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Australian Impact Investment’s Neeraj Aggarwal: Find your ‘impact DNA’

GreenBiz

Here's what he first looks for when hiring in the fast-evolving impact investment space.

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World’s First Series-Production Vehicles Mercedes-Benz Ecitaro G Fuel Cell Delivered to Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr Gmbh

FuelCellsWorks

Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (rnv) received first three of 48 fully electric eCitaro articulated buses with a 60 kW fuel cell as range extender NMC3 high-performance batteries and fuel cell increase range.

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Chris Bowen’s bold and sudden movement on climate sent the Coalition clutching at its pearls

The Guardian: Energy

The existential battle against global heating requires connecting science, politics and community life, often much harder than it looks Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast A lot of the time, politics feels incremental. But every now and again, a big thing happens suddenly. Chris Bowen made it clear this week the government intends to transform the fundamentals of Australia’s energy grid.

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CO2-Free Hydrogen: Basf Receives Funding Approval for 54-Megawatt Water Electrolysis Plant

FuelCellsWorks

Proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer expected to produce up to 8,000 metric tons of hydrogen per year Annual reduction in CO2 emissions of up to 72,000 metric tons German Federal Ministry for Economic.

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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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Chart: Here's where utility-scale solar is located in the US

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The recipe for a fossil-free future includes a big dollop of solar — and in recent years, that solar has started popping up all around the U.S.

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Dovetail to Convert 10 Planes to Hydrogen Power – Report

FuelCellsWorks

Dovetail Electric Aviation has announced a contract from Spanish carrier Air Nostrum for the conversion of 10 aircraft to utilise its hydrogen fuel cell, battery electric powertrain.

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Mexico President Says Danish Fund to Invest $10 Bln in Mexico to Produce Green Hydrogen

FuelCellsWorks

MEXICO CITY– A Danish fund will invest $10 billion in a development hub in southern Mexico to produce green hydrogen for ships and to replace fossil fuel use, Mexican President.

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US BESS manufacturing won’t meet demand unless ‘challenges’ are addressed, says SEIA

Energy Storage News

Cost and availability of raw materials is the biggest among a number of challenges that must be addressed if US-made products will be able to meet demand for battery storage in the country.

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ADNOC Opens the Region’s First High-Speed Green Hydrogen Refueling Pilot Station in Abu Dhabi

FuelCellsWorks

‘H2GO’ supports the UAE’s National Hydrogen Strategy and the decarbonization of its transport sector Pilot station, located in Masdar City, is enabled by collaboration with local and international partners to.

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Low electrical conductivity coolants for EV charging applications (Webinar)

Charged

High-voltage charging stations require fluid to cool the internals. The challenge is that the fluid must maintain very low levels of conductivity to avoid short-circuits, etc. In this session at the Virtual Conference on EV Infrastructure to learn about low electrical conductivity coolants that are widely used in major EV charging systems in the EV space.

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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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About to Set Sail, the First Hydrogen Ferry in the United States

FuelCellsWorks

The future of maritime transportation in America has taken a significant leap with the upcoming launch of the first hydrogen-powered ferry in San Francisco. This project, developed for over five.

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Cola EV wars: Daimler delivers Freightliner eCascadias to California Coca-Cola Bottler

Charged

Daimler Truck North America has delivered 20 electric Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 tractors to Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling (RCCB). These are the first electric tractors to be added to the Downey, California, fleet of the West Coast and Midwest bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola brands. (Meanwhile, competitor Pepsico is going with the Tesla Semi.) To ensure optimal site design and integration of the eCascadias into its fleet, RCCB has collaborated with Detroit eConsulting, a DTNA service, to ins

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Hyundai Motor Company Signs Mou With Poh Tiong Choon Logistics to Develop Hydrogen Ecosystem in Singapore

FuelCellsWorks

Both parties will collaborate to jointly establish and promote hydrogen-based mobility in Singapore As Singapore works towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, this partnership brings the country one step closer towards a hydrogen.

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HummingbirdEV secures funding for its commercial EV systems

Charged

Commercial EV technology company HummingbirdEV , founded in 2015, has secured $6 million in initial Series A funding to scale up its operations and accelerate product development. It is seeking additional investors in the round, which is targeted to close in the first quarter of 2024. The company, which generates revenue in the US and China, has also received funding from the California Air Resources Board.

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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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Ontario Invests $5.9 Million in Nine Projects to Incorporate Hydrogen Into Provincial Power Grid

FuelCellsWorks

Nine new projects will add more clean electricity from hydrogen and reduce emissions. HALTON HILLS – The Ontario government is investing $5.9 million in nine new projects that will integrate hydrogen.

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SWTCH and Hubject to expand roaming for North American EV charging

Charged

Toronto-headquartered EV charging technology company SWTCH Energy and Berlin-headquartered eRoaming network Hubject have collaborated to allow EV drivers using the SWTCH app to charge at any of Hubject’s 600,000 charging points in 52 countries across four continents. SWTCH has provided access to Plug & Charge on its chargers, allowing drivers to initiate payment without app-based methods, RFID charge cards or credit cards.

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Gold Hydrogen Announces Ramsay Project Operational Update: Detection of Hydrogen in Ramsay 2 Well

FuelCellsWorks

Highlights: Ramsay 2 drilling began on Friday, 17 November 2023, with surface casing successfully installed at a depth of 192m over the weekend. Hydrogen detection confirmed across the entire Parara.

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DOE announces $42mn for semiconductor research and development

Smart Energy International

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $42 million for 15 projects across 11 states meant to improve the reliability, resiliency, and flexibility of the domestic power grid through the research and development of next-generation semiconductor technologies. Funded through DOE’s Unlocking Lasting Transformative Resiliency Advances by Faster Actuation of power Semiconductor Technologies ( ULTRAFAST ) program, the technologies being developed are intended to enable more effective control of gri

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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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National Green Hydrogen Council in Egypt Approves Green Hydrogen Strategy

FuelCellsWorks

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has approved the national strategy for the green hydrogen during his meeting with the National Green Hydrogen Council’s members to follow up on the latest development of this.

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“Toxic inventory” of PV modules building in Europe with fire sales flourishing in distributed generation

PV Tech

A “toxic inventory” of modules has been building up in Europe because market growth has been slower than expected, according to S&P Global.

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Overwhelming Interest in Enagás’ Spanish Hydrogen Network Initiative

FuelCellsWorks

Enagás, a prominent energy infrastructure company, has witnessed an exceptional response to its Spanish Hydrogen Troncal Network initiative. The company recently concluded the first phase of its non-binding Call For.

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European Hydrogen Bank | Auction

Energy Central

The European Commission launches a pilot auction to support renewable #hydrogen production. The EU's Innovation Fund will finance this key decarbonization technology with up to €800mln. The objective is to connect supply and demand for renewable hydrogen and create transparency about price points, which will help kickstart a European.

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Electrofuel Developed From Green Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide to Be Tested in Practice for the First Time

FuelCellsWorks

The E-fuel project of VTT and partners has developed a concept for producing electrofuel from green hydrogen and carbon dioxide using a combination of different methods. On the 21st of.

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Wave devouring propulsion: A green technology for maritime sustainability

TechXplore

A new form of wave devouring propulsion (WDP) could power ships and help to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the maritime industry. Academics from Cranfield University have worked on the concept of using wave energy for propulsion and designed an inventive method of achieving greater thrust from the power of the waves by harnessing a vessel's submerged flapping foils in an innovative way.

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25 Differences Between Private Sector and Government Managers

POWER Magazine

You often hear it said that government should be run more like a business. But a senior industry executive with cabinet-level experience in the Reagan and Bush II administrations explains why it's not that simple. The post 25 Differences Between Private Sector and Government Managers appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Study: Agricultural soil can provide a quarter of global carbon sequestration budget

Business Green

New research sheds fresh light on huge scale of climate benefits associated with soil preservation

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Peter Carlsson, Northvolt’s battery revolutionary

Financial Times: Energy

Head of group seeking to be Europe’s first homegrown champion in the sector is not your average Swedish CEO

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Margün Enerji and Huawei deploying 2MW co-located BESS in Turkey

Energy Storage News

Renewable energy project developer Margün Enerji is partnering with OEM Huawei to deploy a 2MW battery energy storage system (BESS) at a solar plant in Turkey.

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REC Group abandons Norwegian polysilicon facility, ESMC says outlook is ‘grim’

PV Tech

According to reports from Norwegian media outlets, the price of electricity in Norway, alongside worldwide overproduction of polysilicon, made REC’s operations untenable in comparison with its Chinese competitors.

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Iceland approves funding for eight geothermal exploration projects

ThinkGeoEnergy

Iceland’s Ministry of Environment, Energy, and Climate has confirmed the proposals of the Energy Fund’s board on the allocation of subsidies to support efforts on geothermal exploration. A total of eight projects will receive funding with a total amount of ISK 447 million (approx. USD 3.25 million). The project description, proponent, and corresponding subsidy amounts are as follows: HEF veitur ehf – Búlandsnes, Djupivogur (ISK 134,840,000) Orkubú Vestfjarda – Ísafjördur

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BMW iX5 Hydrogen-Powered SUVs Undergo Trials in French Police and Gendarmerie Fleets

FuelCellsWorks

At the request of the Ministry of the Interior and Overseas, two BMW iX5 Hydrogens will be made available to law enforcement in France.

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Western Australia opens geothermal acreage nominations

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) of Western Australia is now accepting nominations for areas to be considered in the 2024 geothermal exploration acreage release. The nomination period has just opened and will close on 23 December 2023. DMIRS expects to announce the final areas and open them for bidding mid-2024. More information on qualifications and the process of nomination is available via this link.

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Q1-Q3 Indian solar additions down 25% yearly as utility-scale solar installations plummet

PV Tech

A total of about 8.5GW of solar capacity was added in the first three quarters of 2023 in India, down by 25% year-on-year.

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