Meet Nexii, the green construction company allied with Michael Keaton

Green construction startup Nexii first caught my attention back in the spring when the Canadian company announced a partnership with actor and Pennsylvania native Michael Keaton. The initiative — the creation of a manufacturing plant for Nexii’s “sustainable concrete” alternative Nexiite — will bring at least 300 new jobs to a redeveloped brownfield site in the “Steel City” of Pittsburgh that thrived in the era of industrialist Andrew Carnegie. “I’ve always been interested in desig…

Green light for London’s ‘most sustainable tower’

Dutch developer EDGE has received planning permission for what it says will be the UK capital’s greenest tower.

Designed by Pilbrow & Partners to achieve both BREEAM Outstanding and WELL Platinum certification, EDGE London Bridge is a 27-storey, 260,000 sq ft tower that “promises to maximise the wellbeing of its occupants”, the developer said.

Can smart solar inverters help keep grid voltages in balance? Sunnova, SolarEdge and National Grid team up to find out

Smart inverters can do a lot to help utilities, from mitigating the disruptions that can arise from increasing rooftop solar penetration to taking a more active role as grid-balancing agents. But before utilities can start to rely on them for these purposes, they’ve got to test them at scales that can really make a difference on the grid. That’s what utility National Grid is planning to do with Sunnova and SolarEdge in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. On Tuesday, the companies announced&…