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The week in climate policy: 5 updates you need to know

GreenBiz

The SEC mandates emissions disclosures; DOE announced $90 million in funding for energy efficient building codes.

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Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they’re moving closer to trial

Grist

It’s been six years since cities in California started the trend of taking Big Oil to court for deceiving the public about the consequences of burning fossil fuels. The move followed investigations showing that Exxon and other companies had known about the dangers of skyrocketing carbon emissions for decades, but publicly downplayed the threat. Today, around 30 lawsuits have been filed around the country as cities, states, and Indigenous tribes seek to make the industry pay for the costs of clim

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To build a circular economy, look to the auto industry’s success

GreenBiz

One of the best, established examples of a circular economy is hiding in plain sight.

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Austria Boosts Green Hydrogen Subsidies Even More to Accelerate Energy Transition

FuelCellsWorks

Austria is significantly enhancing its commitment to renewable energy by increasing green hydrogen subsidies by an additional €100m Aas announced by Finance Minister Magnus Brunner and Michael Strugl, CEO of.

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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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Nikola in the Spotlight: Unveiling New Hydrogen Trucks, Top-Tier Partnerships and Strategic Moves

Hydrogen Fuel News

Nikola’s Progressive Leap into Sustainable Trucking with IMC’s New Fleet Arizona-based Nikola Corporation is steering the conversation around sustainable transportation this week following a series of key developments. From the grand reveal of Intermodal Market Company’s (IMC) new Nikola hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks to insightful discussions with Chairman Stephen Girsky and welcoming a new CFO, the company is fuelling up on positive press.

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The “Miracle of Packaging”: Cranfield Aerospace Solutions on the Challenges of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology for Zero-Emissions Aircraft

FuelCellsWorks

Over the past few years, Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS) has been quietly pushing engineering boundaries in a quest to achieve zero-emissions flight and has now achieved a notable milestone with the successful.

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Cell Impact Has Received an Order Worth SEK 18 Million ($1.76M) in the Field of Electrolysis

FuelCellsWorks

Cell Impact has signed an agreement concerning flow plates, tools, and fixtures to a value of just over SEK 18 million($1.76M). The contract marks a significant step for Cell.

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Five women who invest for social justice

Impact Alpha

Everyone in the impact investing ecosystem has an impact origin story, a moment that helped point them toward business and finance as tools. The post Five women who invest for social justice appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Eaton Advances Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology in Commercial Trucks with Czech Republic Grants

FuelCellsWorks

SOUTHFIELD, MICH.–Eaton, a leader in intelligent power management, is bolstering its development efforts in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) with two grants from the Czech Republic. These grants enable.

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Chart: US smashes record for climatetech investment in 2023

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The U.S. energy transition has more money behind it than ever. Last year, climatetech investment reached a total of $239 billion, a record-breaking figure that’s 38 percent higher than the 2022 total.

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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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EnviroSpark wins Georgia NEVI awards to install DC fast chargers at Waffle House and Shell station

Charged

EnviroSpark ’s installers may soon become connoisseurs of hash browns. The company has won a National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funding award from its home state of Georgia to build four DC fast chargers at a Waffle House in Tifton, and four more at a Shell station in Metter. EnviroSpark, which won two of the five eligible sites in Phase 1 of the state’s NEVI awards, will host all eight stations on its national EnviroSpark charging network.

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Remeha and Hollander Techniek Commission the First Hydrogen Boiler for the Utility Market

FuelCellsWorks

Office building by green hydrogen, hybrid heat pump and green propane. The branch of Hollander Techniek, a technical service provider within the utility, retail and industrial sectors, in Apeldoorn, has.

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Geothermal heating plant in Kolo, Poland officially starts operations

ThinkGeoEnergy

The geothermal heating plant in Kolo, Poland has officially opened just about two months after its construction was completed. The heating plant is owned and operated by Geotermia Kolo (formerly MZEC), a fully owned firm of the Municipality of Kolo, which also operates the local district heating system. The geothermal heating plant consists of two wells (production and reinjection), a heating plant building, a filter station, a discharge pool, and a water treatment plant.

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North Rhine-Westphalia Boosts Hydrogen Mobility with €20M Investment in Refuelling Stations

FuelCellsWorks

The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany, is taking a significant step forward in fostering a sustainable transportation sector by investing €20 million ($21.85 million) in the development of.

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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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Solar manufacturers responsible for module recycling in EU

PV Tech

This week, the European Council confirmed that solar module manufacturers will bear responsibility for the waste disposal and recycling of modules in the EU.

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PNGRB Organizes Mega-Stakeholder Interaction on Hydrogen Transmission in Natural Gas Pipelines and City Gas Distribution Networks

FuelCellsWorks

Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is progressing on the task of transporting Green Hydrogen through Natural Gas transmission lines by blending hydrogen with Natural Gas. PNGRB is considering.

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The Week in impact investing: State of the Impact

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ⚡ Plugged In: Tech equity in action. Google-backed Tech Equity Collective is working to double the. The post The Week in impact investing: State of the Impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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STEAM studies indicate geothermal lithium potential in Lazio, Italy

ThinkGeoEnergy

Very recently, Australian mining company Altamin announced a 500% expansion of the Lazio Project Area in Italy with the awarding of four new Exploration Licenses (EL). The work done by Italian engineering firm Steam S.r.l. led to the recommendations for this expansion, and Steam has further been tasked to prepare a full reservoir assessment for the entire increased area of interest.

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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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Lakota Vogel, Four Bands Community Fund: Rewriting the Rules

Impact Alpha

Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact. The post Lakota Vogel, Four Bands Community Fund: Rewriting the Rules appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Oil industry has sought to block state backing for green tech since 1960s

The Guardian: Energy

Research shows industry lobbying against support for solar panels and electric cars while enjoying subsidies itself The oil industry has fought against government support for clean technologies for more than half a century, the Guardian can reveal, even as vast subsidies have propped up its polluting business model. It lobbied lawmakers to block support for low-carbon technologies such as solar panels, electric cars and heat pumps as far back as the 1960s, analysis shows.

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The biggest market trends according to energy experts at DISTRIBUTECH International

Smart Energy International

What are the biggest market trends in the energy sector? Walking the floor during DISTRIBUTECH International in Orlando, Florida, I asked energy experts this very question – their answers might surprise you. With opinions ranging from AI to electrification and renewables, as well as plays made by non-traditional entrants, this edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook lays down how experts analyse the evolving energy market.

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Green Hydrogen Company Ohmium Leads TIME’s List of America’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024

FuelCellsWorks

Ohmium Ranks 2nd out of 250 Top Green Tech Companies Selected by TIME Magazine for this inaugural recognition. FREMONT, Calif.

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Two former CloudKitchens execs are tackling Mexico’s solar power lag

TechCrunch: Climate

The Mexico City-based startup raised a seed round to expand its solar installation platform. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Energy Central

Kenya is on the brink of a significant transformation in its electricity sector with the proposed breakup of the longstanding monopoly held by Kenya Power and Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO). The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has formulated regulations aimed at liberalizing the electricity market, opening up opportunities for private sector investors.

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EnBW breaks ground on 80MW German PV project

PV Tech

German renewable energy company EnBW has broken ground on an 80MW solar PV project, the largest to date in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Net Zero by 2030, 2040 or 2050 – which to choose?

Terra Infirma

This is the second Q&A episode of the podcast and the question comes from ‘Jane’ who is involved in a debate at work over the timing of Net Zero targets. Here’s what I cover in my response: What Net Zero really means The problems with going for too near a date The problems with going too far The influence of assets, leadership and culture on the target date When to use SBTs to underpin Net Zero The dangers of incrementalising Net Zero targets or SBTs The first Q&A episo

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Woodmac: global solar government tenders reached 61GW in 2023

PV Tech

Solar PV capacity was the most awarded renewables through government tenders last year, accounting for 44% of the total volume with 61GW.

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Kern County’s Self Imposed Deja-vu

NRDC onEarth

Kern County's violations of environmental law result in a second courtroom defeat for its industry-friendly oil drilling ordinance.

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ONS: UK's low carbon and renewables sectors generated £70bn in revenues in 2022

Business Green

Turnover across the UK's green and renewable energy sectors rose 28 per cent between 2021 and 2022, according to new estimates from the Office for National Statistics

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Amprius expands product portfolio with new silicon anode battery platform

Charged

US-based battery manufacturer Amprius Technologies has expanded its silicon anode battery line for electric mobility. The new SiCore product platform produces high-energy-density silicon anode batteries that outperform graphite cells using a proprietary silicon anode material technology, according to the company. The new silicon anode cell offers up to 400 Wh/kg specific energy and 1,200 cycles at full depth of discharge.

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Charging Up: Sandra Peterson is driven to innovate

Canary Media

Canary Media’s Charging Up column chronicles gender diversity and notable career moves in the climatetech sector. Got a person or event you’d like to see us cover or a hot job tip? Let us know ! Sandra Peterson: A drive to innovate Sandra Peterson is vice president of sales and marketing at Beam Global.

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New method for mass-producing polymer solid electrolytes needed in batteries

TechXplore

A research team led by Professor Seok Ju Kang in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST has unveiled a technique for mass-producing polymer solid electrolytes, crucial components in batteries. Their paper is published in the journal Energy Storage Materials.

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No Safe Journeys for Women: Why Mobility Systems in African Cities Are Failing Women’s Needs

The City Fix

For a woman living in an African city, public transport can be a daunting experience. Women usually plan their trips in advance, and consider a multitude of factors before setting out: What is the safest way to reach the bus.