Nate Kelly

Connectivity is still the biggest barrier to smart farming. This article from The Packer highlights how Don Cameron at Terranova Ranch is using Emergent’s platform to automate irrigation, track water use, and build compliance records across a large California operation. The big takeaway: once the farm is connected, automation becomes practical. Good perspective for anyone advising growers on the future of farm operations. #FarmAutomation #FarmConnectivity #IoT #AgTech #IrrigationAutomation #NationalAgMonth https://lnkd.in/gthC6h-v

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https://lnkd.in/gsa7kd-m Portland General Electric (NYSE: POR) has agreed to acquire select Washington state generation, transmission, and electric utility operations from PacifiCorp (a Berkshire Hathaway Energy subsidiary) for $1.9 billion. The deal includes three key generation facilities (Chehalis natural gas plant ~477 MW, Goodnoe Hills wind ~94 MW, and Marengo I/II wind ~234 MW), ~4,500 miles of transmission/distribution lines, and service to approximately 140,000 customers across ~2,700 square miles in Washington. #UtilitySector #EnergyTransition #MergersAndAcquisitions #CleanEnergy #InfrastructureInvestment #PacificNorthwest #ElectricUtilities #InvestmentNews #RenewableEnergy

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🌎💧 Looking Back to Move Forward: A Groundbreaking Study with Lasting Impact 💧🌎 In 2011, Locus Technologies partnered with the Silicon Valley Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) to conduct a landmark multi-phase study on the effects of recycled water irrigation on groundwater quality. The insights gained shaped best practices for sustainable water reuse and groundwater protection, challenges that remain just as urgent for water utilities today. What’s changed? Today, the tools have evolved. Many of the complex evaluations we performed back then—modeling, monitoring, data analysis—can now be streamlined and automated through Locus’ award-winning cloud software. Our Locus Water Suite is growing and more integrated than ever. From Backflow Inspection, Monthly Operating Reports (MOR), and Industrial Pretreatment (IPP) to Lead and Copper Compliance, these are just a few of the fully integrated apps in a robust family designed specifically for water utilities. Let’s build on the past to shape a more sustainable, data-driven water future. #WaterReuse #Groundwater #DigitalWater #Sustainability #WaterUtilities #LocusTechnologies #SmartCompliance #WaterSuite https://lnkd.in/gFNJAy-P

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ICF partnered with the Washington State Department of Commerce to create a strategic roadmap for a future state with over 3 million (!!) #EV charging ports. By modeling utility circuits and analyzing charging scenarios, the team helped identify a potential $8 billion in savings through managed, off-peak charging. https://lnkd.in/e4qPwVAH

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💨 Climeworks has just announced $162 million in fresh equity funding to expand its direct air capture (DAC) technology. Here’s what stands out: 🚀 Scaling ambition: The new funding will help Climeworks build larger plants that pull CO₂ straight out of the atmosphere, critical if we’re serious about net zero. 💰 Investor confidence: Big names are backing engineered carbon removal as an essential piece of the climate puzzle, not just a niche technology. 🏭 Commercial signals: Climeworks already runs Orca, the world’s largest DAC facility in Iceland and is moving fast on even bigger projects. For those in the #waste, #resources, and #sustainability sectors, this is worth watching. Operators, recyclers and resource recovery businesses could increasingly find themselves collaborating with carbon capture technologies, whether for offset markets, industrial partnerships, or integrated sustainability solutions. Carbon management is shifting from compliance cost to commercial opportunity. 🔎 My takeaway: Serious capital is chasing technologies that can remove (not just reduce) emissions. It’s a space with big implications for how we think about resource value and climate strategies. #carbonremoval #directaircapture #greentech #venturecapital #impactinvesting #climatefinance #privateequity #circulareconomy

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I’m honored to announce Lumo’s official partnership with Wyatt Irrigation Supply, Inc. From day one of launching Lumo, every wine grower we’ve ever met in the Napa-Sonoma urged us to consult Wyatt—they’re the undisputed experts. So we did. And their insights and advice have played a critical role in shaping many of the innovations we’ve built into our intelligent irrigation platform since day one. We’re thrilled to now team up officially to bring this platform to the Napa-Sonoma market and make it the standard. Growers and vineyard managers deserve a true standard for irrigation operations. Standardization drives massive value by lower costs through economies of scale, greater innovation via shared learnings with critical partners like Wyatt, and long-term reliability they can trust. For wine growers, it means tighter execution, reduced labor demands, minimized system risks, and precise water management that elevates wine quality. Lumo is the best choice as that standard - a platform built in this market, by this market. They asked us to simplify automation with block-level data, alerts, and verified performance—and we did. And in doing so, we’ve already seen rapid adoption by nearly 200 vineyards in the market over just a few seasons. Don’t take my word for it though. Wyatt’s word matters more — they’re the premier irrigation authorities. So their endorsement with today’s partnership is a powerful testament. I couldn’t be excited to collaborate with them to achieve that standardization everyone has been asking for. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gTkfNAyG #LumoAg #WyattIrrigation #PrecisionIrrigation #NapaSonomaWine #AgTech

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And this will also push the support of charging interoperability by offering a permanent test site with CharIN Conformance Certified Charger and getting a testlab for CharIN Conformance Certification for EVs and Chargers

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💡 How it all started! Back in 2015, AMS was asked by a number of leading consulting engineers that included Hazen and Sawyer, Corona Environmental Consulting, LLC, Black & Veatch, Carollo Engineers to support their evaluation of different legacy technologies for hexavalent chromium treatment by providing them with high-frequency, real-time data on the performance of those systems. That gave us all an up-close insight into the multi-points of failure, unreliability and high costs of those systems and it was not pretty 🤮 . That problem (where all innovations start) motivated us to develop a completely novel approach to the removal of this toxic contaminant that was based on the well-understood and documented chemistry of stannous, a safe, clean chemical, that because of its properties can only be made on-site. In the intervening period we have proven this technology, secured its designation as Best Available Technology and demonstrated at numerous sites across California (without a $ of taxpayer or ratepayer money) that it can deliver safe drinking water at a fraction of the cost and far less environmental impact than those legacy technologies. And so for any consulting engineer, city manager or engineer here is why it should be seriously considered. And it begs the question, why are those legacy technologies still being exclusively proposed when delivering safe drinking water at an affordable price and minimizing the burden on taxpayers and ratepayers, many of whom live in underserved communities, is surely our professional goal and obligation as responsible citizens? And if any of the above want to challenge or validate our claims we will be only too happy to provide a demonstration or a quotation! https://lnkd.in/gZ4PvYDj #innovation #safedrinkingwater #environmentalprotection #realtimewaterqualitymonitoring

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The numbers behind AeroFlexx's new patents are impressive: up to 70% less plastic at source, 50% recycled content integration, and 85% virgin plastic reduction vs. traditional bottles. Patent protection for breakthrough sustainable packaging technology!

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