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Opening day for Enlit Asia 2022 a dynamic start to 3 days in Bangkok

Smart Energy International

With several highlights of note, the Enlit Asia 2022 Bangkok summit commenced today. Roughly 10,000 delegates from electricity and energy businesses across the globe inclusive of Asia, Europe, America and beyond descended upon Bangkok to hear high-profile industry leaders speak. This was originally published on Enlit Asia.

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From UK to Asia, coal plant closure plans advance

Business Green

This week has seen a further blow to the global coal market in both industrialised and emerging economies, as the UK's coal power phase out entered its end game and some of the world's top banks revealed plans to accelerate the closure of coal power plants in Asia.

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A look inside LG Energy Solution’s massive Polish battery plant

Charged

As demand for EVs soars, US and European automakers are racing to establish localized battery production, and break the long-standing reliance on supply chains originating in Asia. There are currently at least a dozen battery “gigafactories” under construction or planned in Europe. Source: InsideEVs.

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Hitachi Energy ramps up global transformer capacity with over $1.5bn

Smart Energy International

The investments will gradually expand the company’s global transformer capacity by 2027 and will be spread across their operations in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The company’s transformer investments also aim to support their aim to become carbon-neutral by 2030. Hitachi Energy has revealed investments of over $1.5

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Cement firm CEMEX pours investment into carbon-cutting 'upcycling' start-up

Business Green

Processes developed by Carbon Upcycling Technologies promise to reduce emissions by up to 30 per cent. in Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a Canadian start-up whose innovative processes could reduce the emissions associated with cement making by up to 30 per cent. Global cement giant CEMEX has invested $6.5m

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Arctic Green Energy and Sinopec to go global with joint venture

ThinkGeoEnergy

SGE is also expanding fast into geothermal power generation, and advancing their carbon neutrality strategy towards becoming carbon-positive by offering carbon capture solutions. The partnership now also aims to target regions in Asia outside of China for its first step in international expansion.

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WoodMac: Energy Sector Faces ‘Darwinian Challenge’ to Tame Climate Change

GreenTechMedia

Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other examples — the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a massive dose of uncertainty. China takes a big step. can get to net-zero emissions by 2050.