Green building is no longer just an environmental concern—it’s a business imperative. That was the overarching theme at Building Lasting Change™ 2025, where industry leaders showcased how sustainability is limiting risk and driving innovation, investment and long-term value in Canada’s built environment.

BayWa r.e. has been commissioned by Stora Enso, a leading provider of renewable products in packaging, biomaterials, and wooden construction and a private forest owner, to jointly develop several onshore wind projects on Stora Enso’s land in Sweden.

PV inverter and energy storage system (ESS) solutions specialist Sungrow has supplied 80 units of their SG350HX string inverters to a 70 MWp solar power plant in Simo, Lapland, located just 100 kilometres below the Arctic Circle.

 

One of Europe’s largest mill transformations, the Rouen biomass boiler project is pioneering circular economy practices, cutting CO2 emissions by 99,000 tons annually and saving local wood waste from landfill.

The UN Ocean Conference held this month in Nice, France, was the stage for an important advancement for marine renewable energy in Barbados. At the event, the Barbados Investment & Development Corporation, through its Bloom Clean Technology and Climate Tech Center of Excellence, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Global OTEC, a climate technology company specializing in Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion.

Global energy storage owner-operator BW ESS and Getxo-based energy storage developer Ibersun have signed a joint venture to develop, in its first phase, 2.2GW of utility-scale battery energy storage system projects across Spain.

Select businesses in New Mexico now have an opportunity to reduce utility bills while lessening their building’s emissions and operating expenses, all while helping their community become more resilient.

Supplier of hydrogen fuel cells for the marine market, PowerCell, has announced that its Marine System 225 has received Type Approval from Lloyd’s Register, confirming that it meets stringent international standards for safety, performance, and design standards within the maritime industry.

EV manufacturer BYD UK, a subsidiary of the Chinese BYD Group, has joined forces with UK energy supplier Octopus Energy to announce the launch of the Power Pack Bundle, the UK’s first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) bundle, enabling electric vehicles (EVs) to act as batteries on wheels – both charging and sending power back to the grid at peak times, thereby reducing the need to turn on polluting fossil fuel plants.

ENERGY STAR is a data tool used by 465,000 buildings to track emissions, with cities such as New York, Washington, DC and Boston legally required to provide emissions reports. However, the US Government is on the verge of shutting ENERGY STAR down. REM talked to Cambio co-founder and co-CEO Stephanie Grayson to find out more about what is going on with ENERGY STAR at the moment and what solutions to the situation are being attempted.

Uno: las tensiones de la red de transporte (REE es el operador del sistema eléctrico nacional y transportista único) estaban dentro de rango y, sin embargo, determinadas instalaciones (de las compañías eléctricas) se desconectaron de manera "no justificada" (como si esas tensiones fueran más elevadas de lo debido), desencadenando la subida de tensión. Y dos: otras instalaciones (de las compañías eléctricas) que deben controlar las subidas de tensión incumplieron esa obligación agravando la subida, que acabó precipitándose en cascada hasta concluir en el cero energético del día 28.