Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2025

The O2 networks move to switch off 3G next month could see 13 million worth of e-waste generated, according to business waste collection firm BusinessWaste.co.uk. The 3G switch-off on O2s network is expected to affect approximately 4.3 million people across the UK. 1 It could generate an enormous 70,516 kilograms of e-waste, said WEEE specialists with the group, roughly the same weight as 5.9 double-decker buses.

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TechXplore

MARCH 21, 2025

In recent years, researchers have been trying to develop increasingly advanced battery technologies that can be charged faster and store more energy, while also remaining safe and stable over time. Lithium-metal batteries (LMBs), which contain a lithium-metal-based anode, have been found to be promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), which are currently the most widely used rechargeable batteries.

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 17, 2025

Energy storage technologies must have the best protections available from hacking threats, writes Adile Ajaja, director of operations, IT and cybersecurity at EVLO.

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POWER Magazine

MARCH 20, 2025

You may have heard of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), our nations largest public utility and source of cheap, clean, and reliable electricity for 10 million people. You may even […] The post America’s Nuclear Renaissance: How the TVA Can Lead Our Energy Future appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 18, 2025

Latent Drive Secures 630k Grant for HydroPort Seawater Hydrogen Project UK-based hydrogen technology company Latent Drive has been awarded 630,000 by Innovate UK to advance its groundbreaking HydroPort project. This initiative focuses on producing green hydrogen directly from seawater using proprietary technology, SeaStack. Scheduled for trials along the Dorset coast, the project aims to fuel a harbour patrol vessel with clean energy and serves as a bold step towards decarbonizing maritime opera

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2025

The Perito-Moreno glacier in Argentina. A new study sheds light on the diversity of microbial life in glacier meltwater. The streams draining the glaciers on our planets mountaintops harbor a wealth of unique microorganisms, yet little was known about these complex ecosystems until recently. A team of scientists, led by the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) and including members of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), has carried out the study, which ta

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 19, 2025

There will be ‘foundational’ shifts in the US’ two largest renewables and energy storage markets this year, California (CAISO) and Texas (ERCOT), significantly affecting battery storage market participation. That characterisation comes from Tom Thunell, co-founder and COO of optimisation platform Tyba Energy, who gave Energy-Storage.

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Charged

MARCH 21, 2025

Microgrids are the coming thing in EV chargingincorporating battery storage can mitigate the need for high-power grid connections, making installations quicker and cheaper. ElectricFish has launched a new, fully redesigned version of its microgrid-based EV charger. Called the 350Squared, the system features battery integration and a proprietary power electronics design that the company says delivers faster EV charging and reduces the need for costly grid upgrades.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 20, 2025

Bulgarias Hydrogen Ambitions Take Shape with a New Centre of Excellence Bulgaria is charging into the clean energy future with plans to establish a cutting-edge Hydrogen Centre of Excellence in Stara Zagora. Under the banner of the H2START Hydrogen Valley project, this ambitious initiative is poised to position the Balkan nation as a leader in green hydrogen production and export within Europe.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2025

A 2025 YouGov survey conducted by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) appears to indicate a strong public demand for expanded polystyrene (EPS) recycling solutions. Many people remain unaware that EPS is fully recyclable, explains the BPF here, but the survey points to a significant desire for accessible recycling programs. The survey showed that 84% of respondents were unaware that EPS is recyclable.

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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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TechXplore

MARCH 21, 2025

Increasing energy demands and problems associated with burning fossil fuels have heightened interest in more sustainable energy sources, such as sunlight. But there are still areas where carbon-based fuel remains the standard, such as in the aviation industry. To address this need, scientists have been working to devise a way to use sunlight to generate solar-thermal heating that could then drive the chemical reactions that are needed to make jet fuel with net-zero carbon emissions.

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 17, 2025

Energy storage technologies must have the best protections available from hacking threats, writes Adile Ajaja, director of operations, IT and cybersecurity at EVLO.

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Charged

MARCH 19, 2025

Chinese automaker BYD has announced an ultra-fast EV charging system that it says can deliver a full charge to its latest EV models within five to eight minutes, similar to the amount of time needed to fill a fuel tank with gas. The company says its one-megawatt flash chargers can provide enough energy for nearly 250 miles of driving in five minutes.

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 17, 2025

Several times in the last couple of weeks I had conversations along the lines of “how on earth are we ever going to decarbonise our supply chain?” This frustration comes from the assumption that the businesses that supply your organisation are only going to come under pressure to decarbonise from you, but that’s far from the case. Let’s look at an individual, me.

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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

MARCH 18, 2025

Image credit: Julie Raccuglia , CC BY-SA 2.0 license. Key Production Group , said to be Europes leading bespoke physical music and packaging manufacturing broker, has announced the full rollout of its Key Production Recycling scheme, which the group says provides a responsible and sustainable recycling option for vinyl and CDs that are no longer playable.

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TechXplore

MARCH 20, 2025

Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, usually requires liquid mercury, which is extremely toxic. Now, researchers have developed a mercury-free method to isolate lithium-6 that is as effective as the conventional method. The new method is presented in the journal Chem.

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 18, 2025

Juan Ceballos, Trina Storage head of sales for Europe, tells ESN Premium how one of solars big players aims to become a major presence in energy storage.

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Charged

MARCH 20, 2025

Lithium Americas has received a strategic investment of $250 million from funds managed by Orion Resource Partners, a global investment firm focused on metal and materials projects, for the development and construction of Phase 1 of the Thacker Pass lithium project in Humboldt County, Nevada. The target for completion of Thacker Pass Phase 1 is late 2027.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2025

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch today ditched her partys commitment to the UKs flagship climate target in a speech hosted by an advertising group that works for Shell, DeSmog can reveal. During her address, Badenoch suggested that we are bankrupting ourselves in the pursuit of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. She said that the country should still seek to reduce its climate impact, but shouldnt set a date for achieving net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2025

The Swedish firm behind a novel polymer-graphene composite material, which promises to overcome many of the disadvantages of traditional hydrogen storage methods, has entered a strategic collaboration with UK climate tech startup Levidian, to co-develop new graphene-based polymer solutions for the hydrogen sector and other industries. Graphmatechs flagship technology, Aros Graphene, enables efficient graphene integration and dispersion into other traditional materials like metals and polymers in

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TechXplore

MARCH 19, 2025

A new study resulting from a collaboration between King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) shows how nanomaterials can significantly reduce the carbon emissions of LED (light-emitting diode) streetlights. The research team estimates that by adopting this technology, the United States alone can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than one million metric tons.

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 18, 2025

Battery storage can turn record-high instances of negative spot pricing in Australias National Electricity Market (NEM) into investment opportunities.

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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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Charged

MARCH 17, 2025

EV charging network operator ChargePoint has opened five new DC fast charging sites in upstate New York. The sites are supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and are located in Cortland, Waterloo, Lake Placid, Niagara Falls and Ripley. Drivers can find, use and pay for charging at these locations via the ChargePoint mobile app.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 17, 2025

Liberals Against Nuclear say the policy would increase bureaucracy and impose massive taxpayer-backed risk Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A group of Liberal supporters has launched an advertising campaign against the partys plan to build taxpayer-funded nuclear power plants, arguing it betrays Liberal values, divides the party and hands government back to Labor.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2025

The project, MHYSTIC (New Materials and Methods for Hydrogen Transportation and Storage: Repurposing the Economic Future of the North Sea) will redeploy existing energy assets and skills towards developing innovations that will support the UKs hydrogen distribution network. A research project at the University of Aberdeen is investigating new materials and methods for hydrogen transportation and storage, repurposing existing assets and skills from the North Sea.

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TechXplore

MARCH 19, 2025

Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, investigated how to use bio-based materials to produce effective UV protection films for solar cells. The study, published in ACS Applied Optical Materials, was the first to compare how the properties of different bio-based UV filters change over time.

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 21, 2025

Utility and power generation firm Vistra will write down the value of its Moss Landing BESS to the tune of US$400 million in depreciation expense, its entire remaining book value.

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Charged

MARCH 20, 2025

Canadian producer Northern Graphite is supplying samples of three standard battery anode material (BAM) products, as well as its Porocarb material, to manufacturers of lithium-ion and solid-state batteries. Northerns demonstrator grades, produced using graphite from the companys Lac des Iles (LDI) mine in Quebec acquired in 2022 , are engineered to drive battery performance and meet industry standards for particle size, tap density and surface area.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 18, 2025

Commission launched in 2022 says lagoon project, not full barrage, should be backed by UK and Welsh governments Urgent action is needed to harness the UKs potential for tidal range energy in the Severn estuary but smaller lagoon models should be pursued over a larger dam-like barrage, a panel of experts has said. The Severn Estuary Commission said that harnessing the energy of the tides in the estuary could deliver predictable, renewable electricity that would work independent of weather conditi

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2025

(Left to right) Marcus Brigstocke, Muhammad Ahmad, Luke Pulford, Muhammad Wakil Shahzad, Arif Shahab, Muhammad Mehroz, and Simon Parker. An energy-efficient cooling system developed by scientists at Northumbria University has picked up an important innovation award in the building services sector. Optimum Air Con an innovative cooling system developed in response to the global climate emergency was awarded Innovation of the Year – Thermal Comfort category at the Chartered Institution of

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TechXplore

MARCH 18, 2025

A collaborative team of researchers from Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London has achieved a significant milestone in sustainable energy technology, as detailed in their latest publication in Nature Energy.

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NRDC onEarth

MARCH 21, 2025

This International Day of Forests, we can celebrate the increasingly widespread recognition that the biomass industry is a bad bet for our forests and our communities.

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