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August 24, 2021
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5 min read
The climate crisis is here. The stakes have never been higher for corporate and institutional sustainability to be firmly rooted in science and drive as much real-world impact as possible.
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April 19, 2021
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7 min read
Electricity can be generated in many different ways, each with their own environmental footprint. As a concerned citizen (or as a responsible company), I might be interested in knowing to which extent I was powered by...
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July 3, 2020
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3 min
At Electricity Maps, our goal is to build products that make it easier for everyone to reduce their carbon footprint. Today, we’re releasing a new project that will make it easier for everyone to easily reduce their...
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April 23, 2020
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3 min read
On Earth Day, Google, one of the world’s most influential companies and one of the biggest data center operators, revealed that they have partnered with us to reduce their climate impact - a humbling and exciting...
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April 21, 2020
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6 min read
When looking for ways to make a meaningful impact in the fight against climate change, we often look for leverage points - areas where changes will make an outsized impact. As we’ve written about in our Pragmatic...
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March 23, 2020
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7 min read
More and more organisations are embracing mono-repositories as it makes dependency management simpler (read more here). However, implementing and maintaining a mono-repository at scale has its challenges. This is due...
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June 13, 2019
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5 min read
Consider those two questions:How much am I emitting by consuming electricity at a certain time? What are the emissions avoided if I decide to consume electricity at a certain time? Those questions have different...
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September 3, 2018
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7 min read
Depending on where you live, your electricity retailer may have offered you a contract giving you electricity that exclusively comes from renewables. Furthermore, recently many companies have made headlines, claiming...
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July 11, 2018
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4 min read
Fossil fuels are the largest source of greenhouse gases. As they still count for 80% of our energy source, and 66% of our electricity source, it becomes urgent to get rid of them and transition to low-carbon...
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