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Moss Landing, the world’s biggest grid battery, just caught fire again

Canary Media

Power company Vistras flagship grid battery project, housed in and around a historic power plant dating back to 1950, erupted into flames Thursday night and prompted nearby residents to evacuate from Moss Landing, California.

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How Pooler Could Lead Georgia in Hydrogen Fueling with New Station Proposal

Hydrogen Fuel News

Poolers Plans for a Hydrogen Fueling and Electric Vehicle Fueling Facility The city of Pooler, Georgia, could become a key player in the adoption of clean transportation solutions. A proposal to establish an innovative fueling station offering hydrogen and electric vehicle (EV) services is awaiting approval from the city council. The facility, if approved, will include on-site hydrogen production and 150-kilowatt EV charging stations.

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Without enough utility power, California EV truck depots try microgrids

Canary Media

Electric truck-charging sites across California face a choice: Wait years to get the grid power they need, or build their own solar, battery, or fossil-gas-powered microgrids. Over the past few years, many of the states biggest truck-charging depots have chosen the build-your-own-power option.

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NanoGraf’s Onyx EV-ready silicon anode boasts cost parity with synthetic graphite

Charged

US-based silicon oxide anode material producer NanoGraf has announced the release of Onyx, an EV-ready silicon anode material that delivers dramatically improved lithium-ion battery performance at cost parity with synthetic graphite anodes. Designed to deliver peak performance at a lower price point than other available silicon anode options, Onyx is drop-in ready today, and is also suitable for other applications, including military, medical devices, consumer electronics, drones and more, says

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Chart: EV sales grew slowly in 2024 — but still set new records

Canary Media

Electric vehicle sales set a new record in the U.S. last year, but the pace of growth was sluggish compared to previous years. In 2024, 1.3 million new EVs were sold in the country, over 7 percent more than were sold the previous year, per new data from Kelley Blue Book.

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At Rivian’s Electrical Hardware Lab, Sandy Munro checks out the new GEN2 architecture

Charged

Munro & Associates is known for its teardowns of the latest and greatest vehicles, and CEO Sandy Munro is known for explaining technical engineering topics in an engaging, accessible style. In a new video on the Munro Live YouTube channel , Sandy pays a visit to Rivians Electrical Hardware Lab in California, and speaks with Vidya Rajagopalan, the companys Senior VP of Electrical Hardware.

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Eaton demonstrates vehicle-to-home charging capabilities at CES

Charged

Intelligent power management company Eaton demonstrated its AbleEdge home energy management system at the recent CES trade show. The company is also demonstrating its V2H capabilities at its Pittsburgh Experience Center. AbleEdge provides the foundational technology required to leverage any onsite distributed energy resource (DER) to power homes. Eaton is working with auto OEMs, energy storage and solar providers to create interoperable and cost-effective approaches ready to support vehicle-to-h

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Qcells issues patent infringement notices over solar cell manufacturing technology

PV Tech

According to Qcells, the recipient companies are allegedly producing and selling products using laser enhanced contact optimization technology, for which it holds the patent.

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Amazon bought more renewable power last year than any other company

TechCrunch: Climate

Amazon added around 100 new renewable projects last year. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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DOE launches roadmap to improve US grid connections to 2030

PV Tech

Improving access to data and shortening interconnection processes are key priorities for the US grid, says the Department of Energy (DOE).

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Year in Review: Powin CTO on project execution, supply chain and regulatory challenges

Energy Storage News

System integrator Powin contributes to the latest of our Year in Review series, after a year in which it expanded into Europe and launched a new BESS product.

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The Week’s Jobs: January 17, 2025

Impact Alpha

Impact jobs that came across our desk this week: Norrsken VC is recruiting an investment analyst in Stockholm Macquarie Group has an opening. The post The Weeks Jobs: January 17, 2025 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Met Office: Record global CO2 rise leaves 1.5C goal hanging by a thread

Business Green

Study shows increase in CO2 levels in the atmosphere far exceeded expectations last year, fuelling fears chances of limiting global warming to 1.

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The Week in Impact Investing: Love as courage

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Well be taking a Brief break to honor the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a holiday. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Love as courage appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Sunshine Bill: Lib Dems claim rooftop solar law could protect homes against soaring energy costs

Business Green

Due for its second reading in Parliament today, the Homes (Solar Generation) Bill would require new homes to be built with solar panels as standard

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GE Vernova Validates 100% Hydrogen-Fueled DLN Combustor Technology

POWER Magazine

GE Vernova said it has completed a validation test series for its advanced Dry Low NOx (DLN) hydrogen combustion technology, designed for the company’s B- and E-class gas turbines. The […] The post GE Vernova Validates 100% Hydrogen-Fueled DLN Combustor Technology appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Mayor Karen Bass: Los Angeles Needs to Adapt to Our Climate-Altered Future

NRDC onEarth

How Los Angeles wants to rebuild must account for what living in the city will be like in our climate-altered, extreme weather future.

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Octopus overtakes British Gas as Britain’s largest residential energy supplier

Financial Times: Energy

Energy company has 12.

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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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Big fire at California battery plant prompts evacuations amid toxic smoke

The Guardian: Energy

Blaze erupts at one of worlds largest battery storage plants in Monterey county, leading to highway and school closures A large fire burning on Friday at one of the worlds largest battery storage plants in northern California is sending up flames of toxic smoke, leading to the evacuation of 1,700 people and the closure of a major highway. The blaze in Moss Landing started on Thursday.

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What next for Glencore after failed Rio Tinto merger talks?

Financial Times: Energy

Early discussions between the miners went nowhere but mega M&A deals are back in vogue

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Flooding Can Put Unsuspecting Home Buyers Financially Underwater

NRDC onEarth

A new study found that a homebuyer can incur tens of thousands of dollars in flood damage costs over the course of their mortgage, if they purchase a previously flooded home.

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Charging infrastructure of medium voltage station upgraded to megawatt class

TechXplore

In the future, charging stations along freeways, in parking lots or at logistics centers will have to deliver much more power in a short space of time than they do today. For this reason, new charging stations can no longer simply be connected to the low voltage power grid.

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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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ROUNDUP: Amazon invests in second life, Nuclear-BESS for data centres, ESS Inc’s new flow battery

Energy Storage News

This edition of news in brief focuses on second life battery storage, a nuclear reactor-BESS partnership for data centres and flow batteries.

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Cifra récord de empresarios en la Cumbre de Biodiversidad de la ONU 

DeSmogBlog

De acuerdo con DeSmog, los representantes de grupos industriales y empresariales han duplicado su presencia en la ltima cumbre de la ONU sobre biodiversidad. Este hecho parece abonar a la sospecha de que estn teniendo cada vez ms influencia en las conferencias de la ONU. A pesar de haber alcanzado algunos avances significativos , las conferencias de la COP16 de este ao, que se celebraron en Cali (Colombia) cuyo objetivo era revertir el drstico declive mundial de la vida vegetal y animal concluye

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USDA awards US$231 million to New Mexico utility for clean energy, 16-hour energy storage

Energy Storage News

New Mexico, US utility Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC) has received US$231 million from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build hydrogen and solar facilities with long-duration energy storage (LDES).

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GeoTHERM 2025 invites the public to learn about geothermal in special citizens’ event

ThinkGeoEnergy

The upcoming GeoTHERM expo & congress taking place in Offenburg, Germany on 20-21 February 2025 will hold a special citizens’ event where interested members of the public will be able to engage with geothermal researchers and experts on topics such as the diverse areas of application of geothermal energy, the technical implementation of near-surface and deep geothermal energy, or the potential of geothermal in today’s energy mix.

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The KJ Show #115: Climate Justice-A Bold New World

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 unable to join me live.

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ARPA-E announces $30M funding opportunity for superhot geothermal in the US

ThinkGeoEnergy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced a USD 30 million funding opportunity for research and development of technologies that enable the production of geothermal energy from superhot reservoirs (>375 C and >22 MPa) for 15 years or more. Concept papers for this funding opportunity need to be submitted by 19 February 2025.

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Solar corporate funding drops to US$26.3 billion in 2024

PV Tech

Global solar corporate financing has decreased 24% in 2024, compared to the previous year, with US$26.3 billion, according to market research firm Mercom Capital Group.

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2024 Retrospective – ThinkGeoEnergy’s Top 10 most-read geothermal news stories

ThinkGeoEnergy

As part of our annual tradition, we have collated our website traffic numbers to come up with a list of the Top 10 most-read geothermal news stories that we have published for the past year. This ranking covers our website traffic from all sources for the whole 2024 calendar year. This year’s list is wonderfully diverse, both in terms of geography and how it shows off the different facets of geothermal energy utilization.

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Opportunities for storage and flexibility in Eastern Europe’s grids

PV Tech

A lack of grid infrastructure is a key challenge in Eastern Europe, and was discussed at Large Scale Solar Central Eastern Europe 2024.

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MCS: 2024 delivered 'record-breaking' uptake of rooftop solar panels and heat pumps

Business Green

UK clean tech certification scheme reveals 2024 was a record year for small-scale renewables installations

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