Data marketplaces will open new horizons for your company

I believe that solar energy will enhance the returns of existing Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and also create a whole new class of REITs. The limited number of deals that we have seen so far is just the trickle before the floodgates open.

Earlier this year, the California Energy Commission (CEC) published a $20 million solicitation to fund research projects for the deployment of long-duration energy storage. The objective was to develop a clear understanding of the role that long-duration energy storage (10 hours or greater) can play in helping to meet the state's mandates to decarbonize the electricity sector by 2045.

Depending on age, geographic location and experience, consumers have various levels of understanding about how their personal data is used and protected, and different tolerance levels about sharing it. As a result, new laws and regulations for data privacy are emerging to govern how organisations collect and use consumer data, which will have a significant ...

The world has failed to halt global warming. Four years after the signing of the Paris Agreement, most experts predict global warming will exceed the agreed thresholds, with disastrous consequences. As much as the world faces a climate crisis, it also faces a climate governance crisis: we know what must be done to halt climate change but we do not know yet how to get there.

The coming years will see a massive business strategy change driven by a radical increase in data accessibility. Companies that leverage data marketplaces early on will be tomorrow's giants. An early signal of the economic forces data marketplaces bring can be seen in the emergence of Snowflake.

Cryptocurrency is not an obvious candidate to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Just mining bitcoin, the primary blockchain-based cryptocurrency, emits about 22 megatons of carbon per year (the precise number is hard to pin down). But Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak is backing a new cryptocurrency promising to do just that.

Dutch tidal turbines business Tocardo has struck a deal to acquire the 1.25MW Oosterschelde Tidal Power Plant, the largest tidal array in the world installed on the Oosterscheldekering. The acquisition follows technical due diligence phase during September 2020.