Thu.Aug 24, 2023

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This Coca-Cola bottler will capture carbon dioxide to put the fizz in its drinks

GreenBiz

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages is building a “quadgeneration” system to generate electricity, run heating and cooling processes, and recover carbon dioxide to carbonate beverages.

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How Modern Poultry Farming Practices Contribute to a Sustainable Environment

The Environmental Blog

Photo by Italo Melo from Pexels: [link] Poultry farming is an agricultural practice that involves the rearing of domesticated birds, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese, primarily for meat or eggs. With a growing global population and increasing demand for protein, this practice has become a vital part of the world’s food production. But parallel to this growth is the pressing issue of environmental conservation.

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Got tech to slash aviation emissions? Salesforce, JetBlue and Qantas want to know

GreenBiz

The Sustainable Aviation Challenge is calling for companies to share their innovations by Oct. 2.

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Smart standpipe KTP supports PhD first for water technology firm

Envirotec Magazine

(Left) Bamidele Adebisi, Professor in Intelligent Infrastructure Systems, and (right) Paul Carrington, the CEO of Aquacheck Engineering with (centre) KTP associate Dario Chiantello with a prototype smart water meter developed via a Knowledge Transfer Partnership. Aquacheck Engineering is celebrating the graduation of the first student to be awarded a PhD via its partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University and Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN).

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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3 developments for food companies from the pre-COP28 UN meeting

GreenBiz

How the UN food system summit stocktaking moment set the stage for food systems at COP 28.

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Electric actuators awarded gas industry standard VA2/2020

Envirotec Magazine

National Gas has approved AUMA Actuators Limited’s explosion-proof range of high-performance electric actuators with the Gas Industry Standard VA2/2020 certification. Gas Industry Standard (GIS)/VA2/2020 specifies the requirements for electric-powered actuators, for use with two-position (open/closed) quarter-turn valves manufactured to the requirements of GIS/V6.

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Renewables startup aims to disrupt domestic energy market

Envirotec Magazine

The Swarm team (top, left to right: Dan Martin (Co-Founder and CEO); Barry McMahon (Head of Engineering); Anthony Piggott (Co-Founder and CTO); front, left to right: Emily Ling (Head of Operations); Shanice Haley (Customer Experience Manager); Melissa Verdon (Office Manager); Matt Martindale (Head of Marketing). A green energy management startup, launched by two experienced energy sector entrepreneurs, aims to change the way people buy, generate and use power in their homes.

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Colorado makes Buildings More Livable, Less Polluting

NRDC onEarth

With a new Building Performance Standard policy, Colorado is leading the nation with clean, healthy buildings.

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ThermaPrime completes drilling program for PGPC geothermal fields, Philippines

ThinkGeoEnergy

ThermaPrime Drilling Corporation (ThermaPrime) has successfully completed a drilling program in the geothermal projects of the Philippine Geothermal Production Company, Inc (PGPC). The program included the drilling of 12 production wells and 3 multilateral injection wells, as well as 10 work-over jobs over a period of four years. ThermaPrime is a drilling services contracting company specializing in geothermal wells and related services.

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Wind and solar strangle coal and gas, but diesel SUVs are killing us all

Renew Economy

Latest data shows wind and solar having a big impact on coal, gas and emissions, but the Australian switch to big diesel SUVs is eliminating most of those gains. The post Wind and solar strangle coal and gas, but diesel SUVs are killing us all appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Blue Bird delivers 20 electric school buses to Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Charged

Yellow school bus icon Blue Bird is going electric —the company has nearly 1,000 electric school buses in operation today. The latest order comes from Miami-Dade County Public Schools, which will add 20 electric buses to its all-Blue Bird fleet of 1,000 school buses. Miami-Dade County is the third-largest school district in the nation, serving more than 335,000 students.

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CSIRO spins out new hydrogen tech that uses 30 pct less wind and solar

Renew Economy

New CSIRO spin off says its ground-breaking electrolyser tech requires 30 per cent less electricity to make green hydrogen than competing technologies. The post CSIRO spins out new hydrogen tech that uses 30 pct less wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ADS-TEC Energy and eliso to install over 1,000 charging points in Germany by 2025

Charged

ADS-TEC Energy, a manufacturer of battery storage-based platform solutions, has partnered with charging solutions provider eliso to install ChargeBox and ChargePost DC fast charging systems in the public car parks of specialist electrical stores in Germany. ADS-TEC Energy’s battery-buffered fast charging solutions can temporarily store electricity from a local photovoltaic system in order to provide charging at power levels up to 320 kW, even at locations with power-limited grid connections.

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Labor’s taxpayer-funded Coalkeeper 2.0 is an avoidable disaster for the climate

Renew Economy

NSW Labor are laying the groundwork to make the worst decision possible on Eraring. How did it get so bad, so quickly? The post Labor’s taxpayer-funded Coalkeeper 2.0 is an avoidable disaster for the climate appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Three geothermal prospects in the Philippines up for bidding

ThinkGeoEnergy

Editor’s note: The deadline for OSCP4 has now been extended to 28 September 2023. The Department of the Energy (DOE) of the Philippines is offering three geothermal sites as part of the 4th round of Open and Competitive Selection Process (OCSP4) for renewable energy service contracts. The sites are as follows: Buguias-Tinoc (100 MW) Mabini (40 MW) Mt.

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Home, neighbourhood, grid-scale batteries: What’s the difference and why does it matter?

Renew Economy

We need all the storage we can get on our grid – of all types and sizes. But community batteries are the ‘Swiss army knife’ of modern power systems. The post Home, neighbourhood, grid-scale batteries: What’s the difference and why does it matter? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Avangrid Expands in California with Its First Solar Project

Solar Industry

Avangrid , a sustainable energy company and part of the Iberdrola Group , has unveiled its plan to build the Camino Solar project (57 MW DC/44 MW AC), its first solar project in California, a state in which the company currently operates more than 500 MW through six wind energy facilities. Cupertino Electric Inc. will construct Camino Solar in Kern County, adjacent to Avangrid’s 189 MW Manzana Wind farm.

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Huge wind turbine parts arrive at port for delivery to Golden Plains

Renew Economy

First of 21 shiploads of turbine parts for the massive Golden Plains wind farm in Victoria have been unloaded at Geelong Port, ready for delivery. The post Huge wind turbine parts arrive at port for delivery to Golden Plains appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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John Deere, Kreisel to build EV batteries and chargers in North Carolina

Charged

Deere & Company, the maker of John Deere agricultural, construction and forestry equipment, has selected a location in Kernersville, North Carolina, for the construction of a new 115,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. John Deere established its Kernersville campus in 1988. The new factory will expand production capacity of Kreisel Electric products to serve the off-highway market in North America.

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First Nations the focus as new microgrid funding seeks to ditch diesel

Renew Economy

Big chunk of federal microgrid funds will be dedicated to the “unique challenges” facing Indigenous communities that rely on costly and polluting diesel. The post First Nations the focus as new microgrid funding seeks to ditch diesel appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Domain Timber Sells Virginia Forest to Utility for Solar Project

Solar Industry

Domain Capital Group LLC , a comprehensive private investment management services firm, and its subsidiary, Domain Timber Advisors LLC , have sold nearly 1,300 contiguous acres of timberland to a local utility in Richmond County, Va., for the development of solar energy generation capacity. The sale came from a portfolio of more than 23,000 acres of timberland Domain assembled across multiple investment accounts to support renewable energy projects, primarily those focused on solar and wind.

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Kwinana green hydrogen hub edges closer at site of former oil refinery

Renew Economy

WA government says bp is a step closer to making a final investment decision on plans to turn its former oil refinery into a green hydrogen hub. The post Kwinana green hydrogen hub edges closer at site of former oil refinery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Selecting hardware to enhance EV charger design

Charged

Sponsored by Southco. The move from traditional engine vehicles to Electric Vehicles is driving a need for engineered equipment and infrastructure to support the transformation. The arrival of advanced technologies and the exponential growth predicted for electric vehicle charging is inviting industrial designers to consider a new mix of design challenges.

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There are smarter and cheaper alternatives to keeping Australia’s biggest coal plant open

Renew Economy

We are talking about a delay in the closure of Eraring as if it is our only option for secure and reliable power in NSW. It is not. For two reasons. The post There are smarter and cheaper alternatives to keeping Australia’s biggest coal plant open appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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In Maui, investing in future resilience and community stewardship after the fires

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 24 – From firefighting resources to land use planning to water rights to electric grid maintenance to community finance, this month’s. The post In Maui, investing in future resilience and community stewardship after the fires appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Energy Insiders Podcast: Are heat batteries the next big thing?

Renew Economy

Tom Geiser from Rondo Energy puts the case for heat batteries and their role in hard to abate sectors. Plus: Coal giants get a taxpayer funded lifeline. The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Are heat batteries the next big thing? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Greenbacker Buys Trio of Colorado Solar Projects

Solar Industry

Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co. LLC (GREC) , a climate-focused investment manager and independent power producer, has purchased, through a wholly owned subsidiary, three solar projects totaling 12 MW DC in southwestern Colorado from OneEnergy Renewables. With these projects, Greenbacker continues to scale its growing presence in the Colorado solar market.

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Going Bananas Over Release of Fukushima Wastewater

Energy Central

Going Bananas Over Release of Fukushima Wastewater into the Ocean Today (08/24/23) Japan is starting the controlled release of wastewater that is slightly radioactive from the Fukushima nuclear site into the Pacific ocean. Given the usual news media hysteria about such events, I offer for your reading pleasure the “banana equivalent dose.” Based on the numbers reported by.

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Re:Build Manufacturing Introduces Solar CZ Puller to Make High-Purity Ingots

Solar Industry

Re:Build Manufacturing , a designer and producer of custom automation and industrial products, advanced materials and technology solutions, has rolled out the RBM600 Solar CZ Puller designed for the manufacture of high-purity ingots used in the photovoltaic solar materials industry. At the onset of the development of the RBM600, Re:Build’s engineering and design team identified safety as the first issue to be addressed.

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Backpack Healthcare acquires Hurdle Health for inclusive mental health care

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, August 24 — Young people of color are suffering alarmingly high rates of depression, anxiety, suicide and other mental health struggles. Black. The post Backpack Healthcare acquires Hurdle Health for inclusive mental health care appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Geothermal drilling planned at Diyadin district in Agri, Türkiye

ThinkGeoEnergy

A geothermal resource exploration activity is planned by the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA) of Türkiye within the Agri Province under the AR:40 License which covers a 5400-square meter area. Within the project’s scope, one well is planned to be drilled in the Hacihalit Village of the Diyadin District of Agri Province.

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Dispose of Hazardous Waste in Seattle - 5 Locations

Living Green Technology

Where to Dispose of Hazardous Waste in Seattle We all play our part in making our local community a positive and safe place to live. Whether that means driving slow through a school zone or opting for compostable straws, even the smallest efforts can make a big difference.

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Advanced Ionics nets $12.5M Series A to inject green hydrogen into heavy industry

TechCrunch: Climate

When people talk about hydrogen these days, they almost always mention transportation. I get it: People are used to filling up tanks, not charging cars. But from a practical perspective, transportation is not a great use for hydrogen. “Hydrogen is really terrible to store and to transport,” said Chad Mason, founder and CEO of Advanced Ionics. Which is why Advanced Ionics is a hydrogen company that has nothing to do with transportation.