Fri.Oct 13, 2023

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TCFD: 97 of the world's 100 largest corporations back climate disclosure guidelines

GreenBiz

A final progress report from the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures reveals the vast majority are failing to embrace reporting best practices.

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Utah's Wildcat Loadout Project: A New Colorado River Threat

NRDC onEarth

The Wildcat Loadout expansion could load 100,000 barrels of oil per day onto trains traveling beside the Colorado River and destined for Gulf Coast Refineries.

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A circular economy investment pioneer reveals how to unlock impact

GreenBiz

Closed Loop Partners’ managing director Bridget Croke also shares what investors need from brands.

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Biden admin picks 7 ‘clean hydrogen hubs’ for $7 billion federal boost

Canary Media

After more than a year of evaluating competing proposals, the Biden administration has picked the parts of the country where it hopes to turn billions of dollars of federal investment into the seeds of a clean hydrogen economy.

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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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U.S. Unveils Seven Regional Hydrogen Hubs, Awards $7B to Kickstart National Hydrogen Network

POWER Magazine

Seven regional hydrogen hubs spanning Appalachia, California, the Midwest, the Gulf Coast, the American heartland, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Pacific Northwest are poised to receive $7 billion in Infrastructure Investment […] The post U.S. Unveils Seven Regional Hydrogen Hubs, Awards $7B to Kickstart National Hydrogen Network appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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$7 Billion Pledged for Clean Hydrogen Hubs by Biden-Harris Administration

Hydrogen Fuel News

The Biden-Harris administration is injecting $7 billion into seven regional clean hydrogen hubs. The aim is to produce over three million metric tons of clean hydrogen annually, trigger over $40 billion in private investments, and create tens of thousands of jobs. Unpacking the Hydrogen Hubs and Funding Structure Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub (MACH2) States Involved: Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey Key Features: Decarbonization, repurposing historic oil infrastructure, development of renewable hy

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TeraWatt acquires two sites for heavy-duty EV charging hubs in California’s Inland Empire

Charged

TeraWatt Infrastructure is taking a comprehensive approach to providing EV fleet charging solutions—the company acquires real estate in strategic locations to build charging hubs that incorporate energy management systems, energy storage and on-site generation. Now the company has acquired two sites in the Inland Empire region of California, where it will build new heavy-duty EV fleet charging stations.

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Hydrogen First: UK Businesses to Accelerate Hydrogen Technology to Transform Their Energy Systems

FuelCellsWorks

59% of businesses plan to explore hydrogen-based fuels and technologies in the future 24% are developing blue hydrogen processing capabilities or off-take agreements Most organisations say a lack of technology.

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Researchers study the effect of impact on structurally embedded EV batteries

Charged

Chinese researchers are studying how low-velocity impact loads affect structurally embedded lithium-ion EV batteries. In a paper published in the Journal of Power Sources , the researchers observed that embedded batteries experienced micro-short circuits during impact-loading but retained energy-storage capacity following transient impact. Charge-discharge cycling tests results indicated that abrupt capacity loss increased with impact energy, and the degradation rate rapidly deteriorated under h

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Mitsubishi Power Named a Sub-Recipient in Two Clean Hydrogen Hubs Announced by U.S. Department of Energy

FuelCellsWorks

Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub (PNWH2) and HyVelocity Hub (Gulf Coast region) were selected by the US Department of Energy to develop two regional hydrogen hubs. As an industry leader in.

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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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Smart Energy Finances: Funding for Capalo AI’s market optimisation platform

Smart Energy International

Leading this week’s Smart Energy Finances is pre-seed funding of half a million euros for Finnish startup Capalo AI, which will further develop its virtual power plant and market optimisation technology. Also on the radar are an acquisition in the Netherlands of storage developer Equans by E.ON-owned energy company Essent and confirmation from ACWA Power that over $14 billion in projects reached financial close in the last 12 months.

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Ontario Investing $7.5 Million in Funding for Hydrogen to Fuel Province’s Growing Economy

FuelCellsWorks

Innovative projects will explore opportunities to expand the use of hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel. MARKHAM–The Ontario government announced the first six projects that will receive funding through the.

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ComEd, Millennium Garages to install 300 EV chargers at Chicago charging hub

Charged

Illinois utility ComEd is working with Millennium Garages to deploy 300 EV chargers at the downtown Chicago parking complex by 2026. ComEd recently cut the ribbon on the first 100 EV chargers, and has awarded $200,000 in energy efficiency incentives to support Millennium Garages in lowering its energy usage. “ComEd is committed to working with customers and our partners from across the state to accelerate the adoption of EVs,” said Melissa Washington, SVP of Customer Operations.

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Cleveland-Cliffs Applauds Department of Energy’s $1 Billion Funding of Midwest Hydrogen Hub

FuelCellsWorks

CLEVELAND– Cleveland-Cliffs applauds today’s announcement by the Department of Energy (DOE) that it has awarded funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for several hydrogen hubs, including the Midwest Alliance for.

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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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Turkey needs to install 5GW of solar and wind every year

PV Tech

Turkey will need to install 5GW of solar and wind capacity every year until 2035, according to Turkish energy minister Alparslan Bayraktar.

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A promising molecular catalyst for aqueous polysulfide-based redox flow batteries

TechXplore

In recent years, researchers have been exploring the potential of a wide range of new battery technologies, including so-called redox flow batteries. Redox flow batteries, also known as flow batteries, are battery cells that generate electricity and store energy via so-called redox chemical reactions.

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Advent Technologies Participates in the EU’s Clean Transition Dialogue on Hydrogen in the presence of EU President Ursula von der Leyen

FuelCellsWorks

BOSTON– Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADN) (“Advent” or the “Company”), an innovation-driven leader in the fuel cell and hydrogen technology sectors, actively participated in the inaugural Clean Transition Dialogue.

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What’s on the technology radar for Europe’s DSOs?

Smart Energy International

More than 30 technologies are identified as having varying levels of impact on Europe’s DSOs over the next decade, according to E.DSO’s ‘Technology radar’. In the short term up to 2025, the highest impacts on DSOs are expected to come from cloud computing, drones and artificial intelligence, while the lowest are from advanced communications and virtual and augmented reality.

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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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China records 80% solar manufacturing growth in July and August

PV Tech

The year-on-year growth of production in a number of sectors, including polysilicon, wafers and modules, all approached or exceeded 80%.

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Webinar: Development of innovative materials, testing methodologies and simulation models for safe battery systems

Charged

Battery safety is one of the key priorities in battery development. Even though the safety of the battery is already of a high standard today due to many measures, the future designs demand innovative battery safety materials. In this session, we will talk about the application-specific material development and how simulations and testing methodologies under real conditions verify the material properties, applicability and support the development of the next-generation materials.

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EV data startup Volteras wants to bring Tesla-level control to every vehicle and charger

TechCrunch: Climate

Volteras aims to be the connective tissue between electric vehicles and everything they might touch — from chargers and home batteries to energy retailers and mapping apps. While flying under the radar for three years, the London-based startup tells TechCrunch that it has raised about $2.9 million and hooked up with some big partners. They […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Biden administration doles out $7 billion for hydrogen hubs

The Verge: Energy

Joe Biden visits the Cummins Power Generation Facility in Fridley, Minnesota, on Monday, April 3rd, 2023. Last year, Cummins announced Fridley would be the site of its first electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the US. | Photo by Elizabeth Flores / Star Tribune via Getty Images The Biden administration will funnel $7 billion into seven different “hubs” for hydrogen production across the US.

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Baker Hughes Druck Sensor Technology to Play Critical Role in Collaboration for Aircraft Hydrogen Fuel Control System Development

FuelCellsWorks

The company will participate in the Future Engine Technology for the Control of Hydrogen (FETCH) project, led by Moog.Inc, as well as two leading Universities and other collaborators Baker Hughes.

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A cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries: Aqueous rechargeable batteries

TechXplore

This summer, the planet has been suffering from unprecedented heat waves and heavy rainfalls. Developing renewable energy and expanding associated infrastructure has become an essential survival strategy to ensure the sustainability of the planet in crisis, but it has obvious limitations due to the volatility of electricity production, which relies on uncertain variables like labile weather conditions.

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Bulgaria launches grants for renewables and 350MW of energy storage

Energy Storage News

Bulgaria is launching a public consultation into a grant auction scheme for renewable energy and up to 350MW of energy storage facilities.

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Chart: Is climatetech manufacturing on track for net-zero goals?

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The world may have until 2050 to reach net-zero carbon emissions — but getting there will require a lot of action right now.

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SwRI Selected for $1.5 Million DOE Grant to Evaluate Compressor System for Hydrogen-Natural Gas Blends

FuelCellsWorks

Southwest Research Institute has been selected to receive a $1.5 million contract from the U.S Department of Energy to evaluate the safety and efficiency of a full-scale compressor system for.

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Siemens sells its Trench high-voltage component business

Smart Energy International

As part of the sharpening of its portfolio, Siemens Energy has agreed to sell its Trench business to investment firm Triton. Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price, but sources told Reuters the price is in the mid-triple-digit million euros. The sale is expected to close in the first half of 2024, but it is also still subject to the approval of the employee representatives.

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Delaware Triumphs with $750M Boost for Pioneering H2Hubs Project

Hydrogen Fuel News

$750M Boost for Regional Clean Hydrogen Research H2Hubs A coalition of states including Delaware, southeastern Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey has secured a substantial $750 million federal H2Hubs grant. This funding aims to bolster research, production, and distribution of clean hydrogen gas. The investment could potentially lead to the creation of tens of thousands of jobs in the region.

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GameChange Solar to provide trackers for 560MW Kom Ombo solar farm in Egypt

PV Tech

US tracker manufacturer GameChange Solar has announced plans to supply solar trackers to the 560MW Kom Ombo solar farm in Egypt.

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Consistent policy is key to unlocking the climate tech boom, but the UK’s U-turn isn’t helping

TechCrunch: Climate

For entrepreneurs, innovators and businesses to thrive and unlock the economic potential that comes from creating new industries, we need a consistent approach from the government. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Using sustainable aviation fuels could reduce emissions by up to 80%, scientists find

TechXplore

A team of scientists have completed tests to quantify the emissions from the combustion of sustainable aviation fuels, revealing a profound reduction when compared to regular jet fuel.

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Toyota’s EV strategy hinges on a partnership with a petrochemical company

TechCrunch: Climate

Toyota’s EV progress remains nascent. And a recent announcement about a manufacturing partner suggests that the company is still feeling its way forward. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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