October, 2022

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Local, clean and circular supply chains: Panasonic advances EV battery tech

GreenBiz

Sponsored: A global leader in EV battery innovation and manufacturing, Panasonic is tackling the climate crisis on a global scale, with recycling and supply chain localization at its core.

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Natural Power energising wind and solar in Ireland

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Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has successfully supported the completion of Taghart Wind Farm and Millvale Solar Farm - the first RESS-1 wind and solar projects respectively, to be energised in Ireland.

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An energy storage boom is coming thanks to the new storage ITC

Solar Power World

A 21st century gold rush is upon us, as individuals, businesses and utilities sprint to install energy storage systems using the new storage investment tax credit (ITC) included in the IRA. For the first time, batteries don’t have to be installed with or charged by solar panels to receive a tax credit. Systems of any… The post An energy storage boom is coming thanks to the new storage ITC appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Anheuser-Busch and Sysco Order More than $15M in Tesla Electric Semi Trucks in One Day

Green Living Guy

UPDATE: Sysco, one of the largest food deliverers in the world, placed an order for 50 Tesla Semi trucks. The company operates a fleet of more than 7,000 trucks. “This reinforces Sysco’s commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility by reducing the environmental impact of our operations. In addition to the positive environmental impacts, we will also […].

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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.

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Aptera chooses Maxeon to supply solar cells, begins producing panels

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Aptera is different. While other EV-makers aspire to become “the next Tesla” by building high-performance vehicles that look just like the ICE vehicles drivers are used to, Aptera is focusing on building the most efficient and greenest vehicles possible. Critics may say that consumers won’t buy an unusual three-wheeled aerodynamic vehicle (Aptera might dispute that—it claims to have over 35,000 reservations), but it’s undeniable that the company is pushing the limits of EV technology, which can

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Indigenous leaders call for climate finance disruption

GreenBiz

Acknowledging Indigenous people’s critical role in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises may have become the norm in climate circles, but these communities still aren’t being paid for it.

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Biofuel Market Size to Worth Around USD 331.89 BN by 2030

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According to Nova one advisor, the Biofuel market size was accounted at USD 131.85 billion in 2021 and is predicted to be worth around USD 331.89 billion by 2030 with a notable CAGR of 11.9% from 2022 to 2030.

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Multi-array solar project directly powers interstate commuter train

Solar Power World

The PATCO Speedline is a 15-mile-long high-speed commuter train responsible for transporting millions of people between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden County, New Jersey, annually. Like many modern commuter rail lines, PATCO Speedline uses an electrified third rail to power its locomotive cars. A robust behind-the-meter solar portfolio is responsible for most of that power.

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All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too

Grist

When you think of plastic pollution, you might imagine ocean “ garbage patches ” swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. But unfolding alongside the “macroplastic” pollution crisis is another threat caused by much smaller particles: microplastics. Microplastics — tiny plastic fragments that are less than 5 millimeters in diameter, a little less than one-third the size of a dime — have become ubiquitous in the environment.

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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.

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Caterpillar unveils prototype batteries for off-highway equipment

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Yellow machine icon Caterpillar has announced the development of 48-volt, 300-volt and 600-volt batteries for the off-highway equipment industry. The company’s new range of Li-ion batteries features a modular design to optimize performance and packaging, and has been engineered with lifecycle sustainability in mind, including reuse and recycling at the end of life.

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Optimizing the municipal bond market for health equity and racial justice (podcast)

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 31 – The municipal bond market has been called the original impact investment asset class, a source of capital for water, housing, The post Optimizing the municipal bond market for health equity and racial justice (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Your next corporate job: Protecting biodiversity

GreenBiz

Jobs focusing on preserving and regenerating nature are on the rise. The focus: mitigating risk and seizing opportunity. Will "nature positive" be the next "net zero"?

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Smart Grid Market Size to Surpass Around USD 846.1 Billion by 2030

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According to Vision Research Reports, the global smart grid market size is projected to surpass around USD 846.1 billion by 2030 and registered growth at a CAGR of 17.7% from 2022 to 2030.

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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?

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Which companies are making solar panels in the United States? A 2022 update on domestic solar panel manufacturing

Solar Power World

The United States is hopefully, fingers crossed, entering a solar module manufacturing renaissance. After having its domestic supply decimated by China’s precise buildout of solar manufacturing over the last decade, manufacturing tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act should provide a lifeline to the market. As it stands today, U.S. solar panel manufacturing consists… The post Which companies are making solar panels in the United States?

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'Radical reinvention': Lloyds Banking Group vows to stop financing new oil and gas projects

Business Green

Campaigners hail move as setting 'a new standard for the UK banking industry'. Lloyds Banking Group has announced that it will no longer directly finance the development of new oil and gas projects, in a first for a UK bank. In a company announcement yesterday morning, Lloyds said it would no longer be providing finance to new clients in the oil and gas sector, unless it was for "viable projects into renewable energies and transition technologies" by companies with "credible" transition plans in

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Colorado Teardrops camping trailer includes a battery pack to extend EV towing range

Charged

EVs have many advantages over legacy vehicles, but towing capacity is not (yet) one of them. When John Voelcker recently tested the new Ford Lightning F-150 for Charged , he confirmed that towing a sizable trailer can cut the vehicle’s range in half. Of course, a fossil fuel pickup will also take a huge range hit when towing, but you can always add an auxiliary gas tank.

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The LiiST: Seven impact funds that are raising capital now (October 2022)

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, October 4 – On Last week’s Agents of Impact Call, we heard from first-time, women managers of small impact funds in emerging. The post The LiiST: Seven impact funds that are raising capital now (October 2022) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Scaling small technologies can hasten our climate action

GreenBiz

What if we started to think about addressing the crisis not by looking for the silver bullet, but for many scaleable innovations that can move the needle, fast.

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Solar FlexRack Supplies Trackers for 42 MW Community Solar Project Portfolio in Illinois

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Company deploys cold weather expertise to provide affordable clean energy to local communities

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Florida solar arrays survive Hurricane Ian Advanced Green Technologies credits good design and preventative maintenance as keys to success

Solar Power World

Hurricane Ian, the fifth-strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the contiguous United States, barreled across Florida in late September 2022. The Category 4 storm hit Fort Myers, Florida, particularly hard, contributing to over 125 deaths, mostly due to prolonged flooding. Millions were without power, but a bright point came from Babcock Ranch, a… The post Florida solar arrays survive Hurricane Ian <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;&#

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'Greatest betrayal': Report reveals global wildlife populations have fallen 70 per cent in 50 years

Business Green

Annual WWF Living Planet report warns continued biodiversity loss is jeopardising climate goals and undermining economic development. Global wildlife populations have seen an average decline of 69 per cent since 1970, according to the latest flagship Living Planet Report from WWF, which warns climate goals are being put at risk due to the continued loss of natural ecosystems around the world.

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Electric Freight Consortium aims to advance freight electrification

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The Electrification Coalition (EC) has established a new forum for collaboration among industry leaders in the freight transportation sector to accelerate freight electrification. The new Electric Freight Consortium (EFC) aims to bring together the full fright ecosystem—shippers, carriers, retailers and EV supply chain companies. It will “identify pilot project opportunities, plan implementation, diagnose challenges, develop best practices and support successful deployment.”.

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How Patagonia’s private plan for the public good inadvertently reveals the limits of impact investing

Impact Alpha

Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith, a longtime senior writer for Institutional Investor, contributes a bi-weekly column on the policies, practices and strategies of the. The post How Patagonia’s private plan for the public good inadvertently reveals the limits of impact investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Infighting among carbon credit verification bodies

GreenBiz

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market's Core Carbon Principles and Assessment Framework have sparked debate and accusations from other crediting organizations.

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Danfoss Named 2022 Innovative Star of Energy Efficiency by Alliance to Save Energy

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Prestigious award presented in recognition of Danfoss’ work to decarbonize through energy efficiency

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The state of the energy transition

GatesNotes

My annual memo about the journey to zero emissions.

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Britain's wind farms set new generation record after delivering 19.9GW of power

Business Green

Onshore and offshore wind met more than half of Britain's electricity demand on Wednesday. Britain's fleet of wind turbines generated more electricity than ever before over a 90-minute window earlier this week, according to statistics from the electricity grid operator. Between 11:30 and noon on Wednesday, Britain's wind farms generated 19.9GW of electricity meeting 52.2 per cent of total demand, the figures from National Grid ESO reveal.

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GreenPower to pilot electric school buses across West Virginia

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GreenPower Motor , a manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty EVs, has deployed electric school buses in three West Virginia counties as part of a pilot project to demonstrate e-buses in school transportation operations across the state. The company will soon be producing buses in the state—in August, the company opened a manufacturing facility in South Charleston.

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Can’t tell the players without a scorecard: Sorting out ESG, impact and sustainability

Impact Alpha

The Land of ESG is embroiled in a two-front war. Identifying the combatants and their arguments may help practitioners keep track of the. The post Can’t tell the players without a scorecard: Sorting out ESG, impact and sustainability appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Why we can't cheat our way to net zero

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Just how much carbon offsetting is simply greenwashing? As a sustainability director, I have become versed in what it means for a company to manage its environmental impact.

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Nexamp and IBEW Local 103 Partner on Solar and Energy Storage System

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Project demonstrates the potential for savings, resiliency and clean energy jobs

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