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ESG credibility under threat from lack of standardization, report warns

GreenBiz

Analysts from EY and Oxford Analytica warn booming ESG movement faces greenwashing allegations and loss of credibility if action is not taken.

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Sacré bleu: French heat pump costs blow hole in ‘nonsense’ UK government policy

Envirotec Magazine

The evidence of what French consumers are paying for heat pumps “blows a hole in UK government policy” in relation to the low-carbon heating technology, according to a UK energy trade body. Chief Executive of Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA), Mike Foster, said he believed the latest evidence renders UK heat decarbonisation plans “useless” and calls for a Government re-set.

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How business can help win an historic climate victory

GreenBiz

We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to secure a livable future, and we’re watching (as are employees) to see if the corporate sector speaks up.

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A dam fine dram? Measures tackle water scarcity at Speyside distillery

Envirotec Magazine

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen and James Hutton Institute have worked with The Glenlivet distillery to introduce environmentally sustainable solutions at Chivas Brothers’ Speyside distillery to address water scarcity and protect whisky production. Among the “nature-based measures” are small dams in the landscape supplying the distillery, designed to capture water during wet periods and to make this available when water is scarce.

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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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Electrify Ithaca: A public-private collaborative approach to city-wide decarbonization

GreenBiz

Ithaca's goal is the decarbonize every building in the city by 2030. The director of sustainability shares how it is going to make that happen.

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99% of electricians believe there are major risks with EV charging work

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Raymond Orton / Shutterstock.com. As the UK gears up to meet its Electrical Vehicle (EV) charging targets for 2030, and purchases of EVs continue to rise, a lack of appropriate training and skills could be leading to thousands of unsafe installations of EV chargers in homes, streets and commercial locations – with potentially disastrous consequences.

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National Association of REALTORS® and Green Business Bureau Join Forces

Green Business Bureau

New program will enable National Association of REALTORS®’ members to verifiably demonstrate their sustainability. Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) to bring the GBB sustainability program, framework, and certification to the real estate industry. GBB and NAR are working together to make businesses more sustainable, to protect our planet and workers by enabling REALTOR® associations manage a sustainability program and verifiably demonstrat

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On Capitol Hill, a 180-degree turn of events for climate, EV policy

GreenBiz

An interview with Joe Britton, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, about the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

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Blink Charging to Deploy EV Chargers for Electric School Bus Fleets

Green Living Guy

With nearly a half million school buses today, Blink is working with school districts around the nation to support the drive toward electric school bus fleets Miami Beach, FL (July 27, 2021) – Blink Charging Co. (Nasdaq: BLNK, BLNKW) (“Blink” or the “Company”), a leading owner, operator, and provider of electric vehicle (“EV”) charging equipment and services, announced […].

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Are we comparing green to green?

GreenBiz

The spirit of the EU Taxonomy and why accurate corporate reporting matters

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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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Lillian Wang: the Woman CEO Decentralizing Energy and Creating Smart Solar Cities

Green Living Guy

While Musk and Bezos Plan Their Escape to Mars, Meet the Woman CEO Creating Smart Solar Cities to Enhance Life on Earth. Lillian Wang Envisions a Brighter Future through Harnessing the Power of Light®. Austin, Texas (August 2022) The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issues a terrifying warning that […].

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Microsoft's All-Electric Kitchen

GreenBiz

A trip to Microsoft's all-electric campus, which highlights one way an all-electric future could take shape.

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Walmart to buy 4,500 Canoo electric delivery vehicles

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Walmart has become the latest large fleet operator to make a vote of confidence in a startup EV-maker—the giant retailer has made a definitive agreement with Canoo (NASDAQ: GOEV) to purchase 4,500 electric delivery vehicles, beginning with the Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle (LDV), with the option to purchase up to 10,000 units. Advanced deliveries, which will serve to refine and finalize vehicle configuration, will take place in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex in the coming weeks.

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Jaguar Land Rover Invests in New Testing Facility for EVs

Green Living Guy

New Testing Facility will help meet current and future legislation and quality standards (MAHWAH, N.J.) – August 1, 2022 – Jaguar Land Rover has taken another step towards a new era of electrification and connectivity by opening a facility to test the next generation of vehicles for electrical and radio interference. The Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) […].

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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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On-Board charger Market New Study Reveals

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The developing worldwide interest for electric vehicles is the essential driver driving expanded interest for on-board chargers all through the anticipated period.

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GM and EVgo to roll out DC fast chargers at Pilot and Flying J truck stops

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GM and Pilot Company (which operates the Pilot and Flying J truck stop chains) are collaborating to create a national DC fast charging network that will be installed, operated and maintained by EVgo. This network of 2,000 charging stalls, located at up to 500 Pilot and Flying J travel centers, will be co-branded Pilot Flying J and Ultium Charge 360, and will be powered by EVgo eXtend.

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Terabase Energy Raises $44 Million Series B to Digitalize and Automate the Deployment of Utility-Scale Solar Power Plants

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Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Prelude Ventures, and SJF Ventures support scale-up of the Terabase software and robotics platform

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Webinar: How scalable is your battery test lab?

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As EV adoption grows, time-to-market shrinks, and customer expectations increase, the need to scale up test operations is becoming one of the most significant challenges EV engineers need to overcome. Quickly adding test capacity, managing distributed assets, avoiding unnecessary test re-runs, and getting actionable insights from battery test data are a must-have.

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Wind energy records tumble as storms sweep across southern Australia

Renew Economy

Wind output records tumble on Wednesday as a series of storms sweep across southern Australia, taking prices down with them. The post Wind energy records tumble as storms sweep across southern Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Skeleton Technologies joins Siemens to build supercapacitor factory in Germany

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Skeleton Technologies , an energy storage device maker, is working together with Siemens on a new supercapacitor factory in Germany. “The collaboration aims to achieve the digitization of Skeleton’s entire value chain–from supercapacitor cell design to production and services–and scale up the production of next-generation supercapacitors,” says Skeleton. “With our holistic automation and digitalization portfolio, we can use the appropriate tools and our industrial know-how together w

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Bill Gates leads $US44m funding round to automate and accelerate solar PV construction

Renew Economy

Bill Gates' clean energy fund leads fund raising for technology that automates and accelerates development, construction, and operation of large scale solar plants. . The post Bill Gates leads $US44m funding round to automate and accelerate solar PV construction appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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BYD enters passenger vehicle market in Japan

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BYD Auto Japan, a unit of Chinese automaker BYD , has announced its entry into the passenger vehicle market in Japan with the launch of three EV models: the Atto 3, Dolphin and Seal. The Atto 3 is expected to go on sale in Japan in January. The Dolphin and Seal will follow later in 2023. BYD is no newcomer to the Japanese market—it began selling rechargeable batteries there in 1999.

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Graph of the Day: Large scale wind and solar set record output on Australia’s main grid

Renew Economy

The output of large scale wind and solar sets new record on Monday. The post Graph of the Day: Large scale wind and solar set record output on Australia’s main grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Top Tips For Cyclists on the Road

Green Living Guy

Riding a bike on the road can be very stressful, which is a shame because you could be doing it for exercise, the spiritual connection to the great outdoors, or the benefit of the environment. Regardless of the reason, you want to make sure you are not dissuaded from the right path by other road […]. The post Top Tips For Cyclists on the Road appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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Construction and transmission work begin on delayed wind farm in Victoria

Renew Economy

Transmission and balance of plant works finally begin on delayed wind project near Port Fairy in Victoria. The post Construction and transmission work begin on delayed wind farm in Victoria appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Introducing Adeje Verde – Spain’s largest solar community

Smart Energy International

E.ON has announced the Adeje Verde, the first energy community of its kind and the biggest solar circle in Spain to date. German electric utility E.ON and Adeje, a municipality in southwest Tenerife, are making a joint contribution to decarbonisation and establishing an energy community called Adeje Verde. The Spanish solar circle connects up to 200 consumers to a solar photovoltaic (PV) production unit within a 500m radius.

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Global renewables investment hits record high, boosted by solar and offshore wind

Renew Economy

Global renewable energy investment reached $US226 billion in the first half of 2022, a record that defied supply chain challenges and cost inflation. The post Global renewables investment hits record high, boosted by solar and offshore wind appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Ed’s Note: Greece pitches new electricity market model

Smart Energy International

A spectre is haunting Europe and it is not that of communism as Marx wrote in the Manifest. It is that of high energy prices and shortages. Mundane, I know. But also kind of urgent. So, how do we deal with? The EU Commission recently published the ‘Save Gas for a Safe Winter ‘ proposal. It stresses the importance of the 15% reduction in gas demand and mainly takes into consideration the reactions and disagreements of southerners.

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Greens move to “end climate wars,” and mount new battle against fossil fuels

Renew Economy

Greens leader Adam Bandt says his party will do its bit to "end the climate wars" by supporting Labor's 2022 Bill. But really, this is just a cease fire. The post Greens move to “end climate wars,” and mount new battle against fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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'Our fields shouldn't be full of solar panels': Truss vows to crackdown on renewables development

Business Green

Latest Tory leadership race hustings sees favourite double down on support for domestic fossil fuel extraction. Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss has fuelled concerns the UK's onshore renewables sector could face further barriers to development in the coming weeks, after the frontrunner to become the next Prime Minister promised to "change the rules" to ensure farming is prioritised over new solar projects.

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Solar is the cheapest power – a lightbulb moment showed we can cut costs even further

Renew Economy

Illuminating new research suggests we can rethink the type of silicon needed to make high-efficiency solar cells. The post Solar is the cheapest power – a lightbulb moment showed we can cut costs even further appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Top European Airlines Have Spent £4bn on Russian Jet Fuel Since Crimea Invasion

DeSmogBlog

Ukrainian activists have criticised aviation companies for buying billions of pounds worth of jet fuel from Russia since Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. Last year, British Airways owner IAG spent an estimated £13.4 million on Russian-sourced kerosene, according to a new analysis of Europe’s ten largest airline companies. IAG – which also owns Spanish and Irish carriers Iberia and Aer Lingus – used 586 barrels of Russian jet fuel per day in 2021, spending the equivalent of £36,903 per

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Scotland to ban fossil fuel powered boilers in new homes from 2024

Business Green

Scottish Government unveils plans to ensure all new homes and properties are fitted with low carbon alternatives to gas boilers. The Scottish government has announced it plans to ban the installation of fossil fuel powered boilers in all new homes in Scotland from 2024. In a consultation published late last week, the Scottish government unveiled a package of proposals to ensure all new buildings are be fitted with climate-friendly alternatives to fossil fuel heating systems.

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Frustrated by interconnection delays? Batchable computing provides a solution Green data centers can play a pivotal role in absorbing excess energy and enabling renewable projects to get built.

Solar Power World

By Phillip Ng, VP of corporate development, Soluna Our energy grid is inflexible. It was built a century ago for a different country and a different energy economy. Integrating this system with new intermittent generation has been challenging, to say the least. The result is frequent times of over-saturation of renewables, but still relying on… The post Frustrated by interconnection delays?