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General Motors is one of the firms to join the Renewable Thermal Collaborative | Credit: GM
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Cargill, General Motors, Kimberly-Clark, Mars and P&G throw their weight behind an effort to take stock of thermal loads

The corporate world has done an admirable job of inspiring the addition of solar and wind electricity to the worldwide grid — more than 8GW of capacity in the past five years alone has been inspired or...

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