Paul Polman wants your company to make these 3 shifts
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
"We should not compete on the future of humanity." Here's how the former Unilever chief views progress toward a net positive, regenerative future.
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Air Pollution Changes Through The Pandemic – A European Barometer
Jim Conca
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
A new study by Uswitch out of the United Kingdom shows some significant changes in air quality in many major European cities over the last two years. Athens, Greece improved air quality with a ~35% drop in pollutants from 2019 to 2021 while Reykjavík had the highest air pollution increase of ~14%.
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This African startup is reducing the footprint of running shoes
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Ten questions with Enda co-founder and CEO Navalayo Osembo.
Comment: We reconstructed Britain of millions of years ago to see what climate breakdown will involve
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Storm Ciara hits the Welsh coast in February 2020: Higher flood risk combined with rising sea levels will make storm surges bigger and more likely to breach coastal defenses, said the study. Dr Matthew Pound, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, and Dr Martha Gibson, Research Fellow in Paleoclimatology at Northumbria University, explore how the climate crisis will affect the UK in an article originally written for The Conversation.
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.
How to prepare future engineers to tackle problems such as climate change
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Future engineers need to understand their work’s human impact. One professor explains his practice: a 'sociotechnical approach.
Aberdeen City Council rolls out UK’s first hydrogen fuel cell waste truck
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
What appears to be the UK’s first hydrogen-fuelled waste collection vehicle was revealed on 17 February in Aberdeen, seemingly running on green hydrogen from existing refuelling infrastructure in the city. The truck will start collecting waste and recycling around the city from early March, covering wheeled bins in various parts of the city before moving to mixed recycling and bulk bins on other routes.
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Cost of grid-supplied electricity makes decarbonisation of heat generation unviable says report
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Energy consultancy Cornwall Insight and the Confederation for Paper Industries (CPI) have released a joint report examining the barriers energy intensive industries are facing in their attempts to decarbonise their heat supply. The report, while focusing on paper industries, reflects the experience many energy intensive industries are facing as they look to switch from natural gas to grid supplied electricity.
Verizon Climate Resilience Prize awards $500,000 to 3 teams for innovative solutions
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
At GreenBiz 22, innovators who are (literally) on the front lines of the fight against climate change received recognition and funding.
Air Voltaics and Eocycle, Bring the Power of Wind to the Microgrid Market
altenergymag
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Bonsall, California: Air Voltaics LLC is pleased to announce the exclusive representation in the Southwest US microgrid market for Eocycle's next-generation mid-size wind turbines. These turbines are an excellent fit for microgrid sites. They are low-profile, high-tech turbines, simple in design.
Tech isn’t just in Silicon Valley — it’s also in fields
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Sponsored: From underground potash mines to grower’s fields, technology is transforming the way food is grown.
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.
Nuclear Power’s Future Is Looking Brighter
R-Squared Energy
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Between 2009 and 2019, global consumption of renewable energy grew at an annual average of 13.4%. Over that time, renewable energy consumption grew from 8.2 exajoules (EJ) globally to 28.8 EJ. Yet, global carbon dioxide emissions rose by more than 4 billion metric tons per year during that time, reaching an all-time high in 2019. The reason for this is that overall global energy consumption — while growing at an average annual rate of only 1.9% — rose by 92 EJ from 2009 to 2019.
Holding food and tech to the same climate standards is counterproductive
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
A new report from New Climate Institute tries to compare sectors apples to apples when food and tech can be like oranges and bananas.
Nth Cycle raises $12.5 million in Series A funding for cobalt and nickel recycling tech
Charged
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Battery and metal recycling technology company Nth Cycle has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding, which it will use to deploy the first commercial units of its electro-extraction technology to recycling facilities in 2022 and to grow its technical and development staff. Nth Cycle’s electro-extraction technology uses electricity and carbon filters to recover cobalt and nickel from discarded batteries, low-grade ores and mine site waste.
Cybersecurity – a global issue that needs cross-sector collaboration
Smart Energy International
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Cybersecurity needs collaborations across sectors and borders, participants in Ireland’s business group Ibec’s Cybersecurity Summit agreed. The inherent insecurity of the internet and the growing digitalisation of society have opened the way for multiple types of cybercrime, with all the evidence pointing to a continually increasing level of activity.
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.
Russian firm to offer natural gas-powered EV charging in London
Charged
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Two Russian firms—software developer 4xxi and charger manufacturer L-Charge—are collaborating to create an off-grid EV charging network in London that’s scheduled to be launched this year. L-Charge’s “rapidly scalable off-grid ultra-fast chargers” use energy from locally-stored fossil fuels rather than the electrical grid. L-Charge has tested a mobile gas-powered charging station in Moscow, and plans to use this to offer on-demand charging in London.
As Mobility Undergoes a Revolution, “There Is No Turning Back”: Transforming Transportation 2022
The City Fix
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Visit transformingtransportation.org to watch full sessions from the conference. And join the conversation on Twitter with #TTDC22. After COP26, transport has reached an important milestone in the global climate conversation. The electric revolution is underway and it’s now a centerpiece. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Should Ford spin off its EVs into a separate brand?
Charged
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
There’s a good argument to be made that legacy automakers that are serious about electrification might do well to spin off their EVs as separate brands. Christiaan Hetzner writes in Fortune that Ford CEO Jim Farley—intentionally or not—made a case for doing just that in a recent earnings call. When asked whether Ford should separate its legacy ICE vehicles and its EVs, Farley told investors: “I’m struck at how different the rhythm of this digital BEV business is versus ICE.
How the solar duck curve gave Australia’s biggest coal generator an early retirement
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The solar duck curve and the inflexibility of "baseload" thermal generators have led to the early demise of Australia's largest coal plant. The post How the solar duck curve gave Australia’s biggest coal generator an early retirement appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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?
EOS Linx to deploy charging stations at Choice Hotels properties
Charged
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Charging station manufacturer EOS Linx has announced a collaboration with Choice Hotels International , a lodging franchisor with a portfolio of over 7,100 hotels in 40 countries, to install EOS Charge Stations at selected properties. The first set will be installed at Choice Hotels franchised properties in Atlanta, Chattanooga, and Nashville during the first quarter of this year.
Tigo Energy Brings the Power of Energy Intelligence to Solar Installers at ENEX New Energy
altenergymag
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Tigo joins partner Soltec to showcase Module Level Power Electronics (MLPE) and monitoring solutions at trade show in Poland.
Road to renewables, as CityLink switches to 100 pct Victorian wind power
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Transurban's CityLink tollways in Victoria will be powered by 100% renewable energy, sourced from Australia’s biggest wind farm. The post Road to renewables, as CityLink switches to 100 pct Victorian wind power appeared first on RenewEconomy.
New York Power Authority pilots private LTE network with AT&T
Smart Energy International
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and communications provider AT&T agreed to pilot AT&T’s FirstNet technologies as part of a NYPA private wireless Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology pilot project. FirstNet is a nationwide, high-speed broadband communications platform for first responders and the extended public safety community. By having a dedicated network, first responders may be better assured that their message will go out during an emergency and will not be bogged down by publi
Eraring closure will result in more wind, solar and batteries, and less gas
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
We conducted modelling to assess the impact of the early closure of the Eraring coal plant on grid reliability, costs and emissions. Here's what it found. The post Eraring closure will result in more wind, solar and batteries, and less gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.
KROHNE Introduces Additions to OPTIWAVE Radar Level Transmitter Range
altenergymag
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Ideally suited for applications in mining, chemical, petrochemical, minerals, and metals processing
Residential storage on the rise as homeowners seek control over power usage
Smart Energy International
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
An increasing number of homeowners are investing in residential energy storage systems (RESS) solutions to reduce inconveniences associated with power outages and in some cases, reduce costs and increase their use of renewable power. This was one of the findings in a new report from Guidehouse Insights, examining the global market for RESS solutions through 2030.
Matrix Renewables secures financing agreement for solar plant
altenergymag
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Matrix Renewables, the TPG Rise-backed renewable energy platform, has announced a new long-term financing agreement signed with Banco Santander for its 50 MW Olivares Project.
Carbon Tools for Net-Zero – Takeaways from Cleantech Forum San Francisco
CleanTech Group
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Cleantech Forum San Francisco – in sunny Palm Springs – finally bought together the who’s who of Cleantech Innovation in North America with.
Google offers cloud users new tools to reduce their emissions
Business Green
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
New AI-powered tool identifies potentially idle projects on Google Cloud Platform so they can be shut down. Google has added new tools to its features designed to give users more control over the carbon emissions generated when using Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The new measures announced today include an AI-powered tool that flags up potentially idle projects on GCP, so that their owners can remove them in order to reduce costs and emissions.
Washington’s Decisive Decade
Low Carbon Prosperity
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Washington’s Decisive Decade. An Emerging Roadmap for Transportation Decarbonization & Cleaner Air. With the transportation sector accounting for 45% of the state’s emissions, it will receive the majority of upcoming investments from the Climate Commitment Act (CCA). We are firmly in the Decisive Decade for transportation decarbonization in Washington.
Gridserve opens Wales' first ultra-fast electric vehicle charging hub on M4 motorway
Business Green
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Charge point company touts electric hub as part of an ongoing push to tackle 'charging disparity' across the UK. The first high-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging hub in Wales has officially opened at a motorway service station near Swansea, where drivers are now able to power up their battery cars with renewable electricity within only minutes, according to charging company Gridserve.
Artera Services implements managed detection and response security
Smart Energy International
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Critical infrastructure service provider Artera Services has selected Deepwatch’s MDR to secure its operations. The MDR service from cybersecurity provider Deepwatch includes 24/7/365 monitoring with a named squad of experts, and integrations with best-in-class security tools including Splunk Enterprise and endpoint detection and response (EDR), vulnerability management and firewall solutions.
Study: Efficient heat pumps 'can be cheaper than gas boilers' for UK households
Business Green
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
With gas bills surging thanks to volatile global fossil fuel markets, research shows electric powered heat pumps could save homes up to £260 on average. The most efficient heat pumps are now cheaper to run than conventional gas boilers, potentially saving the average UK household up to £261 on their annual energy bill, fresh analysis that takes into account the impact of surging global gas prices has calculated.
Green and Blue Hydrogen: Developing the Global Supply Chains and Creating Global Energy Hubs
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Masterclass Sharing thoughts on offshore wind and green hydrogen with the global community. The Brazilian gas industry looks set to restructure itself for the expansion into a modern liberalised market, embracing competition and looking to make the business significantly more cost effective. By doing so, it can grow, and gas can become a larger part of.
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