Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees a new study from BDEW and CapGemini detail how sustainable transformation and decarbonisation purchasing are more important than ever for Austrian and German utility Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. ESG for utilities: decarbonisation on the up. Microgrid debt financing.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Most of our headlines this year have still been about conventional renewable segments such as solar and energy storage. On the margins, virtual power plants have gone mainstream and green hydrogen has emerged as the energy carrier of choice for tomorrow’s fuel systems. Making fossil fuels more palatable: ReSynth International.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2030, 125 million electric vehicles will be owned around the world and the UK government aims for almost every car and van on the road to be zero emission by 2050. Although more energy is required to make electric vehicles than petrol, you still save more energy in the long run.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A detailed look at the social and environmental trade offs, politics and geo-strategy behind the Lithium Ion battery and EV revolution Episode 117: AUTHOR BOOK REVIEW: Volt Rush: Winners and losers in the race to green with Henry Sanderson.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

The report by the CEWASTE consortium – led by the Switzerland-based World Resources Forum – says this requirement should apply to certain e-waste categories, including: End-of-life circuit boards, certain magnets in disc drives and electric vehicles, EV and other special battery types, and fluorescent lamps.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Xcel Energy is asking Minnesota regulators to approve $1.4 billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. EVs, green hydrogen and energy storage.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 8, 2023

Much hullabaloo has been made about the federal government’s clean energy transition plan. million Canadian jobs currently exist in sectors that will be transformed by the global energy transition, according to a ministerial briefing note. Alberta’s premier went so far as to suggest that 2.7 This is, well, nothing close to accurate.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a relatively short amount of time, this paradigm has been upended by the growth of affordable renewable energy, both utility-scale and distributed, that does not burn any fuel, and the political, regulatory, and corporate drive to cut emissions. This new era of power has only begun but is already quickly evolving. Why “hybrid?”.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Recent years have seen energy storage installations dominated by lithium-ion battery technology around the world. Department of Energy announced an alliance of 11 national governments and more than 60 organizations to speed up the development and deployment of pumped hydro projects around the world.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 6, 2020

Rosen met Isaac a decade ago while working on energy and water issues in the region. “We deal with land, we deal with resources, we deal with politics,” Isaac said in an interview. The 200 megawatt project is first on the docket, but Navajo Power has grand ambitions for massive clean energy capacity in the region.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She didn’t foresee, however, the high energy bills that would result from cranking up the gas heater when her apartment would turn into an icebox in the winter. She hired a contractor to test the apartment’s energy efficiency. She was drawn to its affordability and space. “It It was a great work-from-home spot,” Spears said.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Europe has inspired the world with its ambitious renewables integration, smart energy trading, and grid balancing. An important new study from Smart Energy Europe (SmartEn) makes the case for increased DSF in Europe to meet aggressive climate action targets. GHG emissions would drop by 8 percent or approximately 37.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Aurora Energy Research contends thermal power generation equipped with hydrogen and CCS offers most cost-effective pathway to a net zero power system. But a report from Aurora Energy Research today cautions that the latter phases of power sector decarbonisation could well be set to diverge from the aforementioned narrative.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 3, 2020

Although COVID-19 has decimated the energy sector it will disproportionately enfeeble the fossil fuel industry and embolden renewable energy. We can achieve decarbonization by electrifying the energy, transportation, manufacturing and industry. However, Matt also expressed concern that we will miss the opportunity.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

The combination of the hot weather and the increased energy running along wires go beyond what they were built to endure. America’s energy infrastructure scored a C-minus on the U.S. With the political will and urgency aligning, it’s important to get those improvements right. . All-electric HVAC systems are more efficient.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The price of lithium-ion batteries, which power most mainstream EVs, has been dropping dramatically the past several years. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) says that between 2010 and 2019, lithium-ion battery pack prices fell 87 percent. In 2019, they dropped 13 percent more.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Tangible research, development, and demonstration support for new energy technology was also included in the infrastructure bill. Gridlock is still a problem, but there is optimism as climate has risen in the US to become a top-tier political issue (as it is already in western Europe).

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Renewable energy is set to lead efforts to temper climate change and expand access to electricity. But as the third energy transition gathers pace, a deeper examination of the industry’s supply chains and operational practices reveals a darker side when it comes to human rights. Solar energy’s risk hot spots.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

It is technologically and economically feasible for us to achieve this - and the Supreme Court has now affirmed that there is no legal basis for a lack of political will," she added. The process, which relies on sea water and lithium as fuel, is carbon free and its only biproduct is helium, an inert, non-toxic gas.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 20, 2021

Managing Director | New Energy Nexus | Oakland, CA. New Energy Nexus is an international non-profit organization that supports clean energy entrepreneurs with funds, accelerators and networks. Our mission is to support diverse entrepreneurs to drive innovation and build equity in the global clean energy economy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But as EV sales have begun to take off around the world, driven in part by more eco-minded consumers, so questions have increasingly been asked just how environmentally-friendly the supply chain, materials, construction, and use of battery powered cars really is. As the old saying goes: you can't manage what you can't measure.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Dylan White , and Sam Wong As countries around the world accelerate the transition to clean energy, the race to gain shares in the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing market is intensifying, with global sales of EVs rising 31% in 2023. [1] By Jean-Philippe Brisson , Jim Cole , Eli M. Katz , Qingyi Pan , Rob Thompson , J.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The technologies and solutions required to combat the climate crisis are ready, available and increasingly affordable, the report notes, highlighting the drastic cost reductions seen in solar, wind, and lithium-ion battery production over the last decade or so. It is vital that they recognise the lessons it contains.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Paul, Minnesota.

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Charged

MARCH 11, 2024

There’s much hand-wringing in the press these days about battery raw materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. Matt Sloustcher: If you read the EV Tax Credit legislation, the sourcing restrictions on critical minerals are limited to the battery system. Also from an energy security point of view.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

-wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S. “It has a huge impact,” Brown said. “The costs are relatively small, and it delivers oversize benefits.”

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Banks are also making more money from loans and underwriting to clean energy than to fossil fuels. One memorable headline read, “ Morgan Stanley Doubles Down on ESG Despite the Politics.” Other coverage of company action found plenty continuing their work on sustainability, even in states that are hostile to it.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 16, 2021

Over the past decade, no major energy source has grown faster than solar power. According to the 2020 BP Statistical Review of World Energy, installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity has grown at an average annual rate of over 42% over the past 10 years, translating into a doubling of global capacity every 1.7 energy infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

He is joined by Jed, the family’s farmhand and general purpose distributed energy resource mechanic. The lithium-ion cells burned out after seven years of daily cycling, so we turned our fire moat into the low reservoir for our residential pumped hydro system. Traveler: Why not switch to flow batteries when the lithium went bust?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Electric vehicle makers and battery manufacturers are making progress in developing new lithium-ion designs, amid persistent concerns over the supply of key materials. Foremost among these formulations is a lithium nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cathode chemistry with eight parts of nickel for each part of cobalt.

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

January Cleantech Roundup: Corporations Claim Their Carbon | How Public Chargers Influence Electric Vehicle Adoption | Investor Climate Initiatives Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. a real zinger to throw at a 16-year old.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The Committee's overarching conclusion is both clear as day and extremely pertinent at the current geopolitical juncture: a net zero energy system is technologically, financially, and politically achievable within the 2035 timeframe, but the government simply cannot afford to waste anymore time in building it.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

But analysis by Climate Home News has warned the most ambitious of three decarbonisation scenarios outlined in the strategy document would still see the amount of coal used for Indonesia's primary energy growing until at least 2050. Rio Tinto ready to drop $2.4bn on Serbian lithium project.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To build a successful battery supply chain, Africa needs to move away from a legacy of mineral extraction and exporting of raw materials to investing in the existing opportunity to partner, beneficiate and manufacture. According to Marketsandmarkets, the global Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) market is expected to grow to $17.5

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

To achieve LEED Gold status, the design integrates passive cooling with photoelectric power generation and lithium-ion battery energy storage. The new Grace Hobson Smith House dormitory was completed to house resident and faculty apartments surrounding a community courtyard.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Canada has big ambitions to build one of the world’s powerhouse supply chains for EV and battery technology. In 2022, the government released its Critical Minerals Strategy—a road map toward making our country a leading global supplier of materials needed for renewable energy and high-tech products. It’s backed by $3.8

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