Let’s talk integrated photovoltaics
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
Meet Ambient Photonics, which just raised $30 million to produce low-light solar cells that can harvest energy from both natural and artificial sources.
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Trade body urges industry to prepare for heat pumps demand
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2022
Electrotechnical and engineering services body ECA is urging the industry to fully engage with Government initiatives to decarbonise heat , including the new Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS), launched this week. The BUS offers a grant of up to £5,000 for heating installers and households to replace traditional fossil fuel-powered boilers with more efficient, low-carbon alternatives, including air and ground source heat pumps.
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3 critiques of alternative proteins, explained
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
As more alternative protein companies make their way onto supermarket shelves and restaurant menus, their business models and impact promises face increasing criticism.
New funding to support growth of Scotland’s bioeconomy
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2022
New funding available from the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) aims to help grow Scotland’s bioeconomy. The latest tranche of its innovation fund is now open for proposals. Awards of up to £100,000 will be made to support collaborative projects that can deliver measurable economic, societal or environmental impact, using industrial biotechnology techniques to develop new processes and materials.
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.
3 alternative protein critiques, explained
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
As more alternative protein companies make their way onto supermarket shelves and restaurant menus, their business models and impact promises face increasing criticism.
Reducing e-waste and connecting the disconnected: Campaign marks milestone
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2022
A landmark 10,000 smartphones have been “rehomed with people who need them”, according to Community Calling, a joint initiative of Virgin Media O2 and environmental charity Hubbub. The programme was launched in May 2020 with the professed aim of helping vulnerable people get online to access essential services, such as healthcare appointments, to apply for jobs and keep in touch with their loved ones, as well as provide a sustainable way for people and businesses to recycle old devic
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Addressing the need for responsible salmon farming
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2022
Salmon farm in Loch Ailort (image credit: Marine Scotland Image Bank , CC BY 2.0 license). The Aquaculture Stewardship Association discusses an accreditation scheme that aims to ensure this activity is undertaken responsibly, with minimal environmental impacts. The group also attempts to address some of the misinformation and controversies that it says have accrued to the topic of farmed seafood.
Power outage: Solar is frozen, wind is fitful
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
The race to turbocharge the shift to clean energy has been slowed by unforeseen obstacles — in the form of trade policy and business model hiccups.
Pumps conference grapples with EU decarbonisation challenge
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2022
Conference speaker Tom van lerland of the European Commission. Trade organisations CEIR, Pneurop and Europump recently held a Joint conference to consider the EU’s roadmap for industrial support. Under the working title of ‘Sustainability and Decarbonisation: how can the EU’s industrial policy support industry’s efforts?’, the event’s core aim was to assess the European Commission’s assertion, following the latest updates to its New Industrial Strategy , that it will rely heavily on industry to
Accelerate at Circularity 22 Pitch Session
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
Accelerate is a fast-pitch competition featuring entrepreneurs with innovative technologies, products and services advancing a circular economy. Five finalists will pitch from the Circularity main stage to two industry experts and an audience of investors, business people, government officials and thought leaders. Hear expert reactions to each pitch, and then cast your vote to help determine the winner.
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.
AD trade body to hold briefing on food waste collection
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2022
Implementing separate food waste collections – lunch hosted by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) on 15 June at the NEC Birmingham. Speakers will include senior representatives from Defra, Bracknell Forest Council, Bio Capital and Ashfords. The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) last month launched its latest briefing 1 entitled “Food Waste Recycling – Anaerobic Digestion: the net zero lever for Local Authorities”.
From Ambition to Accountability: How to (Actually) Solve the Plastics Waste Crisis
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
By now, we all know the scale of the problem: Up to 13 million tons of plastic leaks into the ocean every year; this is equivalent to dumping one garbage truck full of plastic waste into the ocean every minute; without intervention, we’ll have more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. These facts and figures frame reports, press releases and microsites, and stakeholders along the plastics value chain have made ambitious commitments to tackle this global crisis.
Qcells Announces Solar Panel Manufacturing Expansion Will Be in Dalton, Georgia
altenergymag
MAY 26, 2022
- Qcells plans to bring nearly 500 additional jobs to Whitfield County as part of its long-haul commitment to the U.S. solar market - The investment marks Qcells’ latest efforts to rebuild the U.S.
Innovation at the Intersection: Where the Human-Built and Natural Worlds Meet, featuring John Warner
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
In order for humans to survive, thrive and protect the planet, we’ll have to find a way to innovate with nature, not against it. Where do we start? A series of five cycles connects the human-built world to the natural world. They are stable ecosystems, regeneration, materials metabolism, recycling, and use and reuse. The intersection of use and reuse with our stable ecosystems provides a working definition of sustainability.
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.
Stranded fossil fuel assets could cost investors and retirement funds $2 trillion
Renew Economy
MAY 26, 2022
Financial losses from stranded fossil fuel assets could total $2 trillion, including a bit hit to Australia's retirement savings. Food for thought for AGL investors. The post Stranded fossil fuel assets could cost investors and retirement funds $2 trillion appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Introducing the Circularity 22 Emerging Leaders
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
The Emerging Leaders program aims to elevate, cultivate and support the next generation of BIPoC leaders driving the transition to a circular economy. The program creates a pathway into the circular industry for students and early-career professionals who face barriers to entry in the field, and wouldn’t otherwise be able to attend Circularity 22.
Rev Fire Group unveils electric fire truck
Charged
MAY 26, 2022
REV Fire Group, which includes several manufacturers of fire-fighting apparatus, displayed a North American-style fully electric fire truck called Vector at the recent Fire Department Instructors Conference in Indianapolis. The new electric fire truck, which was developed with technology partner Emergency One Group, sports a 316 kWh battery pack, and enables firefighters to both drive and pump on electric power only.
The Tipping Point: Competitors Collaborating Toward Circularity with Amanda Nusz, Michael Kobori, and Bridget Croke
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
It’s clear that to achieve the level of systems change necessary for a circular economy, the world’s largest companies will need to band together to reach impact at scale. In practice, some large brands are open to collaboration and some aren’t — and the words “collaboration” and “partnership” are used to describe a significant range of activities, from meaningful relationships to more optical alliances.
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?
Britishvolt acquires German battery cell manufacturer EAS
Charged
MAY 26, 2022
Battery cell pioneer Britishvolt has agreed to buy Monbat Group subsidiary EAS, a cell manufacturer based in Nordhausen, Germany. The deal values EAS at €36 million. EAS has over 25 years of experience in developing and producing large-format cylindrical lithium-ion cells from 7.5 Ah to 50 Ah. Its products are used in aerospace, defense, marine and automotive applications in Europe, Asia and North America.
Old Dog, New Tricks: Why Now is the Time to Instigate New Behaviors Around Consumption and Waste, a Conversation with Suzanne Shelton
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
Ninety-five percent of people in the United States believe recycling helps the environment and 76 percent of us say recycling helps us feel better about all the stuff we buy. And you know what? They think that way because all of us in business and marketing have taught them to think that way over the last 40 years. If you go back 60, 80 or 100 years, we thought about purchasing, consumption and waste differently.
Regulators demand more clarity from ageing power stations about expected outages
Renew Economy
MAY 26, 2022
Regulators want more information about planned power station outages, as Australia's ageing fossil fuel generators grapple with a changing grid. The post Regulators demand more clarity from ageing power stations about expected outages appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Molun Zhang & Ashish Gadnis on Enabling Supply Chain Traceability, Transparency and Trust
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
The number of touchpoints in a circular supply chain add up quickly — from official partners such as local retailers, manufacturers, packaging organizations and recycling companies to informal participants, including the individual waste pickers who help collect discarded items for processing in emerging economies. How can companies gather better data across that complex network?
What’s Lost When We Talk ‘ESG’ and Not ‘Sustainability’
Andrew Winston
MAY 26, 2022
(It’s hard to focus on much these days as the world seems in dire shape and the US in particular is unable to tackle any problems – one political party is rapidly moving backwards on women’s rights, guns, climate, inequality, racial equity, voting & democracy, and more. The only solution here is elections. But the work of sustainability continues, perhaps more important than ever.
How to build an equitable ocean economy
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
Sustainability and equity are two sides of the same coin.
Power Electronics to add Nuvve’s V2G capabilities to its bidirectional chargers
Charged
MAY 26, 2022
Nuvve Holding (Nasdaq: NVVE) and Power Electronics, a manufacturer of solar inverters for utility-scale photovoltaic plants, have agreed to integrate Nuvve’s GIVe vehicle-to-grid (V2G) platform with Power Electronics’ charging station technology. Nuvve says its cloud-based software will allow Power Electronics to go beyond bidirectional charging by enabling EVs to provide capacity and services that help stabilize the grid and prevent blackouts.
Lightning Talks: Big Ideas, Briefly with Michelle Wiseman & Eva Gladek
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
This series of fast-paced, lightning talks will offer big ideas, provocations and perspectives from a diversity of speakers in a short amount of time.
Renesas to boost semiconductor production at Japanese factory
Charged
MAY 26, 2022
Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Renesas Electronics is planning to restart a wafer fabrication operation at its Kofu factory in Kai City, Japan. The Kofu factory housed 150 mm and 200 mm wafer fabrication production lines before it was closed in October of 2014. Now Renesas Electronics is investing 90 billion yen ($705 million) to set up a 300 mm wafer fabrication production line to open in 2024.
The Global Treaty on Plastic is a Once In a Lifetime Opportunity. If We Seize It - A Conversation with Erin Simon
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
Atmospheres and oceans don't adhere to state lines, and neither can our solutions to the issues that plague our planet. Plastic pollution is found in every corner of the world, and up until now, country-level action has not been enough to turn off the tap of plastic waste flowing into our environment. Earlier this year however, the United Nations made history by voting in favor of a Global Treaty on Plastic.
Putting People at the Heart of Integrated Climate Action: Report From the 2022 ICLEI World Congress
The City Fix
MAY 26, 2022
ICLEI has long recommended that cities take integrated climate action, tackling both mitigation – lowering greenhouse gas emissions to prevent future climate change – and adaptation – preparing to cope with the climate change of today – in a holistic. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Another Big Oil solar farm starts sending power to Queensland grid
Renew Economy
MAY 26, 2022
Solar farm developed by Lightsource BP in Lower Wonga is starting to send small amounts of much needed cheap solar power to Queensland's grid. The post Another Big Oil solar farm starts sending power to Queensland grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Enzen unveils cybersecurity offering amid growing cyber tension
Smart Energy International
MAY 26, 2022
Enzen, which provides consulting, technology, and engineering services to the energy and water sectors, has unveiled zenSmartCyber, its new cybersecurity methodology and framework for UK energy and utility businesses across critical national infrastructure (CNI). The new offering aims to resolve industry concerns about increased hacking and cyberattacks from both independent and state-backed threats.
Not the right time for Labor to be hairy chested on climate and energy, says Bandt
Renew Economy
MAY 26, 2022
Greens leader urges Labor government to abandon "hairy chested" approach to climate and energy, even if it does secure a majority in the House of Reps. The post Not the right time for Labor to be hairy chested on climate and energy, says Bandt appeared first on RenewEconomy.
CPower to optimise Pennsylvania crypto mining operations
Smart Energy International
MAY 26, 2022
Demand management solutions provide CPower delivers flexible load management to Verakari Crypto Mines’ Pennsylvania site. CPower has implemented its EnerWise Site Optimisation service, which should enable Verakari’s crypto mining site to better align with price, demand and marginal emissions. The Pennsylvania site, within the PJM Interconnection, should thereby have reduced energy costs while delivering support to the grid.
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