Fri.Sep 08, 2023

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Case study: How Prologis is turning the sustainability regulatory squeeze into opportunity

GreenBiz

Prologis, a logistics real estate company, is integrating ESG into its business strategy and decision-making by prioritizing team collaboration and investment in data systems.

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New technologies for nuclear waste disposal: UK-Japan research collaboration kicks off

Envirotec Magazine

The Sellafield site in Cumbria, by night. Since 2022, the site has been primarily focused on nuclear waste processing and storage, and nuclear decommissioning (image credit: Dom Crayford , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license ). A new research collaboration brings together researchers and industrialists from the UK and Japan to explore novel ways to detect and dispose of radioactive nuclear debris.

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Break Through the Noise: Investor and Media Perspectives on Crafting a Compelling Story

GreenBiz

Having a hard time getting investor and media attention? As more companies focus on climate tech, it’s becoming harder to stand out from the crowd. Hear expert advice from climate investors and journalists on how you can help your startup break through the noise. We’ll cover best practices for reaching out to media and investors with a pitch that will get attention.

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Government support called for as single-use vape disposal quadruples to over 5 million per week

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Zeynep Demir Aslim / Shutterstock.com. The number of disposable single-use vapes thrown away has soared from 1.3 million to nearly 5 million per week, according to new research from not-for-profit group Material Focus. This is equivalent to 8 per second being thrown away – almost four times the number since the research was first conducted last year.

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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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Why circularity can’t be an exclusive club

GreenBiz

We need all voices to set the direction for the circular economy.

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Government’s renewables targets at risk as auction sees no bids for offshore wind??????

Envirotec Magazine

The government has today (8 September) unveiled the results of its fifth Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction (AR5), securing 3.7GW of renewable capacity. This is a marked reduction from last year’s secured capacity of 11GW, with government renewables targets potentially at risk, as energy market intelligence firm Cornwall Insight reported. The auction, which saw developers able to bid on a range of renewable technologies including solar PV, onshore and offshore wind and hydropower, failed to

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“It’s a mess” – businesses warned not to be caught out by latest EPR announcement

Envirotec Magazine

Environmental data specialist Ecoveritas has warned businesses not to be caught off-guard following the Environment Agency’s announcement on 5 September that it is delaying the enforcement of its Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) data submission deadline. Under the new edict, companies that miss the first two EPR submission deadlines of 1 October 2023 and 1 April 2024 will not be prosecuted, provided they submit all required data by 31 May 2024.

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The world's largest low-carbon steel plant moves closer to completion

Canary Media

A plan to build the world's first large-scale green steel plant just moved closer to becoming a reality. H2 Green Steel , the company behind the groundbreaking project in Sweden, has raised a €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) equity round.

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Drill dominion: First ever CfDs awarded for geothermal energy

Envirotec Magazine

Evening drilling rig activity at the site of the £35m United Downs project in Cornwall (image credit: GEL). The first Contracts for Difference (CfD) have been awarded for geothermal energy in what seems to be a major milestone for home-grown power and heat in the UK. Geothermal Engineering Limited (GEL), a leading UK developer and operator of geothermal plants, together with its investors Kerogen Capital and Thrive Renewables announced on 8 September that it had received the awards in the UK All

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Extreme E Plans Switch to Hydrogen as Extreme H From 2025

FuelCellsWorks

LONDON– The Extreme E electric off-road racing series whose team owners include Formula One champions Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button, is planning a switch to hydrogen as Extreme.

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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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Charts: Which states will benefit most from the Inflation Reduction Act?

Canary Media

President Biden’s marquee climate legislation has triggered a wave of announcements of planned new clean energy manufacturing facilities in the U.S. — but the benefits of this boom are not flowing evenly across the country.

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Fallback Friday Story: PowerCell Secures Deal with Bosch for Supply of S3 Fuel Cell Stack

FuelCellsWorks

PowerCell has signed an agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH to manufacture the fuel cell stack S3 for PowerCell. PowerCell thereby increases its production capacity significantly and focuses on scaling up the assembly.

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The Week in Impact Investing: Thinking Bigger

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Utopia now. Burners are a resilient bunch. As they trickled back into normie life this week, many already. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Thinking Bigger appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Startups Race to Strike Hydrogen Gold

FuelCellsWorks

The discovery of naturally formed hydrogen deposits has companies from the United States to Australia racing to find and commercialize gaseous gold. Natural hydrogen produced from subsurface geologic accumulations, dubbed.

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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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Altus Power Brings Additional Solar to Greater Boston Area

Solar Industry

Connecticut-based Altus Power , a commercial-scale provider of clean electric power, will add 3 MW in solar arrays to its operating portfolio currently serving the Greater Boston area. The assets were introduced by a Massachusetts developer and add to the company’s 117 MW in Massachusetts as of June 30, 2023. These commercial and industrial solar arrays will be sited on rooftops.

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The Rhine-Main Sets Course for a Hydrogen Future With €540 Million Pipeline Network Plan

FuelCellsWorks

The Rhine-Main region is boldly stepping into the future with a grand vision: a sprawling hydrogen pipeline system extending over 300 kilometers by the year 2028. This ambitious initiative is.

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Michigan to offer grants for electrification of outdoor recreation vehicles

Charged

The state of Michigan has announced a new program to encourage electrification of its thriving outdoor recreation sector. The Mobility Public-Private Partnership & Programming (MP4) grant program is kicking off with grants to three companies: Polaris, Electric Outdoors and Snowbotix will receive $1,225,000 in total funding from the MP4 program. Polaris will receive $700,000 to establish a network of charging stations for electric off-road vehicles.

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Tasmania’s Premier Jeremy Rockliff: Funding to Stimulate Domestic Green Hydrogen Production by 2025

FuelCellsWorks

New funding will help stimulate domestic green hydrogen capability as Tasmania progresses towards establishing commercial-scale production of green hydrogen in Tasmania by 2025.

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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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Enervenue to mass produce newest ‘30,000 cycle’ metal-hydrogen batteries in Kentucky

Energy Storage News

Enervenue’s new metal-hydrogen ‘vessel’ has “even more advantages over lithium-ion for stationary storage applications”, its CRO has claimed.

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U.S. Department of Energy Announces $20 Million to Explore Potential of Geologic Hydrogen

FuelCellsWorks

ARPA-E Unveils Two Initiatives Focused on Low-Cost, Low-Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hydrogen Production. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Given recent interest in the discovery of naturally accumulating deposits of subsurface hydrogen known as.

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Catalyze Signs Long-Term Solar, Storage Development Deal

Solar Industry

Catalyze , a clean energy transition company that finances, builds, owns and operates solar, battery storage and electric vehicle charging systems for commercial and industrial customers, has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement with Plains All American. Catalyze will construct a 6.6-MW DC solar facility and 5 MWh energy storage system at Plains’ Patoka Terminal in Vernon, Ill.

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Nuclear startup Oklo looks to rebound with backing from Sam Altman

Canary Media

Oklo , a prominent and iconoclastic advanced nuclear power startup based in Sunnyvale, California, is attempting to rebound from a regulatory setback with the help of the public markets and a pair of deals that could allow it to secure both desperately needed fuel and end customers.

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Silfab Solar, NorSun Make Ingot and Wafer Production Deal

Solar Industry

Silfab Solar , a North American photovoltaic module manufacturer, and NorSun , a Norwegian ingot and wafer manufacturer, have signed a memorandum of understanding to supply a clean source of Western-produced silicon wafers. The agreement continues Silfab’s strategic initiatives to onshore and strengthen its supply chain and increase domestic sourcing as it adds 1 GW of United States-made cell production and expands annual made-in-America module production by an additional 1.3 GW as early as mid-

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How to accelerate the time to market of lithium-ion batteries with confidence (Webinar)

Charged

Up to 40% of the total expense of an EV is attributed to the battery itself. A significant portion of this cost is directly related to the pace of development and the duration it takes to introduce the vehicle to the market.​ Starting from the initial phases of battery development, assessing and characterizing battery components is critically important.

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Missouri Farm Business Closes C-PACE Loan for Solar Project

Solar Industry

The Missouri Green Banc , a nonprofit green lender and affiliate of the Missouri Clean Energy District (MCED) , and Allectrify , a public benefit corporation that specializes in helping banks offer commercial property-assessed clean energy (C-PACE) loans to developers and small-business owners, have facilitated the closing of a $400,000 C-PACE loan to finance the installation of solar PV systems for Porter Farms in Mercer County, Mo.

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Cummins, Daimler and PACCAR form joint venture to advance US battery cell production

Charged

Three major players in the heavy-duty vehicle field are partnering to accelerate and localize battery cell production in the United States. Accelera by Cummins (the zero-emissions business unit of engine manufacturer Cummins, Daimler Trucks and Buses and PACCAR are forming a joint venture to manufacture battery cells for commercial EVs and industrial applications.

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Igneo Infrastructure Buys Majority Stake in Energy Producer Soltage

Solar Industry

Igneo Infrastructure Partners , a global infrastructure investment manager with approximately $18 billion in assets under management, has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority equity interest in Soltage LLC , a renewable power producer operating in 18 U.S. states. The transaction is expected to close later this year. Terms were not disclosed.

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Revealed: Oil and Gas Industry Links of Telegraph Energy and Climate Commentator

DeSmogBlog

The Daily Telegraph has published weekly articles since 11 August by David Blackmon, a veteran of the oil and gas industry. The articles have all been critical of current policies to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the transition to renewable energy. The idea of “an energy transition that will dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is a fantasy”, wrote Blackmon on 16 August.

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Shell Energy Europe signs 600MW PPA for German solar project

PV Tech

Shell Energy Europe has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with German insurance company Signal Iduna's subsidiary Hansainvest Real Assets to secure 600MW of capacity from a solar project.

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‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’: UK auction secures no offshore windfarms

The Guardian: Energy

Lack of interest was widely expected after government failed to heed warnings about soaring costs What went wrong at UK’s offshore wind auction? Nils Pratley: does the government still have an offshore wind strategy? No new offshore windfarms will go ahead in the UK after the latest government auction, in what critics have called the biggest clean energy policy failure in almost a decade.

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Trina Solar supplies 488MW n-type TOPCon modules to power station in China

PV Tech

Silicon Module Super League member Trina Solar has started supplying 488MW of its n-type industrial tunnel oxide passivated contacts (i-TOPcon) modules to a power station in Qinghai province, China.

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‘A critical moment’: UN warns world will miss climate targets unless fossil fuels phased out

The Guardian: Energy

Governments failing to cut emissions fast enough to meet Paris agreement goals and avoid disaster, major report says Analysis: A chasm laid bare Governments are failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris agreement and to stave off climate disaster, a major report by the UN has found. Meeting the goals will require “phasing out all unabated fossil fuels”, the report says, in an acknowledgment that some oil-producing countries may find hard to take.

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H2’s $1.6 billion raise signals growing investor and customer demand for green steel

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 8 – In one of the largest climate tech deals of the year, Sweden’s H2 Green Steel pulled in €1.5 billion. The post H2’s $1.6 billion raise signals growing investor and customer demand for green steel appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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