How corporations can support 24/7 carbon-free energy
GreenBiz
APRIL 14, 2022
In its most detailed policy roadmap to date, Google has published a blueprint for what it will take to get the power sector to 24/7, carbon-free energy.
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€1 million award for app-supported regreening programme
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
A project that aims to help farmers restore land and introduce more sustainable methods has secured a €1 million grant from the Dutch National Lottery. Justdiggit has secured the award for its mobile-driven regreening app, a delivery platform for tutorials on low-tech, indigenous methods including rainwater harvesting and tree restoration. The funding follows a successful pilot with LEAD Foundation and 300 Tanzanian farmers in 2021.
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Inside the new $100 million women-led climate tech fund
GreenBiz
APRIL 14, 2022
The fund is led by managing partners Sierra Peterson and Sarah Sclarsic and supported a suite of investors and partners across the corporate, climate tech and environmental worlds including past or present CEOs of General Electric, Lyft and Shopify.
Nominations for the AEMT Awards are officially open
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
The nomination process for the 2022 Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades (AEMT) awards programme is now officially open. Building on its past successes, the fifth outing of this sector-specific awards scheme will culminate in a gala presentation ceremony on Thursday 17 November at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Coventry. Centrally located for easy access from all over the UK, this venue will also play host to the supporting AEMT Conference – a “must-attend” event for al
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.
New geothermal plants could solve America’s lithium supply crunch
GreenBiz
APRIL 14, 2022
New projects in California's Salton Sea could extract the metal — needed for electric vehicle batteries — at scale.
$650 million investment is the biggest so far in direct air capture
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
Climeworks unveiled its Orca facility in Iceland in September 2021. Swiss direct air capture (DAC) start-up firm Climeworks announced on 5 April that it has signed an equity round of $650 million (CHF 600 million), an apparent milestone in the financing of the carbon removal industry. The funding is intended to unlock the next phase of Climeworks’ growth, “scaling direct air capture up to multi-million-ton capacity and implementing large-scale facilities as carbon removal becomes a t
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Climate change will reshuffle marine ecosystems in unexpected ways
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
Large predatory fish are expected to lag behind temperature shifts due to food-web dynamics (image credit: Gerald Schömbs). Warming of the oceans due to climate change will mean fewer productive fish species to catch in the future, according to a new Rutgers Univeristy study that found as temperatures warm, predator-prey interactions will prevent species from keeping up with the conditions where they could thrive.
Food and agtech investments don’t stack up with climate needs
GreenBiz
APRIL 14, 2022
Venture capital investors pumped $51.7 billion into agrifood technologies in 2021 but is that money going to the best mitigation solutions.
Veolia launches biorefinery project to produce CO2-neutral biofuel from pulp production
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
The refinery will be partly built into Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski plant in Finland. Veolia has launched what it calls the world’s largest biorefinery project “producing CO2-neutral bio-methanol from a pulp mill, located in Finland” The project aims to unlock the potential of this alternative source of feedstock for biofuel that is almost completely unexplored to date.
Healthy Trees = Healthy Environment
The Environmental Blog
APRIL 14, 2022
How to Take Care of The Trees on Your Property. What has lots of bark, but no bite? Trees, of course! Ensure your landscaping is barking up the right tree by taking care of the towering giants – or aspiring towering giants – on your property. Basic tree care is well within most people’s capabilities, but if you need advice or are learning for the first time, these tips and explanations can guide you down the right path.
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.
Sustainable concept for wood-based textile fibres
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
An international prize for scientific achievements relevant to forestry has been given to the developers of a system for producing textile fibres from waste wood. The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize went to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres.
What Green Technology Makes the Most Difference for Energy Efficiency at Home?
U.S. Green Technology
APRIL 14, 2022
As utility costs increase, homeowners are more interested in improving the energy efficiency of their homes. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average cost of electricity is $115 per month in the United States—or about $1,400 per year. Upgraded features, airtight insulation and sustainable materials increase market value, save money and make living.
Funding for world-first liquid H2 bunkering facility for ships
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
The creator of what’s claimed to be world’s first liquid hydrogen bunkering facility for fuelling zero-emission ships has won a UK Government grant to develop a unit ready for rapid deployment to ports around the world. Steven Lua, CEO of Unitrove Innovation, part of the Unitrove Group, said the £30,000 Transport Research and Innovation Grant (TRIG), awarded by the Department for Transport in partnership with Connected Places Catapult, would be used to help further develop its commercial v
Chicagoland bus operator Pace purchases 20 Proterra ZX5 electric buses
Charged
APRIL 14, 2022
Pace Suburban Bus, which serves a vast swath of Chicago’s suburbs—an area nearly the size of the state of Connecticut—has awarded a $26.5-million-dollar contract to commercial vehicle OEM Proterra to acquire 20 Proterra ZX5 Max electric transit buses and two Proterra megawatt-scale fleet chargers. Proterra’s US-made 40-foot ZX5 Max features 675 kWh of energy storage, which the company claims is the highest capacity currently available in an e-bus in North America.
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.
All-in-one grey water recycling system for smaller buildings
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
The system is suited to installations such as hotels with between 50 and 150 bedrooms. Water reuse technology specialist SDS has launched a grey water treatment system that it says makes it simpler and more cost-effective for developments, such as smaller hotels, residential and commercial buildings, to operate low-maintenance grey water recycling. The all-in-one, pre-fabricated, skid-mounted system also “provides an opportunity for easy retrofitting into existing buildings where space is
ATC Drivetrain opens new lab for battery and electric drive unit remanufacturing
Charged
APRIL 14, 2022
Powertrain remanufacturer ATC Drivetrain has launched a new lab for remanufacturing the batteries and electric drive units of hybrids and EVs at its Oklahoma City facility. The company also has a facility in Cannock, England that remanufactures batteries and drivetrains for EVs. “With our existing capability in the UK, the launch of these competencies in the US and the upcoming launch in China, we expect to be the first and only independent remanufacturer with global capacities for ICE, hybrid a
2020 SEPA data shows impact of COVID-19 on Scottish emissions
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has published its Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI) data for 2020 following a cyber-attack in December 2020. SPRI provides a valuable picture of the amount of pollutants released in Scotland from SEPA-regulated industrial sites. It is a publicly accessible electronic database which provides information for policy makers, academics and the public about the pressure Scottish industry puts on the environment through pollutant emissions.
Liminal raises $8 million in Series A financing for its battery intelligence platform
Charged
APRIL 14, 2022
Battery manufacturing intelligence provider Feasible has renamed itself Liminal, and raised $8 million in a Series A financing round, co-led by Good Growth Capital and The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners. Liminal will use the new funding to accelerate deployment of its product to battery manufacturers and automakers. Liminal’s battery intelligence platform, EchoStat, uses proprietary ultrasound and machine learning analytics technology to perform battery inspections during manufacturin
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?
Reseach finds a genomic time machine in sea sponges
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
Sponges are germane to the overall health of coral reefs, and are among the earliest animals on the planet. New research from the University of New Hampshire showcases a novel approach to understanding the complex evolution of sponges and the microbes that live in symbiosis with them. With this “genomic time machine,” researchers say they can predict aspects of reef and ocean ecosystems through hundreds of millions of years of dramatic evolutionary change, including landmark extinction events fr
How to power SiC or IGBT half bridges in EVs
Charged
APRIL 14, 2022
Sponsored by Skyworks. When it comes to building power systems, the half bridge switch topology is king. But as they say, the devils in the details. In this whitepaper, we’ll dig into the challenges of designing high-performance half bridges for electric vehicles where it’s imperative to squeeze every drop of performance from a design. Specifically, we’ll address the power supply portion of the design where some novel improvements can go a long way in addressing challenges like radiated emission
Tropical megacities enter new phase of declining air
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
Busy traffic at a central part of the city in Dhaka, Bangladesh (image credit: Shutterstock / Dmitry Chulov). A new study appears to reveal rapid degradation in air quality in megacities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East – as well as increases in urban exposure to air pollutants hazardous to health. Published on 8 April in Science Advances , the investigation – led by UCL – looked at 46* future megacities in these regions, using space-based observations from instruments onboa
Northvolt to purchase paper mill in Sweden for cathode and cell plant
Charged
APRIL 14, 2022
Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt has signed a letter of intent to purchase a former paper mill, which it plans to develop into a cathode and cell production plant. The Kvarnsveden Mill in Borlänge, Sweden closed in 2021. Northvolt plans to refurbish the facilities and infrastructure to develop a cathode and cell production plant, which is to begin operations in late 2024.
Graph of the Day: One state dominates best performing wind farms in March
Renew Economy
APRIL 14, 2022
One state dominates the rankings of best performing wind farms in March, taking six of the top eight spots. The post Graph of the Day: One state dominates best performing wind farms in March appeared first on RenewEconomy.
NYC Taxi and Rideshare Companies are 'Smart' About Charging Their Electric Vehicles
Energy Central
APRIL 14, 2022
The drivers of powder blue Teslas back carefully into spots near the 25 vehicle chargers in a lot in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood just after midnight each morning. It takes less than an hour for the battery in each of the Revel rideshare cars to charge up for another day of runs to airports, workplaces, tourist destinations and other locations.
Charging management is key to the EV grid integration conundrum
Smart Energy International
APRIL 14, 2022
With an influx of investment being poured into electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, the number of EVs and EV fleets is on the rise. With this comes a key question about how to best manage your charging while preventing blowouts, asset wear and tear and power outages. Charging management, says Mark Braby, is the key. There is an equation that needs to be formulated to best approach EV grid integration in light of the expanding fleet electrification we have been, and will continue to, wi
Canada’s 2020 emissions data shows impact of COVID—but also climate policy
Clean Energy Canada
APRIL 14, 2022
VICTORIA — Merran Smith, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to Canada’s submission to the United Nations of its 2022 National Inventory Report on greenhouse gas emissions. “We welcome the news that Canada’s national greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly 9% in 2020. While most of the 66-megatonne decline is due to COVID-related lockdown measures, it is worth noting that Canada’s 2020 emissions drop was greater than the global decline of 6% to 7%.
Fluence to acquire energy SaaS provider Nispersa
Smart Energy International
APRIL 14, 2022
Storage provider Fluence anticipates the deal to broaden its digital offerings and global project portfolio. Zurich based Nispera is a provider of artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled software-as-a-service (SaaS) targeting the renewable energy sector. The company’s technology is designed to help customers monitor, analyse, forecast and optimise the performance and value of renewable energy assets.
Introducing Matthew Green, DeSmog’s Global Investigations Editor
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 14, 2022
DeSmog is excited to welcome Matthew Green as our Global Investigations Editor. Matthew joins DeSmog from Reuters, where he has covered climate and environmental stories for the past four years — with a particular focus on the intersection between the climate crisis, finance, and the energy transition. In 2018, he reported from West Africa, Borneo, and Norway for Reuters’ Ocean Shock project on the impact of climate change on marine communities, sharing a prize for explanatory journalism from th
US wind, solar and storage transmission queue soars to record 1,300GW
Renew Economy
APRIL 14, 2022
US has enough wind, solar and storage in the transmission queue to meet its clean energy targets, but it won't all get built. The post US wind, solar and storage transmission queue soars to record 1,300GW appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Ubiquitous Energy Demonstrates First Large-Area Coating of Transparent Solar Technology
altenergymag
APRIL 14, 2022
Critical milestone paves the way for high volume manufacturing
Study: Global warming will stay below 2 degrees C — if countries actually keep their promises
Grist
APRIL 14, 2022
In the early 2010s, climate scientists were painting a grim picture of the future: If humans didn’t curb carbon dioxide emissions, the world was headed toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming by the end of the century. A decade later, the planet is on a different path. Scientists now estimate that current emissions trajectories make a 4-degree scenario highly implausible, even as total carbon emissions continue to rise.
Key considerations for incorporating solar at affordable housing developments
Solar Power World
APRIL 14, 2022
By Linden Speranza, construction program manager and technical service coordinator for Labella Associates Renewable energy policy is gaining momentum across the country. Twenty-four states have already enacted net-zero carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission electricity production goals. With full compliance targeted for as soon as 2030, legislators are looking to carbon-neutral solar to help realize… The post Key considerations for incorporating solar at affordable housing developments a
Media Gives Climate Denier Fuel Lobbyist a Platform to Attack ‘Just Stop Oil’ Protests
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 14, 2022
A climate denier and fuel lobbyist who campaigns against net zero policies was given a platform by major media outlets to attack fossil fuel protests – without any mention of his climate views or industry funders. Howard Cox , founder of the FairFuelUK campaign against fuel duty, was quoted in The Sun , MailOnline , inews and the Telegraph ’s live blog and was interviewed on Sky News this week about “Just Stop Oil” activists, who were blocking fuel terminals to protest against new oil dril
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