Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The analysis was carried out by technology firm BMA (Business Modelling Applications). The cost of meeting Britains net zero targets in 2050 could be nearly 300 billion less than official projections, according to new analysis drawing on the computer model used by Whitehall. The savings over the period to 2050 equivalent to 415 for every household every year would come about from a greater use of home-grown renewable green gas in the energy mix.

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BloombergNEF

DECEMBER 10, 2024

New York, December 10, 2024 Battery prices saw their biggest annual drop since 2017. Lithium-ion battery pack prices dropped 20% from 2023 to a record low of $115 per kilowatt-hour, according to analysis by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF). Factors driving the decline include cell manufacturing overcapacity, economies of scale, low metal and component prices, […] The post Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Prices See Largest Drop Since 2017, Falling to $115 per Kilowatt-Hour: BloombergNEF appe

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Korean Researchers Pioneer Advanced Testing of New Biohydrogen System A groundbreaking scientific achievement has been reported by Professor Chiyoung Park of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST. Alongside Professor Hyojung Cha from Kyungpook National University, Dr. Parks team has successfully developed a supramolecular fluorophore nanocomposite fabrication technology.

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Renew Economy

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Awarding of contracts to two big wind farms in South Australia means it is on track to become the first big grid in world to reach 100 pct net renewables with variable wind and solar. The post CIS auction wins ensure South Australia will be first grid in world to reach 100 pct net wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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TechCrunch: Climate

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Google signed a deal with Intersect Power and TPG Rise Climate to spin up enough carbon-free power to drive several gigawatt-scale data centers. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A technology that converts low-temperature waste heat into electricity has earned the Institute of Physics (IOP) Business Innovation Award for FeTu, the Elland-based green energy business behind the approach. The award celebrates FeTus success in translating physics research into a viable commercial enterprise with a product that the IOP judges described as a revolutionary heat engine.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

National science agency dismisses argument nuclears economics have not been adequately considered in new draft report Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The CSIRO has rejected Coalition arguments that nuclear power plants could be developed in Australia in less than 15 years and that their long operating life would make them cheaper than other options.

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Renew Economy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

CSIRO slaps down major nuclear talking points promoted by Coalition leader Peter Dutton in its latest GenCost report, which confirms - yet again - that integrated wind and solar are easily the cheapest option. The post CSIRO patiently and methodically slaps down Peter Dutton’s nuclear nonsense appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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TechXplore

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Deciding where to build new solar or wind installations is often left up to individual developers or utilities, with limited overall coordination. But a new study shows that regional-level planning using fine-grained weather data, information about energy use, and energy system modeling can make a big difference in the design of such renewable power installations.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As heavy industry and transport sectors race to decarbonize, low-carbon hydrogen emerges as a promising zero-emission fuel, offering an alternative to battery electric vehicles for heavy transport while powering hard-to-abate industries from steel manufacturing to chemical production. Green hydrogen refers to hydrogen produced using renewable electricity, distinguishing it from hydrogen made using fossil fuels.

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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

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Austin Energy , the electric utility company of Austin, Texas, is partnering with Exceed Energy Inc. for a 5-MW first-of-its-kind geothermal pilot project near the Nacogdoches biomass facility. According to the company’s release, the pilot is expected to start producing electricity by 2025. With new technology and exciting opportunities to scale up energy production, the geothermal effort has the potential to change the energy landscape in Texas and create a more reliable pathway to a clea

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

From Sunlight to Hydrogen PowerA Sneak Peek at Panasonic’s 100% Renewable Energy Factory Panasonic Corporation has completed the installation of a groundbreaking demonstration power generation system at Panasonic Manufacturing UK Ltd. (PMUK) in Cardiff, Wales. This innovative initiative retrofits the 50-year-old manufacturing plant with cutting-edge green technologies, enabling the facility, which manufactures microwave ovens and other products, to operate entirely on renewable energy.

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Renew Economy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In an Australian first, Quinbrook proposes to add a giant battery to its proposed polysilicon plant in Queensland to "firm the grid as well as the manufacturing facility." The post Quinbrook adds huge 750 MW battery to polysilicon plant sent for federal approval appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

An alliance of political groups is harnessing real fears about the local impact of renewables projects across Australia and using them to spruik nuclear power Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The entrance is marked by an AI-generated image of a dead whale, floating among wind turbines. On the first floor of the East Maitland Bowling Club, dire warnings are being shared about how offshore wind may impact the Hunter region but also a feeling of not being consulted, of

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

QuantCube Technology and French space agency, CNES, have announced the successful delivery of a flood warning and risk mapping prototype, the SCO FloodDAM Digital Twin. The prototype, which can detect, monitor, assess and predict the financial and socio-economic risks related to flood events, harnesses continental water data from earth observation data, in-situ ground sensors and drone data.

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NRDC onEarth

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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Charged

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Daimler Truck has begun series production of the Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 at its plant in Wrth am Rhein, Germany. Mercedes-Benzs third electric truck model after the eActros 300/400 and the eEconic, the eActros 600 is designed for long-haul applications. It boasts up to 500 km of range, depending on the specific application and ambient conditions. Its three battery packs, each with 207 kWh, provide a total installed capacity of 621 kWh.

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Renew Economy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The bit mover in the CSIRO's GenCost report was the plunging cost of battery storage. One major battery project may already be doing much better. The post Plunging cost of big batteries: Latest gigawatt scale project may set new price benchmark appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Arverne Drilling Services , a subsidiary of Arverne Group , has started the drilling of a geothermal doublet to supply heating to the Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. The doublet aims to tap into a 70 C geothermal resources at 1800 meters depth. The drilling will take approximately three months. The project marks a key milestone in the decarbonization of the Paris-Charles de Gaulle platform.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2024

AgriSound team member Calum Pheby with “Polly” What’s described as the world’s first fully automated acoustic ‘panoramic’ landscape monitoring system, which can report in real-time on the landscape of natural sounds in a given area, is being developed by bioacoustics firm AgriSound. The firm suggests the system could vastly facilitate the study of biodiversity in areas of land such as farms, allowing them to be monitored for pollinator activity, or forests foc

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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TechXplore

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A new way to produce fuels made from leftover fat can create biofuel as effective as diesel and 1000-times more efficiently than current methods, a new study has suggested.

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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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Renew Economy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Latest CSIRO GenCost report confirms integrated renewables - including storage and transmission - easily the cheapest option for Australia. The post CSIRO GenCost: Falling costs of solar and batteries confirm integrated renewables are cheapest option appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Energy Storage News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

New Hampshire-based developer Granite Source Power (GSP) co-founder Jessica Shor disclosed to Energy-Storage.news that approximately 80% of the companys 1,250MW sale would be in ERCOT.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Edda Sif Pind Aradttir, CEO at Carbfix, with Conor Hamill, co-CEO of Nuada Nuada and Carbfix have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on delivering integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions aimed at reducing emissions in key sectors, including cement, lime, steel, waste-to-energy, and bioenergy. “By uniting Nuadas innovative carbon capture technology with Carbfixs transformative and permanent underground CO mineralization method, this partnership offers in

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2024

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

The Coalition responded to the latest CSIRO GenCost report by attacking the authors. Chris Bowen was not impressed. The post “It makes my blood boil:” Bowen fumes as Dutton leads new attack on CSIRO integrity appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Energy Storage News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Australian utility Origin Energy has confirmed that the first stage of the Eraring battery energy storage system (BESS) has been energised.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Velorim, “the UKs simple solution to recycling bicycle tyres and inner tubes”, has announced its ambition to double collection points across the UK by 2026, as it continues its mission to make cycling greener. With over 600 locations across the country already, the recycling service says it aims to make recycling bike tyres and inner tubes even easier for cyclists, providing a cost-effective solution to reducing the impact of cycling waste on the environment.

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Financial Times: Energy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

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Solar Industry

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Nextracker says it has shipped and delivered the industrys first U.S.-manufactured solar trackers in the United States, which are expected to achieve 100% domestic content value for solar trackers under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The first project to receive these domestic content trackers is SB Energys Pelicans Jaw project. The 570 MW solar and 954 MWh storage project is currently under construction by SOLV Energy.

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