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Episode 325: The 'green premium'; electrification is inflation-proof

GreenBiz

This week's episode features highlights from VERGE Electrify, including PG&E CEO Patti Poppe, DoE official Jigar Shah and electrification expert Saul Griffith.

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New Antarctic study shows levels of ‘forever chemicals’ reaching the remote continent have been increasing

Envirotec Magazine

Taking a firn core sample (image credit: Dr Markus Frey, British Antarctic Survey). New evidence from Antarctica shows that toxic ‘fluorinated forever chemicals’ have increased markedly in the remote environment in recent decades and scientists believe CFC-replacements could be among likely sources. Known as forever chemicals because they do not break down naturally in the environment, chemicals such as perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs) have a wide array of uses such as in making non-stick coati

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Textile recycling, across the pond

GreenBiz

Regulation, consumer demand and shareholders are pushing for more recycled textiles.

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Ampt Brings Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against SolarEdge to Protect Optimizer Technology

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-Complaint with U.S. International Trade Commission Seeks to Ban Import of Infringing SolarEdge Products -Similar Infringement Action in U.S.

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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.

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What does the newly announced Inflation Reduction Act mean for climate tech?

GreenBiz

The 725-page Inflation Reduction Act is in the limelight and under the magnifying glass.

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Blink Charging to Increase EV Charging for Florida Law Enforcement and Public Safety Agencies

Green Living Guy

Thousands of local governments and subsidiaries can directly contract with Blink for electric fleet charging solutions through a preferred vendor agreement. Miami Beach, FL – July 19, 2022 – Blink Charging Co. is a leading owner, operator, and provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and services. Blink announces the successful contract award with the Florida […].

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CSIRO reminds our leaders that it’s the climate science that counts

Renew Economy

If Australia legislates its climate targets and then misses them, what happens? The CSIRO "future world" report reminds us the outlook is grim. The post CSIRO reminds our leaders that it’s the climate science that counts appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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New smart charging solution allows drivers to match sessions with local renewable energy

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Energy Web, a non-profit that creates operating systems for energy grids, has collaborated with the Volkswagen Group subsidiary Elli to develop a new smart charging solution designed to enable EV owners to charge with renewable electricity that is matched directly with the vehicle’s real-time electricity consumption. The solution relies on a 24/7 matching algorithm that optimizes charging to maximize the use of clean, locally sourced electricity.

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Commercial Duty Transfer Switches

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Ensure safety and continuous emergency power in commercial applications

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Papilio3 is a “pop-up” charging station that includes solar panels and battery storage

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As the UK sweats through an unprecedented heat wave, the firm 3ti presents its Papilio3, a “pop-up mini solar car park and EV charging hub,” as a timely reminder of how the power of the sun can be harnessed to address the climate crisis. 3ti’s Papilio3 is built around a recycled shipping container, and the company says it can be deployed within 24 hours.

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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.

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Queensland posts new solar output record in winter, but renewables growth has stalled

Renew Economy

Queensland sets new output record for large scale solar in middle of winter, but its growth in renewable production has stalled compared to other states. The post Queensland posts new solar output record in winter, but renewables growth has stalled appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Fugro assists Vattenfall with the design of Norfolk offshore wind development

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Fugro has been awarded a new marine site investigation contract by Vattenfall for their Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm located off England's east coast.

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“We make good money for a great service:” Big batteries boost Neoen profits and outlook

Renew Economy

Neoen trebles earnings from its Australian big batteries, helped by new Victorian Big Battery and the volatile markets. The post “We make good money for a great service:” Big batteries boost Neoen profits and outlook appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch. Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China.

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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.

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Leveraging smart meter data analytics for proactive grid management

Smart Energy International

With grid management proving a perplexing conundrum, smart meter data management continuous to prove the way forward for ensuring optimised control and efficacy for utilities. In a recent webinar on smart meter data and leveraging data analytics to inform grid management, Tobie DeVilliers, Head of Network Intelligence for the Australian power utilities, United Energy, CitiPower and Powercor, touched on various use cases for smart meter data analytics.

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Natural Power advises Harbert Infrastructure on DESRI investment

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Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has acted as technical due diligence advisor to Harbert Infrastructure for its investment of up to $400 Million in D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) to support its operations across the renewable energy sector in the United States.

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Sustainable Transportation Checklist: Reduce Business Scope 1,2 and 3 Emissions

Green Business Bureau

Sustainable transportation reduces total GHG emissions from the transportation sector. Sustainable transportation is the practice of reducing total GHG emissions from the transportion sector. New federal data from the U.S. Energy and Information Administration (EIA) shows the U.S. transportation sector is the largest source of carbon pollution than any other economic sector, including electric power, industrial, residential, and commercial divisions.

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Nexamp Named to Solar Power World “2022 Top Solar Contractors” List

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Nexamp has been named as a Top Solar Contractor for the tenth year in a row, coming in at #4 among national Commercial Developers.

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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?

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Sustainable Transport Checklist: Reduce Business Scope 1,2 and 3 Emissions

Green Business Bureau

Sustainable transport reduces total GHG emissions from the transport sector. Sustainable transport is the practice of reducing total GHG emissions from the transport sector. New federal data from the U.S. Energy and Information Administration (EIA) shows the U.S. transportation sector is the largest source of carbon pollution than any other economic sector, including electric power, industrial, residential, and commercial divisions.

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Switch2's Kirsty Lambert elected to The Housing Forum board

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Kirsty Lambert, Director of heat network specialist Switch2 Energy, has been elected to The Housing Forum board.

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Ireland’s Agri Lobby Has Dodged Its Climate Commitments Through Special Pleading and Dubious Science

DeSmogBlog

After months of protracted and often bitter wrangling, Ireland’s coalition government yesterday published emissions budgets for each part of the economy, in a bid to meet its ambitious climate goals. They take us a step further to achieving the 51 percent emissions cut by 2030 enshrined in legislation, but leave much to be desired. For a start, when all the sectoral targets are tallied up, they represent – at best – a 43 per cent reduction, according to the government’s own Climate Change Adviso

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Race on to build renewable “superhighway” as network makes case for VNI West

Renew Economy

Transgrid and AEMO make case for VNI West as best option for linking north-west Victoria and south-east NSW, promise nearly $700m in net benefits. The post Race on to build renewable “superhighway” as network makes case for VNI West appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ASOS, Boohoo and ASDA investigated over fashion 'greenwashing' claims

Business Green

Three fashion retailers could face legal action from the UK's Competition and Markets Authority if found to have misled its customers over the environmental credentials of their products. Fashion retailers ASOS, Boohoo and ASDA's George clothing brand are being investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over alleged 'greenwashing', the watchdog announced today.

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Origin reports LNG earnings windfall, but is still scratching around for coal

Renew Economy

Origin reports windfall gains from gas generation, a $2.2 billion hit from the electricity market crisis crunch, and is still seeking coal to feed its biggest generator. The post Origin reports LNG earnings windfall, but is still scratching around for coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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An odd, narrowly positive consequence of the Ukraine-Russia conflict?

Energy Central

Russia's deadly aggression in Ukraine has solidified geopolitical questions more than reshaped them, especially regarding alliances and perceptions of Russia's leadership. Similarly, beyond politics, the war has brought to the fore the nagging, unspoken question of Europe's reliance on Russian energy. The war has also accelerated answers to that question.

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Asia-Pacific forecast to reach 1 billion smart electricity meters by 2026 – study

Smart Energy International

The smart electricity metering market in Asia-Pacific is on its way to reaching a historic milestone of 1 billion installed devices, according to a new research report from IoT analyst firm Berg Insight. The report, Smart Metering in Asia-Pacific , analyses the development of smart metering technology in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand.

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When Will We Transition to All LED Lighting?

Green Living Guy

The invention of the incandescent light bulb changed how people live and access electricity. However, it wasn’t until the oil crisis in the 1970s that cracks in incandescent lighting began to show. Just as the buzzword became “energy efficiency,” compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs — technology five times more efficient than incandescents — hit the […].

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Crypto mining and data centres – the green challenge

Smart Energy International

Crypto mining and data centres are two sides of the same coin when it comes to energy use and management – but the similarity divides. Crypto mining operations and data centres are both in essence banks of IT systems – energy hungry with the demand for round-the-clock computation and the necessary cooling. But whereas data centres are considered necessary with the move towards cloud solutions and services, crypto mining and Bitcoin mining, in particular, has attracted a mixed reaction, particula

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Heat networks set to serve 28,000 UK homes secure £54m government funding

Business Green

Shared low carbon heating systems across London, Bedfordshire, Woking and Bristol secure multi-million pound grants from the government. Around 28,000 homes and businesses are set to benefits from shared, low carbon heating projects that have collectively been granted a total of £54m funding today from the government, which said those connected to the planned heat networks would be shielded from soaring fossil fuel costs.

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Iberdrola and bp invest €1b in EV infrastructure and green hydrogen

Smart Energy International

Iberdrola and bp have announced a strategic collaboration to expand fast EV public charging infrastructure, support the adoption of electric vehicles and develop large scale green hydrogen production hubs in Spain, Portugal and the UK. Iberdrola and bp plan to form a joint venture that intends to invest up to €1 billion ($1 billion) to roll out a network of up to 11,000 rapid and ultra-fast EV public charge points across Spain and Portugal in the hopes of expanding access to electric mobility.

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Reports: Government poised for crackdown on use of renewable energy certificates in electricity sector

Business Green

Plans mark next step of investigation into greenwashing in retail energy sector announced by the government last year. The government is looking to clamp down end the practice of bulk buying European renewable power certificates which enable electricity suppliers to describe their tariffs as green, despite remaining invested in fossil fuel power, according to reports.

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Synthetic methane injection into France’s gas distribution grid demonstrated

Smart Energy International

French green gas start-up Energo has demonstrated the injection of synthetic methane into GRDF’s gas distribution network. The demonstration, a first in France, was undertaken as a regulatory sandbox initiative to confirm the feasibility of synthetic methane injection in the network. The injection took place at a site at Sempigny in northern France with an anaerobic digestion unit, with the production of synthetic methane with CO2 directly captured at the biomethane production site utilising Ene

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ICG snaps up British Solar Renewables as it set sights on 1.5GW UK portfolio

Business Green

Global asset manager acquires leading UK solar and energy storage developer for undisclosed sum. British Solar Renewables has been snapped up for an undisclosed sum by global asset manager ICG, which said its aim was to help grow the solar and energy storage developer into one of the UK's leading integrated power producers. First established in 2011, British Solar Renewables (BSR) has grown to become one of the UK's largest integrated solar developers, having successfully developer, built and op

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