Wed.Mar 08, 2023

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10 badass women centering environmental justice at work

GreenBiz

The focus of the fifth annual GreenBiz Badass Women list was narrowed to highlight individuals spearheading the integration of environmental justice concerns into their company’s sustainable business practices.

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How Sustainable Vehicle Tech Can Reduce the Costs of a Company Fleet

U.S. Green Technology

Sustainability efforts are becoming increasingly important and prominent with industries across the country. Technology is leading the way in making these efforts easier and more approachable for everyone, including the manufacturing and transportation sectors. There’s no denying the environmental benefits of a sustainable company fleet. It can cut down on carbon emissions, boost greener efforts.

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Adobe flips the switch on all-electric building

GreenBiz

The all-electric addition to Adobe’s headquarters site in San Jose, California, boasts the largest all-electric commercial kitchen in North America.

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MERSEN TO EXHIBIT DURING APEC 2023

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NEWBURYPORT, MA (FEBRUARY, 2022) - Mersen is pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at APEC 2023 conference and exposition taking place March 20-22, in Orlando, Florida, USA. Stop by booth 554 to view and handle our vast selection of products and to see demonstrations of our digital tools.

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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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Need seeds? This reforestation startup is buying its suppliers

GreenBiz

One of the better-known reforestation startups, DroneSeed, now operating as part of Mast, is buying one of the biggest seed suppliers in North America.

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Sunverge Partners with Evergy for Advanced Residential Battery Pilot Program

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The Sunverge platform will be used by Evergy to control, orchestrate and aggregate residential energy storage, Eaton Energy smart circuit breakers and EV chargers, maximizing the value of distributed resources for both customers and the grid.

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Tesla Model Y teardown shows Toyota what it’s up against

Charged

The Tesla teardown is a staple of the EV literature. Teardown expert Sandy Munro has taken apart many a Tesla, with highly informative (and entertaining) results. Various legacy automakers have performed their own private teardowns—rumor has it that, when the Model 3 first appeared, a group of German automakers paid an enormous sum to have a couple of units shipped to Germany for their perusal.

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The $1 trillion opportunity: tackling women’s digital exclusion in the developing world

Impact Alpha

For all the optimism contained in International Women’s Day, the reality is that in most places around the world, the gender gap isn’t. The post The $1 trillion opportunity: tackling women’s digital exclusion in the developing world appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Advanced solutions for large wire crimping (Webinar)

Charged

For harness makers, delivering quality high-voltage connections can be challenging when working with large gauge wires. This webinar will discuss the current challenges involved in preparing and terminating both copper and aluminium stranded high-voltage cables, specifically for the EV market, addressing new advancements in tooling needed to prepare and crimp large diameter cable.

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Solarplaza Summit PPAs the Netherlands 2023

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By bringing together a crowd of local and international experts, this novel event is offering extended strategic insights and practical takeaways on PPA pricing, contracting, management and development, while the intimate setting facilitates one-on-one networking opportunities with new business partners and off-takers.

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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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Eaton introduces 3-in-1 EV battery pack vent valve

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Power management company Eaton has introduced a 3-in-1 battery pack vent valve for EV batteries. The valve is capable of three functions: battery case leak-checking, and both passive and active venting to provide battery pack overpressure relief. The company says the leak-check mechanism eliminates the need to install the vent valve as the final step of battery assembly and that leak testing is more thorough because it includes testing the sealing surface of the vent after the vent valve has bee

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The Next Frontier of Green Growth: Women Leading the Cleantech Transition

CleanTech Group

This year, Cleantech Group is celebrating International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by showcasing trailblazing women who lead groundbreaking cleantech efforts to.

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CEC provides $30 million in incentives for shovel-ready EV charging projects across California

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The California Energy Commission (CEC) has launched a $30-million incentive project to bring fast EV charging stations to 30 counties in Eastern California, the Central Valley and the Central Coast. The Golden State Priority Project, a part of the California Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Project (CALeVIP), focuses on bringing fast charging stations to disadvantaged, low-income and tribal communities.

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Solarplaza Summit Italy 2023

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The 5th edition of the Solarplaza Summit Italy will gather key influential global and local players and offer market insights from inspirational speakers, combined with extended networking opportunities - including an optional pre-conference networking dinner - for business acceleration in the Italian PV market.

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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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Magna to supply Chevrolet Silverado EV battery enclosures

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GM has chosen Tier 1 supplier Magna to supply battery enclosures for the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV. Production is expected to begin later this year at Magna’s St. Clair, Michigan, facility, which is undergoing a 740,000-square-foot expansion and where it currently produces enclosures for the GMC Hummer EV. Battery enclosures, required by all EVs, house the high-voltage batteries, electrical components, sensors and connectors, and contribute to the vehicle frame’s structural and safety aspects

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Bank refuses mortgage for tree changers because of wind farm caveat

Renew Economy

Banks love talking up their green credentials, so why has this bank refused a mortgage to new home owners whose land will host a wind farm? The post Bank refuses mortgage for tree changers because of wind farm caveat appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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KORE Power chooses Siemens to provide infrastructure tech for Arizona battery plant

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US battery cell developer KORE Power has selected manufacturing conglomerate Siemens to support the KOREPlex, KORE’s planned 12 GWh lithium-ion battery cell production facility in the Phoenix area. Siemens Smart Infrastructure technology and capital from Siemens Financial Services will, says KORE, help accelerate construction of its Buckeye, Arizona, facility to meet the growing demand for battery cells for EV and renewable-energy storage applications.

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The Brief: International Women’s Day edition: Gender and climate, inclusive diligence, leadership parity, digital literacy, Macro’s diverse voices

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: International Women’s Day Frontline communities hold the keys to inclusive gender and climate finance. Good green jobs. Better. The post The Brief: International Women’s Day edition: Gender and climate, inclusive diligence, leadership parity, digital literacy, Macro’s diverse voices appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Zen Energy unveils big battery plans, with a first project ready to go on its home turf

Renew Economy

Ross Garnaut-led retailer announces plans to develop a big battery, after buying up a partly developed project near Gawler in South Australia. The post Zen Energy unveils big battery plans, with a first project ready to go on its home turf appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Solarplaza Summit Spain 2023

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Join us at the Solarplaza Summit Spain on 6 July 2023 in Madrid, the only event to combine local knowledge with international expertise. Here you can meet the right people to succeed in your project development and management, while also gaining valuable insights into the intricacies of the market throughout all of its development stages.

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Greens deal blocks coal and gas from reconstruction fund, but stalemate sticks on Safeguard

Renew Economy

Greens secure deal to block coal and gas projects from Labor's $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund, but safeguard negotiations remain stalled. The post Greens deal blocks coal and gas from reconstruction fund, but stalemate sticks on Safeguard appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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PVinsights: Polysilicon Prices Slide on Surging Inventory Dumping Tensions

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Polysilicon prices tumbled on Wednesday as the market reeled from fears of another ramp-up in capacity expansion and a large build in China stockpiles after market sentiment took a hit from slow progress on price negotiation. Mono-grade polysilicon prices dropped this week, extending early losses in March, as surging inventories weighed on the market confidence and the threat of aggressive capacity expansions in China prompted concerns about the oversupply while poly-grade polysilicon prices sli

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Australia can be world leader in green metals – or be left behind

Renew Economy

Australia needs to clean up its key manufacturing industries, including steel, aluminium and ammonia production – or be left behind in a net zero world. The post Australia can be world leader in green metals – or be left behind appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Sarcos Achieves Final Validation of Outdoor Autonomous Manipulation of Photovoltaic Panels Project for U.S. Department of Energy

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Industrial robotics leader collaborates with Mortenson, JLG Industries, Array Technologies, and Pratt Miller to complete validation of system designed to enhance safety and efficiency in solar field construction

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Australia is still trailing well behind 82 pct renewable target, despite investment bump

Renew Economy

Australian renewables and storage financial commitments get big bump in December quarter, but is still trailing well behind needed to replace ageing coal plants. The post Australia is still trailing well behind 82 pct renewable target, despite investment bump appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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SUT | Astrimar Virtual Training Course – Qualification of New Technology

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The Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) and Astrimar join forces to provide their popular training course as an online virtual course 14-17 March 2023, It is aimed at engineers on both sides of the energy transition - offshore renewables and offshore oil and gas.

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Sodium-ion battery gets world-first certification, in new boost for cheaper storage

Renew Economy

China storage company becomes world's first to get certification of international safety standards of its sodium ion battery. The post Sodium-ion battery gets world-first certification, in new boost for cheaper storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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British Gas launches new net zero home services division

Business Green

Energy giant announces it is offer new range of solar, energy efficiency, EV charger, and insulation services to households across the UK British Gas has this week announced a new range of services for domestic customers designed to make it easier for them to install the latest cost-saving clean technologies. The energy giant yesterday confirmed it is to offer new services for solar panel installations, home energy efficiency surveys, electric vehicle (EV) charger installations, and insulation u

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Australia’s first vanadium flow battery plant begins construction in Townsville

Renew Economy

Construction begins on Australia’s first commercial-scale vanadium flow battery electrolyte manufacturing facility. The post Australia’s first vanadium flow battery plant begins construction in Townsville appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Pro-Ukraine group sabotaged pipelines, intelligence suggests - NYT

Energy Central

REUTERS BY OLENA HARMASH, SOURCE NYT, EDITING BY GERMÁN & CO KYIV, March 8 (Reuters) - Intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials indicates that a pro-Ukrainian group was behind last year's attacks on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, but there was no evidence of the Kyiv government's involvement, the New York Times reported. The undersea explosions, seven months into the.

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Coal miners made a motza from the war in Ukraine. But what will they do next?

Renew Economy

What will Australian coal miners do with their bulging cash balances? Those considering opening up new capacity would do well to rethink their strategy. The post Coal miners made a motza from the war in Ukraine. But what will they do next? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Tens of thousands of Scottish students favouring renewables studies

Business Green

FOI Request by Scottish Renewables reveals spike in Scottish students studying renewable energy There are almost 22,000 students in Scotland currently studying renewable energy, marking an increase of 70 per cent from 2019, fresh figures have revealed. Thirty-three Scottish colleges and universities responded to a Freedom of Information request submitted as part of research conducted by trade body Scottish Renewables to provide figures from a wide range of renewables-related courses, including e

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Queensland to convert coal and gas hub with giant battery, solar and hydrogen

Renew Economy

Queensland advances plan to turn coal and gas generation facility into a green energy hub with battery storage, solar, and green hydrogen. The post Queensland to convert coal and gas hub with giant battery, solar and hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.