After Clean Water Act ruling, states that want to protect affected wetlands need millions
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 26, 2023
It could take years for states to address the loss of federal standards — if they do at all.
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EV fast-charging networks face a challenging 2024
TechCrunch: Climate
DECEMBER 26, 2023
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Florida transit agency will use VW settlement funds to buy 60 electric buses
Charged
DECEMBER 26, 2023
The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, which serves Charged ’s home city of St Petersburg, Florida, will use $18 million in funding from the VW settlement to acquire 60 Gillig electric buses. “Volkswagen lied and pumped extra pollution into Florida’s air, so they had to pay up. We went after a share of that money to reduce future pollution and continue PSTA’s leadership in sustainability,” said PSTA CEO Brad Miller at a recent unveiling event.
European ESG funds face fossil fuel showdown after French ruling
Financial Times: Energy
DECEMBER 26, 2023
France’s stipulation for its sustainable ISR label could lead to billions of euros of divestments by pan-European vehicles
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.
Range Energy’s smart trailers boost electric truck range
Charged
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Towing has always been a sore point with EVs—towing a trailer inevitably eats into range, and towing a massive semi-trailer requires a tractor with a massive battery pack. But what if the trailer itself could share the burden? That’s the idea behind Range Energy, which is developing a trailer that’s equipped with a battery pack, a motor, and intelligent features to maximize efficiency.
Canary Media's top 10 clean energy stories in 2023
Canary Media
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Canary readers stampeded to these clean energy stories, from close looks at fatty fuels and electric lawn tools to California’s controversial solar policy moves and an inspiring account of one country’s recent renewable-power streak. Did your favorites make the list?
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MPSC Approves I&M Plan for Lake Trout Solar Plant
Solar Industry
DECEMBER 26, 2023
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) has approved the plan by Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) to build its largest solar farm to date. I&M will own and operate the Lake Trout solar plant near Montpelier, Ind., which will be connected to the power grid serving both Michigan and Indiana. The company says it expects the project to generate power by 2026.
Komatsu to acquire American Battery Solutions
Charged
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Komatsu America, a subsidiary of global construction and mining equipment giant Komatsu, has agreed to acquire Detroit-based battery manufacturer American Battery Solutions. ABS develops and manufactures a wide variety of heavy-duty and industrial battery packs for commercial vehicles, transit buses and other on- and off-road vehicles. The company provides both standard battery packs and custom systems optimized to each customer’s needs.
Yingli Solar to Supply PV Modules for Saad 2 Project
Solar Industry
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Yingli Solar has penned an agreement to supply 1.25 GW of their Panda N-type TOPCon PV modules for the Saad 2 PV project being developed by ACWA Power in Saudi Arabia. The partnership marks another milestone for Yingli Solar, ACWA Power and PowerChina following their involvement in the 575 MW Ibri 2 project in Oman. “We are confident that this project’s execution will significantly advance the propagation of renewable energy in the Middle East,” says Yin Xulong, Yingli Solar chairman
Energy-Storage.news’ most-read news stories of 2023
Energy Storage News
DECEMBER 26, 2023
The ten most-read news stories on Energy-Storage.news in 2023, another fascinating year of technologies, markets, regulation and policy.
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.
AEP to Sell Interest in New Mexico Renewable Development to Exus
Solar Industry
DECEMBER 26, 2023
American Electric Power (AEP) has agreed to sell its 50% interest in New Mexico Renewable Development (NMRD) to Exus North America. AEP and PNM Resources, which also owns 50% of NMRD, plan to sell the portfolio of 15 solar projects totaling 625 MW to Exus for approximately $230 million, subject to true-up adjustments at close. AEP’s share of the sale is approximately $115 million and the company expects to receive about $104 million in cash after tax, transaction fees and other customary a
Beyond Autos: 8 Surprising Applications of Hydrogen Fuel Technology
Hydrogen Fuel News
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Though H2 cars have been making headlines, there are many other uses for this technology. As the world seeks to decarbonize, a growing number of industries and individual companies have been turning to the hydrogen fuel to provide zero-emission energy for a surprising spectrum of applications. Many of these uses haven’t received the media attention cars have had but remain fascinating, nonetheless.
Florida transit agency will use VW settlement funds to buy 60 electric buses
Charged
DECEMBER 26, 2023
The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, which serves Charged ’s home city of St Petersburg, Florida, will use $18 million in funding from the VW settlement to acquire 60 Gillig electric buses. “Volkswagen lied and pumped extra pollution into Florida’s air, so they had to pay up. We went after a share of that money to reduce future pollution and continue PSTA’s leadership in sustainability,” said PSTA CEO Brad Miller at a recent unveiling event.
Biggest projects, financing and offtake deals in the energy storage sector in 2023
Energy Storage News
DECEMBER 26, 2023
A roundup of the biggest projects, financing and offtake deals in the energy storage sector that we have has reported on this year.
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.
UK students launch Barclays ‘career boycott’ over bank’s climate policies
The Guardian: Energy
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Campaign at leading universities such as Oxbridge and UCL warns lender it will miss out on top talent if it finances fossil fuels Hundreds of students from leading UK universities have launched a “career boycott” of Barclays over its climate policies, warning that the bank will miss out on top talent unless it stops financing fossil fuel companies. More than 220 students from Barclays’ top recruitment universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, and University College London, have sent a letter to
Granular Certificate Trading Alliance formed
Smart Energy International
DECEMBER 26, 2023
The Granular Certificate Trading Alliance has been formed to develop a platform for trading and management of time and location-based carbon free energy attribute certificates. The Alliance, which is being convened by the renewable trading platform LevelTen Energy, includes energy companies AES and Constellation as well as Google and Microsoft. The solution, under development in partnership with the US financial exchange and clearing house Intercontinental Exchange, aims to enable energy buyers
Maine turns its heat pump focus to ‘whole-house’ systems that can all but eliminate fossil fuel use
Energy Central
DECEMBER 26, 2023
New state incentives are pushing Mainers to adopt “whole-house” heat pump systems, making efficient electricity the primary home heat source and discouraging the secondary use of oil or gas. Federal tax credits are still available for a wider range of heat pump installations, and the state offers rebates for low-income households to install a heat pump as a supplemental heat.
Year in Review 2023: Grid-scale energy storage system integrators Wärtsilä and IHI Terrasun
Energy Storage News
DECEMBER 26, 2023
As with previous years, our year in review wrap up of 2023 includes interviews with a handful of industry players from around the sector.
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?
Minnesota agency in hiring mode as it prepares to roll out new energy programs
Energy Central
DECEMBER 26, 2023
One of the primary state agencies that oversees Minnesota’s climate and clean energy programs is expanding its staff by nearly two-thirds, fueled by new state and federal funding opportunities. The Minnesota Department of Commerce’s Division of Energy Resources, which plays a central role in Minnesota’s clean energy transition, has added 64 positions to its.
The PV review, Q2 2023: AD/CVD raises its head, n-type dominates SNEC and Intersolar, polysilicon prices plummet
PV Tech
DECEMBER 26, 2023
As 2023 comes to an end, PV Tech is looking back on the year in solar, reflecting on some of the biggest trends of the last 12 months.
Can we change accepted practices in any Energy transition?
Energy Central
DECEMBER 26, 2023
During this year, I felt we were in a growing need to significantly alter the accepted practices of managing the Energy Transition in a new, more innovative, ecosystem-thinking way. Why? We need to engage more broadly in community approaches related to energy. We need a broader energy transition movement. The goal is to create a more dynamic, interconnected, and adaptable.
With methane emissions soaring, the UN is sending in the satellites
Energy Transition
DECEMBER 26, 2023
With support from the UN, private and public initiatives, a fleet of satellites equipped with space-based detection and sensors are being launched to identify and measure the concentration of methane in the atmosphere. The main component of natural gas, methane is over 80 times more heat trapping than CO2. Now the second-most prominent greenhouse gas, it can leak at all stages of its production.
2024 World Battery & Energy Storage Industry Expo (WBE)
EnergyTrend
DECEMBER 26, 2023
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Exa-scale Breakthroughs
Energy Central
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Early in my career I worked in a position where I modeled hydrodynamic and thermodynamic systems. The technique we used in that work was generally called finite-element modeling, where we broke each system down into a large number of cells, and used equations for each cell that described the liquid-flow (hydrodynamic) and/or heat-transfer (thermodynamic) in and out of each cell.
France Will Supply the Sarre Steel Industry With the Hydrogen Needed to Exit Coal
FuelCellsWorks
DECEMBER 26, 2023
France will supply the Saarland steel industry (west of Germany) with the hydrogen necessary for its exit from coal, by means of a pipeline of nearly 100
Exposing the glaring errors in Climatology Energy Budget diagrams
Energy Central
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Above is an early "Energy Budget" diagram for Earth published by NASA. The only trouble is that when we quantify the 51% of solar energy shown as being absorbed by land and oceans we get about one-eighth of the solar constant, resulting in a figure of about 168w/m^2 that could not achieve a global mean temperature above 233K which is -40°C.
Piauí Lays Foundation Stones for Green Hydrogen Projects
FuelCellsWorks
DECEMBER 26, 2023
With the presence of the vice-president and minister of the MDIC, Geraldo Alckmin, the ceremony marked a partnership between the state government and
A Different Perspective on What Happened at COP-28
Energy Central
DECEMBER 26, 2023
A few days ago, I posted at this blog my personal take on what happened at COP-28 in Dubai (and what didn’t happen). Feedback from readers indicates that some people found my assessment helpful and realistic, but it’s conceivable that some found it insufficiently enthusiastic. So, today, I’m pleased to offer some potential balance.
Study: 2023's climate disasters expose 'global postcode lottery stacked against the poor'
Business Green
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Christian Aid tots up 2023's most expensive climate disasters as it slams 'double injustice' of catastrophes costing on $400 per person on average
World’s first hydrogen long-haul FCEV
Energy Central
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Hybot officially announced the specifications of the world's first hydrogen long-haul FCEV Hydrogen Transport
Gerbrand Haverkamp: 'Make it simple - and when you think you've done it, make it simpler'
Business Green
DECEMBER 26, 2023
World Benchmarking Alliance's executive director discusses his role in coaxing corporate 'giants' to accelerate climate efforts and the value of reading fiction
Why Are Oil And Gas Production Rising When Rig Counts Are Falling?
Energy Central
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Last week I pointed out in a TikTok video that the U.S. is poised to set a new oil production record. In response, someone took exception to my claim by stating that he works in the industry, and drilling rigs are stacking up. It is correct that the rig count has fallen. According to data from Baker HughesBHI, the number of rigs drilling for oil and gas has fallen by about 20% in the past.
Fuel Cell and Hydrogen News Highlights from China: Dec 16-Dec 22 2023
FuelCellsWorks
DECEMBER 26, 2023
On December 18, the center produced 103 tons of green hydrogen and sold 103 tons.
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