, get their insights on opportunities & risks, discover the secrets of successful businesses & ventures, learn from their successes and failures.

“A Climate Change Engineering Startup Story”

On this interview, I am discussing with Mr John Davies, Founder of 2DEGREESKELVIN. John, shares with us his story and his decision to start an innovative Climate Change Engineering Company offering speciallised services and testing to the solar enery industry. With years of experience on the field and hands-on problem solving skills John and I discuss about the challenges in the services sector, common failures and mistakes the industry did during cinstruction and lessons learned. We also expand on subsidies and the current CFD round in the UK. Finally John gives us his opinion on service pricing and digitalisation of the O&M activities. This episode was filmed with ZOOM in an isolation environment due to COVID-19 pandemic. Don’t miss John’s personal story on how he took the brave decision to create his company, his insights on the services within the Solar sector and the challenges that COVID-19 brings to startups and the sector.

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Data analysis is set to transform the energy industry – 4 applications that lead this change

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Data analysis can be deployed across the whole energy value chain, regardless of the size of the asset. From large utility scale sites to residential solar and storage, leveraging the power of data drastically cuts costs, enhances the useful life of the asset and saves valuable time to the owner and managing team.

Currently information flow is fractured and involves multiple stakeholders, exchange of endless spreadsheets and one-way, data deprived reporting processes. The main problem is the high volume of low quality, unvalidated data; distributed through various channels, their value is not unfolded, and they are perceived as an additional responsibility, instead of a valuable tool in the hands of O&Ms, Asset Managers and local councils.

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Inside Cleantech – S2E2 – Insights of a Green Entech Technologist – Interview with Andrew Eisenberg

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At this series we discuss with experts, senior executives and influencers from the Cleantech and Renewable Energy Industry as well as from the Entrepreneurship and Investment World. Find out about their opinions on the future of Green Entech and Cleantech, get their insights on opportunities & risks, discover the secrets of successful businesses & ventures, learn from their successes and failures.

On this interview, I am discussing with Mr Andrew Eisenberg, CEO at Green IT Energy Applications. Andrew, is giving us his opinion on critical subjects as a technology provider for the last 20 years in the USA. Green IT, has been a pionner in developing technologies specifically designed for the Renewable Energy Industry. Green IT provides end-to-end data capture and management systems on Solar, Wind, Storage and Hydro across North America. Filmed with Zoom in an isolation environment due to COVID-19 pandemic, Andrew and I, are discussing about his journey and the current state of the solar PV industry in the US, the importance of Cybersecurity and critical fact data acquisition, validation and analysis for the Renewable Energy Industry. Get Andrews personal view on how data are critical for the decision making in an unsubsidised environment and how he sees the new normal for him, his team and the wider industry in the aftermath of COVID-19.

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Big Data and Energy: A winning duo? – With Ypatios Moysiadis

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The first podcast of Cleantech Geek is here. In this episode of “Watt a time to be alive” hosted by ESCP Energy Society, Tristan de La Selle and Ypatios Moysiadis discuss big data and energy on Spotify.

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“For you, AI might sound like a science fiction concept or a simple buzzword that people like to talk about to sound smart, but it is actually reshaping the very old energy industry. We decided to discuss this with someone who knows this subject and Ypatios Moysiadis seemed like the perfect person to meet. ‘Business Development Director & UK Country Manager, Greenssolver UK he has helped companies develop wind parks and solar farms”.

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Inside Cleantech – S1:E8 – Owners Operators Insights – Interview with Francesco Girardi

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At this series we discuss with experts, senior executives and influencers from the Cleantech and Renewable Energy Industry. Find out about their opinions on the future of the industry, get their insights on opportunities, learn from their successes and failures.

On this interview, I am discussing with Mr Francesco Girardi, Chairman of Bluefield Services / Bluefield Group. Francesco, is giving us his insights as an owner / operator. Bluefield, has been a pionner in adopting vertically integrated management models from asset investments all the way to retaining key services like O&M and Asset Management in-house. Filmed on a very nice setting within Bluefield’s London offices Francesco and I, are discussing about the journey and the current state of the solar PV industry, project development on an un-subsidised environment and the importances of leveraging and diversifing on technology for trading electricity. Get Francesco’s personal view (and disruptive suggestions!) on how market demands will require new expertise and how the core service will evolve to deliver value taking the discussing away from prices.

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Inside Cleantech – S1:E7 – Unsubsidised Assets Development & PPAs – Interview with Mark Henderson

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At this series we discuss with experts, senior executives and influencers from the Cleantech and Renewable Energy Industry. Find out about their opinions on the future of the industry, get their insights on opportunities, learn from their successes and failures.

On this interview, I am discussing with Mr Mark Henderson Chief Investment Officer at Gridserve. Learn how a new breed of Renewable energy Investors like Gridserve are embracing new innovative solar PV technologies and adopting new business models in an unsibsidised environment. We are discussing about the imporance of PPAs and how these will evolve over the next years. Get Mark’s personal view on what should we expect from the legislators and how combining technologies can mitigate investment risk.

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Inside Cleantech – S1:E6 – Data Collection & Management with Drones – Interview with Will Hitchcock

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At this series we discuss with experts, senior executives and influencers from the Cleantech and Renewable Energy Industry. Find out about their opinions on the future of the industry, get their insights on opportunities, learn from their successes and failures.

On this interview, I am discussing with Mr Will Hitchcock Founder & CEO of Above. Learn how the sector has evolved over the last 4 years, with drones becoming a key tool for inspections and how data collection and management becomes more important for efficient decision making. Get Will’s personal view on what made Above a success story over the last 4 years and how starting up a company laying on the intersection of his personal interests was critical for his success. Interview was taken in the Solar & Storage Live 2019 exhibition, successfully organised by Terrapinn – http://www.terrapinn.com

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