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How to decarbonize concrete and build a better future

GreenBiz

Substitutes for clinker. Carbon capture, use and storage. Process electrification. New construction codes. All are vitally important for taking urgent action to cut the footprint of the most widely used manmade resource on Earth.

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Rewild the night sky by tackling light pollution says charity

Envirotec Magazine

Chris Packham is urging the public to spend 20 minutes counting stars to help build a crucial national database mapping light pollution. The broadcaster is backing a campaign by CPRE, the countryside charity to rewild the night sky to restore truly dark natural habitats for threatened wildlife. Artificial light pollution is one of the biggest threats to nocturnal creatures, many of which have suffered sharp population declines.

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3 foolproof steps to flu-proof your egg supply

GreenBiz

Egg prices have skyrocketed due to an avian flu tearing through poultry producers. Now might be the perfect time to change the poultry industry for good.

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Project outlines first commercial scale seaweed farm between offshore wind turbines

Envirotec Magazine

How it might look above the water (CGI courtesy of ©Smartland). A project to create a commercial-scale seaweed farm located between offshore wind turbines has gotten underway, with funding from Amazon. The project, known as North Sea Farm 1, will be located in a wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands. It has been designed to test and improve methods of seaweed farming, while researching the potential of seaweed to sequester carbon.

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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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How will AI shape the future of clean energy?

GreenBiz

I posed the question to experts at the foremost utility trade conference: DistribuTECH

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£4.6m goes to hydrogen for maritime project

Envirotec Magazine

The Princess Royal Vessel. A £4.6m innovation project, led by renewable electrification specialist AceOn, to develop battery and hydrogen technology to power the marine vessels used for servicing offshore wind turbines, has been given the green light for Government funding. The RESTORE project will seek to replace the fossil-fuelled power and propulsion systems of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) with green hydrogen and battery storage-based alternatives.

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Comment: Government can easily avoid a costly legal battle on energy efficiency

Envirotec Magazine

Responding to the news that Greenpeace is exploring legal action over the likelihood that the Government will miss its energy efficiency-related target to lift millions out of fuel poverty , UK100’s Interim Chief Executive, Jason Torrance, said: “Brits are amidst a bleak winter. Millions are facing fuel poverty. And they are understandably terrified about what the future holds when prices rise again in April. “In that context, it is easy to understand the rationale for the Greenpeac

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China now has enough wind and solar to power every home

Renew Economy

China installed 125GW of new wind and solar capacity in 2022, and now generates enough wind and solar to meet demands of every home, but not industry. The post China now has enough wind and solar to power every home appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Aurora Solar Announces Expansion of Operations in Canada

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Fastest-growing solar software platform incorporates in Ontario to keep pace with hiring and ambitious plans for growth

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Wind and solar take wholesale electricity prices below zero for whole week in Victoria

Renew Economy

Victoria becomes first state grid to experience average negative wholesale electricity prices for whole week, thanks to wind and solar and low demand. The post Wind and solar take wholesale electricity prices below zero for whole week in Victoria appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Renogy X Enters the Residential Solar Market With First-ever Manufacturer-to-Consumer Buying Experience

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Innovative, Tech-driven Process Delivers Lower Cost and Quicker Project Completion; New Opportunities for Installers

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“A slam dunk for families:” Pilot launched to kick gas out of homes and communities

Renew Economy

NSW pilot program to guide how homes and communities can kick out gas and use rooftop solar and electric cookers, water and heating systems. The post “A slam dunk for families:” Pilot launched to kick gas out of homes and communities appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Planet’s response to earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

Planet Pulse

We are heartbroken by the tragedy in Turkey and Syria, and Planet remains committed to assisting with the ongoing disaster response by providing data to the International Charter Space and Major Disasters , which makes our imagery available to the public, media, volunteers, humanitarian organizations, and other coordinating bodies during select disaster events.

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The Brief: Shifting paradigms in finance, mass transit in Kenya, digital banking in Spanish, scaling battery materials, TPG’s rising impact strategies

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Capitalism Reimagined Six financial paradigm shifts needed to scale impact. Public and private-market investors that want to realize. The post The Brief: Shifting paradigms in finance, mass transit in Kenya, digital banking in Spanish, scaling battery materials, TPG’s rising impact strategies appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Aberdeen Hosts Green Hydrogen Tech Start-Up sHYp

Energy Central

Here’s a technology with which I had some involvement a few years ago; Good to see it progressing According to sHYp, its technology, which splits seawater into hydrogen and oxygen using renewable electricity, would also be able to extract by-products such as carbon dioxide and magnesium hydroxide, which are used in building and pharmaceuticals.

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Tigo Energy to Unveil Integrated Solar-Plus-Storage Solution for Iberian Market at Genera Energy and Environment Fair

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Expanding availability in Europe, Tigo brings Energy Intelligence (EI) Residential Solar Solution for fast, flexible, and dependable residential solar-plus-storage to Spain.

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ONS: Green economy delivers record revenues and jobs

Business Green

Official data on the performance of the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy reveals revenues and jobs surged throughout 2021 The UK's green economy enjoyed a bumper 2021, according to official new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that confirms both turnover and employment hit their highest level since records began in 2015. The ONS annual report on the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy (LCREE) shows that revenues across the sector rose 30.8 per cent in 2021 to £

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Court Hears Appeal in Canadian Youth Climate Lawsuit

DeSmogBlog

Young Canadians suing the federal government over its role in worsening the climate crisis are hoping that an appeals court will give them a chance to be heard at trial, after a judge dismissed their case over two years ago. The case was back in court this week as lawyers for the youths argued that the Federal Court of Appeal should overturn that judge’s ruling and permit the case to move towards trial.

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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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Amazon sinks €1.5m into 'world first' seaweed farm between offshore wind turbines

Business Green

Funding will support research into the potential for using seaweed as a form of carbon sequestration Amazon is providing €1.5m in funding for a "world first" commercial-scale seaweed farm located between offshore wind turbines in the North Sea, it announced today. The tech and online retail giant said the grant would support the construction of the 10-hectare North Sea Farm 1, which is expected to produce at least 6,000kg of fresh seaweed in its first year.

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Enel boss visits energy giant’s first Australian wind farm in time for first concrete pours

Renew Economy

Enel Green Power is making first concrete pours at its first Australian wind farm, just in time for visit of global CEO. The post Enel boss visits energy giant’s first Australian wind farm in time for first concrete pours appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Redwood Materials arranges $2 billion Energy Department loan for EV battery facility

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, February 16 — Redwood Materials has arranged a $2 billion Energy Department Loan for an EV battery plant in McCarran, Nev. that. The post Redwood Materials arranges $2 billion Energy Department loan for EV battery facility appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Cyclones vs grids: Does Gabrielle strengthen the case for burying power lines?

Renew Economy

With the threat of more frequent storms of increasing intensity, is it time to concede that overhead powerlines just won't cut it? The post Cyclones vs grids: Does Gabrielle strengthen the case for burying power lines? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Coremax Technology Launches New CMX10K240V Split Phase Hybrid Inverter for Residential ESS

altenergymag

Coremax Technology has launched the CMX10K240V Split Phase Hybrid Inverter for Residential ESS, a 120V/240VAC 208V Split Phase 8kW or 10kW hybrid inverter designed for maximum efficiency and reliable power for residential energy storage systems. With multiple operation modes and intelligent battery management, the inverter provides customers with the best value for their investment.

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Russia-Ukraine war has nearly doubled household energy costs worldwide – it didn’t have to

Renew Economy

New study offers a stark reminder that an energy system highly reliant on fossil fuels perpetuates energy-security risks and accelerates climate change. The post Russia-Ukraine war has nearly doubled household energy costs worldwide – it didn’t have to appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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PVinsights: Polysilicon Prices Turn Downward amid Rising Supply and Slowing Demand Growth

altenergymag

Polysilicon prices headed lower on Wednesday, reversing the uptrend, as Chinese suppliers continued to have plentiful supplies and sales pressure amid rising output and inventories. In specific, mono-grade polysilicon prices fell this week after China manufacturing data revealed a rise in domestic polysilicon production, intensifying concerns over a glut as the rising production and inventory forced Chinese suppliers to cut their high price quotes.

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Energy Insiders Podcast: Will concentrated solar finally have its day in the sun?

Renew Economy

Vast Solar’s Craig Wood on why concentrated solar power can finally have its day in the sun, plus its Port Augusta project and NY listing plans. The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Will concentrated solar finally have its day in the sun? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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'Promising works-in-progress': Why European firms need to get with the climate transition programme

Business Green

Assessment of public companies across Europe adds to growing library of reports calling for more robust approach to corporate climate action Climate transition plans have abounded within the European business community, but the quality of these strategies remains patchy at best. That is the far from ground-breaking conclusion of a fresh analysis of companies on European stock markets by environmental reporting platform CDP, produced in partnership with global management consulting firm Oliver Wy

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LNG Common Electronic Platform - Moving From Complex To Simple

Energy Central

| A substantial share of information about the European regasification capacity remains a grey area. | There are currently 37 operating terminals, and more are to be built by the end of 2023 (currently in the EPC stage, or the planning stage FEED, FID). | Working on a design of a digital solution - “multi-Terminal Calculator" will be.

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“No time to waste:” Networks warn of delays for EVs, rooftop solar and batteries

Renew Economy

Networks say putting emissions reduction into grid objective will be useless without a rapid change in the rules, and could delay upgrades for solar, EVs and batteries. The post “No time to waste:” Networks warn of delays for EVs, rooftop solar and batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Putin is staring at defeat in his gas war with Europe.

Energy Central

Mild weather this winter is set to help Europe shrug off Russia’s energy threats next year, too. POLITICO EU by CHARLIE COOPER FEBRUARY 15, 2023 There's more bad news for Vladimir Putin. Europe is on course to get through winter with its vital gas storage facilities more than half full, according to a new European Commission assessment seen by POLITICO.

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Renewables installations soar 65 per cent delivering 'strongest year since 2015'

Business Green

Microgeneration Certification Scheme reports surge in clean tech installations as households and businesses respond to soaring energy bills The installation of small scale clean technologies returned to levels not seen since government subsidies were axed in 2015, according to new figures that confirm demand for solar panels and heat pumps surged last year in response to soaring energy bills.

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Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization

Energy Central

I write about the title subject frequently. There are several reasons I do this: In spite of my frequent posts on this subject, it is my most popular subject (based on the number of views per post.) The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. One of the most important tools will use to accomplish the title task is to convert this.

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In the mix: Volvo Trucks and Cemex debut electric concrete mixer

Business Green

New cement mixer - the Volvo FMX Electric - will begin operating in Berlin later this month Volvo Trucks has today hailed another major milestone in the decarbonisation of heavy transport, after providing cement giant Cemex with its first fully electric, zero emission heavy-duty concrete mixer. The new electric cement mixer - the Volvo FMX Electric - is to start operating at a ready-mix concrete plant in Spandau, Berlin from later this month.