Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

An artist’s depiction of the liquid-like layer of molecules repelling water droplets (image credit: Ekaterina Osmekhina/Aalto University). A revised method to create hydrophobic surfaces has implications for any technology where water meets a solid surface, from optics and microfluidics to cooking Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published in Nature Chemistry.

Technology 147

Technology Transportation Innovation 147

NRDC onEarth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A new scorecard from NRDC shows that Illinois is trailing behind its neighbors in building a clean and equitable transportation system.

Transportation 194

Transportation 194

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“Many carbon credits will be created through the protection of forestry.” By Mike Edwards, Chairman of Ora Technology PLC (Ora), a company focused on carbon trading, and attempting to facilitate the process of buying, selling, and retiring carbon credits in the voluntary carbon market (VCM). The aim to limit global average temperature increases to no more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels is a threshold that we are in imminent danger of crossing.

Carbon 147

Carbon Retail Carbon-neutral Investment 147

NRDC onEarth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

New analysis shows Colorado’s remarkable clean transportation progress—and a need for greater transit investment

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Transportation Investment 206

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

POWER Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) and NuScale Power Corp. (NuScale) have mutually agreed to terminate the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP), a small modular reactor (SMR) project that was […] The post UAMPS and NuScale Power Terminate SMR Nuclear Project appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Carbon 143

Carbon Nuclear Power 143

TechXplore

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Ammonia, a main component of many fertilizers, could play a key role in a carbon-free fuel system as a convenient way to transport and store clean hydrogen. The chemical, made of hydrogen and nitrogen (NH3), can also itself be burned as a zero-carbon fuel. However, new research led by Princeton University illustrates that even though it may not be a source of carbon pollution, ammonia's widespread use in the energy sector could pose a grave risk to the nitrogen cycle and climate without proper e

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Demand Hydrogen Pollution Transportation 127

Charged

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The worst aspect of the old EV tax credit was that it could only be applied to a buyer’s income tax liability (not self-employment tax, state taxes, etc) and, unlike some other tax credits, could not be carried over to a future year. The practical effect of this was that the only people who could take the full credit were high-income taxpayers—the folks who least needed it.

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Canary Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Say you’re in the market for a home.

Energy 115

Energy Energy Electricity 115

The City Fix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Over 50% of all transport-related emissions come from high-income countries, where people are more likely to own and depend on personal vehicles. Meanwhile, less than 1% is generated by low-income countries in regions like sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. In these.

Transportation 111

Transportation Climate change Africa South America 111

Charged

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Norwegian fuel cell company Nel has decided to build its next gigafactory in Plymouth Charter Township, a Detroit suburb. The electrode manufacturing plant will produce 4 GW of alkaline and proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer technology annually. The Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) has awarded a $10-million Michigan Business Development grant to the project.

Education 116

Education Packaging Government Technology 116

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

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has commemorated its first fully renewable remote grid in the utility’s growing fleet of standalone power systems, located in Pepperwood Preserve in Sonoma County. As described in PG&E’s Wildfire Mitigation Plan , remote grids provide utility service using standalone local energy resources.

Energy Monitor 111

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Resilience Education 111

Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Greetings, Agents of Impact! ⚡ TODAY: Get Plugged In. VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun joins host Sherrell Dorsey on LinkedIn Live to discuss centering local. The post The Brief: Climate + gender portfolio, Candide’s just transition fund, Gresham House’s forest strategy, Black-led inclusion tech, PE’s impact tailwinds appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), an independent test lab for the solar industry, has upgraded the company’s suite of extended reliability and performance tests, the Product Qualification Program (PQP). PVEL established the PQP in 2012 to provide empirical data for PV module benchmarking and project-level energy yield and financial models, and to help recognize top-performing PV modules.

Demand 111

Demand Technology Energy Energy 111

PV Tech

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

US residential solar companies Sunrun, Sunnova and power product supplier Generac have been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to install rooftop solar and battery storage systems for vulnerable households in Puerto Rico.

Batteries 112

Batteries Energy Energy Resilience 112

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

ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Three test wells have been drilled at the premises of the Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island to evaluate the potential of implementing district heating in the university and transition away from fossil fuels. The wells have been drilled to depths ranging from 860 feet to 1000 feet (262 to 304 meters) and will provide critical information that will help the project team put together a feasibility plan for further development.

Building Energy Monitoring 108

Building Energy Monitoring Resilience Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 108

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Siemens and Swinburne University of Technology have launched a future energy grid laboratory in Melbourne, Australia, enabling users to leverage digital twins of energy grids and to run simulations of new solutions, particularly the intermix and influx of various sources of energy into the grid. The energy transition hub, located at the University’s Hawthorn campus in Melbourne, features advanced digital energy technology from Siemens and the technical, R&D and teaching expertise of Swinburn

Energy 108

Energy Energy Ethics Technology 108

TechXplore

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

When it comes to making batteries that last longer, a team of researchers including engineers at Brown University and Idaho National Laboratory believes the key might be in how things get clean—specifically how soap works in this process.

Batteries 106

Batteries 106

Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Arevon Energy Inc. has closed financing on the Vikings solar-plus-storage project with a combination of debt financing and tax credit transfer. Arevon secured a commitment with J.P. Morgan to purchase $191 million of investment tax credits and production tax credits, among the nation’s first transactions announced to date that leverage the Inflation Reduction Act’s transferability provision.

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Construction Batteries Energy Energy 105

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

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Greek DSO HEDNO (Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator) is receiving European Investment Bank support for its 3.12 million first phase smart meter rollout. The agreement covers a €150 million (US$160 million) 15-year loan, with the smart meters aimed to help modernise and reinforce the Greek electricity distribution network. HEDNO will instal 3.12 million smart meters and all the necessary supporting infrastructure for their operation in the first phase of a nationwide project which

Energy Monitor 102

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Europe Demand 102

The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Opposition climate and energy spokesperson had pointed to SMRs as a solution to Australia’s energy needs, but experts raise questions over price tag Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The only company to have a small modular nuclear power plant approved in the US – cited by the Australian opposition as evidence of a “burgeoning” global nuclear industry – has cancelled its first project due to rising costs.

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Nuclear Power Carbon Energy Energy 111

Charged

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Back in 2019, EV startup Rivian scored a great coup—an order for 100,000 electric delivery vans from Amazon. The fat order from the delivery giant gave Rivian what every young company dreams of: a solid source of income that gave it the resources to pursue its true passion (which, for Rivian, means pickups and SUVs for the outdoorsy set). The deal with Amazon runs through 2030, and Rivian continues to ramp up production.

Electricity 107

Electricity Cooling Startups Technology 107

Canary Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Maine voters had a chance Tuesday to fundamentally reshape their energy system by taking over their two for-profit electric utilities and creating a new community-owned energy company. But more than two-thirds of voters said no to that proposal in the off-year election.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The world is facing unprecedented challenges when it comes to energy distribution and environmental sustainability. Utilities are under immense pressure to ensure grid resiliency while also preparing for future environmental challenges. It is essential, therefore, to adopt a forward-thinking approach that balances economic viability, operational efficiency and sustainability, Stuart Thompson, President of ABB Electrification Service, writes.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Resilience 101

The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Campaigners call Graham Stuart’s comments ‘laughable’ and say Conservatives are weaponising climate action Oil and gas are “not the problem” for the climate, but the carbon emissions arising from them are, the UK’s net zero minister has told MPs. In words that suggested the UK could place yet more emphasis on technologies to capture and store carbon, Graham Stuart said fossil fuel production was not driving climate change, but demand for fossil fuels was.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Demand Carbon 111

NRDC onEarth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

New NRDC research highlights California’s transportation and climate policy leadership, following another recent NRDC report highlighting implementation gaps

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Policy Transportation 95

PV Tech

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

International trade association Global Solar Council (GSC) has appointed Sonia Dunlop as its new CEO, taking over ad interim CEO Gianni Chianetta.

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Energy Storage News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

CATL has signed an agreement with Quinbrook to deploy over 10GWh of its EnerC Plus battery storage technology over the next five years.

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Batteries Technology Cooling 113

Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Solar racking manufacturer SunModo will soon debut its latest pitched rooftop mount, NanoRack, to the residential market. On this episode of Solar Spotlight, CEO Steve Mumma discusses the system features and installation considerations built into NanoRack. A written portion of this podcast is below but be sure to listen to the full episode on your… The post Solar Spotlight: Integrating the benefits of rail into a rail-less solar mount appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power 98

Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We are delighted to announce the dates for Green Academy 2024 – our unique set of Sustainability/Net Zero training webinars. As usual you will get a workbook for each session to help you create an action plan to implement the learning, plus a recording of the session for recap/catch up at your leisure. You can browse the contents of each session here , but needless to say we aren’t interested in some tick box CPD content, but helping you transform the way you deliver Sustainability.

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Sustainability 91

The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Data shared with Guardian reveals Texas oil and gas fields emitting far more methane than New Mexico, feeding calls for stiffer rules Oil and gas production in Texas is spewing out double the rate of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, than in the more regulated state of New Mexico, new satellite data shared with the Guardian shows, prompting calls for tougher curbs of “super-emitter” sites that risk tipping the world into climate breakdown.

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Methane Fossil fuels Energy Energy 105

Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

CS Energy locks in key equipment supply deal for "hydrogen ready" gas peaking plant at Kogan Creek, which it plans to transition to 100% renewables. The post Gas peaking plant edges ahead with target of 35% renewable hydrogen mix by 2026 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen Energy Energy Government 88

The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sewage waste is now being seen as a reliable heat source for millions of homes in the Netherlands I once lived in a building where every morning the double flush of the upstairs neighbour’s toilet trip reverberated loudly through our kitchen. Now, instead of being a source of heated neighbourly relations, Dutch sewage waste is being seen as a reliable heat source for millions of homes that the government wants to be unhooked from the country’s gas system by 2050.

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Waste Waste Government Sustainability 104

TechXplore

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

There's snow and ice on the runway, you've gone through check-in and security, but your flight's delayed, thank goodness the airport has a decent heating system! Well, a study in the International Journal of Sustainable Aviation has investigated how much each passenger's body heat might be contributing to the departure lounge's overall heating budget.

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Aviation Energy Energy Sustainability 84