NRDC onEarth
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
In a stark visual reminder of the threat to public health from dangerous lead water pipes, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) today released a map based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data revealing the specific communities and water systems.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Another spring day in Australia, another renewable energy record – this time, a new all-time high for the maximum contribution of rooftop solar to the mix of electricity in NSW. The post Rooftop solar makes record high contribution to grid on same day home battery push announced appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Hydrogen Fuel News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Tom’s Truck Center Ushers in a New Era with First Hydrogen Refueling Station in Santa Fe Springs, LA County Tom’s Truck Center has made a groundbreaking move by opening the first hydrogen refueling station onsite at a commercial truck dealership. This significant event took place at their Santa Fe Springs location in Los Angeles County, marking an important milestone in California’s push towards a hydrogen-powered future.
PV Tech
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and FirstRand Bank have allocated €400 million (US$444 million) to support the development of solar PV and wind generation projects in South Africa.
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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Canary Media
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column.
NRDC onEarth
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
American bathrooms are stocked with toilet paper and tissues sourced from the Canadian boreal forest, one of the world’s largest and most ecologically important intact forests. For the sixth year in row, Procter & Gamble failed the toilet paper sustainability.
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Clean Energy Canada
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
VICTORIA —Mark Zacharias, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the announcement by Premier David Eby about changes to the provincial consumer carbon price: “B.C. was a leader in putting carbon pricing in place in 2008. It did so because carbon pricing was seen to be the most cost-effective and efficient way to drive down emissions, lessening the costly impacts of climate change while also encouraging households to adopt cleaner solutions.
Green Living Guy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Let’s talk the Tesla battery cell 4680. So hey there, green living enthusiasts! I’ve got some electrifying news that’s sure to get your eco-friendly hearts racing. Tesla, our favorite electric vehicle trailblazer. For it has just hit a mind-blowing milestone in battery production. Let’s dive into this game-changing achievement and what it means for the.
Canary Media
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Over the next few years, residents of select California neighborhoods may start getting phone calls and mailers from gas utilities and community organizers offering an unexpected proposition: Would you like to ditch gas and switch to all-electric appliances instead?
NRDC onEarth
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Proposed cumulative impacts rules have the potential to protect Colorado communities from oil and gas pollution—but they currently fall short.
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.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
NSW's new Consumer Energy Strategy aims for 1 million homes and small businesses kitted out with solar batteries by 2035, crucial for a no coal grid. The post NSW aims for a million solar battery homes in landmark consumer energy strategy for no coal grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Would-be battery manufacturers that could serve the US energy storage industry with domestically made cells are facing a “perfect storm,” Energy-Storage.news has heard.
Hydrogen Fuel News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
The planet has massive reserves of heat just below the surface that can be used for power Data centers demand a tremendous amount of electricity, and geothermal energy is being considered to provide a solution to this growing need. Meta made a clean energy announcement at a DoE workshop Meta – parent company of popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – chose the geothermal energy workshop at the US Department of Energy (DoE) to announce its plans to
Canary Media
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Rooftop solar, backup batteries, electric vehicles, and smart thermostats and appliances are all crucial to the energy transition in their own right.
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.
NRDC onEarth
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The science is clear that oil and gas production harms both the environment and human health.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Significant milestone claimed as tests validate first use of vanadium electrolyte produced at Perth facility in a functioning battery. The post Milestone for vanadium flow battery technology after electrolyte tests for Australian project appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Beep Saúde has developed an app that helps patients obtain more than 30 vaccines, including for influenza and HPV, set up appointments with. The post Lightsmith and Chan Zuckerberg invest $16.6 million in Beep for in-home health in Brazil appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Hydrogen Fuel News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Solar Fence lights can be used for pier lighting too. It’s easy to add fence lights to make your outdoor space look great. This guide will help you choose the right solar fence lights material, like metal (which is the best), and find the right style. Make sure the adapter fits the fence before you buy. To make your outdoor lighting look good, match the fence lights to any wall lights you have.
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?
Green Living Guy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
Government Going Green The U.S. government is going green. Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) and General Services Administration (GSA) announced a groundbreaking initiative. They issued a Request for Information (RFI) on carbon-free electricity supply. This move is crucial. It transforms government energy procurement. Moreover, it sets the nation on a path to clean electricity.
NRDC onEarth
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
California is aiming to standardize food date labels with the passage of AB 660 (Irwin). The bill is now awaiting signature from Governor Newsom.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Australia needs more longer duration energy storage to fix a forecast winter demand peak when renewable supply can be low. The post Australia must start valuing storage duration to solve winter demand peaks and renewable droughts appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Canary Media
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
This article is part of a two-part reporting project on decarbonizing aluminum production. Read our story on Kentucky's green smelter dreams here.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Volvo Trucks plans to launch a long-range variant of its FH Electric truck , with a range of up to 600 km (373 miles)—about twice the maximum range of the current-generation FH Electric. (North American VNR Electric models offer a range of up to 275 miles.) The new model is slated to go on salw in the second half of 2025. The extended range is mainly enabled by the use of an e-axle in place of the multiple motors and I-Shift gearbox used in the current FH and VNR models, which frees up space for
Green Living Guy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
(BPT) – Spend a few days in a waterfront town, vacation destination or golf community, and you’ll likely see a surge of local electric vehicles on neighborhood streets. The street-legal, low-speed vehicle category extends the fun, yet practical vehicles to suburbia and urban downtowns as the market for sustainable transportation grows. Low-speed vehicles (LSVs) offer.
TechCrunch: Climate
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Rooftop solar continues to reshape the grid, with record levels of large scale curtailment, even as coal plants dialled down to their bare minimum. The post Record curtailment as rooftop solar reshapes biggest coal grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The Guardian: Energy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally Big tech has made some big claims about greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. But as the rise of artificial intelligence creates ever bigger energy demands, it’s getting hard for the industry to hide the true costs of the data centers powering the tech revolution.
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Investor DTEK will build 200MW of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Ukraine as the country enters its third winter of war with Russia, with continued attacks on its electricity infrastructure looming.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Sponsored by Horton. Why do zero-emission vehicles need sophisticated cooling systems? Because they generate less emissions but more heat. With our climate changing, manufacturers’ demand for zero-emission vehicles is growing. Zero-emission vehicle subcomponents produce heat that require optimized thermal management systems to ensure peak performance and longevity.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: ImpactAlpha Latin America Meeting of ‘impact minds’ in Oaxaca aims to catalyze capital for Latin. The post The Brief: Indigenous communities, the creative economy, and the future of finance in Latin America appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
W.A. government seeks expressions of interest in four new transmission corridors to deliver huge amounts of wind and solar to Australia's most fossil dependent economic region. The post Australia’s most fossil dependent economy opens up to renewable energy highways appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The Guardian: Energy
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Angela Eagle, border security minister, says prime minister has to answer why he has accepted £76,000 worth of gifts since 2019 election The number of migrants who have crossed the English Channel since Labour won the general election has passed 10,000, according to provisional figures from the Home Office. As PA Media reports, some 65 migrants were detected crossing the Channel on Monday, taking the cumulative number of arrivals since July 4 to 10,024.
TechCrunch: Climate
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Accounting for the emissions of a global tech empire is not a simple task, and what industry standards we do have for disclosure may allow tech companies to systematically understate their carbon footprint. A Guardian report compares official declarations of carbon emissions, including what amount to offsets purchased elsewhere, with “location-based” emissions, another standard metric […] © 2024 TechCrunch.
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