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.
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Big batteries leap to new charging record on Australia’s main grid
Renew Economy
MAY 5, 2024
The recent addition of a number of new big battery projects is being felt on the grid, with a big leap in the record for battery charging over the weekend. The post Big batteries leap to new charging record on Australia’s main grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Hazer and FortisBC Advance With $160M Hydrogen Facility in Canada
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 6, 2024
Hazer Group Ltd and FortisBC Energy Inc. have signed a binding Project Development Agreement to develop a 2,500 TPA commercial hydrogen facility in Canada, leveraging Hazer’s innovative low-carbon technology. FortisBC.
Sunak to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind
The Guardian: Energy
MAY 2, 2024
Exclusive: Decision to grant licences condemned by critics as a stunt that shows Tories are ‘playing politics with climate’ Fossil fuel companies will be allowed to explore for oil and gas under offshore wind-power sites for the first time, the government will announce on Friday, in a move which campaigners say is further proof that ministers are abandoning the climate agenda.
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.
Congress Approves Ban on Imports of Enriched Uranium From Russia
POWER Magazine
MAY 2, 2024
The U.S. Senate on April 30 passed—by unanimous consent—a bill to ban imports of unirradiated low-enriched uranium (LEU) produced in Russia. The bill now heads to the president’s desk for […] The post Congress Approves Ban on Imports of Enriched Uranium From Russia appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Natron Energy starts manufacturing ‘50,000+ cycle-life’ sodium-ion batteries at Michigan factory
Energy Storage News
APRIL 30, 2024
Natron Energy has started commercial-scale operations at its sodium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Michigan, US, and elaborated on how its technology compares to lithium-ion in answers provided to Energy-Storage.news.
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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.
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.
Texas got more electricity from solar than coal last month
Canary Media
APRIL 10, 2024
The Texas clean energy juggernaut hit a new milestone as the state’s solar production outpaced coal-fired generation over an entire month for the first time. For years, coal and fossil gas ruled the competitive ERCOT market, which supplies power to almost all of Texas.
No Doubt About It: EVs Really Are Cleaner Than Gas Cars
BloombergNEF
MARCH 21, 2024
As electric vehicles become a bigger part of the global car fleet, a contrarian take seems to surface every few months: are electric vehicles really that clean? The post No Doubt About It: EVs Really Are Cleaner Than Gas Cars appeared first on BloombergNEF.
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.
Southeast at a Crossroads: Bad Gas Bet or Clean Energy Boon?
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 11, 2024
The Southeast is facing a spike in electric load growth projections. Utilities are proposing a massive gas buildout to meet it—we can do better.
Australia has huge global green iron potential, but if we blink we’ll miss it
Renew Economy
MAY 2, 2024
As Brazil, the Middle East and Africa position themselves to lead the green iron race, Australia is at a fork in the road. The post Australia has huge global green iron potential, but if we blink we’ll miss it appeared first on RenewEconomy.
German Developer to Construct €3Bn, 1GW Green Hydrogen Facility in Albacete, Spain
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 6, 2024
A German developer is set to build a €3 billion (approximately $3.3 billion) green hydrogen facility in Albacete, Spain, aiming to create up to 1,000 jobs and produce hydrogen using.
Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, Senate report finds
The Guardian: Energy
APRIL 30, 2024
Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support Big oil has privately acknowledged its efforts to downplay the dangers of burning fossil fuels, a US Senate committee has found. Major fossil-fuel firms have also pledged support for international climate efforts, but internally admit these efforts are incompatible with their own climate plans.
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.
Long-Awaited Milestone: Fuel Loading Begins at India’s Prototype Fast Nuclear Reactor
POWER Magazine
APRIL 2, 2024
India in March began fuel loading at a 500-MWe/1,250-MWth prototype fast-breeder reactor (PFBR) located at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, marking a crucial phase for the second stage of the country’s ambitious The post Long-Awaited Milestone: Fuel Loading Begins at India’s Prototype Fast Nuclear Reactor appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas for the first time
TechCrunch: Climate
APRIL 1, 2024
The modern world is dependent on a vast network for extracting, processing, transporting and ultimately consuming hydrocarbons like crude oil and natural gas. But these resources come with a cost: they’re finite, difficult to extract and take carbon dioxide out of the ground and release it into the air. Instead of reducing humanity’s dependence on […] © 2024 TechCrunch.
Australia: Construction begins at biggest battery storage project so far
Energy Storage News
MARCH 17, 2024
Construction has kicked off at the largest battery project in Australia to date, with a storage capacity equivalent to the entire country’s fleet of projects in construction at the end of 2022.
How Gulf states are putting their money into mining
Financial Times: Energy
MARCH 31, 2024
Hungry to diversify their economies beyond fossil fuels, Middle Eastern powers are investing in the resources needed to produce clean energy
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?
Erthos secures 180MW community solar portfolio in Texas
PV Tech
APRIL 4, 2024
Arizona-based solar technology company Erthos has signed a master agreement with developer Sky Community Solar (SCS) on a 180MW community solar portfolio in Texas, US.
Ohio greenlights massive solar, storage and agrivoltaics project
Canary Media
MARCH 21, 2024
The Ohio Power Siting Board has given the go-ahead to what will be one of the largest solar farms in the United States, despite the opposition of local governments and citizens.
UK battery storage pipeline expands to over 95GW
Business Green
MAY 2, 2024
New data from RenewableUK reveals how pipeline of battery storage projects either in operation, consented, in the planning system or under development has grown two-thirds in a year
ADB backs Indonesia with US$600 million new coal funding despite climate pledge: report
Eco-Business
MAY 5, 2024
A new study by civic society groups accuses the Asian Development Bank of indirectly financing coal power plants in Indonesia as the multilateral holds its annual general meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Five things the “nuclear bros” don’t want you to know about small modular reactors
Renew Economy
MAY 1, 2024
The hype surrounding SMRs is way overblown. Here are five facts that the nuclear industry and its boosters don’t want the public to know. The post Five things the “nuclear bros” don’t want you to know about small modular reactors appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Hexagon Purus Receives Order to Deliver Hydrogen Storage Systems to HPS Home Power Solutions
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 23, 2024
Oslo, Norway– Hexagon Purus, a world leading manufacturer of zero-emission mobility and hydrogen infrastructure solutions, has received an order worth approximately EUR 3.8 million for hydrogen storage systems from the German.
Smartflow launched to enable web3 as-a-service solutions on Energy Web X
Smart Energy International
APRIL 1, 2024
Smartflow has been released by Energy Web to enable enterprises to launch their web3 solution on the Energy Web X parachain. Smartflow, offered as an ‘as-a-service’ product, is designed to enable enterprise customers to easily configure and deploy custom business logic using decentralised networks of ‘worker nodes’. The solution comprises a no-code infrastructure to build and integrate custom worker node workflows with existing data sources and APIs in minutes.
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.
‘Hard-Right’ NatCon Event Was Organised by Oil Funded Group
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 16, 2024
A gathering of “ Europe’s hard-right elite ” held in Brussels today was organised by a fossil fuel funded think tank, DeSmog can reveal. The National Conservatism (NatCon) conference was mired in controversy after the mayor of Brussels ordered police to shut down the event, leading to a standoff with its organisers. The conference was due to be attended by critics of net zero policies and climate science, as well as radical right-wing figures from across Europe.
BESS noise has ‘exploded as a concern’ recently
Energy Storage News
APRIL 8, 2024
The noise of battery energy storage system (BESS) technology has "exploded" as a concern in the last six months, an executive from system integrator Wartsila ES&O said.
‘New climate reality’ stretches global freshwater supply
Financial Times: Energy
MARCH 21, 2024
Population growth and industrialisation are compounding the problem, but there is no shortage of solutions
Clean energy accounts for 10% of global GDP growth in 2023, IEA says
PV Tech
APRIL 18, 2024
Clean energy added about US$320 billion to the world economy last year, accounting for 10% of global GDP growth in 2023, according to a study from the IEA.
Solar is about to get a lot more affordable for low-income households
Canary Media
APRIL 24, 2024
The Biden administration is making a historic $7 billion investment in solar initiatives for low-income families. The funding will help nearly half of U.S. states to create such programs for the first time — and enable the other half to build on existing progress.
Claire Coutinho warns against 'net zero leviathan of central planning', as speech targeted by protestors
Business Green
APRIL 30, 2024
Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary argues it is better for firms to 'live with some uncertainty' than suffer from strict government planning, but speech overshadowed by repeated protests
Half a million hectares of Indonesian forest under threat from nickel mining, study finds
Eco-Business
APRIL 16, 2024
The race to electrify transport is causing extensive deforestation in Indonesia, a Mighty Earth report finds. Will the destructive practices continue under incoming president Prabowo Subianto, who has pledged to ramp up nickel trade?
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