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Salesforce to lobby for new rules on AI’s environmental impact

GreenBiz

Computing uses up to 3 percent of global power consumption and AI could triple that, the company believes.

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Introduction to Intelligent Power Management

The Environmental Blog

The urgency to reconsider our energy consumption and render it more sustainable has never been greater than it is today. As climate change advances and natural resources become scarcer, attention is increasingly drawn to the efficiency of electricity and gas usage. At the heart of these efforts lie intelligent energy management systems, facilitating optimized energy utilization.

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The week ahead in climate policy

GreenBiz

This week’s most important ongoing climate policy stories.

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How to Reduce Packaging Waste

The Environmental Blog

It’s no secret that pollution and waste are big problems in today’s world. All those mountains of packaging waste? They’re a huge burden on our planet. But we can change that! It’s time to rethink how we use packaging and start protecting our environment. After all, we want to leave a healthy planet for our kids and grandkids.

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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 We Need to, Have to, Want to Act on Climate Change

Andrew Winston

Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? Here’s a three-part framing to convince businesses and their leaders to respond. The battle to get companies to take sustainability seriously is essentially over. Even in the face of the “anti-ESG” movement — a very American phenomenon — there are vanishingly few large organizations around the world that really question the need to address environmental and social issues.

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What might the new global climate finance goal look like?

NRDC onEarth

Back in 2015, governments in the UNFCCC agreed to negotiate a new collective quantified goal (NCQG) for climate finance prior to 2025. What are the key elements that countries need to agree on?

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Pure Hydrogen Secures Sales Contract for Hydrogen-Powered Waste Collection Vehicle

FuelCellsWorks

Pure Hydrogen has executed a sale agreement with waste management company Solo Resource Recovery for the supply of a hydrogen fuel cell (‘HFC’) powered waste collection vehicle The vehicle will.

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Record wind and solar push down prices across grid, except for most coal dependent state

Renew Economy

Record output of renewable energy pushed prices down across the main grid in the first quarter, with the exception of the most coal dependent state grid. The post Record wind and solar push down prices across grid, except for most coal dependent state appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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BMW iX5 Puts Hydrogen Power To Use In Acceleration Test: Video

FuelCellsWorks

You’ve likely seen your fair share of acceleration tests done with cars that had combustion engines and/or large batteries. Well, this 0 to 124 mph (200 km/h) is different because.

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Surge in battery storage capacity changing dynamics of the grid

Renew Economy

The rapid growth in big batteries is changing the dynamics of Australia's main grid, and will help usher out fossil fuels. The post Surge in battery storage capacity changing dynamics of the grid 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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New Depot for Alternative Drives: Public Hydrogen Filling Station in Heidelberg Starts Operation

FuelCellsWorks

Heidelberg– Today, the public hydrogen filling station of H2 MOBILITY was officially put into operation as part of the company performance for buses with an alternative drive of Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH.

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Plasma treatment enhances electrode material for fuel cells in industry, homes and vehicles

TechXplore

Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have improved the properties of a carbon-based electrode material by exposing it to air plasma. Such treatment turned out to enhance electrode performance, which is the limiting factor for high-tech energy sources—particularly fuel cells.

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NZ’s first Green Hydrogen Express Refueller Supported by Coregas

FuelCellsWorks

Coregas NZ is proud to be a project partner to Halcyon, for the Halcyon Green Hydrogen launch of New Zealand’s first green hydrogen fast refuelling station at Wiri, South Auckland.

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An ultralow-concentration electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries

TechXplore

Lithium salts make batteries powerful but expensive. An ultralow-concentration electrolyte based on the lithium salt LiDFOB may be a more economical and more sustainable alternative. Cells using these electrolytes and conventional electrodes have been demonstrated to have high performance, as reported by a research team in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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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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Topsoe Announces Plans for New State-of-the-Art Us Electrolyzer Factory for Clean Hydrogen

FuelCellsWorks

Federal tax credits from the Department of Energy under the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C) will support construction of Topsoe’s second Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cell (SOEC) factory. The new.

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Solar Sunshot: First bids for making PV modules in Australia due in August

Renew Economy

Federal Labor's $1 billion Solar Sunshot program could be put to work as early as August with a tender for PV module manufacturing projects. The post Solar Sunshot: First bids for making PV modules in Australia due in August appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Verde Clean Fuels, Inc. Announces Participation in Consortium Awarded US Department of Energy Funding for Study of Zero Emission Methanol Production Technology

FuelCellsWorks

Verde Clean Fuels’ proprietary STG+® process could be utilized to turn carbon, captured directly from the air, and green hydrogen into methanol. HOUSTON–Verde Clean Fuels, Inc. (NASDAQ: VGAS) (“Verde” or.

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Amazon-backed solar farm powers up in Queensland’s Western Downs

Renew Economy

The 125MW solar farm underpinned by a power purchase agreement with online retail giant Amazon has completed commissioning. The post Amazon-backed solar farm powers up in Queensland’s Western Downs 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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SGN Updates on H100 Fife: An End-to-End Green Hydrogen Network Powering Homes in Buckhaven and Denbeath

FuelCellsWorks

With our world-first H100 Fife project well into its construction phase we wanted to share our latest updates on our progress. H100 Fife is an end-to-end green hydrogen network which will power.

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Poles and wires: Is there a better way to get consumers to pay for using the grid

Renew Economy

We should rethink the way we charge consumers to use the grid. The post Poles and wires: Is there a better way to get consumers to pay for using the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Oman Bets on Green Hydrogen to Fuel Clean Transportation Future

FuelCellsWorks

Construction of Oman’s first hydrogen fuelling station to commence shortly. MUSCAT–The foundation stone for the first green hydrogen station in the Sultanate of Oman will be laid later this month.

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Data centers want clean electricity. Can Georgia Power deliver it?

Canary Media

Last week, Georgia Power won regulatory approval to fast-track construction of 1.4 gigawatts of fossil-fueled power plants and to contract for nearly a gigawatt more power from coal- and fossil-gas-fired power plants owned by other utilities. The reason?

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Saarthi Greentech Unveils First Factory in Pune to Produce Hydrogen Fuel Systems That Aim to Reduce Fuel Consumption and Carbon Emissions in an Indo- Australian Collaboration

FuelCellsWorks

Saarthi GreenTech, an Indo-Australian clean-tech company, has proudly announced the grand inauguration of its state-of-the-art factory inChakan, Pune. In first phase of its operation the 10,000 sq. ft production unit.

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“Solar for all:” Biden tips $US7 billion into rooftop PV for low-income households

Renew Economy

More than 4GW of rooftop solar will be rolled out across nearly 1 million low-income and disadvantaged households as part of a $US7 billion Biden administration program. The post “Solar for all:” Biden tips $US7 billion into rooftop PV for low-income households appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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General Galactic emerges from stealth to make methane from carbon dioxide

TechCrunch: Climate

The stealthy new startup hopes a fully integrated approach, from direct air capture to electrolysis and methane generation, will let it drive prices down for so-called e-fuels. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Australian battery materials upstart sets up shop in US, promises longer range electric cars

Renew Economy

Sicona takes University of Wollongong technology global, with a factory in the US to produce ingredients it says will make EV batteries charge faster and last longer. The post Australian battery materials upstart sets up shop in US, promises longer range electric cars appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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They Achieve Affordable and Non-Polluting Green Hydrogen. Brings Us Closer to the Hydrogen Car

FuelCellsWorks

The cars of the future could run on hydrogen, but there are multiple ways to get it. The hydrogen car is one of the most coveted dreams today. It allows.

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Wind farm gets state planning approval, months after concrete poured and first turbines erected

Renew Economy

How do you approve a wind farm that is already being built? Enel Green Power has found a way with its Flaty Rocks project in WA. The post Wind farm gets state planning approval, months after concrete poured and first turbines erected appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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For this Earth Day, the White House delivers a $7 billion message: Solar for All

Impact Alpha

“Cheaper, faster, better” is not just for affluent households or wealthy neighborhoods. Hundreds of millions in annual cost-savings from ever-cheaper solar energy, not. The post For this Earth Day, the White House delivers a $7 billion message: Solar for All appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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RWE Launches Pre-Application Consultation for Pembroke Green Hydrogen

FuelCellsWorks

The plant will consist of a circa 110MWe electrolyser plant, producing around two tonnes/hour of hydrogen Hydrogen can be used to decarbonise local industrial activities in South Wales Residents can.

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Has CATL cracked the battery ageing code? Industry reacts to ‘zero-degradation’ BESS claims

Energy Storage News

Lithium-ion battery OEM CATL's claim that its latest BESS product has no degradation for the first five years of use has provoked much discussion across the industry, with some sceptical of its merits.

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Loop Energy Provides Update To Previously Announced Merger Transaction

FuelCellsWorks

VANCOUVER, British Columbia– Loop Energy™ Inc. (“Loop” or the “Company”) today reported the merger transaction provided for in the Amalgamation Agreement between Loop, H2 Portable Power Corp. and 1465123 B.C.

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Groups Collaborate to Electrify Chemical Processing Plants

POWER Magazine

Three major chemical processing companies announced the startup of a demonstration plant to show the viability of large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces. BASF, SABIC, and Linde on April 17 […] The post Groups Collaborate to Electrify Chemical Processing Plants appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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