Smart Energy International

APRIL 30, 2024

Swiss tech major Hitachi Energy has announced an upgrade and modernisation of its power transformer factory in Varennes, and other facilities in Montreal, Canada, to address fast-growing customer demand for sustainable energy in North America. The additional 130,000 square foot (approx.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

The Siemens Congleton factory is on track to hit carbon neutrality this year following a number of sustainable improvements. Global energy technology giant Siemens claims it is on track on achieve 'carbon neutrality' at its Congleton factory in Cheshire before the end of 2022, a full eight years sooner than its original target.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Despite popular belief, electrification does not always lead to a reduction in carbon footprint. According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 24, 2024

Hitachi Energy has revealed investments of over $1.5 billion to ramp up its global transformer manufacturing capacity to keep pace with growing demand. Earlier this year in February, Hitachi Energy also announced a larger than $30 million expansion of its transformer manufacturing facility in Bad Honnef, Germany.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Company behind Hardy's and Echo Falls says its core range has been certified as carbon neutral. The company behind bestselling wine brands Kumala, Hardys, and Echo Falls has announced that its core range has now been certified carbon neutral.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

De Beers and nine of its suppliers and customers to draw up net zero plans in response to growing consumer demand for responsibly sourced diamonds. A detailed plan for achieving the net zero goal will be shared by the end of Q1 2021, he added.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2021

UK carbon capture specialist Carbon Clean and Swedish fuel start-up Liquid Wind have announced they are to work together to produce e-methanol for the shipping industry using carbon dioxide captured from industrial plants. We have been successfully deploying our carbon capture technology at industry sites," he said. "We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

New climate target will be achieved by transitioning mining operations to clean energy, improving energy efficiency, developing proprietary carbon capture technology and purchasing offsets, company said.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Since 2015, more than 35GWs of renewable energy projects have been installed in the United States to meet the sustainability needs of corporate and industrial customers. There are more opportunities to expand impact through developing new projects and providing a more robust renewable generation match for load demand.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

By the end of this year, says Grolsch, more than two-thirds of its heat demand will be met by sustainable heat from waste management company Twence , delivered through a new underground pipeline. With this heat supply, not all of Grolsch’s biogas can be used directly for its own heat demand anymore. Biogas upgrading.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Image credit: Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville 40292, KY, USA. The global demand for renewable energy sources has led to an increase in biodiesel production, resulting in a significant amount of waste byproducts such as MONG. 1a), after acid treatment (Fig.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Energy-from-Waste (EfW) operator enfinium signed an agreement – on 19 March – with green technology company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to install the UK’s first carbon capture pilot plant at an EfW facility. The aims of the pilot is to demonstrate the use of carbon capture technology at EfW facilities.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

On Wednesday morning, the logistics and retail giant announced that it plans to buy 6 million gallons of bio jet fuel via a division of Shell and produced by World Energy, a big biodiesel producer. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Air cargo operator pledges to invest in sustainable fuels, carbon capture research, and fleet electrification in bid to meet new climate goals. FedEx also announced it is investing $100m to set up a new centre for national carbon capture at Yale University where researchers will look into ways to scale up carbon sequestration technologies.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

EDF leads a proof-of-concept on automating renewable energy transactions and Eurelectric’s study on the benefits of matching energy consumption with clean energy on a (near) real-time basis are on the week’s technology radar.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Businesses who fail to act on decarbonisation risk exposing themselves to potential risks from policy-driven increased operating costs, increased energy costs or increased compliance costs. Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 26, 2024

Hitachi Energy has secured a frame agreement with transmission system operator RWE to supply transformers for their renewable energy projects in Europe. The first-ever framework agreement between the two companies consists of the supply of small power transformers (SPTs) for RWE’s growing pipeline of green energy projects in Europe.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Shell Energy’s ‘Commercialising Smart Energy Hubs’ project will recruit at least 40 commercial and industrial (C&I) customer sites to demonstrate flexible demand capacity. On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced AUS$9.1 million ($5.7 million ($19.7

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There’s a new kid on the block of sustainability claims being made by businesses: "plastic neutrality." And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. . The new term "plastic neutrality" is being used to convey that a company has offset its "plastic footprint.". Consider carbon markets again.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Vulcan Energy Resources Limited (Vulcan) has been granted a new geothermal and lithium exploration license covering a region of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. The “Luftbrücke” license gives the company the privilege to explore for geothermal energy and lithium-containing brine within the 207-sq. license area.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Google announced that it has now invested in enough high-quality carbon offsets to essentially erase its carbon footprint , compensating for all the carbon the company ever emitted. Google first became carbon-neutral in 2007. Microsoft plans to be carbon-negative by 2030. Via BBC Image via Pawe?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Claims that tournament is 'carbon neutral' challenged, as criticism mounts from footballers and athletes over FIFA's questionable carbon accounting and use of offsets. As criticism mounts around shameful human rights violations in Qatar, carbon neutrality claims are being used as a distraction.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products. As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces. Gloria Oladipo. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 05:00.

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Charged

APRIL 8, 2022

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. LG Energy Solution claims that its battery cell factory in Wroc?aw, LG says that the plant is powered by 100% carbon-neutral electricity.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 1, 2024

This announcement is a testament to Honda’s dedication to leveraging clean energy sources and leading the way towards a carbon-neutral future. This article explores these initiatives and Honda’s broader strategy for promoting carbon neutrality across various industries.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

The UK government announced the disbursement of over £80 million funding on 28 June, intended to give a boost to a range of projects geared towards ditching fossil fuels in favour of cleaner energy sources. Projects include hydrogen-powered cornflake production and low-carbon Scottish whisky distillation. million from the government.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

The world's largest automakers have been relatively slow to build and market electric trucks and buses, citing a lack of demand from customers and technology that isn't ready for prime time. Mercedes-Benz says it will become net carbon-neutral by 2040. . However, those were internal combustion vehicles.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 11, 2020

We’re talking about NextEra Energy and ExxonMobil. What does the flip tell us about the energy transition? We’ll discuss a new piece from Jason Bordoff about the surprising geopolitics of energy. Recommended reading: Bloomberg : Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Energy Vault has entered into partnerships with Atlas Renewable and investor China Tianying for the deployment of the company’s gravity energy storage technology in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. Energy Vault has signed a license and royalty agreement under which the company will be paid $50 million by Atlas Renewable.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

A team of experts has launched a project in London’s borough of Greenwich to assess the feasibility of switching gas-heated, owner-occupied homes in high density areas to low carbon heating in the form of networked ground source heat pumps. We’re part of a great team of project partners, and can’t wait to get started in the borough.”.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google on Monday pledged that by 2030 it will run its entire business on carbon-free energy — every hour of every day of the year. West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Google's supply, demand and policy approach. Europe and Chile.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Green hydrogen - made by splitting water's hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources - is a small fish in the "energies pond." Is this the best second life for trash?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The world is on course to sail past the recognized "safe" level of 2 degrees Celsius of warming to as much as 3 degrees Celsius, according to the latest Wood Mackenzie Energy Transition Outlook. An EU carbon credit in its Emissions Trading System is currently priced at just shy of €30 ($35). China takes a big step.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The following have been recognised for their achievements: The building materials manufacturer, Adolf Gottfried Tonwerke GmbH , together with the technology provider, Orcan Energy AG , in the Energy Transition 2.0 Energy efficiency and climate protection do not come for free. The award endows a total of EUR 30,000 in prizes.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at their Genesee Generating Station, claiming it is “technically viable but not economically feasible.” Julia Levin, associate director of National Climate with Environmental Defence, characterized the cancellation as yet another failure for carbon capture.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narendra Modi’s clarion call for becoming ‘AatmaNirbhar’ in energy sector, DISTRIBUTECH India 2022, together with POWERGEN India and Indian Utility Week, India’s leading Energy Business Platforms, will be organised from 12th-14th October 2022 in New Delhi, India. As a large developing economy with over 1.3

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Duke Energy has upped its net-zero carbon by 2050 goals, pledging to eliminate methane emissions from its natural gas business by 2030 through a combination of better pipeline leak detection, more efficient operations, and investing in renewable natural gas to reduce the carbon intensity of its supplies.

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