Cassandra Garber’s former employers embrace 3M, Coca-Cola and Basic Electrical.
She constructed the sustainability group from scratch at medical provide firm McKesson.
Garber was at Dell for 4 years, most not too long ago as chief sustainability officer.
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Cassandra Garber is leaving her submit as chief sustainability officer of pc agency Dell Applied sciences to tackle the identical position at automaker Basic Motors.
Garber’s first day at GM is Earth Day, April 22. She succeeds Kristin Siemen, who retired Oct. 31 after a 30-year profession with the corporate. Certainly one of Siemen’s high lieutenants, Kathi Walker, has been performing as interim CSO at GM.
Garber disclosed her determination to commerce “keyboards for dashboards” in a submit on LinkedIn that recalled hours spent visiting her grandfather’s radiator store whereas rising up in Huntingburg, Indiana. In her new position, she’ll drive GM’s zero-emissions car transition technique and round financial system enterprise practices that scale back waste throughout GM’s provide chain.
“If there’s one factor I’ve realized throughout my profession, it’s that sustainable enterprise is sensible enterprise,” Garber wrote on LinkedIn. “Decreasing threat, seizing innovation and progress alternative WHILE delivering actual and significant affect is the place it’s at. It’s onerous, however when executed, and executed nicely, it’s transformative for each enterprise and our world.”
Garber is constructing on a powerful basis, though GM and different automakers face an unsure future amid the Trump administration’s unpredictable commerce tariff technique.
GM managed to scale back tailpipe emissions 3 p.c between 2018 and 2023. The corporate not too long ago posted its finest first-quarter gross sales since 2018, together with a 94 p.c improve in EV purchases.
Big selection of expertise
Garber joined Dell in August 2021 to overtake the corporate’s environmental, social and governance technique — with the aim of embedding these metrics extra deeply throughout the enterprise.
“In just below 4 years we’ve reinvented all the ESG group, built-in it throughout the corporate, innovated in merchandise and applications and processes, streamlined and prioritized our focus, had a significant affect in so some ways, and we’ve celebrated the wonderful people who made all this occur,” she mentioned in one other LinkedIn submit.
Garber spent 10 years at Basic Electrical in communications and advertising roles earlier than transferring on to sustainability management roles targeted on reporting and strategic initiatives at Coca-Cola Co. and 3M. She additionally constructed the sustainability group at medical provider McKesson from scratch.
Dell didn’t reply to a request for remark about its plans to interchange Garber.
I’m attempting to create an app on an apple watch that is ready to observe the repetitions of various workouts. To date, I’ve gotten down bicep curls and squats (for now). Although, I’ve an issue I’m not capable of repair. Each time I finish my exercise, it can take me to my abstract view, and after I click on performed from there, I would like it to take me again to my startScreen nevertheless it doesn’t achieve this. As a substitute, it takes me again to my exercise display screen and its simply caught there. I do know there’s loads of code to take a look at but when somebody may please assist me it could imply lots.**
**I’ve solely supplied the code that’s helpful beneath, so that you may see code for different views that I have never given code to.
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I’m attempting to create an app on an apple watch that is ready to observe the repetitions of various workouts. To date, I’ve gotten down bicep curls and squats (for now). Although, I’ve an issue I’m not capable of repair. Each time I finish my exercise, it can take me to my abstract view, and after I click on performed from there, I would like it to take me again to my startScreen nevertheless it doesn’t achieve this. As a substitute, it takes me again to my exercise display screen and its simply caught there. I do know there’s loads of code to take a look at but when somebody may please assist me it could imply lots.
I’ve solely supplied the code that’s helpful beneath, so that you may see code for different views that I have never given code to.
import SwiftUI
@fundamental
struct RepBuddyWatchApp_Watch_AppApp: App {
@StateObject personal var workoutManager = WorkoutManager()
@State personal var navigationPath = NavigationPath()
var physique: some Scene {
WindowGroup {
NavigationStack(path: $navigationPath) {
StartScreen(navigationPath: $navigationPath)
.environmentObject(workoutManager) // <- Add this line
}
.sheet(isPresented: $workoutManager.showingSummaryView, onDismiss: {
print("Sheet dismissed, resetting navigationPath")
workoutManager.showingSummaryView = false // Reset the state
workoutManager.selectedWorkout = nil
}) {
SummaryView(navigationPath: $navigationPath)
.environmentObject(workoutManager)
}
}
}
}
import SwiftUI
import HealthKit
struct WorkoutType: View {
@EnvironmentObject var workoutManager: WorkoutManager
@Binding var navigationPath: NavigationPath
var workoutTypes: [(type: HKWorkoutActivityType, name: String)] = [
(.traditionalStrengthTraining, "Bench Press"),
(.traditionalStrengthTraining, "Bicep Curls"),
(.traditionalStrengthTraining, "Squats"),
(.traditionalStrengthTraining, "Tricep Extensions"),
]
var physique: some View {
Listing(workoutTypes, id: .title) { exercise in
NavigationLink(vacation spot: SessionPagingView(
navigationPath: $navigationPath,
workoutType: exercise.kind,
workoutName: exercise.title // Cross the title right here
).environmentObject(workoutManager)) {
Textual content(exercise.title)
}
}
.listStyle(.carousel)
.navigationTitle("Choose a Exercise")
.onAppear {
workoutManager.requestAuthorization { _ in }
}
}
}
#Preview {
WorkoutType(navigationPath: .fixed(NavigationPath()))
.environmentObject(WorkoutManager())
}
// Conforming HKWorkoutActivityType to Identifiable
extension HKWorkoutActivityType: @retroactive Identifiable {
public var id: UInt {
rawValue
}
var title: String {
change self {
case .working:
return "Run"
case .biking:
return "Bike"
case .strolling:
return "Stroll"
case .traditionalStrengthTraining:
return ""
default:
return ""
}
}
}
import SwiftUI
struct ControlsView: View {
@EnvironmentObject var workoutManager: WorkoutManager
var physique: some View {
HStack {
VStack {
Button {
if let session = workoutManager.session {
if session.state == .working || session.state == .paused {
workoutManager.endWorkout()
} else {
print("Exercise session is already ended or in an invalid state: (session.state)")
}
}
} label: {
Picture(systemName: "xmark")
}
.tint(Colour.pink)
.font(.title2)
Textual content("Finish")
}
VStack {
Button {
workoutManager.togglePause()
} label: {
Picture(systemName: workoutManager.working ? "pause" : "play") // Begins as "pause"
}
.tint(Colour.yellow)
.font(.title2)
Textual content(workoutManager.working ? "Pause" : "Resume") // Textual content begins as "Pause"
}
}
}
}
#Preview {
ControlsView()
.environmentObject(WorkoutManager())
}
import Basis
import HealthKit
import CoreMotion
class WorkoutManager: NSObject, ObservableObject { //added to myWorkoutsApp bc its an observable object
var selectedWorkout: HKWorkoutActivityType? {
didSet {
guard let selectedWorkout = selectedWorkout, let selectedWorkoutName = selectedWorkoutName else { return }
startWorkout(workoutType: selectedWorkout, workoutName: selectedWorkoutName)
}
}
var selectedWorkoutName: String? // New property
@Revealed var elapsedTime: TimeInterval = 0
personal var timer: Timer?
@Revealed var showingSummaryView: Bool = false {
didSet {
// Sheet dismissed
if showingSummaryView == false {
resetWorkout()
}
}
}
//REPVIEW STUFF
// Begin the suitable train monitoring
if workoutType == .traditionalStrengthTraining {
change workoutName {
case "Bench Press":
motionTracker.startTracking(train: .benchPress)
case "Squats":
motionTracker.startTracking(train: .squats)
case "Bicep Curls":
motionTracker.startTracking(train: .bicepCurls)
case "Tricep Extensions":
motionTracker.startTracking(train: .tricepExtensions)
default:
print("Unknown exercise kind: (workoutName)")
}
}
}
}
//repbuddy
personal let motionManager = CMMotionManager()
personal var lastAcceleration: Double = 0.0
personal var isCurling = false
@Revealed var curlCount = 0
func stopWorkout() {
session?.finish()
motionTracker.stopTracking()
}
override init() {
tremendous.init()
motionTracker.$repCount.assign(to: &$repCount)
}
**func resetWorkout() {
// Reset squat monitoring
// Reset normal exercise properties
selectedWorkout = nil
builder = nil
session = nil // No must name session?.finish() right here
exercise = nil
activeEnergy = 0
averageHeartRate = 0
heartRate = 0
distance = 0
working = false
}**
@Revealed var hasRequestedAuthorization = false
// Request authorization to entry HealthKit.
func requestAuthorization(completion: @escaping (Bool) -> Void) {
// MARK: - State Management
// The exercise session state.
@Revealed var working = false
func pause() {
session?.pause()
}
func resume() {
session?.resume()
}
@Revealed var isPausing: Bool = false
func togglePause() {
guard !isPausing else { return } // Stop speedy toggling
isPausing = true
if working {
pause()
working = false
motionTracker.stopTracking() // Cease monitoring reps when paused
} else {
resume()
working = true
if selectedWorkout == .traditionalStrengthTraining, let selectedWorkoutName = selectedWorkoutName {
change selectedWorkoutName {
case "Bench Press":
motionTracker.startTracking(train: .benchPress)
case "Squats":
motionTracker.startTracking(train: .squats)
case "Bicep Curls":
motionTracker.startTracking(train: .bicepCurls)
case "Tricep Extensions":
motionTracker.startTracking(train: .tricepExtensions)
default:
print("Unknown exercise: (selectedWorkoutName)")
}
}
}
DispatchQueue.fundamental.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1) {
self.isPausing = false
}
}
@Revealed var isEndingWorkout = false
func endWorkout() {
guard !isEndingWorkout else { return } // Stop a number of calls
isEndingWorkout = true
print("Ending exercise, showingSummaryView: (showingSummaryView)")
guard !showingSummaryView else { return } // Stop a number of sheet displays
session?.finish()
builder?.endCollection(withEnd: Date()) { success, error in
if let error = error {
print("Failed to finish knowledge assortment: (error.localizedDescription)")
} else {
print("Knowledge assortment ended efficiently")
self.saveWorkout() // Name saveWorkout() after ending
}
}
DispatchQueue.fundamental.async {
self.showingSummaryView = true // Set off sheet
}
DispatchQueue.fundamental.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1) {
self.isEndingWorkout = false
}
updateRunningState()
}
func saveWorkout() {
builder?.finishWorkout { exercise, error in
DispatchQueue.fundamental.async {
if let error = error {
print("Error saving exercise: (error.localizedDescription)")
return
}
if let exercise = exercise {
self.exercise = exercise
print("Exercise saved: (exercise)")
} else {
print("Exercise is nil")
}
}
}
}
public func updateRunningState() {
DispatchQueue.fundamental.async {
if let session = self.session {
_ = self.working
self.working = (session.state == .working)
} else {
print("No energetic session present in updateRunningState.")
self.working = false
}
}
}
}
func recoverWorkoutSession() {
healthStore.recoverActiveWorkoutSession { (session, error) in
if let session = session {
self.session = session
self.session?.delegate = self
self.builder = session.associatedWorkoutBuilder()
self.builder?.delegate = self
// Resume the session
self.session?.resume()
} else if let error = error {
print("Didn't get well exercise session: (error.localizedDescription)")
}
}
}
}
default:
print("Unknown exercise: (selectedWorkoutName)")
}
}
case .paused:
self.working = false
self.motionTracker.stopTracking() // Cease rep monitoring when paused
case .ended, .stopped, .ready:
self.working = false
self.motionTracker.stopTracking() // Guarantee reps cease when exercise ends
@unknown default:
self.working = false
}
self.updateRunningState()
}
}
// Add this technique to deal with session failures
func workoutSession(_ workoutSession: HKWorkoutSession, didFailWithError error: Error) {
DispatchQueue.fundamental.async {
print("Exercise session failed with error: (error.localizedDescription)")
}
}
}
// MARK: - HKLiveWorkoutBuilderDelegate
// MARK: - HKLiveWorkoutBuilderDelegate
extension WorkoutManager: HKLiveWorkoutBuilderDelegate {
func workoutBuilderDidCollectEvent(_ workoutBuilder: HKLiveWorkoutBuilder) {
}
func workoutBuilder(_ workoutBuilder: HKLiveWorkoutBuilder, didCollectDataOf collectedTypes: Set) {
for kind in collectedTypes {
guard let quantityType = kind as? HKQuantityType else { return }
let statistics = workoutBuilder.statistics(for: quantityType)
// Replace the revealed values.
updateForStatistics(statistics)
}
// Repeatedly replace the elapsedTime from the builder
DispatchQueue.fundamental.async {
self.elapsedTime = workoutBuilder.elapsedTime
}
}
}
import SwiftUI
struct RepView: View {
@EnvironmentObject var workoutManager: WorkoutManager
var workoutName: String
var physique: some View {
VStack {
Textual content("Counting (workoutName)")
.font(.title2)
.multilineTextAlignment(.heart)
.lineLimit(4)
Textual content("(workoutManager.repCount)") // Up to date to make use of MotionTracker's rep rely
.font(.largeTitle)
.multilineTextAlignment(.heart)
.daring()
.foregroundColor(.inexperienced)
Textual content("reps accomplished")
.font(.caption)
.multilineTextAlignment(.heart)
}
}
}
#Preview {
RepView(workoutName: "Bicep Curls")
.environmentObject(WorkoutManager())
}
import SwiftUI
import HealthKit
struct SummaryView: View {
@Atmosphere(.dismiss) var dismiss
@EnvironmentObject var workoutManager: WorkoutManager
@Binding var navigationPath: NavigationPath // Make it elective
var physique: some View {
if workoutManager.exercise == nil {
ProgressView("Saving exercise")
.navigationBarHidden(true)
Button("Achieved") {
dismiss()
DispatchQueue.fundamental.async {
navigationPath.removeLast(navigationPath.rely) // Reset the navigation path
}
}
}
.scenePadding()
}
.navigationTitle("Abstract")
.navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline)
}
}
}
#Preview {
SummaryView(navigationPath: .fixed(NavigationPath()))
.environmentObject(WorkoutManager())
}
struct SummaryMetricView: View {
var title: String
var worth: String
var physique: some View {
Textual content(title)
Textual content(worth)
.font(.system(.title2, design: .rounded)
.lowercaseSmallCaps()
)
.foregroundColor(.accentColor)
Divider()
}
}
The client success panorama is quickly reworking right into a digital-first mannequin, pushed by the necessity for scalable, cost-effective practices and rising buyer desire for self-serve experiences. In keeping with TSIA’s State of Buyer Success 2025 report, a strategic shift towards digital-led engagements is rising. And, as detailed in Digital Buyer Success by Nick Mehta and Kellie Capote, “the subsequent frontier of buyer success is digital”, including that “we consider each firm ought to now be desirous about how (not whether or not) to ship a digital-first buyer expertise.”
As we boldly enterprise into this digital frontier, Cisco acknowledges the important position companions play as trusted guides to clients, and we’re dedicated to constantly innovating to empower them with the methods and instruments to thrive.
Defining Digital Buyer Success
Digital buyer success is a method to drive buyer adoption, retention, and development by means of personalised omnichannel engagements. It empowers customers to self-serve utilizing data-driven automation and centralized assets. This method facilities round delivering useful experiences all through the shopper lifecycle, not changing people – however harmonizing digital and human interactions.
Past Conventional Segmentation
Digital desire spans all buyer segments, necessitating a shift from conventional high-touch, mid-touch, and tech-touch methods to a common, digital-first expertise. This mannequin helps self-service throughout all buyer tiers, supported by buyer success managers (CSMs) for bigger purchasers and pooled CSMs as wanted.
The “3 Ps” Framework
Digital buyer success is characterised by three key attributes: Proactive, Customized, and Predictive.
Proactive: Facilitates real-time buyer self-service by means of centralized assets equivalent to group boards and guided tutorials
Customized: Tailors experiences to particular person personas and utilization patterns utilizing automated digital journeys and GenAI capabilities
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Empowering Companions to Scale by means of Digital
Cisco makes use of all three of these attributes in our Lifecycle Benefit program, enabling companions to ship a robust digital buyer success expertise at scale. Companions acquire the advantage of Cisco’s predictive AI fashions, personalised content material, expertise automation know-how, and proactive adoption-focused digital journeys that information clients by means of the lifecycle – whereas sustaining their model id and first relationship with the shopper.
Saying New Lifecycle Benefit Program Enhancements
The core worth of Lifecycle Benefit is centered on delivering an incredible digital buyer expertise collectively with our companions, however that have should even be coordinated with a associate’s CSMs to make sure cohesion between digital and human touchpoints. Our new program enhancements present that connection.
New Digital Associate Playbooks: Introducing our newly redesigned Associate Playbooks – the primary of which launches with the brand new Cisco eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) journey. This complete information helps companions speed up their clients’ adoption journey. Along with an summary of the digital content material routinely going out to clients at key lifecycle levels, the Playbook affords important product particulars and buyer outcomes, in addition to ideas for companions to handle potential adoption obstacles.
New Digital Advisable Actions: Companions can obtain prescriptive insights in actual time with Lifecycle Benefit’s Advisable Motion Supply (RAD) engine. The most recent choices embrace new insights associated to the important onboarding stage, in addition to de-risk insights for patrons exhibiting indicators of renewal danger.
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Analysis reveals that profitable onboarding within the first 30 days is a powerful predictor of buyer loyalty. Our proactive notification system will ship Onboarding Progress Stories on to companions – of their most well-liked channel – at key milestones to make sure potential deployment challenges are resolved early. The primary section focuses on Cisco XDR, offering companions with:
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Automated alerts for patrons who haven’t accomplished onboarding inside 30 days
Actionable insights and beneficial steps to drive profitable buyer implementation
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By the de-risk beneficial actions, companions can:
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Deliberately or not, the malevolently incompetent Commander-in-Chief who occupies the White Home has all however assured that China will proceed to dominate the worldwide photo voltaic {industry}, leaving the US behind within the dustbin of historical past. Exhibit A is the Chinese language photo voltaic producer LONGi Inexperienced Vitality Expertise, which has simply unveiled a brand new 670-watt module with a conversion effectivity of 24.8% at a showcase in Anhui, China.
24.8% Conversion Effectivity For A TOPCon Photo voltaic Cell
LONGi emerged as an early chief within the international photo voltaic {industry}. In 2020 the startup turned the primary producer to ship greater than 20 gigawatts’ value of photo voltaic modules, a feat that demonstrates how far, and how briskly, the {industry} has grown. Simply 10 years earlier, the overall variety of photo voltaic modules deployed by all producers collectively barely topped 17 gigawatts.
The corporate has been very busy since 2020. Final week LONGi introduced an improve to its flagship Hello-MO 9 TOPCon photo voltaic module, which is a BC (again contact) module designed with {the electrical} connections on the rear of the cell to maintain the sun-facing floor freed from interruption.
As described by LONGi, the upgraded Hello-Mo 9 achieves an industry-leading photo voltaic conversion effectivity of 24.8%. That represents an influence enchancment of 10 watts and a peak of 670 watts over the earlier Hello-MO 9 module.
LONGi additionally claims that the brand new module is 1.5% extra environment friendly than different TOPCon modules available on the market, and it will increase the put in capability of a photo voltaic array by 6.4%, in comparison with different modules in the identical quantity of area.
What Is This TOPCon Of Which You Converse?
TOPCon is brief for tunnel oxide passivated contacts, a comparatively latest growth within the photo voltaic {industry} aimed toward enhancing photo voltaic conversion effectivity in silicon photo voltaic cells. In a assessment of the literature revealed final 12 months within the journal Superior Supplies, a analysis crew primarily based in China reported that the Worldwide Expertise Roadmap of Photovoltaics “forecasts TOPCon to develop into an necessary expertise regardless of a couple of remaining challenges.”
The researchers additionally observe that the worldwide photo voltaic {industry} has but to coalesce round a set of finest practices for TOPCon manufacturing, however LONGi is just not ready round for that to occur.
The corporate has spent the previous 12 months or so demonstrating the brand new Hello-MO 9 within the discipline. “In Hainan, China’s high-temperature, high-humidity surroundings, LONGi’s Hello-MO 9 module delivers a 1.89% per-watt power yield benefit over standard TOPCon modules,” the corporate states. The Hello-MO 9 additionally acquired a exercise in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the place LONGi cites a achieve of 1.62%.
“Knowledge from extra BC energy crops additional verify the distinctive energy technology capabilities of the HPBC 2.0-powered Hello-MO 9 module, underscoring its confirmed reliability throughout various international climates,” LONGi emphasizes, with HPBC referring to the corporate’s loss-reducing hybrid passivated again contact expertise.
Extra Again Contact Photo voltaic Modules For The World Photo voltaic Business
To assist nudge the developer aspect of the worldwide photo voltaic {industry} into adopting its BC expertise, final week LONGi additionally launched a contest referred to as the “World Optimum BC Photo voltaic Energy Plant Design Problem,” in partnership with the impartial inspection providers establishment TÜV Rheinland.
TÜV Rheinland is tasked with evaluating the entries, bearing in mind innovation in design together with BC expertise integration and different parameters.
“The competitors, open to consultancies, EPC corporations, and renewable power traders worldwide, invitations progressive designs for ground-mounted energy plant initiatives exceeding 50MW throughout various software situations,” LONGi explains.
Maintain on to your hats. LONGi additionally let phrase slip that its HIBC (Heterojunction Interdigitated Again Contact) silicon photo voltaic cells have simply acquired a certification of 27.81% conversion from the Institute for Photo voltaic Vitality Analysis Hamelin in Germany.
Right here Comes The US Photo voltaic Business
President Trump’s fossil-friendly power coverage apart, the US photo voltaic {industry} nonetheless has the potential to maintain up its finish of worldwide manufacturing over the following 3.75 years till January 20, 2028, when Trump peacefully leaves workplace as stipulated within the US Structure, and abroad traders are nonetheless keen to assist.
Joint ventures with abroad corporations to fabricate photo voltaic panels within the US have develop into a typical characteristic of the home photo voltaic {industry}. That features Longi, which partnered with the US agency Invenergy in a three way partnership to determine a brand new manufacturing unit in Pataskala, Ohio, below the title Illuminate USA. The power started producing photo voltaic panels in February of 2024.
The 5-gigawatt, 1.1 million sq. foot facility hosts eight manufacturing traces able to spitting out greater than 9 million photo voltaic panels per 12 months as soon as revved as much as full capability. The 540-560 watt panels are marketed below the commerce title “Illumina 5,” with a photo voltaic conversion effectivity of 21.7% (to not be confused with a hair product of the identical title).
Illuminate USA introduced its one-year milestone on February 6, noting that it reached the two.5 gigawatt mark. “In simply the primary 12 months of operation, the corporate achieved a serious manufacturing milestone, manufacturing over 4.5 million photo voltaic panels, and rising to the biggest producer in the USA,” the agency elaborated.
What About These Tariffs?
Sure, what about them? Though Illuminate assembles its photo voltaic panels within the US, it depends upon the worldwide photo voltaic {industry} to provide parts. As of February, although, Illuminate was not significantly nervous about that. “Illuminate USA is nicely positioned to realize its annual goal of producing over 9.2 million photo voltaic panels this 12 months,” the corporate acknowledged.
“The corporate can be centered on increasing its product choices and investing in new applied sciences to take care of its management within the renewable power sector,” they added.
Within the meantime, solar energy plant builders and traders are relying on an ample provide of photo voltaic panels to maintain the US photo voltaic {industry} transferring alongside. That features a wholesome help from abroad traders. In latest weeks, for instance, the US photo voltaic developer Sunraycer Renewables introduced a $475 million financing cope with MUFG Financial institution, Ltd., Nomura Securities Worldwide, Inc. and Norddeutsche Landesbank Girzonentrale.
One other US photo voltaic developer, Silicon Ranch, just lately acquired a lift of its personal from the Netherlands agency AIP Administration, to the tune of $500 million. “The photo voltaic developer has amassed a photo voltaic portfolio totaling 3.6 gigawatts, and is working in direction of a complete of 10 gigawatts by 2030,” CleanTechnica famous.
One other renewable power funding agency that got here to play on a world stage is Minnesota-based Excelsior Vitality Capital, which closed its $1billion+ Excelsior Renewable Vitality Funding Fund II on April 8. Fund II, which follows the earlier $505 million Fund I spherical of 2021, is anchored by the Growth Financial institution of Japan with an help from restricted companions in Japan, Europe, Australia, and the Center East in addition to the US.
What was that about bringing again coal once more?
Picture: The main Chinese language photo voltaic producer LONGi goals to shake up the worldwide photo voltaic {industry} with a brand new 24.8% effectivity score for its Hello-MO 9 photo voltaic module (courtesy of Longi by way of PR Newswire).