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Test Drive Results Hyundai Kona EV

Green Living Guy

Since its launch in 2018, Hyundai KONA Electric has exceeded expectations in Europe due to its powerful all-electric drivetrain. Now it’s brought it to the USA! Also promoting a long driving range. Moreover and stylish SUV appearance. Made In Europe now for USA A total of almost 97,000 units have been sold in Europe to date. […]. The post Test Drive Results Hyundai Kona EV appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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Snowy 2.0 hit by new billion-dollar cost blowout claims

Renew Economy

Snowy 2.0 faces new claims its multi-billion dollar budget has blown out even further, as signs emerge that EPC costs are higher than expected. The post Snowy 2.0 hit by new billion-dollar cost blowout claims appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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What NY must do for 2030 Climate Goals!

Green Living Guy

Like many states and cities across the country, New York has ambitious goals to reduce harmful heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, the state must achieve net-zero emissions by limiting emissions to 40% of 1990 levels by 2030 and 85% by 2050. Emissions with Needing More […].

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Australia’s biggest listed solar company to be wound up after selling US portfolio

Renew Economy

The planned delisting and winding up of Australia's biggest solar farm owner removes one of the last opportunities for small investors to buy into the green energy transition. The post Australia’s biggest listed solar company to be wound up after selling US portfolio appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Ricardo and Pratt & Whitney to develop hybrid-electric aerospace technology

Charged

Global consulting firm Ricardo has signed a multi-year deal with Pratt & Whitney Canada, a manufacturer of aircraft engines. The Ricardo aerospace engineering team will support P&W in the development of hybrid-electric propulsion technologies for next-generation aircraft. The project is part of Pratt & Whitney Canada’s regional hybrid-electric flight demonstrator program.

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New York’s ConEd gets into the V2G space

Smart Energy International

A new V2G system at a Brooklyn warehouse feeds energy stored in electric vehicles back into the grid during peak demand. Coming on the heels of Duke Energy Florida’s announcement that it is piloting vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology using a Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck and bidirectional charging technology, three other companies announced a similar trial in Brooklyn New York with energy provider Con Edison.

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Even a one year delay in new transmission links will hurt homes and businesses

Renew Economy

New modelling shows the impact on consumer electricity bills of delays to the electricity transmission upgrade and build – and it's not pretty. The post Even a one year delay in new transmission links will hurt homes and businesses appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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'Street-by-street': How the government could tackle 'energy crisis hotspots'

Business Green

Friends of the Earth and the New Economics Foundation call on government to invest £15bn in improving housing stock in response to surging energy bills this winter. Campaigners have again called on the UK government to commit £15bn to a council-led, street-by-street programme of free insulation that could significantly improve the UK housing market's energy efficiency in response to the looming surges in energy prices this winter.

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Yukon Energy - Joint Agreements Commit to Better Future for Äshèyi

Global Renewable News

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (CAFN),

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'Crisis': Could a looming shortage of sulfuric acid threaten food security and clean tech deployment

Business Green

Research highlights how supply of the chemical largely sourced from oil and gas production could dwindle as the economy decarbonises. A looming shortage of sulfuric acid, a vital component for many modern manufacturing processes, poses a significant risk to the pace of clean technology deployment and efforts to maintain global food security, the Royal Geographical Society has today warned.

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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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Orsted - Ørsted inaugurates Taiwan Offshore Wind Farms Operations and Maintenance Hub' to underpin long-term green energy supply

Global Renewable News

The O&M hub is the largest in Asia-Pacific in.

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Long overlooked, East Malaysia's disappearing shorelines in spotlight as government tackles coastal erosion

Eco-Business

Sarawak is most severely affected, and in some instances, entire beachfronts have been 'swallowed' by stronger waves, but its stories and losses have not been well-documented in Malaysia

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Edmonton - Here comes the sun! - Edmonton building largest rooftop solar array in Canada

Global Renewable News

The Edmonton Expo Centre will soon be home to.

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City of Sydney moves to ban fossil fuel advertising

Eco-Business

Australia's commercial capital could become the first major urban centre in Asia Pacific to outlaw the promotion of dirty energy in public spaces.

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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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SSE - Significant step forward for Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station

Global Renewable News

A landmark project in the Humber which could.

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Online sales of endangered wild monkeys boom in Myanmar

Eco-Business

Online trade of wild langurs and other monkeys has drastically increased in the absence of rule of law in Myanmar since the 2021 military coup.

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Southern California Gas Co. - SoCalGas Breaks Ground on First-of-its-Kind Technology to Produce Clean Hydrogen for SunLine Transit Agency's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric BusesThe demonstration research project will produce hydrogen from renewable natural gas for fuel cell buses to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Global Renewable News

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today.

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‘Rosewood’ explores China’s philosophy of ecological protection as it goes global

Eco-Business

China wants to allow sustainable cultivation of threatened species, in contrast to the Western model of banning trade, explains Annah Lake Zhu in this provocative book.

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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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U.S. Department of Energy - Biden-Harris Administration Launches $28 Million Program to Advance Hydropower for Clean Energy

Global Renewable News

The Biden-Harris Administration, through the.

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The next Prime Minister is sleepwalking into a winter gas crisis

Business Green

A Great British energy efficiency plan would be an electoral, environmental and economic win for the UK’s new government, writes the ECIU’s Jess Ralston. Only those living under a rock can have missed the latest furore on energy bills. Until at least 2024, all estimates show that sky-high bills of above £3,000 are here to stay. The next Prime Minister is likely to be greeted by immediate calls for action on this, as gas prices continue to rocket to more than six times higher than pre-crisi

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Renewable Energy Systems - Sclenteuch Wind Farm set to deliver low-cost electricity and 'Keirs Glen Trail'

Global Renewable News

RES has submitted a planning application to.

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Effort to Save Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Hits Headwinds

Energy Central

Effort to Save Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Hits Headwinds TerraPower Raises $750 Million in Equity Funding Ultra Safe Nuclear Opens Pilot Nuclear Fuel Plant HALEU Fuel Funding in Biden Energy Climate Legislation Survey – Utilities Could Add 90 GWe of Nuclear, Including 300 SMRs Taishan-1 EPR Reconnected To Grid After Extended Fuel Outage UKAEA Appoints Consortium to Help.

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Ontario Power Generation - OPG reports on Environmental, Social, and Governance performanceHighlights progress on climate change, ED&I, and Reconciliation

Global Renewable News

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has released.

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Sky News: No One In Australia Wants Electric Cars

CleanTechnica

While Australia holds a summit to discuss car emissions standards, Sky News presenters say that no one wants electric cars. At the same time, ordinary citizens are fighting over what is available. Hyundai delivered 100 cars and they sold out in minutes. Tesla’s Robyn Denholm said Tesla would double the number of cars it has […].

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Saint John Energy - Saint John Energy's approach to innovation building sustainability, CEO says

Global Renewable News

Saint John Energy's approach to innovation.

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What Tesla Needs to Dominate the Market (Part 1)

CleanTechnica

I rant about the stuff Tesla needs to save it from itself. Also: sausages.

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Swedish Energy Agency - Seven Swedish cities join the EU Mission for 100 climate neutral cities by 2030

Global Renewable News

Globally, cities account for more than 70.

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6 Ways To Communicate How Human Activities Cause Rising Global Temperatures

CleanTechnica

We can look to research studies to identify efficient ways to help new audiences learn about the connections between human activities and climate change. To get the most out of scholarship, however, we need to translate academic language into everyday terms.

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RWE AG - Glenrothes MP visits Markinch Biomass Power Station to understand RWE's hydrogen plans

Global Renewable News

Local Glenrothes MP Peter Grant recently.

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1st Vehicle-to-Grid System on NYC Grid Launches

CleanTechnica

The first vehicle-to-grid system on NYC’s electricity grid launched this week. The system comes from a collaboration between Revel rideshare, Fermata Energy, and NineDot Energy. Revel’s rideshare system includes only fully electric cars. However, Tesla vehicles are not set up for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) service, so it’s just the rideshare network’s Nissan LEAFs that will be sending […].

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Vattenfall - Grönhult wind power park - rising of power plant

Global Renewable News

In May 2021, construction of the wind.

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Australia Taking Bold Steps Toward Electric Car Future

CleanTechnica

The government of Australia is making a serious commitment to the EV revolution with new policy initiatives.

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Renewable Energy Systems - RES Completes Construction of First DC/DC Retrofit Battery Energy Storage System in Virginia

Global Renewable News

RES, the world's largest independent.