Smart Energy International

JULY 12, 2022

Last week I was back in Brussels attending GRIDTech 2022, organised by Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) and Eurogas with the technical support of ENTSOG. How do we establish a secure, affordable and sustainable energy system for Europe and how do we keep delivering on climate and energy goals at the same time?

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

With a growing global population and increasing demand for protein, this practice has become a vital part of the world’s food production. This paradigm shift is primarily driven by a desire to cater to the increasing global demand for poultry products while ensuring environmental sustainability.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this blog, I make the case for a more comprehensive definition of DERMS. Maintaining grid stability and balancing supply and demand from both DERs and grid-scale assets have become increasingly complex. but exists today in Europe and select global markets such as Australia.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The European Commission’s Grid Action Plan underlines the urgency to collectively start implementing the available technologies to speed up grid development, writes Eamonn Lannoye, Europe Managing Director of EPRI. Transmission and distribution grids, in Europe and around the world, face similar challenges moving forward.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2022

Demand for the material is also significant, with material equating to the size of Paris thought to be required every week across the global construction sector for the next 40 years. Concrete and steel emit as much as all road transport globally, and demand is going up.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

Though lower than that for fuel electricity production , wind energy demands the largest part of investment in the very beginning, making infestors better plan their finances for allocating them in a wind farm development. It is evident that the commercial efficiency of wind turbines grows proportionally to wind farm acreage.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found. . The over-emphasis on hydrogen as a result of lobbying could lock Europe into decades more of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

The UK headquartered firm - which provides EV charging for major fleet operators including Amazon, DHL, Go-Ahead, Tesco, and Uber - yesterday announced it had reached "a definitive agreement for a business combination" that would see it become a publicly-listed company under the symbol 'EOC' during the fourth quarter of 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Environmentalists have long warned that demand for the pellets is endangering irreplaceable primary forests in areas including parts of Estonia, British Columbia in Canada and the southeastern United States. . The World Bioenergy Association, Bioenergy Europe, Drax and Hawkins Wright were approached for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The “unabated” qualifier has no internationally accepted definition, Romain Ioualalen, global policy campaign manager at Oil Change International, explained. We’re going into a COP where this is going to be a big topic, and we don’t really have a definition for it.” The misleading wording isn’t new to this year’s UN climate meeting.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

“I think 55 percent is a very positive step for Europe and honestly, it would have been unbelievable just a year ago,” she told GTM in an interview. In terms of total energy demand, renewables will have to reach 38-40 percent compared to the 33 percent expected under current policies. billion of support.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Kareen Boutonnat, CEO of Lightsource BP for the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions, said developing homegrown sources of solar power was critical to helping combat the energy crisis, which has seen bills soar over the past year thanks to rising fossil fuel prices.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

Total of just 1GWh of energy storage added across Europe last year due to higher competition and lower prices, trade body warns. In contrast, demand for smaller behind-the-meter storage systems - such as home batteries - continued to grow rapidly, according to the report, which was drawn up by consultancy Delta-EE.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

What kinds of solutions are in demand? Events like Water Africa are very common in the US, Europe and Asia, but we do not see so many of them in Africa. I always encourage the multinationals we work with to look at Africa, especially West Africa and Ghana, because growth will definitely come from there.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

Europe’s grid is receiving record levels of investment. Goals include strengthening the country’s energy sovereignty by reducing its dependence on imported fossil fuels, developing its carbon-free electricity production capacity and relocating key components of the value chain for the technologies of the future. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The focus is on five areas: observability and controllability; efficient infrastructure and network planning; operations and simulations for a more resilient grid; active system management and forecasting to support flexibility and demand response; and data exchange between TSOs and DSOs. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Billions of dollars in incentives such as the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law have spurred the creation of a so-called Battery Belt across the southeastern US, all fuel to fire an anticipated spike in electric vehicle demand. That demand is only expected to grow, which is leading to a surge in battery production.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

The intensity of logging has been increasing across Europe in recent years, correlating with a growing demand for forest biomass energy, and the same is happening elsewhere, including in the Southeastern US , the world’s biggest wood pellet producing region.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 22, 2020

’” said Udo Zillmann, secretary general of the industry body Airborne Wind Europe. On the contrary, she said, “We are hiring and actively growing our team to meet the rising demand of the market.” “Definitely, it’s a challenge for us,” said Zillmann at Airborne Wind Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

In March, President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a joint task force with the goal of getting Europe off Russian gas and onto more of America’s fracked gas. Most Russian gas reaches Europe via pipeline, so getting U.S. Radioactive Natural Gas’s Journey to Europe. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As scrutiny of 'greenwashing' ramps up across Europe, the UK advertising watchdog has pledged to crackdown on misleading 'green' marketing and climate claims. The survey found participants wanted definitions of terms simplified and standardised, and for claims to be policed by an official body, such as the government.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

New research from the University of Sheffield suggests there is strong consumer demand for recycling flexible plastic with 95% of participants saying they would be willing to recycle their flexible plastics1. Unlike many other schemes, recyclers will only be paid if the plastic is definitely recycled.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

It is also calling on the Chancellor to reinstat the VAT discount of five per cent for energy saving materials and expand the definition of such products to include energy storage systems, air-source heat pumps, and EV charging equipment.

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Charged

MAY 8, 2023

During the recent California heat wave, Nuvve helped to reduce peak demands on the grid through the Emergency Load Reduction Program, using bidirectional-capable school buses to feed energy back to the grid. A regular demand response program, you go down to zero and then that’s it. Now, in Europe we have some partners like Circle K.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

A row has erupted over the net zero emissions pledge unveiled yesterday by oil and gas giant Total, with a number of investors slamming it as "totally insincere" and a calculated attempt to undermine a recent shareholder resolution that contained more ambitious climate-related demands.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

A row has erupted over the net zero emissions pledge unveiled yesterday by oil and gas giant Total, with a number of investors slamming it as "totally insincere" and a calculated attempt to undermine a recent shareholder resolution that contained more ambitious climate-related demands.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Second-hand EV owners are also expected to benefit from rising demand for EVs, with 10 to 20 per cent of the value of their cars likely to be recovered at the end of the vehicle lifespan through the sale of EV batteries for recycling, ECIU said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Looking just at the European benchmarks, the MSCI Europe ESG leaders index returned -1.9 per cent for the broad MSCI Europe index (source: Morningstar, as at 30 November 2020). NMB: "As an investor in Europe, I'm fortunate that many of the companies I speak to are already thinking about sustainability issues.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

The way he’s framed the shifting definition of value creation, to include long-term thinking and pressing societal issues, has been important. For a quick take on his letter (which is definitely worth a thorough reading), I’ve annotated it with my thoughts below. ” It was powerful stuff.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

and 30 percent of overall vehicle sales in Europe, where the adverts analysed were targeted. Meanwhile, though more efficient planes have helped reduce emissions per flight, carbon savings from newer aircraft have been cancelled out by the growth in demand for flying. The companies’ sales of lower-emissions vehicles ranged between 12.8

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It seems to me that, notwithstanding all the difficulties and bipartisanism, some impossible things are, in Europe, now possible.". Increased overseas demand for green products could also help address some of the competitiveness concerns for EU exports raised by the CBAM.".

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

Investors are increasingly using their power to demand better climate practices from oil and gas and mining firms through shareholder resolutions lodged at annual general meetings, and the debate over whether divestment or investment is a better strategy to spur decarbonisation of the real economy continues to intensify.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In fact, many of us are flying more – air travel over Thanksgiving week in the US was the busiest ever , and annual demand for flights is growing rapidly in markets like India and China. COVID’s halt on air travel feels like minor turbulence now. It opens the door to a wide range of new biomass feedstocks for SAF production.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 15, 2022

Areas of interest include electric and hybrid powertrains, energy storage, green hydrogen and demand response. CPower to acquire Centrica’s US demand response business. Renault and Vitesco look into electric and hybrid powertrains. East Point Energy LLC. Courtesy Equinor.

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Charged

JANUARY 31, 2024

Adding batteries to the system offers several benefits: coupled with on-site generation, it allows charging to be offered at off-grid locations; it enables peak shaving to avoid utility demand charges; and in some cases it allows a site to avoid expensive grid connection upgrades. However 480 three-phase in Europe is very commonly available.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 21, 2020

Meanwhile, in Europe, we see a number of companies taking the lead in EV sales in various countries, including market EV sales leaders Norway and Germany. The first half of the year was considerably stronger than 2018, but the second half dropped off, as lower subsidies in China ate into demand.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. On topics like water scarcity, where we face serious issues in Europe, I'm looking to learn from my colleagues in Africa and Brazil.". Do I feel pressure?

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