Why climate disclosure policy is critical to corporate sustainability
GreenBiz
APRIL 29, 2024
There are 3 primary reasons why disclosure rules can help accelerate climate policy progress.
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“Simply astounding:” Australian coal mine methane emissions may be twice offical data
Renew Economy
APRIL 29, 2024
Australia's coal mine methane emissions are being vastly underreported and are damaging the nation's credibility on climate change, economist Professor Rod Sims has warned. The post “Simply astounding:” Australian coal mine methane emissions may be twice offical data appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Power Plant Carbon Rules: What’s Changed Since the 2023 Proposal?
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 25, 2024
The EPA's finalized rules for carbon emissions from the power sector have just been released. Here's how they've evolved.
Solar is now being installed faster than any technology in history
Renew Economy
APRIL 28, 2024
At current installation rates, solar will pass fossil gas in 2024 and coal in 2025. Technologies like nuclear would require "magical growth rates" to compete. The post Solar is now being installed faster than any technology in history appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
“40 Percent Market Share” – Car Giant Wants to Build 100,000 Hydrogen Vehicles Per Year
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 29, 2024
The European-American car company Stellantis plans to significantly expand its production capacity for commercial vehicles with hydrogen fuel cells. Jean-Michel Billig, head of the group’s hydrogen program, said this in.
India installs record 6.2GW of solar PV in March 2024
PV Tech
APRIL 24, 2024
India has installed a record 6.2GW of new solar capacity in March 2024, nearly doubling the previous record for all renewables, according to a report from Rystad Energy.
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Hidden Fossil Fuels: Plastic Production Drives Climate Change
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 23, 2024
Study shows that plastic production could be nearly one third of the global carbon budget and emits four times more greenhouse gases than the airline industry.
Neoen’s Collie battery to be Australia’s biggest after winning new contract to flatten solar duck
Renew Economy
APRIL 28, 2024
One state has found the solution to replace the coal fired generators that are about to close: Build more and bigger batteries. The post Neoen’s Collie battery to be Australia’s biggest after winning new contract to flatten solar duck appeared first on RenewEconomy.
FuelCell Energy Announces Debt Financing for Derby Power Projects
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 29, 2024
DANBURY, Conn– FuelCell Energy, Inc., (Nasdaq: FCEL) today announced that the Company closed on a project debt financing transaction with Liberty Bank and Connecticut Green Bank for the company’s two.
Vogtle Unit 4 Achieves Commercial Operation, Now Largest Nuclear Power Plant in the U.S.
POWER Magazine
APRIL 29, 2024
The road was long and the challenges difficult, but Plant Vogtle is now the largest nuclear power plant in the U.S., as Unit 4 was declared commercially operational on April […] The post Vogtle Unit 4 Achieves Commercial Operation, Now Largest Nuclear Power Plant in the U.S. appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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.
Tesla deployed 4.1GWh BESS in Q1, storage and generation is highest-margin business line
Energy Storage News
APRIL 26, 2024
Tesla made 'all-time high' energy storage deployments in the first quarter of this year, 'leading to record profitability' for its energy business line, CEO Elon Musk has said this week.
New Rule Ups Big Oil’s Financial Responsibility for Offshore Clean-up
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 24, 2024
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s new rule takes a meaningful step towards holding industry accountable for the true costs of oil and gas drilling.
Batteries smash more records as they shift solar to evening peak in one of world’s biggest grids
Renew Economy
APRIL 28, 2024
California's 10 GW of big battery capacity is now dominant player in evening peaks, and soaking up solar in middle of the day. The post Batteries smash more records as they shift solar to evening peak in one of world’s biggest grids appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Amid Elon Musk’s Visit to Beijing for FSD Push, China Is Eyeing ‘Economical’ Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles as Next Alternative for Green Energy Transition
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 29, 2024
CEO Elon Musk recently wrapped up his visit to China, sparking speculation about the introduction of the full-self driving (FSD) system in the country. However, this visit comes at a.
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.
Methane Rising: Three questions investors in the food sector should ask their portfolio companies
EDF + Business
APRIL 25, 2024
By Josh Torres and Andrew Howell, CFA Starbucks and Clover Sonoma said this week they would track and disclose methane emissions within their dairy supply chains, joining the Dairy Methane Action Alliance in the latest sign of accelerating action on food sector methane emissions. Launched in December at COP28, the Alliance has quickly grown to include eight global food and dairy companies representing over $230 billion in annual global sales.
NovaCHARGE adds cloud-based EV charger power management
Charged
APRIL 26, 2024
NovaCHARGE has expanded its cloud power management capabilities by introducing Virtual Circuit Technology (VCT) to distribute the load from EV chargers. VCT provides multi-level power management for utilities, fleets, multi-dwelling units, and any other location with limited available power to control the use of open standard OCPP-compliant chargers using ChargeUP, its charging platform management system.
Let’s Commit to Saving Workers from Heat, Not Killing Them
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 24, 2024
Recent actions by state government officials increase the urgency for a federal workplace heat standard.
H2 Terminals Ltd Launches Massive Green Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) Project in the UK
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 29, 2024
LONDON, NOT APPLICABLE, UNITED KINGDOM– Hydrogen Terminals Limited, www.H2Terminals.com , today announced the launch of one of the largest Green Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) projects in the UK. This massive infrastructure project aims.
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?
Geothermal heat pumps are helping clean up city buildings
Canary Media
APRIL 29, 2024
Late last year in Austin, Texas, big blue rigs rolled up to a sunbaked parking lot and started boring holes deep into the ground. Bedrock Energy , a geothermal startup, was deploying its novel drilling technology for the first time, near a block of low-slung commercial buildings on South Congress Avenue.
Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?
Grist
APRIL 29, 2024
About a year ago, the seas got unusually hot , even by our current, overheated standards. Twelve months of broken records later, the oceans are still more feverish than climate models and normal fluctuations in global weather patterns can explain. When the seas turn into bathwater, it threatens the survival of the planet’s coral reefs, home to a quarter of all marine life and a source of sustenance for many people living along the world’s coasts.
The ‘valley of death’ for climate lies between early-stage funding and scaling up
TechCrunch: Climate
APRIL 27, 2024
It's easier for climate companies to get enough funding to get started. It's much harder once they need money to scale. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Keeping the lights on: Coal closures will be messy, but planning for post coal grid needs to start now
Renew Economy
APRIL 28, 2024
The transition away from coal will be messy, but Australians will not forgive political leaders if they muck up the post-coal era. The post Keeping the lights on: Coal closures will be messy, but planning for post coal grid needs to start now appeared first on RenewEconomy.
HRS Obtains the Support of the BPI With a EUR 1.35 Million Grant for Innovation and International Development
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 29, 2024
Grenoble– HRS, a French designer and manufacturer and European leader in hydrogen refueling stations, is proud to announce that it has received exceptional funding of €1.35 million from Bpifrance. This strategic.
Report: electric bikes deliver the vast majority of EV emissions reductions
Charged
APRIL 29, 2024
Contrary to the barrage of unsourced speculation on social media, EV adoption is indeed causing carbon emissions and oil demand to fall, albeit by a small amount so far. However, despite what many EV fans might assume, electric cars are not the main drivers of the reduction. According to BloombergNEF , EVs as a whole displaced about 1.5 million barrels of oil per day globally in 2022—about 3% of total road fuel demand.
Fears grow over rising number of oil lobbyists at UN plastic pollution talks
The Guardian: Energy
APRIL 25, 2024
Proposed global treaty to curb production represents challenge to producers of fossil fuels, from which most plastics are made The number of fossil fuel and petrochemical industry lobbyists at UN talks to agree the first global treaty to cut plastic pollution has increased by more than a third, according to an analysis. Most plastic is made from fossil fuels, via a chemical process known as cracking, and 196 lobbyists from both industries are at the UN talks in Ottawa, Canada, where countries ar
Puerto Rican solar and battery project to boost grid reliability
Smart Energy International
APRIL 23, 2024
Solar renewables company Infinigen Renewables and ArcLight Capital Partners have announced a power and battery infrastructure project in Puerto Rico to provide supportive flexibility and reliability to the power grid. A 15MW storage project will be paired with a 32MW solar project in the Yabucoa municipality of Puerto Rico. To bring the project online, Infinigen, a subsidiary of a fund managed by ArcLight, is partnering with FlexGen Power Systems, a battery energy storage integrator and software
Site for huge battery sold to owners of South Australia’s largest solar farm
Renew Economy
APRIL 28, 2024
The owners of the biggest solar farm in South Australia have bought a neighbouring site that could host a giant battery. The post Site for huge battery sold to owners of South Australia’s largest solar farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.
RONN Inc. Signs Joint Venture LOI With Hydrogen Horizons
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 29, 2024
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.– RONN, Inc. announced today that it has signed an LOI to form a joint venture with its long-time friends at Hydrogen Horizons. The purpose of the Joint Venture is.
New York launches 42.5MW of BESS projects including like-for-like gas turbine replacer
Energy Storage News
APRIL 24, 2024
The New York City Industrial Development Agency (NYCIDA) has approved five BESS projects while governor Kathy Hochul has announced groundbreaking on a sixth, all in all totalling around 42.5MW of capacity.
Welcome to Texas: The new Solar Valley The state is opening its arms to solar manufacturers, but will they find success?
Solar Power World
APRIL 24, 2024
Perhaps capitalizing on the recognized technological prowess of “Silicon Valley,” an industrial area in eastern Germany dubbed itself “Solar Valley” in the early 2000s after several solar manufacturers employed thousands just off main road Sonnenallee (“Sun Avenue”). Two decades later, Solar Valley in Thalheim, Germany, has lost its desirability, with companies leaving the area just… The post Welcome to Texas: The new Solar Valley <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight
US DOE $10m grant to support nation’s first regional cybersecurity center for grids
Smart Energy International
APRIL 24, 2024
A $10 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant will help create a pilot regional cybersecurity research and operations centre meant to help protect the power grid against cyber attacks. Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security was awarded the grant, in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Renewables cover 56 pct of Germany electricity use in March quarter
Renew Economy
APRIL 26, 2024
Renewables account for 56 per cent of Germany electricity use in first quarter of 2024. The post Renewables cover 56 pct of Germany electricity use in March quarter appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Fallback Friday Story: Nikola Celebrates Grand Opening of First Hyla Refueling Station in Southern California
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 26, 2024
Ontario-based station marks a significant step forward in establishing comprehensive hydrogen refueling network for Class 8 trucks. PHOENIX– Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy supply.
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