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Filling Eraring gap: Giant Waratah Super Battery project to receive more than $700m

Renew Economy

The Waratah Super Battery project, designed to help fill the gap left by the closure of Eraring by creating a type of giant "shock absorber", will receive more than $700m. The post Filling Eraring gap: Giant Waratah Super Battery project to receive more than $700m appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Is hydrogen fuel dangerous to use?

Hydrogen Fuel News

Many people think of H2 and instantly call to mind the Hindenburg disaster. It’s not uncommon for people to wonder if hydrogen fuel is dangerous when they haven’t had any direct experience using it for increasingly common purposes such as generating electricity with a fuel cell. There is a great deal of misunderstanding circulating with regards to the use of H2 as an energy source.

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Energy shift in action: Brown coal hits new low in Victoria, renewables hit new high in NSW

Renew Economy

Rooftop PV sends brown coal output inVictoria to record low, while NSW hits new demand and renewable output records The post Energy shift in action: Brown coal hits new low in Victoria, renewables hit new high in NSW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Deal Dive: Training the workforce for the clean energy transition

TechCrunch: Climate

Montamo hires and trains people to work in the clean energy transition with an emphasis on helping migrants build a new career. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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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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New 'n-i-p' perovskite/organic hybrid tandem solar cells with efficiencies over 23%

TechXplore

Engineers and material scientists have been working to develop increasingly advanced photovoltaic solutions, to convert as much solar energy as possible into electricity and help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This has led to the introduction of various new solar cell designs, including all-perovskite tandem solar cells.

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National Grid drops Beijing-backed supplier over UK power network fears

Financial Times: Energy

Move to end contract and start removing parts comes as west rethinks Chinese involvement in critical infrastructure

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China’s biggest nickel producer to list battery unit in Hong Kong

Financial Times: Energy

Debut of Tsingshan’s REPT Battero Energy comes at end of barren year for initial public offerings

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SoCalGas and Bloom Energy agree to lead hydrogen blending project

Energy Central

Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and Bloom Energy have announced they will power a portion of Caltech’s grid via a hydrogen project. Using water from Caltech’s service line, it will then be run through Bloom Energy’s solid oxide electrolyser which uses grid energy to create hydrogen. The produced hydrogen will be injected into Caltech’s natural gas.

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Biggest-ever UN climate summit as UAE host swells guest lists

Financial Times: Energy

Final tally of more than 65,000 core participants exceeds previous attendance by 80%

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Puerto Rico’s 1.5 million smart meter replacement get go ahead

Smart Energy International

Puerto Rico utility Luma’s smart meters will replace the almost 1.5 million meters that were damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. The programme, which was announced in September, has now been approved, with the allocation of over $786 million by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as part of its accelerated awards strategy for the authority.

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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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Hydrogen Storage for a Net Zero Carbon Future

Energy Central

Hydrogen Storage for a Net Zero Carbon Future If a hydrogen economy is to become a reality, along with efficient and decarbonized production and adequate transportation infrastructure, deployment of suitable hydrogen storage facilities will be crucial. This is because, due to various technical and economic reasons, there is a serious possibility of an imbalance.

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Cop28 has singled out fossil fuels as the main climate problem. But do leaders have the will to act? | Adam Morton

The Guardian: Energy

The UN summit’s deal heralds the end of coal, oil and gas. The real test is whether producers back it up with action • Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast From the start, Cop28 appeared beyond the reach of satire. About 100,000 politicians, diplomats, lobbyists, business people, investors, activists, scientists, policy wonks and journalists from across the globe registered for a two-week climate summit hosted by an authoritarian oil state in a city, Dubai,

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COP 28 — The End Of The 1.5 Degree C Fantasy

CleanTechnica

In Paris at the end of 2015, the world rejoiced when the national representatives from around the planet agreed to. [continued] The post COP 28 — The End Of The 1.5 Degree C Fantasy appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Federal Employees: It’s Time To Commute By EV Or Public Transit

CleanTechnica

Federal employees, your days of driving a gas-guzzler to work solo — whether on the highways or across the bi-ways. [continued] The post Federal Employees: It’s Time To Commute By EV Or Public Transit appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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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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Bavaria Enters Act 3 of Tragicomic Odyssey Of The Hydrogen Fleet

CleanTechnica

The hydrogen chorus is again singing, discordantly and joyfully, as Bavaria continues along the tragicomic journey which inevitably leads to. [continued] The post Bavaria Enters Act 3 of Tragicomic Odyssey Of The Hydrogen Fleet appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Nations Begin Tightening The Screws On Chinese Electric Car Imports

CleanTechnica

Electric car import rules are changing in France and Turkey as 2023 comes to a close, putting Chinese imports under pressure. The post Nations Begin Tightening The Screws On Chinese Electric Car Imports appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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GM Announces Yet Another Cadillac EV Crossover

CleanTechnica

In a recent press release, GM’s Cadillac division announced a fourth upcoming EV crossover: the VISTIQ. This makes four EV. [continued] The post GM Announces Yet Another Cadillac EV Crossover appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Can a Radically Different Approach to EVs Outperform Tesla’s Numbers Advantage?

CleanTechnica

There are many areas of automotive life where we like to compare the numbers. Which car has more horsepower? Which. [continued] The post Can a Radically Different Approach to EVs Outperform Tesla’s Numbers Advantage? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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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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GM Blames Buggy Connections For Ditching CarPlay, Android Auto

CleanTechnica

A recent article at MotorTrend gives us some more detail behind GM’s decision to abandon Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. [continued] The post GM Blames Buggy Connections For Ditching CarPlay, Android Auto appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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