Unilever to trial 'warmer' ice cream freezers to slash CO2 and energy use
GreenBiz
MAY 13, 2022
Consumer goods giant estimates changing temperature of its ice cream freezers to -12 degrees Celsius could cut emissions by almost a third.
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£4.6 million tidal blade testing facility opens in Fife
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 13, 2022
A rapid testing facility for tidal turbine blades has opened in Rosyth, Fife, described as the world’s first. Researchers say it can speed up the development of marine energy technologies while helping to reduce costs, The technology will stress-test blades made from composite materials more quickly, and using significantly less energy, than any other facility of its kind, the group behind it says.
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Complying with SEC-Mandated Carbon Emissions Reporting
GreenBiz
MAY 13, 2022
The recent SEC proposed rule that would require public companies to include certain climate-related information is being seen as a game-changer in ESG reporting. It also stands to accelerate boards of directors and the C-suite to hone their products, processes and business models to meet this new era of transparency and disclosure.
NRG Systems Offers the Only Lidar to Measure Full Wind Turbine Shear and Veer
altenergymag
MAY 13, 2022
NRG Systems and ZX Lidars combine industry knowledge, technology, and long relationship to add nacelle-mounted ZX TM to solutions portfolio.
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.
Episode 316: ESG ratings, EV charging, circularity chat
GreenBiz
MAY 13, 2022
Featuring conversations with Dimitry Gershenson, co-founder of Enduring Planet; James Murray, EIC of BusinessGreen; and Frank Reig, CEO of Revel.
Practical Steps for Utilities to Cut Emissions
Green Living Guy
MAY 13, 2022
The preservation of the environment is everyone’s business. Around the world, many people have touted this very accurate phrase: “There’s no Plan(et) B.” However, there are actionable steps we can all take to slow climate change. One of the best places to start is our utilities. Our need for energy will be a lasting dependence. […]. The post Practical Steps for Utilities to Cut Emissions appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car
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Xos and Allison Transmission Partner to Develop Platforms for Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicles
Green Living Guy
MAY 13, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS, May 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Xos, Inc. (NASDAQ: XOS), is a leading manufacturer and services provider of Class 5 through Class 8 battery-electric vehicles. In addition to powertrains, charging infrastructure, and fleet management software. The manufacturer announced it has entered a strategic partnership with Allison Transmission, Inc.
General Mills, Schwan’s and Target want to fix the flexible packaging problem
GreenBiz
MAY 13, 2022
These materials are a nuisance, but somebody’s gotta deal with them.
“Shellebrate” World Turtle Day® This May 23rd
Green Living Guy
MAY 13, 2022
Malibu, California – American Tortoise Rescue (ATR), is a nonprofit organization for the protection of all species of turtles and tortoises. The organization is “shellebrating” its 22nd international World Turtle Day® on May 23. ATR created and launched WorldTurtleDay.org to increase respect for and knowledge about one of the world’s oldest creatures.
This island nation will be one of the first to sell ocean-based credits
GreenBiz
MAY 13, 2022
It will be one of the world's first government-run underwater carbon offset programs.
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.
6 Effective Ways to Build a Sustainable business
Green Living Guy
MAY 13, 2022
Broadly defined, a sustainable business is a business that is built to last. It will survive the competition and the uncertainties of the market and it will continue to soldier on, getting bigger and more profitable in the process. Let us see for ourselves what are the most effective ways of building a highly successful […]. The post 6 Effective Ways to Build a Sustainable business appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News,
The use of power assets in the provision of telecommunication services
Smart Energy International
MAY 13, 2022
Webinar broadcast date: Thursday, 2 June 2022. 05h00 New York | 09h00 GMT | 11h00 Amsterdam | 11h00 Johannesburg | 14h30 New Delhi | 17h00 Singapore | 10h00 London. 60-minute session. Within the Digitalisation of Utilities in the framework of the energy transition, telecommunication services become one of the requested pillars, as they provide the information connectivity required in an increasingly distributed environment.
Top 6 Green Technologies For the Home
Green Living Guy
MAY 13, 2022
We are all well familiar with how the continuous development in the modern era depleting many natural sources. These adverse changes in our environment also deteriorate the quality of life. It’s time to save your environment by switching from waste-producing to eco-friendly products. And the best way is to start it from your home. People often […].
Franz Bakery partners with Stracker Solar to make new facility net zero electric
altenergymag
MAY 13, 2022
Six elevated dual-axis solar trackers will be installed in the parking lot of the new Franz Bakery Outlet Store and Depot in Medford, Oregon, to power the facility. The state-of-the-art Strackers, that will produce 170,000 kWh energy per year, will make the location net zero electric.
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.
Northern Ireland Water expands AI asset monitoring programme
Smart Energy International
MAY 13, 2022
Samotics, an asset health monitoring technology firm, has expanded deployment of its AI-driven SAM4 system across Northern Ireland Water’s submerged assets to support the delivery of a more cost efficient and sustainable service. Samotics was initially selected by Northern Ireland Water – the constituent country’s sole water and sewerage services provider – to provide insight into the health, performance and energy efficiency of its sewage pumps as part of a pilot.
Renewables and Energy Transition Policy Expert Christian Roselund Joins Clean Energy Associates
altenergymag
MAY 13, 2022
Because of the increasingly critical role that US policy plays on the renewable energy markets and deployments around the world, Clean Energy Associates has named renowned clean energy expert Christian Roselund as its first Senior Policy Analyst.
Microgrid developed to power lunar base
Smart Energy International
MAY 13, 2022
A microgrid to power a future base on the moon is under development at Sandia National Laboratories in the US. The initiative forms part of NASA’s Artemis lunar base project and the findings are expected to provide inputs to the control and resilience of microgrids here on Earth. The Artemis programme is aimed to return humans to the moon by 2025 with the establishment of a base at the lunar south pole for several astronauts to live and work for extended periods, potentially up to about two mont
Intersolar Europe 2022: REC launches new world's highest-power solar panel for residential installations with G12 HJT cells
altenergymag
MAY 13, 2022
With up to 430 Wp packed into less than two square meters, the new REC Alpha Pure-R hits the sweet spot in terms of its power output, size, weight, and handling. REC's latest panel innovation builds on the lead-free and RoHS compliant REC Alpha Pure Series, which just won the prestigious 2022 Intersolar Award.
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?
As California Considers Dropping Fossil Fuels from Major Pension Funds, New Report Calls Out ‘Misinformation’ on Costs
DeSmogBlog
MAY 13, 2022
A newly published report by Fossil Free California finds California’s pension fund managers are circulating divestment “misinformation” by exaggerating the costs involved in shedding their fossil fuel investments in documents prepared for state lawmakers. California lawmakers are currently considering Senate Bill 1173 (SB-1173), California’s Fossil Fuel Divestment Act, which would require the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers’ Retirement S
Tigo Energy Expands Financing Options for Residential Installers With GoodLeap
altenergymag
MAY 13, 2022
GoodLeap includes the Tigo Energy Intelligence (EI) residential solar solution on their point-of-sale digital platform for U.S. solar installers.
Government accused of seeking 'US-style' system of environmental regulation
Business Green
MAY 13, 2022
Long-awaited publication of government's environmental principles for policymaking triggers warnings from NGOs that green protections could now be watered down. Leading green groups have responded angrily to the publication of the government's new Environmental Principles Policy Statement , warning that it could lay the groundwork for a significant weakening of the UK's environmental policy and regulatory regime.
Kseng solar racking chosen for 10.27MW distributed solar plants in China
altenergymag
MAY 13, 2022
Recently, Kseng solar has announced an order from China Huaneng Group for 10.27MW of its roof-mounted solar racking solution.
Is California multifamily housing ready for the new economics of solar?
Solar Power World
MAY 13, 2022
By Austin Young, marketing director, Ivy Energy California utility regulators have a decision to make about the financing of solar projects, and so do multifamily housing property owners. Regulators are considering greatly reduced rates for utility customers who feed solar energy to the grid. A December 2021 proposed decision by the California Public Utilities Commission… The post Is California multifamily housing ready for the new economics of solar?
Renewables will break another global record in 2022 despite supply chain problems.
Energy Central
MAY 13, 2022
Despite soaring raw material prices, supply chain chaos, and construction delays - the world added a record 295 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable power capacity, according to the IEA’s latest Renewable Energy Market Update. Global capacity expected to rise an additional 25 GW this year to 320 GW - equivalent to meeting entire electricity demand annually for Germany or EU’s.
Round it goes: Wind turbine blades to get second life as part of recycling trial
Business Green
MAY 13, 2022
Wind farm developer Vattenfall has committed to reusing or recycling all its old blades by 2030. Difficult-to-recycle wind turbine blades are set to be turned into skis, insulation, and materials for solar farms, as part of a new trial by Swedish wind farm developer Vattenfall. Though 90 per cent of a turbine is already recyclable, blades are made from composite materials that make them difficult to recycle using conventional processes.
Farming liquid nitrogen as major energy commodity
Energy Central
MAY 13, 2022
§1. Prelude Now the farming season is coming in Canada, but I decide no longer farm my near 100 acres land for any crop, because fertilizer & diesel prices are upsoaring so crazy! However I will still farm a few of acres for my own family food supply. Since politician AOC blamed farmers' cattle/cow cause global warming by flatulence, I have emptied my livestock, though.
'British Nuclear Renaissance': Government announces £120m fund to help innovators enter sector
Business Green
MAY 13, 2022
The Future Nuclear Enabling Fund aims to support the government's ambition to approve eight new reactors by 2030. State-of-the-art technologies and innovative new business are to be encouraged into the UK nuclear power sector following the launch of a £120m government fund today. The government said the Future Nuclear Enabling Fund would provide targeted, competitively-allocated government grants which aim to help nuclear construction projects, including small modular reactors, to attract
Intersolar Europe 2022: Trina Solar to present global launches of smart solar PV products and solutions
altenergymag
MAY 13, 2022
Strong commitment to the region, aiming to provide Future-Proof Power for Europe
UK battery storage sector requires £20bn boost by 2030, analysts say
Business Green
MAY 13, 2022
Government should work to focus nearly a fifth of total energy technology investment on energy storage, Cornwall Insight modelling shows. Addressing stability and flexibility requirements in the energy market will require around £20bn of investment in increased battery storage capacity by 2030, according to new analysis. Modelling from market intelligence firm Cornwall Insight suggests that between 2025 and 2030 the government should look to ensure nearly a fifth - 18 per cent - of its tot
Project Union (Executive Summary)
Energy Central
MAY 13, 2022
As a nation, we’re currently heavily reliant on natural gas for industry and power generation, as well as for heat in our homes and businesses. While the UK builds renewable wind generation to lower our emissions and reach the national target of net zero by 2050, gas will continue to play an ongoing role, particularly to balance the intermittency of wind and to ‘keep the lights.
Keep on truckin': Government touts £200m fund to kick-start zero emission trucks rollout
Business Green
MAY 13, 2022
Government confirms plans to begin phasing out new fossil fuel trucks from 2035 before ending sales completely by 2040. Once seen as a major challenge, the decarbonisation of heavy trucks is now shifting up gear, with the government this week confirming plans to ensure all new heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) produce zero emissions by 2040, backed by £200m of funding to kick-start a wave of demonstration projects over the next three years.
Shell, ScottishPower Explore Floating Wind Skills Initiative in Scotland
Energy Central
MAY 13, 2022
ScottishPower and Shell have announced that they are exploring a new collaboration with the National Energy Skills Accelerator (NESA) to maximise economic and employment opportunities related to the development of floating offshore wind farms in Scottish
Siemens exits Russia as a result of Ukraine war
Smart Energy International
MAY 13, 2022
After 170 years of business in Russia, German giant Siemens will exit the market as a result of the war in Ukraine. After the start of the February 24 invasion, Siemens put all new business in and international deliveries to Russia and Belarus on hold. It has now started proceedings to completely wind down its operations and business activities in the country.
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