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Delivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Industry leaders are increasingly prioritizing the social co-benefits of renewable energy procurement. This article explores recent trends towards higher-impact clean energy products and how your organization can maximize social co-benefits while delivering on climate targets.

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Trax Expands Leadership Team with President and CRO

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Trax, developer of the Carbon Emissions Tracker for the transportation industry, announces Josh Bouk as president and Chris Cassidy as Chief Revenue Officer

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Meet the CEO behind the A-list's favorite green investment firm

GreenBiz

An interview with Steve Oyer, CEO of i(x) Net Zero, the green investment firm founded by Warren Buffet's grandson and backed by Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Solar Tracker Market Size USD 64.60 Billion by 2030

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The global solar tracker market size is expected to reach around USD 64.60 billion by 2030 and growing at a CAGR of 15.6% between 2022 to 2030, according to new report study.

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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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Closing the loop on commercial textile waste

GreenBiz

Fabric is one of the hardest materials to recycle because it is usually a blend of many types of materials.

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Electric cars are becoming less expensive

Green Living Guy

The cost for transitioning to electric vehicles is at its best place right now. Companies such as Chevrolet with their Silverado starting at $40,000 plus fleets are buying them. As I have written before: Electric Vehicle Technology Perhaps, the greatest move toward a better future is the introduction of electric vehicle technology. It enables the […].

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Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests

Grist

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. According to a slate of new scientific research published this week in Nature, however, the threats that climate change poses to these terrestrial carbon sinks are greater than previously understood.

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How America’s biggest climate bill will change corporate procurements

GreenBiz

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9 Ways To Reduce Your Environmental Footprint

Green Living Guy

Climate change or our environmental footprint has become an urgent concern for human beings. Especially when they realized they’d made this planet inhabitable for younger generations. The world can’t sustain our utilization of natural resources because of the massive amounts of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions we’ve caused in previous decades. Several human activities, such as […].

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New high voltage technologies for e-mobility

Charged

Sponsored by Preh. More than ten years ago, the HMI-Specialist Preh Group ventured into a completely new product segment. With flexible development procedures, the supplier has established a good reputation for EV components. The business unit aims to account for half of the company’s sales by 2030. Today, Preh supplies far more than battery management systems to the automotive industry—like the on-board chargers at different power levels.

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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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Australia’s carbon budget is in worse shape than its fiscal budget – thanks to gas

Renew Economy

New report shows Australia's record gas exports are driving up emissions, at a time when the carbon budget must be reined in hard. The post Australia’s carbon budget is in worse shape than its fiscal budget – thanks to gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Cuberg’s next-gen lithium metal cells show increased cycle life and specific energy

Charged

Battery company Cuberg has announced some results from Mobile Power Solutions’s independent testing of its lithium metal pouch cells. According to Cuberg, “Through continued development of its cell technology, Cuberg has achieved a near-doubling of cycle life of its cells alongside improvement in energy and power.”. “Cuberg’s first generation of cell technology was validated by the U.S.

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Ministers agree to put emissions into energy objective, to “take control” of capacity work

Renew Economy

Energy ministers agree to put emissions into energy objective, and have "taken control" of the capacity mechanism work previously managed by ESB. The post Ministers agree to put emissions into energy objective, to “take control” of capacity work appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How Forests Affect the Fate of Cities in Eastern Brazil

The City Fix

Global forest loss remains high. In 2021, the tropics lost 11.1 million hectares of tree cover, according to WRI’s latest analysis. This annual figure included 3.75 million hectares of loss within tropical primary rainforests, resulting in 2.5 gigatons of CO2.

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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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Technology never ceases to amaze!

Energy Central

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they have figured out how to engineer a biofilm that harvests the energy in evaporation and converts it to electricity. This technology has the potential to revolutionize the world of wearable electronics, powering everything from personal medical sensors to personal electronics.

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Spark unveils new plans for giga-scale wind farm and big battery

Renew Economy

Plans emerge for a massive wind farm and big battery proposed for construction in the South-West Renewable Energy Zone in NSW by Spark Renewables. The post Spark unveils new plans for giga-scale wind farm and big battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Rivian to site new manufacturing plant in Georgia

Green Living Guy

Rivian’s got a plan. For Rivian’s plan is to expand its manufacturing operations. I mean locating its second U.S. plant in the state of Georgia. For it’s a carbon-conscious campus. All is planned east of Atlanta. Located in Morgan and Walton Counties. The project also represents a $5-billion site development and manufacturing investment.

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Reality Is Not What It Seems. And That Might Just Save the Climate.

DeSmogBlog

By Clara Vondrich. As the world gasped in wonder at the first images of our infant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope last month, we were reminded that human beings are still capable of acts that elevate us all and advance our collective potential. “[When] my grandchildren … look up at a star, point to it and say ‘there’s life!’ — that’s going to be a moment more profound than the Copernican moment that took Earth out of the center of the universe.

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Carbon offsets alone won’t make flying climate-friendly

Grist

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jet A-1, a straw-colored, kerosene-based fuel used in most big airplanes, is a difficult substance to replace. It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times as much as the lithium-ion batteries used to propel electric cars.

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Revealed: The big money to be made on solar and storage project sales

Renew Economy

Genex has revealed the fine details agreed to on the purchase of the massive 2GW Bulli solar and storage development project in Queensland. The post Revealed: The big money to be made on solar and storage project sales appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Intelligent Grid Platform to automate DER connections in Estonia

Smart Energy International

Power network developer Enefit Connect OÜ will utilise software developer envelio’s Intelligent Grid Platform (IGP) to digitise its network planning processes, provide better service quality for Estonia’s distribution grid operator Elektrilevi and automate new connections of distributed energy resources (DERs). In the scope of this project, existing smart meter data will be made available for grid simulations and all grid planning processes.

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AEMO spent $130m on emergency reserves to keep lights on in coal dependent states

Renew Economy

AEMO reveals that $130 million was spent in the last year on emergency reserves to ensure the lights didn't go out in the country's two most coal dependent states. The post AEMO spent $130m on emergency reserves to keep lights on in coal dependent states appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Nexamp Chosen by National Grid for “Self-Performance” Pilot Program to Speed Interconnection

altenergymag

Nexamp and National Grid are working together in a pilot program that will speed interconnection by enabling developers to do some of the infrastructure work themselves.

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Solar plus storage: Hybrid renewables become new normal in US

Renew Economy

Solar PV plus battery storage has become the favoured mix of hybrid plants in the US, but there are 20 different hybrid configurations. The post Solar plus storage: Hybrid renewables become new normal in US appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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All About Globe Valve

U.S. Green Technology

There are different types of valves, such as ball valves, pin valves, etc. There are different valve types, such as globe valves with other parts and styles and the distinct working principle. A globe valve is the type of linear motion valve used for starting, stopping, and regulating the liquid flow in the pipeline. A. The post All About Globe Valve appeared first on U.S.

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Australia’s largest clean energy event returns to Melbourne this October

Renew Economy

All-Energy Australia, Australia’s largest clean energy event, is taking place this October in Melbourne to continue supporting the industry’s growth and to help accelerate Australia’s transition to a renewable energy future. . The post Australia’s largest clean energy event returns to Melbourne this October appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Planning to Have Your Own Home Office? Here’s What to Do

U.S. Green Technology

Working from home has a number of benefits, including the freedom to choose your own schedule, the ability to save time and money by eliminating your daily commute, and the ability to start a business with zero overhead. To be effective in a home office, though, you must create a space that encourages productivity in. The post Planning to Have Your Own Home Office?

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MPower completes acquisition of pioneering solar and battery project

Renew Economy

MPower says it has completed its acquisition of a "fringe-of-grid" large-scale solar and battery storage project in far north Queensland. The post MPower completes acquisition of pioneering solar and battery project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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A meat tax is probably inevitable - here's how it could work

Business Green

Healthier and more sustainable food could be made cheaper as meat and dairy becomes more expensive, argue environmental economists Cameron Hepburn and Franziska Funke. Rearing livestock and growing crops to feed them has destroyed more tropical forest and killed more wildlife than any other industry. Animal agriculture also produces vast quantities of greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.

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Australia’s biggest solar contractor stung by floods and high labour costs

Renew Economy

Biggest solar contractor says torrential rains in Australia and high labour costs have crimped its margins, but cost pressures are easing. The post Australia’s biggest solar contractor stung by floods and high labour costs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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'UK's largest': Nissan's 20MW private wire solar installation nears completion

Business Green

The project, hailed as the largest of its kind in the UK, is poised for completion following a £10.6m investment deal last week. Nissan's planned 20MW solar project at its UK plant in Sunderland is expected to come online soon, following the completion of a £10.6m investment deal with Atrato Onsite Energy last week. The new installation, located within Nissan's manufacturing facility in Sunderland, England, will create enough renewable electricity to meet 20 per cent of the plant's needs,

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The Driven Podcast: Why rental companies are going electric

Renew Economy

Hertz vice president Eoin Macneill on the Polestar 2 EVs now available at most airports. Plus: Model Y and Atto 3 deliveries break supply deadlock. The post The Driven Podcast: Why rental companies are going electric appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How businesses can get tongues wagging on climate change

Business Green

Everyone talks about climate change when it’s unbearably hot. Climate Outreach's David Powell explores how businesses can keep the conversation going - and what’s in it for them. It was a few weeks ago. A packed pub yet no standing room left outside, so we stood, sweating, inside. Boy was it hot: that rather un-British, distinctly claggy heat with which we are all now becoming familiar.

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Great Solar Business Podcast: WTF is going on in the energy market?

Renew Economy

David Leitch from ITK Services and co-host of Energy Insiders, joins Nigel to discuss the machinations of the energy market. The post Great Solar Business Podcast: WTF is going on in the energy market? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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