Fri.Mar 10, 2023

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Will 2025 plastic packaging commitments ring hollow?

GreenBiz

In 2025, there will be media and consumer outrage around all the failed commitments related to eliminating virgin plastic packaging and increasing the use of recycled material.

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Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering April 2023 sessions list out now

Charged

The first session topics for the Spring 2023 Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering is out now. Just like the content Charged brings you every day, conference topics will span the entire EV engineering supply chain and ecosystem, including motor and power electronics design and manufacturing, cell development, battery systems, testing, powertrains, thermal management, circuit protection, wire and cable, EMI/EMC and more.

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Episode 354: Dark anniversaries, risky business

GreenBiz

This week's episode features an interview with David Carlin, head of climate risk and TCFD for the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative.

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Eaton launches new Charging Network Manager software platform

Charged

Power management company Eaton has launched a new Charging Network Manager software platform to optimize EV charging network operations. Eaton worked with EV charging software provider ChargeLab to customize its Charging Network Manager and conducted deep integration with its EVCI portfolio. Eaton also recently made a strategic investment in ChargeLab.

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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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In the kitchen: Innovations in residential food waste

GreenBiz

A relatively new entrant among those selling home gadgets for food waste, Mill keeps food in the system by feeding animals.

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Hertz to offer 2,100 rental EVs in Houston, build public charging hub

Charged

Houston may be known as the capital of the US oil industry, but Mayor Sylvester Turner has a Climate Action Plan that sets out to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve regional air quality. Mayor Turner recently joined Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr to announce the launch of the Hertz Electrifies Houston initiative. The rental giant plans to expand its EV fleet, establish a public charging hub, and support EV education and training opportunities in Houston.

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Automakers are shifting battery plant plans from Europe to the US. Does the European Commission have a solution?

Charged

Events in the EV industry are moving so fast that, even with the best will in the world, we journalists can publish things that turn out to be out of date or just plain wrong—when we do, a correction and a mea culpa are in order. In my latest Charging Forward column, which appears in the current print issue of Charged , I wrote of “a pointless fight between the US and Europe over the Buy American provisions of the IRA/BIL,” and opined that “as the details of the new rules are worked out, they’ll

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The Week in Impact Investing: Gender+

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Through the looking glass. Sometimes a lens isn’t wide enough to take in the entire landscape. On this. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Gender+ appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Trax Shares Next-Level Emissions and Cost Optimization Strategy

altenergymag

Trax Named a Representative Vendor in Gartner 2023 Freight Audit and Payment Market Guide

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Hydrogen investments are everywhere. Which have what it takes to succeed?

EDF Voices

Hydrogen hubs in the U.S. could help transform clean industrial development for the better — but only if they're done right.

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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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The Batteries You Are Familiar With Are Not The Ones Some Energy Providers Are Building

Energy Central

What is a kinetic battery? It is a technology that puts water, air, and masses of material in motion to make turbines turn and generators produce electricity. In this article, we look at four different kinetic battery technologies.

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Spring Budget: Chancellor to press button on clean energy reset with £20bn carbon capture pledge

Business Green

Next week's Budget will feature a wide-ranging new clean energy package designed to mobilise £20bn of investment in the UK, Treasury confirms The Chancellor will next week promise to "reset" the UK's decarbonisation and energy security plans through an "unprecedented" £20bn investment in carbon capture and clean energy infrastructure. The Treasury confirmed this evening that next week's Spring Budget will see the government respond to increasingly urgent calls from businesses and campaigne

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Biofuels, a Local Perspective

Energy Central

It was probably my limited view, that when I started studying biofuels, I was only concerned about the transformation of one form of substance into another, it was not about the environment or the climate then. Biodiesel was my first exposure to biofuels. My goal then was the synthesis of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) from some seed oil. FAME is biodiesel.

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Study: Cumbrian coal mine could threaten UK methane emissions targets

Business Green

Concerns over the climate impact of the controversial coking coal mine planned for Cumbria ratcheted up further today, with new research suggesting the project's lifetime emissions could be far higher than estimated by developer West Cumbria Mining. Lifetime emissions from the proposed mine - which was given the green light by the government late last year, but now faces a flurry of legal challenges - are likely to be up to 15 times greater than the firm has estimated, and potentially up to 41 t

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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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The KJ Show Episode 34 - Natural Gas Options

Energy Central

Every week, I host 'The KJ Show,' which offers a mix of breaking news and practical advice on how the energy industry affects the consumer. During this fast-paced show, I combine weekly energy updates with conversations with leaders in the energy efficiency community. After each show, I'll share it here with the Energy Central Community in case you were.

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Adobe flips the switch on all-electric building

Business Green

The latest addition to Adobe's headquarters site in San Jose, California, boasts the largest all-electric commercial kitchen in North America Almost four years after the groundbreaking, Adobe has officially opened its 18-story, all-electric new headquarters building in San Jose, California - a much-heralded project that broke ground in 2019 but morphed over time as the company adapted to new workplace realities introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News round-up, March 10, 2023 by GERMÁN & CO

Energy Central

Quote of the day… "The amount of renewables that we're going to have to build over the next decade is enormous, and I don't think everybody has really digested the scope of that," said Andres Gluski, CEO of energy and utility giant AES Corp. REUTERS (CERAWEEK) Most read… Europe's lenders sucked into global banks rout.

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Hydrogen Investments Are Everywhere. Which Have What It Takes To Succeed?

EDF + Business

Global energy companies are gathered in Houston for the major energy conference CERAWeek, and there’s lots of buzz around hydrogen. Investments in this potentially climate-friendly technology are surging worldwide, and the U.S. Department of Energy will soon consider which clean energy projects among dozens of applicants should be seeded with billions in federal spending.

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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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Eagle Ford – update through November 2022 | November oil production in the Eagle Ford did not increase y-o-y.

Energy Central

This article contains still images from the interactive dashboards available in the original blog post. To follow the instructions in this article, please use the interactive dashboards. Furthermore, they allow you to uncover other insights as well. Visit the blog to explore the full interactive dashboard This interactive presentation contains the latest oil & gas production data.

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Scaling purpose built impact with Priya Parrish

Impact Alpha

Impact Engine’s Priya Parrish joins David Bank to explain why purpose built investment firms end up with better impact outcomes than purpose driven. The post Scaling purpose built impact with Priya Parrish appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Namibia to sign N$186bn green hydrogen project agreement

Energy Central

Namibia | Namibia to sign N$186bn green hydrogen project agreement in Q2 Namibia is set to commence feasibility studies for its N$186 billion ($10 billion) green hydrogen project in Q2 2023 after the implementation agreement is signed. Speaking at the ongoing Africa Energy Indaba 2023 summit, Frans Kalenga, BEng (Rus), Msc (UK), MBA, Senior Manager of Sustainable.

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The Week’s Impact Jobs: March 10, 2023

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 10 — New impact jobs are showing up on the global radar, from impact managers in Colombia and impact analysts in Australia. The post The Week’s Impact Jobs: March 10, 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Hydrogen Offtake Assessment

Energy Central

RECOMMENDED NEXT STEPS Engage with potential pilot project stakeholders to determine interest in a partnership to develop pilot projects. Gather data from interested parties to assess the scale of demand they would require from a pilot. Scope pilot projects to further detail, including electrolyser sizing in MW, electrolyser technology, delivery mechanism and frequency (tube.

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ImpactAlpha Deal Spotlight: Representation matters

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 10 — At your Oscar party this weekend, keep an eye, and ear, out for Rihanna. The Agent of Impact received. The post ImpactAlpha Deal Spotlight: Representation matters appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Hydrogen – the essentials. Everything you need to know in 90 minutes!

Energy Central

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Laura Ortiz Montemayor, SVX Mexico and Regenera Ventures: Stewarding capital for Mexico’s regenerative economy

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 10 – Laura Ortiz Montemayor is not on board with decarbonization or its advocates. “Carbon is key to life. It’s a. The post Laura Ortiz Montemayor, SVX Mexico and Regenera Ventures: Stewarding capital for Mexico’s regenerative economy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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August Berres

Green Technology

August Berres is selling the world’s first battery-powered office systems furniture product, Respond! Battery power reduces stress on electrical grids, allows for purchasing off-peak power, and reduces peak demand. It also provides resilience when power from the grid is interrupted. Typically there are no infrastructure costs to consider when Respond!

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Reports: UK seeking to define nuclear power as 'green' investment

Business Green

Move comes alongside reports EDF is looking to extend operation of two UK nuclear power plants until 2026 in response to energy security concerns The government is poised to tweak its definition of 'green' investment in order to include nuclear power, as part of its drive to attract more private investment to bolster Britain's low carbon energy security, according to reports.

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Hydrogen Economy report (06.03-10.03.2023)

Energy Central

Interesting news you can find in the space of clean hydrogen and clean ammonia (blue ammonia and/or clean ammonia).

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Renewables provided over half Northern Ireland's electricity in 2022, data shows

Business Green

Official data shows 51 per cent of Northern Ireland's power consumption came from renewables last year, but RenewableNI warns investment in clean power is stalling More than half the electricity used in Northern Ireland last year came from renewables, marking the highest level for a calendar year since records began 10 years ago, official data released yesterday shows.

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Sustainability and accessibility are the future of hospitality: Sudima Hotel’s Kanika Jhunjhnuwala

Eco-Business

The Eco-Business A-List winner and executive director for sustainability and environment of the only CarboNZero certified hotel chain in New Zealand is determined to make the hospitality industry less wasteful and more inclusive.

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Cornish geothermal, food waste, and a UN sea life treaty: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week

Business Green

From the Climate Change Committee's latest report to a new UN High Seas Treaty, BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories this week Plans for Cornwall geothermal plant heat up thanks to £15m funding boost Geothermal Engineering claims United Downs heat and power project is on track to begin generating energy next year following latest investor backing. - by Michael Holder ( @michaelholder ) British Gas launches new net zero home services division Energy giant to offer new range

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Seeding the Future

Defend Our Future

Young people made climate history by raising their voices to advocate for the passage and signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This law includes the most significant climate and clean energy investments ever – investments that will put us well on our way to achieving our goal of a 100% clean economy and protecting our planet for future generations.

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