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Companies are slowly realizing their banks are adding to their carbon emissions

GreenBiz

Palo Alto Networks, Burton Snowboards, Lush Cosmetics and Seventh Generation are scrutinizing the impact financial services have on their climate goals.

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Ultra high pressure jetting a concrete removal ‘gamechanger’

Envirotec Magazine

A specialist team from drainage and wastewater specialist Lanes Group plc has prevented the need to partially demolish three houses by using a water jet to remove concrete from a sewer pipe. The ultra-high pressure (UHP) jetting system, which powers the water jet to over the speed of sound, was deployed after the foundation concrete in the pipe proved too tough for conventional robotic cutting.

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The future of sustainable aviation fuel depends on the 2023 Farm Bill

GreenBiz

Sustainable aviation fuel is emerging as the most viable path forward for a decarbonized aviation industry, if the 2023 Farm Bill provides adequate funding.

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Defra funds project to sequester carbon in peatlands of the Falklands

Envirotec Magazine

The emissions data gathered by the study will give a sense of the potential benefits of conservation intervention. The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the Falkland Islands’ extensive peatland habitats are to be studied as part of a project that will examine their carbon sequestration and offsetting potential. The results of the work could lay the foundations for future alternative income in the rural economy and help to restore and conserve the valuable island environments.

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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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Removing Lead Pipes Would Save Lives—and Money

NRDC onEarth

Over the next 35 years, removing lead service lines would result in significant cost savings—$786 billion—from avoided health impacts.

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Sensor-equipped system saves millions of litres of water

Envirotec Magazine

The logger in the ground. The UK’s largest water and wastewater company, Thames Water, has selected Ovarro’s end-to-end service LeakNavigator to deliver a three-year leakage reduction contract, writes Tony Gwynne, global leakage solutions director at Ovarro. Thames Water is working to achieve a 20.5% reduction in leakage across London and the Thames Valley, region to meet regulatory targets.

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Queensland solar farm locks in supply deal for Australia’s biggest green hydrogen project

Renew Economy

Stanwell signs 15-year off take deal for all the output of another major solar project to supply its green hydrogen plans, in the second such deal of the past two weeks. The post Queensland solar farm locks in supply deal for Australia’s biggest green hydrogen project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Biden Administration’s Risky Offshore Leasing Plan

NRDC onEarth

The Biden administration's offshore oil and gas leasing plan places communities and environments at risk.

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Climate “Australia’s next big employer:” Cannon-Brookes joins push for net zero workforce

Renew Economy

Cannon-Brookes joins industry led campaign to populate the millions of new climate and energy roles required for Australia to meet net zero by 2050. The post Climate “Australia’s next big employer:” Cannon-Brookes joins push for net zero workforce appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Happy Heat Pump Water Heater Day!

NRDC onEarth

This Heat Pump Water Heater Day, and every day, consider a highly efficient heat pump for your home!

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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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“The SEC is back:” Victoria flicks switch on state-owned utility in push to 95 pct renewables

Renew Economy

Victoria re-boots the publicly owned State Electricity Commission, with plans to build 1.2GW of renewables and storage by 2025, generate thousands of green jobs. The post “The SEC is back:” Victoria flicks switch on state-owned utility in push to 95 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Mazda Unveils ‘MAZDA ICONIC SP’ Hydrogen Ready Compact Sports Car Concept

FuelCellsWorks

HIROSHIMA, Japan—Mazda Motor Corporation today unveiled the MAZDA ICONIC SP, a new concept car for the first time at Japan Mobility Show 2023.*1 MAZDA ICONIC SP MAZDA ICONIC SP is.

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Fortescue produces first “home grown” electrolysers as it lines up green hydrogen deals

Renew Economy

Fortescue producing first of its "home grown" electrolysers at new Gladstone gigafactory, which it sees as key to success in Hydrogen Headstart program after missing out on Whyalla tender. The post Fortescue produces first “home grown” electrolysers as it lines up green hydrogen deals appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Edmonton Metropolitan Region Drives Forward on Hydrogen Innovation

FuelCellsWorks

The first hydrogen-powered transit buses are hitting the roads in Edmonton and Strathcona County, fueling a transition to more environmentally sustainable transit networks and driving growth for the hydrogen economy.

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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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Report: PA Clean Trucks Program Could Save 140 Lives, Create 3,524 Jobs

NRDC onEarth

A new report finds that adoption of the Advanced Clean Trucks standard in Pennsylvania can avoid 140 premature deaths and create 3,524 new jobs.

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John Cockerill Advances Us Expansion of Hydrogen in Houston Area With Launch of Gigafactory in Baytown

FuelCellsWorks

Site expected to produce 1GW of electrolyzers annually, creating 200 jobs and bolstering Houston’s position as a hydrogen hub. HOUSTON, Texas– John Cockerill Hydrogen, a world leading electrolyzer manufacturer announced.

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Heraeus Group invests in PV startup Holosolis’ 5GW French manufacturing plant

PV Tech

German technology group and PV component manufacturer Heraeus has acquired an undisclosed stake in French PV manufacturing startup Holosolis to support the development of its planned 5GW module assembly plant in Hambach, France.

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Yara and Navigator Holdings Ltd. Lead Investment Into Azane Fuel Solutions To Realize World’s First Ammonia Bunkering Solution

FuelCellsWorks

Yara Growth Ventures and Navigator Holdings Ltd. lead investment round of 5.4 million EUR (around 5.7 million USD) in Azane Fuel Solutions AS ammonia bunkering startup, to commence construction of.

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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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Electric Vehicle Containment Unit can squelch EV fires even as they’re still burning

Charged

No, despite what you’ve seen in a thousand Facebook posts, EVs are not more prone to catching fire than are legacy vehicles (according to several studies— take your pick —the reverse is the case). However, like any energy storage system, an EV battery can catch fire in the case of a collision or a malfunction, and there are a couple of troublesome aspects to battery fires—they can’t be put out with water, and they can reignite hours after it seems the fire has been put out.

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Spain’s Enagas Sees Sufficient Green Hydrogen Volumes to Supply H2med Pipeline

FuelCellsWorks

Proposed H2Med pipeline would link Portugal, Spain, France and Germany January call for interest to give clear idea of likely 2030 supply volume: CEO Spanish TSO ‘convinced’ green hydrogen supply.

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When You Poison Our Lands, You Poison Us

NRDC onEarth

The granddaughter of a Navajo uranium miner stands with the Standing Rock Sioux against DAPL.

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EU Launches a Team Europe Initiative to Develop Green Hydrogen in Mauritania and Accelerate Its Energy Transition

FuelCellsWorks

Today, on the eve of the Global Gateway Forum taking place in Brussels on 25 and 26 October, European Commission President Von der Leyen and the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani have.

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The trillion-dollar quest to make green steel

Canary Media

OSCEOLA, Arkansas — On a hot, dry morning in mid-October, dozens of visitors gathered in a former cotton field turned dusty compound, before a cluster of blue rectangular buildings. In the far distance, an earthen levee snaked along the banks of the drought-stricken Mississippi River.

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Australia’s “biggest” green hydrogen project given $69m in new round of funding

Renew Economy

Federal government tips $69.2 million into the 2.2GW Central Queensland Hydrogen Hub, described by the state government as the biggest in Australia. The post Australia’s “biggest” green hydrogen project given $69m in new round of funding appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Time Picks UCLA Engineering Climate Solution as One of 2023 Top Inventions

FuelCellsWorks

Tech leverages seawater to capture and store atmospheric carbon dioxide while producing green hydrogen. Time magazine has named the carbon-removal Equatic process developed at UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management (ICM) one.

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LNG plant operators change their tune on carbon capture

DeSmogBlog

This article was originally published by The Lens and is republished with permission. The Lens is the New Orleans area’s first nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest newsroom, dedicated to unique investigative and explanatory journalism. Their mission is to educate, engage and empower readers with information and analysis necessary for them to advocate for a more transparent and just governance that is accountable to the public.

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Brazil’s Ceara State Govt Signs MoU for Green Ammonia Production, Ahead of World Hydrogen Latin America 2023

FuelCellsWorks

With huge ambition and potential, Latin America has an exceptional opportunity to become a global clean hydrogen powerhouse. The planned facility will be capable of producing 40 tonnes per day.

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India Extends Emergency Operation Order for Plants Using Imported Coal

POWER Magazine

India’s government has issued an emergency order that extends the operation of coal-fired power plants using imported coal, as the country grapples with a shortage of domestic coal and continued […] The post India Extends Emergency Operation Order for Plants Using Imported Coal appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Government snowed again, if it believes Snowy 2.0 is a commercial investment

Renew Economy

An independent probe might cut through Snowy 2.0’s woeful history of impossibly optimistic estimates. The government should start by releasing the reset report. The post Government snowed again, if it believes Snowy 2.0 is a commercial investment appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Current policies only enabling half of energy storage deployment needed by 2030, says IEA

Energy Storage News

Only half of the energy storage needed to properly integrate the potential solar PV additions globally by 2030 will be deployed based on current policies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its World Energy Outlook report for 2023.

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DP Energy wins approval for major wind farm near broken coal generator in Queensland

Renew Economy

DP Energy says it has received planning approval for another major wind farm in central Queensland, which will be located near the broken Callide C coal generator. The post DP Energy wins approval for major wind farm near broken coal generator in Queensland appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Factorial Energy opens solid-state battery factory in Massachusetts

Charged

Factorial Energy , a developer of solid-state battery technology for EV applications, has opened a new battery manufacturing facility in the Boston suburb of Methuen, Massachusetts. The new plant represents a significant step in scaling up the production of Factorial’s solid-state battery technology for EVs. Factorial says its proprietary FEST (Factorial Electrolyte System Technology) quasi-solid-state batteries offer higher energy density and increased safety compared to current lithium-ion bat

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ARENA says industrial emissions key to climate gains from solar, EVs and batteries

Renew Economy

ARENA boss says clean technologies like solar batteries and EVs and heat pumps are not truly green unless the whole upstream supply chain is also green. The post ARENA says industrial emissions key to climate gains from solar, EVs and batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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