GreenBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

H&M will co-invest in a project it hopes will supply 40% of the country’s power.

Fossil fuels 457

Fossil fuels Investment 457

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2024

Example of a karst system in the Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia: Karst groundwater aquifers are major and important habitats (image credit: © Robert Reinecke). An international study classifies groundwater as a keystone ecosystem and proposes ways to improve its protection to preserve biodiversity and mitigate climate change Water is the basis of all life on Earth.

Health 211

Health Biodiversity Climate change Law 211

ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 5, 2024

Construction is currently ongoing for new buildings that will be served by a planned geothermal heating project in Bochum, Germany that aims to utilize water from abandoned coal mine shafts for emissions-free heating and cooling. By 2027, the geothermal heating and cooling system is expected to supply new buildings at the project site including offices, research facilities, and university institutes.

Building Energy Monitoring 145

Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Cooling 145

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2024

Researchers at the University of Sussex have identified electrical properties within gypsum nanomaterials – a development said to offer a promising avenue to developing sustainable habitation on Mars, where there is an abundance of the mineral. Using resources and techniques currently applied on the International Space Station and by NASA, the work investigates the potential of nanomaterials for clean energy production and building materials on Mars.

Sustainability 147

Sustainability Waste Waste Recycling 147

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.

Energy

FuelCellsWorks

JANUARY 5, 2024

Though it remains heavily vested in EVs, Ford has also made it quite clear that fully electric power isn’t quite feasible for larger trucks at the moment. Instead, the automaker.

Investment 143

Investment Hydrogen Electricity 143

Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Climate tech has undergone a visible evolution over the past few years, transitioning from a phase of abundant funding for innovation to capital more focused on large-scale deployments that approach being bankable and 'boring' Our annual report on climate tech investment trends examines this evolution, with a particular focus on venture and growth investment, which serve as crucial indicators.

Building Energy Monitoring 144

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 144

Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries have long been touted as a possible successor to the lithium-ion kind—they may have lower energy density, but they rely on more abundant sodium rather than lithium, perform better in cold temperatures, and above all, tend to be cheaper. Now, after years of anticipation, cars equipped with sodium-ion batteries have begun rolling off production lines.

Batteries 122

Batteries Lithium Electric vehicle Europe 122

FuelCellsWorks

JANUARY 5, 2024

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.— H2 Clipper, Inc., an aerospace and alternative energy company developing uniquely capable hydrogen-powered airships and end-to-end hydrogen infrastructure solutions, announces that it has been granted US Patent No. 11,851,214.

Patents 126

Patents Hydrogen Energy Energy 126

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 5, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ? The Call: Compensating impact fund managers for… impact. To explore the hows and whys (and. The post The Week in impact investing: Inclusion alpha appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

Investment 122

Investment 122

FuelCellsWorks

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ekona Power Inc. Pilots Methane Pyrolysis Solution for Low-cost Clean Hydrogen The company met internal performance milestones in late 2023, validating the xCaliber™ reactor in a 200-kilogram-hydrogen-per-day system and preparing.

Methane 126

Methane Hydrogen 126

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.

Transportation

Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

The trucking industry has a serious driver shortage, and operators are exploring all kinds of ways to improve driver recruitment and retention. Meanwhile, trucking industry trade groups are fighting tooth and nail against electrification. They might be surprised to learn that deploying EVs could be a major hiring advantage, because drivers love them.

Electricity 121

Electricity Batteries Technology 121

FuelCellsWorks

JANUARY 5, 2024

Deployment of new hydrogen fuel-cell power generators is helping Union Pacific Railroad ensure continued safe operations while having a positive impact on the environment. Back-up power generators are used on.

Hydrogen 124

Hydrogen 124

Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

US school bus manufacturer Blue Bird and sustainable investment company Generate Capital have formed Clean Bus Solutions, a joint venture (JV) designed to meet increasing demand for electric school buses. Blue Bird recently opened its 40,000-square-foot EV Build-up Center, designed to enable the company to increase its electric school bus production capacity to as many as 5,000 annually in coming years.

Electricity 120

Electricity Demand Investment Sustainability 120

FuelCellsWorks

JANUARY 5, 2024

U of T Engineering researchers have partnered with Siemens Energy to tackle a key challenge in the energy sector: sustainable energy conversion for propulsion and power generation – such as.

Sustainability 122

Sustainability Energy Energy 122

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.

Sustainability

Canary Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The dirtiest source of electricity — coal — may have reached its peak in 2023.

Electricity 118

Electricity Energy Energy 118

FuelCellsWorks

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Closed Loop Partners, we focus on investing in the circular economy––advancing solutions that reduce waste through material reduction, alternative materials, reuse and end-of-life solutions like recycling.

Investment 118

Investment Innovation Hydrogen Recycling 118

Solar Industry

JANUARY 5, 2024

FirstEnergy subsidiary Mon Power has completed its solar site at Fort Martin Power Station in Maidsville, W. Va., the first of five projects Mon Power and its sister company Potomac Edison have planned. Nearly 50,000 panels generate up to 18.9 MW per hour on the approximately 80-acre site, says the company. Ultimately, the five sites are expected to collectively generate up to 50 MW.

Construction 111

Construction Electricity Energy Energy 111

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 5, 2024

ImpactAlpha, January 5 — Batteries, green steel and hydrogen were among the bright spots for climate tech investment in 2023, even as overall. The post Dealflow spotlight: Climate tech looks to shake off its doldrums in 2024 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

Hydrogen 110

Hydrogen Batteries Investment 110

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?

Carbon

Solar Industry

JANUARY 5, 2024

CL Energy Storage Corporation (CLOU) has signed a purchase order with Stella Energy Solutions to deliver approximately 480 MWh of containerized battery energy storage systems and 200 MW of PCS Skid to support Stella’s clean energy projects. Based in Texas, Stella develops and constructs energy storage and solar infrastructure projects. It has built and operated more than 2 GW of utility-scale battery storage projects in the region.

Energy 111

Energy Energy Batteries Construction 111

Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ford and home automation company Resideo Technologies have announced a joint V2H simulation project called EV-Home Power Partnership. The project involves pairing the bidirectional EV charging of Ford’s F-150 Lightning with a Resideo smart thermostat to explore the potential of the EV batteries to optimize home energy management, reduce customer electricity costs and relieve strain on the electric grid.

Home Energy Monitoring 107

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Cooling Energy 107

Solar Industry

JANUARY 5, 2024

Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) and We Energies have completed construction on Badger Hollow Solar Farm with the site’s final panels in service, making the Wisconsin project fully operational. The project, a 300 MW facility located near the communities of Montfort and Cobb in Iowa County, Wis., came online in two 150 MW phases. The second phase began powering customers across the state last month, with the facility’s first phase coming online in 2021.

Construction 108

Construction Energy Energy Carbon 108

PV Tech

JANUARY 5, 2024

“The formation of Solar Powers Illinois stems from the passage of critical legislation: the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.

Solar Power 111

Solar Power Energy Energy 111

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 5, 2024

China’s state planner National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has released reform recommendations on how China, the largest EV market globally, can optimally integrate electric vehicles into power grid planning. Through the recommendations, the NDRC calls on the establishment of a technical standard system for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) interaction by 2025, by when charging peak and time-of-use electricity prices should be fully implemented.

Home Energy Monitoring 103

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Power grid 103

Renew Economy

JANUARY 5, 2024

Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and coal power fell. The post Drop in coal power sends German emissions to lowest level in 70 years appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Energy 101

Energy Energy 101

PV Tech

JANUARY 5, 2024

Indian independent power producer (IPP) KPI Green Energy has signed a supply agreement for 300MW of bifacial mono-PERC modules from PV manufacturer Emmvee.

Energy 107

Energy Energy 107

ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) under the World Bank has published a detailed report on the socioeconomic contributions of the geothermal sector, as well as the potential opportunities and benefits at national and local levels of geothermal project development and operation. The full report, “Geothermal Energy: Unveiling the Socioeconomic Benefits” can be accessed via this link.

Education 96

Education Government Construction Energy 96

PV Tech

JANUARY 5, 2024

Wind energy supplied 25% of the consumption in Portugal, followed by hydropower (23%), solar PV (7%), and biomass (6%).

Hydropower 120

Hydropower Energy Energy 120

ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Aysén Region is in the crosshairs of energy innovation in Chile with a revolutionary project: the generation of green hydrogen taking advantage of the geothermal potential of the area. This milestone, led by the Center of Excellence in Geothermal Energy of the Andes (CEGA) of the University of Chile , is part of the award of the project “Prefeasibility of generating green hydrogen with geothermal energy in the Aysén Fjord” by the Regional Government of Aysén.

Hydrogen 96

Hydrogen Fossil fuels Innovation Government 96

Science Daily: Renewable Energy

JANUARY 5, 2024

Animal ecologists developed an analytical approach to better understand one of the latest threats to feathered creatures: the rise of wind and solar energy facilities.

Energy 97

Energy Energy 97

Canary Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

Canary Media chronicles many of the bold venture-capital investments made in cleantech, but the flip side of that coin is that most VC-funded startups fail.

Startups 92

Startups Investment Carbon Sustainability 92

Financial Times: Energy

JANUARY 5, 2024

Fresh by-election challenge for Sunak as ex-energy minister condemns North Sea oil drilling and softening on net-zero

Policy 109

Policy Energy Energy 109

Solar Power World

JANUARY 5, 2024

Residential and commercial solar installation contractors should pay attention to the type of insurance coverage they purchase. Although pollution incidents are less frequent and not always immediate, the cost of claims can cripple a company when they occur. Every commercial general liability (CGL) policy contains some form of pollution exclusion. Your agent may work with… The post 2 questions all solar contractors should ask their insurance agents appeared first on Solar Power World.

Pollution 81

Pollution Solar Power Policy 81

Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2024

Firms serious about tackling climate change must lobby for a proper science-based policy and regulatory environment, writes the Climate Majority's Rupert Read

Climate change 90

Climate change Policy 90