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Flint Water Crisis: Everything You Need to Know

NRDC onEarth

After officials repeatedly dismissed claims that Flint’s water was making people sick, residents took action. Here’s how the lead contamination crisis unfolded—and what we can learn from it.

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Battery storage becomes biggest source of supply in evening peak in one of world’s biggest grids

Renew Economy

Battery storage becomes biggest supplier to California's grid in evening peak for first time. The post Battery storage becomes biggest source of supply in evening peak in one of world’s biggest grids appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Energy Industry Veteran Brian Kellar Appointed Chief Financial Officer of BayoTech

FuelCellsWorks

Albuquerque, NM, USA— BayoTech, Inc. (“BayoTech”), an innovator in hydrogen production and transportation solutions, is proud to announce the appointment of Brian Kellar as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). With.

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Kode Labs makes a bid to become the Salesforce of commercial building automation

TechCrunch: Climate

Kode's platform allows customers to do everything from control HVAC and lighting, monitor energy use, track carbon emissions, and keep an eye on water consumption. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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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.

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Pebble Mine: Citing EPA Veto, Army Corps Re-Affirms Permit Denial

NRDC onEarth

Canadian owner of embattled Bristol Bay mining scheme rests fading hope on federal lawsuit challenging EPA veto.

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Hydrogen in gas networks doubles dangerous leaks from home appliances

Renew Economy

The science is building against hydrogen in homes, with a new study showing a sharp increase in gas leaks from appliances using full or blended hydrogen. The post Hydrogen in gas networks doubles dangerous leaks from home appliances appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Vulcan Energy reports progress on geothermal lithium operations in Germany

ThinkGeoEnergy

Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH (Vulcan Energy) has recently made two announcements on their geothermal lithium operations in Germany – the first extraction of lithium chloride from the company’s Landau facility, and the topping-out ceremony of their facility in Frankfurt-Höchst. The Lithium Extraction Optimization Plant (LEOP) in Landau has officially entered the production phase, having produce Lithium Chloride (LiCl) for the first time.

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Poll: People Want Action on Plastics for Health and Wildlife

NRDC onEarth

New poll results show overwhelming public support for government action to address the plastic crisis, including a strong global plastics treaty.

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Australia can achieve close to 100 pct renewables with today’s technologies: Are we up for the challenge?

Renew Economy

Australia can achieve close to 100% renewables with the technologies of today. The challenge is how to fill the gap. The post Australia can achieve close to 100 pct renewables with today’s technologies: Are we up for the challenge? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Tranter contributes to fossil fuels reduction in steel production using green hydrogen and Carbon Capture

FuelCellsWorks

Vanersborg, Sweden– Tranter has secured an order for a cutting-edge direct reduced iron (DRI), green steel plant set to be constructed in Germany. The DRI plant reduces its carbon footprint.

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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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The brilliant case for impact investing in America’s HBCUs

Impact Alpha

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a partnership between ImpactAlpha and Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) to present new ideas and perspectives in. The post The brilliant case for impact investing in America’s HBCUs appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Closing the Gap to Protect Illinois Wetlands

NRDC onEarth

A bill to protect Illinois’ remaining wetlands is moving forward in the state legislature, seeking to close a regulatory gap created by the Supreme Court.

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Australia falls out of global top 10 solar countries, risks losing spot in leading PV research group

Renew Economy

For the first time in 20 years, Australia fell out of the Top 10 countries for new solar installations in 2023. But Australian PV experts have bigger concerns. The post Australia falls out of global top 10 solar countries, risks losing spot in leading PV research group appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Ballard Announces Orders for 70 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engines for Delivery to Wrightbus in 2024

FuelCellsWorks

VANCOUVER, CANADA– Ballard Power Systems today announced multiple purchase orders totaling 70 FCmove®-HD hydrogen fuel cell engines from its customer Wrightbus ([link] a UK-based bus manufacturer deploying hydrogen-powered buses in.

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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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Quilt rides heat pump heat wave with hefty $33M Series A

TechCrunch: Climate

Quilt promises its heat pump will be a sleeker design that can be installed in more places around a room than competitors’ offerings. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Calling New York to break up with toxic PFAS this Earth Day

NRDC onEarth

New York Legislature has a real opportunity to address upstream sources of PFAS contamination

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Big batteries will undercut gas, but it’s hydro that might lose market share first

Renew Economy

More wind means lower prices, but it is battery storage that will replace expensive generation such as gas. The post Big batteries will undercut gas, but it’s hydro that might lose market share first appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Throwback Thursday Story: Austal and Gotlandsbolaget Partner to Construct Hydrogen-Capable Ferry

FuelCellsWorks

Australian shipbuilder Austal, in partnership with Sweden’s Gotlandsbolaget, has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the construction of a pioneering hydrogen-capable, high-speed ferry. This collaboration marks.

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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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The Brief: A good economy is good news

Impact Alpha

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Macro Impact Good economy actually is good news as impact investors adjust to new realities. The post The Brief: A good economy is good news appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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A budget for building homes—and clean-energy-powered affordability

Clean Energy Canada

OTTAWA — Mark Zacharais, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the 2024 federal budget : “Amid the government’s headline-grabbing commitments in Budget 2024 to help build more homes and support first-time buyers are a suite of measures that will help build something else critically important: a cleaner economy with affordable clean energy.

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Victoria bans gas rebates and incentives for homes as shift to all-electric gathers pace

Renew Economy

Victoria bans fossil gas companies from offering cash incentives or rebates to households that install major new gas appliances, or connect to the gas network. The post Victoria bans gas rebates and incentives for homes as shift to all-electric gathers pace appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Linde’s White Martins to Expand Green Hydrogen Production with Second Electrolyzer in Southeast Brazil

FuelCellsWorks

Woking, UK– Linde (Nasdaq: LIN) announced today its subsidiary White Martins will build, own and operate a second electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen for the southeast region of Brazil. The.

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Origis Energy secures US$136 million facility for 75MW Florida PV plant

PV Tech

US solar developer Origis Energy has secured a US$136 million construction financing facility and conversion to term loan with financial group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) for a PV plant in Florida, US.

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CATL unveils ‘five-year zero degradation’ BESS with 6.25MWh per container

Energy Storage News

Lithium-ion battery manufacturer CATL has launched its latest grid-scale BESS product, with 6.25MWh per 20-foot container and zero degradation over the first five years, the company claimed.

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Five ways to save Capacity Investment Scheme from attack by zombies

Renew Economy

CIS structure needs to minimise risks of zombie projects, and reward bidders with projects they can deliver on a rapid timeframe. Here's how. The post Five ways to save Capacity Investment Scheme from attack by zombies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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FCH2Rail: The First Hydrogen Train Completes Testing on the Portuguese Railway Network

FuelCellsWorks

The European project FCH2Rail which developed a bimodal demonstrator train with hydrogen fuel cells, has successfully completed testing in Portugal. Between 3 and 6 April, the H2 train travelled on.

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Advanced grid solutions are a deployment priority – US grid report

Smart Energy International

The US Department of Energy’s ‘liftoff’ grid report calls for accelerated deployment of key commercially available but underutilised advanced grid technologies and applications. Following hot on the heels of studies on the large-scale reconductoring of powerlines and grid-enhancing technologies, the new report addresses these and others, pointing to their potential to address near-term capacity and reliability priorities and modernise the grid without increasing costs for customers.

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The Brief: Participant Media’s impact on film investing

Impact Alpha

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Creative Economy Shutdown of Participant Media challenges other investors to drive impact through film. When. The post The Brief: Participant Media’s impact on film investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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The world is in an abusive relationship with fossil fuels. Now is the time to leave

Renew Economy

The truth of climate change is in the record heat, the flooding, the choking smoke, the red sky burning. Yet the fossil fuel companies tell us we can’t live without them. The post The world is in an abusive relationship with fossil fuels. Now is the time to leave appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Verne Closes Strategic Fundraise to Accelerate Development of High-density Hydrogen Storage for Heavy-duty Transportation

FuelCellsWorks

Trucks Venture Capital, Collaborative Fund, Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, United Airlines Ventures Sustainable Flight Fund, Newlab and other strategic investors back Verne’s cryo-compressed hydrogen storage technology. SAN FRANCISCO–Verne, a leading.

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This new tool makes it easier to crunch the costs of energy upgrades

Canary Media

A new free tool for contractors and other energy professionals aims to pin down the economic and climate benefits of electrifying homes and commutes — a calculation typically hard to come by.

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BLM to speed up geothermal exploration permitting with categorical exclusions

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the U.S. Department of Interior has announced measures that aim to expedite the review and approval of geothermal exploration proposals by adopting two existing categorical exclusions from the United States Forest Service and the Department of Navy. With this development, geothermal exploration operations on public land may no longer need an environmental assessment as part of the permitting process.

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Technology denial: Columbia Law School debunks 33 biggest myths about solar, wind and EVs

Renew Economy

Columbia Law School researchers identify 33 of the most pervasive myths about solar, wind and electric vehicles and rebut them using transparent, fact-based responses. The post Technology denial: Columbia Law School debunks 33 biggest myths about solar, wind and EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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