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In Europe’s clean energy transition, industry turns to heat pumps

GreenBiz

With soaring gas prices due to the Ukraine war and the EU’s push to cut emissions, European industries are increasingly switching to high-temperature, high-efficiency heat pumps. Combined with the boom in residential use, the EU is now hoping for a heat pump revolution.

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This stunning park in China regulates stormwater with plants

Inhabitat - Innovation

Fish Tail Park is a combination of architectural, landscape, urban and environmental design. As a result, the park provides recreational access for the community, while simultaneously buffering it from the effects of monsoons.

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Climate stress tests for banks are coming. What will we find?

GreenBiz

We should thank central banks for improving our understanding of climate change data. But they need to more faster and more forcefully to gather more rigorous and comparable data.

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Cinema Verde film festival brings environment films to you

Inhabitat - Innovation

The fourteenth annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival will present 70 films from Feb. 9 to 14. The entire festival will be online, with live director discussions following screenings. Or should that be streamings?

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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 regenerative agriculture on a reservation look like?

GreenBiz

Better profits, better soil and buying back its land, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska has regenerative ag to thank.

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LEM’s DC meter enables EV fast charging station makers to accelerate deployment

Charged

The US-certified DCBM 400/600 meter takes EV fast charging to another level By Mathieu Beguin, Global Product Manager at LEM With transportation accounting for over 20% of global CO 2 emissions in 2020 and 17% of all greenhouse gas emissions (according to Statista ), decarbonization is essential in this sector. However, the massive challenge facing those who work within the transportation market, particularly suppliers, is to facilitate growth in the use of electric vehicles (EVs) while still gi

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Dachser to order 50 Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul trucks

Charged

German logistics service provider Dachser has signed a letter of intent to add 50 Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul electric trucks to its European fleet. The e-truck, with a range of around 500 km (310 miles), is expected to be ready for series production by 2024. Dachser has been using EVs such as the FUSO eCanter and eActros since 2018 in eleven European cities.

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A sea change for carbon capture

GreenBiz

How much more CO2 can the ocean swallow, without harming sensitive ecosystems?

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PVinsights: Wafer Rally Boosts Polysilicon Prices Start February Over 30% Higher

altenergymag

Polysilicon prices started February sharply higher on Wednesday, extending the gain before Lunar New Year, boosted by the continued wafer price rally to drive up polysilicon demand and positive signs of wafer production growth in China. Mono-grade polysilicon prices rose on the first trading day of February as players digested mono-crystalline wafer gains after Chinese New Year and hoped more wafer production driving strong demand this month.

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EV price war! Ford responds to Tesla price cuts, boosts production of Mustang Mach-E

Charged

The greatest barrier to EV adoption is the steep price premium relative to legacy vehicles—and for the past couple of years, prices have been moving in the wrong direction, thanks to supply-chain constraints and general post-COVID inflation. When Tesla recently announced price cuts of up to 20 percent, the boo-birds crowed about softening demand, but we saw it as welcome news —and after taking a couple of weeks to digest the news, the stock market seems to agree.

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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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ACT switches on its first big battery on path to full electrification

Renew Economy

ACT government switches on 10MW/20MWh Queanbeyan battery – one of at least two big batteries commissioned to aid the territory's shift to all-electric renewables. The post ACT switches on its first big battery on path to full electrification appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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EverCharge’s load balancing enables large-scale EV charging solution at Houston airport

Charged

EverCharge , an SK Group company, will deploy “a significant number” of EV charging stations at Houston’s George Bush International Airport for Avis Budget Group. The stations will power Avis and Budget’s rental fleet of plug-in vehicles at the airport. Intelligent load balancing allows fleet operators to install more charging stations without straining the existing electrical grid or requiring costly utility upgrades.

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How Europe is recalibrating tech, one ESG step at a time

Impact Alpha

A crisis is usually followed by learning. If in 2022 tech private markets were defined by the crash of some of the highest-valued. The post How Europe is recalibrating tech, one ESG step at a time appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Tigo Energy Secures Overwhelming Legal Victory Protecting Innovation in U.S. Solar Industry

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U.S. Patent Office rejects more than 80% of SunSpec Alliance patent challenges, helping Tigo protect solar industry R&D investments.

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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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Victoria’s biggest wind farm lures major new investor, with billions earmarked for renewables

Renew Economy

Ikea buys into $3 billion wind and battery project in Victoria as part of multi-billion dollar renewable spend. The post Victoria’s biggest wind farm lures major new investor, with billions earmarked for renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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New Switch2 online portal puts residents in control of heat network service

altenergymag

Heat network specialist Switch2 Energy has launched a new online resident portal to give customers easy access to the help and information they need amid the energy crisis.

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The Giving Grove & Boulevard Brewing collab on pear cider

Greenability Magazine

Cider celebrates little orchards making a big difference Boulevard Brewing Company recently released the Westside Wilds Pear Cider to support The Giving Grove. The small-batch, mixed fermentation cider is the celebration of a local food collaboration five years in the making. A portion of the proceeds benefit Kansas City Community Garden’s Giving Grove program.

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Rare breakthrough: UK scientists serve up 'world first' cultivated meat steak

Business Green

UK scientists produce and taste 'world's first' 100 per cent lab-grown steak A UK-based bio-tech start up specialising in cell-based tissue engineering has cooked up what it claims is the first-ever steak fillet to be made of 100 per cent cultivated meat. Made from pork cells, the cut measured nine centimetres in width, four centimetres in length and one centimetre in height - the same dimensions as a small fillet of traditional pork, according to its creators.

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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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SolarReviews releases the 2023 ranking of The Best Solar Panel Manufacturers

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- SolarReviews Ranks the Top 10 U.S. Solar Panel Manufacturers - #1 Solar Panel Brand Qcells is assembled in the U.S.A.

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Energex and Origin to roll out 35 neighbourhood batteries in solar soaked regional city

Renew Economy

Queensland will install 35 neighbourhood batteries to soak up the excess solar in one of the state’s top 10 rooftop PV postcodes. The post Energex and Origin to roll out 35 neighbourhood batteries in solar soaked regional city appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ALLY Energy to Host 5th Energy Workforce of the Future™ Summit and Cleantech Leaders Roundtable Monday, March 6

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DOE Deputy Secretary David Turk and Former N.J.

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University of Adelaide researchers successfully split seawater to produce green hydrogen

Renew Economy

Researchers from the University of Adelaide say they have successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen. The post University of Adelaide researchers successfully split seawater to produce green hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Those Attacks on Gas Stoves Aren’t Really about Health

Energy Central

Originally published in Washington Examiner. Earlier this month, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that indoor gas stoves emitted harmful pollution. Several studies claim that the use of gas can cause respiratory illness. The CPSC is considering restrictions on gas stoves, including possible bans in new residential construction.

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Our climate challenge is our greatest opportunity: So how do we get it right?

Renew Economy

Our response to climate change provides perhaps the greatest opportunity for investment, economic, export and employment growth Australia has ever seen. Can we harness it? The post Our climate challenge is our greatest opportunity: So how do we get it right? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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NatWest 'reverse vending machines' to turn unused bank cards into clothing

Business Green

Bank launches pilot project to 'eat' up recyclable credit cards that would otherwise be bound for landfill NatWest has today launched a trial of "reverse vending machines" designed to swallow unused plastic cards in a secure way so that they can be safely recycled. The machines have been introduced to target what the bank estimates are 65 million expired plastic credit and debit cards that are simply gathering dust in people's wallets, purses, and drawers.

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NSW announces grants to help big manufacturers slash emissions

Renew Economy

New South Wales state government to support four of the state’s highest emitting manufacturers to transition into low-carbon facilities. The post NSW announces grants to help big manufacturers slash emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Solar and wind with battery storage are set to produce cheaper electricity than natural gas in Alberta and Ontario: report

Clean Energy Canada

Feb 2, 2023 OTTAWA — In Alberta and Ontario, wind can now produce electricity at lower costs than natural-gas-fired power—with even more reductions on the horizon, according to a new report from Clean Energy Canada, which was informed by research commissioned from Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors. Even without carbon pricing, wind power is set to be 40% cheaper than gas-fired-power in both provinces by 2030.

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Retired coal sites to be transformed into multi-day iron-air batteries

Renew Economy

Two 10MW/1,000MWh multi-day iron-air battery storage systems will be deployed at two retiring coal plant sites in the US. The post Retired coal sites to be transformed into multi-day iron-air batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Al Gore’s Just Climate makes first three climate tech investments

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 1 – The unit of Generation Investment Management, led by David Blood and Al Gore, invested in three European companies focused. The post Al Gore’s Just Climate makes first three climate tech investments appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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UNSW rooftop solar mapping tool puts power in consumer hands – for free

Renew Economy

Australian PV Institute launches new version of UNSW-developed online solar calculator, making it free to use for anyone seeking to install rooftop PV or a home battery. The post UNSW rooftop solar mapping tool puts power in consumer hands – for free appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Estimate Commercial Value of CO2 Storage

Energy Central

Carbon storage refers to the process of sequestering or storing carbon in various forms in the natural environment, including in plants, soil, oceans, and geologic formations. This can include processes such as photosynthesis, in which plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in their biomass, and the carbon cycle, in which carbon is exchanged between different parts.

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First solar hydrogen project strikes offtake deal, to nearly double solar farm

Renew Economy

A green hydrogen project that promises to be one of the first in Australia to produce at a commercial scale has signed up its first offtake partner. The post First solar hydrogen project strikes offtake deal, to nearly double solar farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Startups raise green to reduce the carbon footprints of buildings

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, February 1 – Buildings account for 40% of total global carbon emissions, because of how building materials are produced, what materials are. The post Startups raise green to reduce the carbon footprints of buildings appeared first on ImpactAlpha.