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Siemens Mobility Completes First Test Runs With Hydrogen Train in Bavaria

FuelCellsWorks

Mireo Plus H hydrogen train reduces CO2 emissions on routes around Augsburg Passenger service starts in mid-2024 Siemens Mobility has completed the first test runs with the Mireo Plus H.

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Rooftop solar smashes records, sends coal and demand to new lows as it reshapes the grid

Renew Economy

Updated: Rooftop solar continues to have major impact on the grid, meeting nearly half of all demand and sending black coal output and operational demand to record lows. The post Rooftop solar smashes records, sends coal and demand to new lows as it reshapes the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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California Joins States Suing Big Oil for Its Role in the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The state of California has jumped into the ring in the fight to hold some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers accountable for their role in driving the worsening climate crisis. On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against five oil and gas majors including ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, and ConocoPhillips as well as their chief lobby group the American Petroleum Institute.

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Geothermal developer Hita sees Lithium option in Belgium

ThinkGeoEnergy

The geothermal company Hita, a spin-off of the Belgian research organisation Vito reports having discovered Lithium in the water it pumps up from a geothermal well on its project site near Kempen, Belgium. This is reported by local news site De Tijd. Umicore, a raw material producer for battery production has show interest to explore the recovery of the valuable mineral and sees a potential extraction value of EUR 150 million per year.

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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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Offshore wind auction’s lack of bids must be ‘wake-up call’ for UK, says RWE chief

Financial Times: Energy

Markus Krebber urges British government to heed warnings from developers to avoid jeopardising climate targets

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New tool helps utilities view, manage customer DERs

Smart Energy International

Grid controls provider PXiSE Energy Solutions, a Yokogawa company, launched its cloud-native DER Management and Communication Platform, which is meant to simplify utilities’ ability to monitor and manage customer distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar PV and battery storage. “Before now, utilities have been reluctant to open the floodgates on customer distributed energy resources like solar PV and battery storage because they were unable to monitor when or how much power they’re contr

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Plans for deep-sea vessels with fuel cell and ammonia cracking tech revealed

Energy Central

TECO 2030 and Pherousa Green Shipping (PGS) have teamed up to supply up to six zero-emission Ultramax dry bulk carrier vessels, each equipped with ammonia cracking technology and 12MW of hydrogen fuel cells for the main propulsion.

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Aemetis’ Powerful Launch into High-Volume Renewable Fuels

Hydrogen Fuel News

The company can produce 90 million gallons per year of sustainable aviation and diesel fuel. Aemetis, Inc (NASDAQ stock symbol AMTX) has announced that it has recently received a Use Permit from the City of Riverbank, California, for the production of renewable fuels including negative carbon intensity sustainable aviation and diesel fuel. The company will produce these products at its plant at the 125-acre Riverbank Industrial Complex.

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Catastrophic Libyan flooding fuelled by warming oceans

Financial Times: Energy

An intense cyclone known as a ‘medicane’ led to more than 400mm of rain falling in 24 hours

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Liquid hydrogen carrier visits Singapore as port explores the fuel’s use

Energy Central

Liquid Hydrogen Singapore

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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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Interview – Novel and sustainable wellbore scale removal by Blue Spark Energy

ThinkGeoEnergy

Wellbore scaling has been a perennial challenge in geothermal steam field management. When left unchecked, scale can drastically reduce the productivity of a geothermal well. Conventional scale removal methods remain expensive and unreliable and may even cause damage to the casing. Probing for a more effective solution to this problem in the geothermal industry, we spoke with Todd Parker, President and CEO of Blue Spark Energy , a company that has developed a technology for the safe, efficient,

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Carmakers Urged To Stop Prioritising SUVs Over Smaller & More Affordable Electric Cars

CleanTechnica

Carmakers urged to stop prioritising SUVs over smaller and more affordable electric cars People in the UK more likely to buy EVs

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EVs to Surpass ? of Global Car Sales by 2030, Putting at Risk Nearly Half of Oil Demand

CleanTechnica

Exponential growth in electric vehicle (EV) sales is transforming the auto sector faster than currently predicted, with EVs set to dominate global car sales by the end of the decade, putting at risk nearly half of worldwide oil demand, according to new analysis by RMI.

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The Key to a Successful EV Road Trip — Overnight Charging

CleanTechnica

Over the past three summers, our family of four has driven around 12,000 miles, across 20+ states, on our now annual electric vehicle road trip.

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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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U.S. DOE Unveils New Interactive Map Showcasing Clean Energy Investment Announcements Nationwide

CleanTechnica

President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Drives Historic Private Sector Investment in Clean Energy Manufacturing; 450 Facilities Announced Totaling $160 Billion+

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These Countries Are Adopting Electric Vehicles the Fastest

CleanTechnica

Electric vehicle sales have been growing exponentially due to falling costs, improving technology, and government support. Globally, 10% of passenger vehicles sold in 2022 were all-electric, according to analysis of data from the International Energy Agency. That’s 10 times more than it was just five years earlier.

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The Energy-Efficient Home Makeover

CleanTechnica

The Energy-Efficient Home Makeover, A few small tweaks to each room could dramatically shrink your carbon footprint.

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SAIC-GM-Wuling JV Is Back With Another Potentially Game Changing Product — The Wuling E10 Mini Delivery Vehicle

CleanTechnica

The smash hit Wuling Hongguang Mini EV is a three-door, four-seat vehicle that has helped create an exciting new market for very small electric vehicles.

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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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Life in a Super Soco: Review of the TC-1900 (Plus, the Future of the Brand)

CleanTechnica

In June 2022, just before the second round of Colombia’s national elections, former President Ivan Duque announced that the de-facto subsidy for gasoline* would be gradually dropped. The decision, thankfully, was approved by the new administration of President Gustavo Petro, and the cost of gasoline started to increase monthly.