Renewable materials offer opportunity to meet UN goals
GreenBiz
AUGUST 17, 2022
Sponsored: Businesses looking to align with the United Nations’ SDGs 12 and 15 can leverage renewable materials to make an impact.
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Start-up providing sustainable Omega-3 secures £2.3m funding
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 17, 2022
Edinburgh-based biotechnology start-up MiAlgae has secured further investment of £2.3m to help drive the next stage of its growth journey. Established in 2016, the firm says it has created a solution to producing a sustainable source of Omega-3 for animal and human consumption – something which is currently produced by extracting the oil from billions of wild caught fish.
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Who leads, who lags on sustainable finance policy
GreenBiz
AUGUST 17, 2022
Aviva sets the gold standard for engagement on global sustainable finance policy.
Next UK prime minister must ban microplastics, says drainage group
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 17, 2022
The UK’s next prime minister should ban manufacturers from intentionally adding microplastics to consumer or professional use products, according to a new environmental campaign from the drainage experts at Lanes Group plc. The new advocacy campaign, named Microplastics Out of Our Drains (MOOD) , is calling for industry and government to come together to take decisive action to tackle the serious threat that microplastics pose to our drains, oceans, environment and overall health.
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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GreenBiz
AUGUST 17, 2022
Female-identifying founders, scientists, and entrepreneurs are my focus, now and always.
Groundwater monitoring underpins management of the Great Fen
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 17, 2022
The Great Fen stretches between Peterborough and Huntngdon, and contains many farms and villages, as well as two national nature reserves. Securing a sustainable future for the Great Fen depends, in many respects, upon restoration derived from managing water levels. Wendy Strain from OTT HydroMet explains how a monitoring programme is helping to achieve the ambitious goals that have been set for this nationally significant fen landscape.
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Introducing SolarEdge Home in North America: A Complete DC-Optimized Smart Energy Ecosystem
altenergymag
AUGUST 17, 2022
New solution puts homeowners in control of their energy and creates new business opportunities for solar installers, including home battery backup and EV charging
“Mono Muncher” sends biogas yields up in Spain, says firm
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 17, 2022
The Mono Muncher protects pumps from blocking by fine-grinding AD feedstocks such as municipal sludge and food waste. The installation of a Fluid Motion Solutions’ (part of NOV Inc) Mono Muncher at a biogas plant in Spain is said to have helped increase gas yields by eight percent. “Designed for the homogenization of sludge in digestion, feeding and recirculation, the inline Mono Muncher’s tearing, shearing and crushing action has removed a bottleneck in the system that was causing blockag
Blue Bird and Lightning eMotors to offer electric retrofits for gas and propane school buses
Charged
AUGUST 17, 2022
School bus icon Blue Bird plans to offer a factory-certified electric repower program for some of its gasoline- and propane-powered school buses. The company is working with Colorado-based powertrain manufacturer Lightning eMotors to jointly develop this retrofit powertrain system. Blue Bird will launch the repower program in 2023 for gasoline- and propane-powered Blue Bird Vision Type C school buses built after September 2021.
Water sector knowledge transfer service goes live
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 17, 2022
A knowledge-sharing and project showcase platform that will support the UK water sector with its innovation ambitions has launched. The Knowledge Transfer Service, from water innovation accelerator Spring, offers a central bank of information and case studies about projects and trials, as well as a programme of live showcase events to explore lessons learnt.
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.
The advantages and limitations of wire bonding in EV applications
Charged
AUGUST 17, 2022
Sponsored by Kulicke & Soffa. By: Peter Klaerner, senior manager for Wedge Bond Systems Engineering, Kulicke & Soffa. Wire and ribbon bonding have traditionally been the methods of choice for creating reliable interconnects in the electronics industry. The progress in electric vehicle production has created the need for better, more reliable interconnects that can be scaled to high-volume manufacturing.
Government to consider further relief for energy intensive industries
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 17, 2022
High electricity using businesses like steel and paper mills could see further relief under new proposals to help subsidise their electricity costs. The UK Government is consulting on the option to increase the level of exemption for certain environmental and policy costs from 85% of costs up to 100%. This reflects higher UK industrial electricity prices than those of other countries including in Europe, which could hamper investment, competition and commercial viability for hundreds of business
MAHLE and Siemens cooperate to develop wireless charging
Charged
AUGUST 17, 2022
Technology group MAHLE and electronics giant Siemens have signed a declaration of intent to collaborate on wireless charging systems for EVs. The companies will jointly develop and test infrastructure and automotive engineering systems, and one of the areas of focus will be promoting standards for inductive charging technology. MAHLE has reinforced its wireless charging expertise in recent years—it has participated in two projects funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Cl
Toyota Research Institute and Northwestern Join Forces to Accelerate the Discovery of Materials that Will Drive the Clean Energy Transition
altenergymag
AUGUST 17, 2022
Teams Develop New AI-driven Method to Discover, Design and Develop Next Generation Materials to Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
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.
Autocar begins field-testing electric cabover refuse trucks
Charged
AUGUST 17, 2022
Autocar, a manufacturer of specialized severe-duty vocational trucks, has built two alpha refuse trucks featuring an all-electric powertrain. The company is now putting two E-ACX electric cabover refuse trucks through a validation testing process to ensure that they’re just as tough as the company’s existing diesel and CNG trucks. The two E-ACX-64 alpha units are equipped with automated side loaders from Autocar body partners Heil and New Way.
Guest column: The IRA offers an opportunity to rethink solar module manufacturing in America
Solar Power World
AUGUST 17, 2022
By Patrick Regan, president, Crossroads Solar The climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act open up a window on what could be. Inside that window is a model for rethinking and revolutionizing the way we manufacture solar modules in America. Crossroads Solar has demonstrated that you can build a solar module production facility from the… The post Guest column: The IRA offers an opportunity to rethink solar module manufacturing in America appeared first on Solar Power World.
Voltera launches turnkey infrastructure solution for automakers and fleets
Charged
AUGUST 17, 2022
A new company with a star team and plenty of backing from equity firms has joined the rapidly-growing fleet infrastructure space. Newly-launched Voltera provides EV charging facilities as a service—its turnkey solution includes site identification and acquisition, power procurement, facility design and construction, charging hardware deployment, operations and maintenance.
Electric Vehicle Technology Fundamental
altenergymag
AUGUST 17, 2022
The growth of self-driving electric vehicle technology is likely to bring growth opportunities for the market in the forthcoming time period.
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?
Tesla boosts size and rating of Megapack battery module by 50 per cent
Renew Economy
AUGUST 17, 2022
EV and battery storage giant increases size of Megapack battery modules by around 50%, indicates a long-awaited switch to lithium iron phosphate. The post Tesla boosts size and rating of Megapack battery module by 50 per cent appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Children Living Close to Fracking Sites Have Two to Three Times Higher Risk of Leukemia
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 17, 2022
Children living close to fracking sites in Pennsylvania are two to three times more likely to be diagnosed with leukemia, and contamination of drinking water is suspected as an avenue of exposure, according to a new study. “Unconventional oil and gas development can both use and release chemicals that have been linked to cancer, so the potential for children living near UOG to be exposed to these chemical carcinogens is a major public health concern,” the study’s senior author, Nicole Deziel, as
Gas windfall offsets coal failures as Origin plots path to battery and renewables future
Renew Economy
AUGUST 17, 2022
Origin says it is positioning itself for a rapid transition and a 1.5°C target, but is yet to press the green button on key battery and renewable projects. The post Gas windfall offsets coal failures as Origin plots path to battery and renewables future appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Greentown Sector Pitch Day Highlights Solutions for Agricultural Decarbonization and Resilience
Greentown Labs
AUGUST 17, 2022
The food and agriculture industry, responsible for 19 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is ripe for climatetech innovations that reduce waste and emissions and restore healthy ecosystems. Agricultural practices routinely involve large-scale monocrop operations that negatively impact soil health and utilize unsustainable chemical practices, producing harmful waste streams.
Regulator approves spend on stage one of massive HumeLink project
Renew Economy
AUGUST 17, 2022
AER approves costs for first stage of HumeLink, Transgrid’s multi-billion dollar transmission upgrade proposed to connect Snowy Hydro 2.0 to the grid. The post Regulator approves spend on stage one of massive HumeLink project appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Invenergy and Airstreams Renewables Announce First-Of-Its-Kind Partnership to Advance Training for Military Veterans in Energy Industry
altenergymag
AUGUST 17, 2022
Partnership will enhance training participation and career placement pipeline for military veterans and military spouses seeking renewable energy operations and maintenance careers
Frontier Energy says solar can deliver low cost green hydrogen at WA project
Renew Economy
AUGUST 17, 2022
Frontier Energy says it can potentially produce green hydrogen at a cost well below industry estimates due to its proximity to existing infrastructure. The post Frontier Energy says solar can deliver low cost green hydrogen at WA project appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Cheap Garage Metal Cabinets To Avoid
U.S. Green Technology
AUGUST 17, 2022
Garage metal cabinets may increase your storage versatility, providing you with additional alternatives for where to store items. Metal cabinets are designed to withstand large loads and the most difficult DIY undertakings. There is a wide range of storage cabinets available to match your unique requirements. When combined with overhead and closet cabinets, toolboxes, and.
Woodside gets $10 million grant from state government for hydrogen refuelling station
Renew Economy
AUGUST 17, 2022
Woodside gets $10 million government grant for hydrogen production, storage and refuelling station next to its big Perth hydrogen export project. The post Woodside gets $10 million grant from state government for hydrogen refuelling station appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Innovations Reshaping Respiratory Protective Equipment Dynamics
U.S. Green Technology
AUGUST 17, 2022
Respiratory security has acquired critical titles throughout recent years, generally because of the invasion of the COVID-19 pandemic. Noticeably, expendable covers became trendier during the pandemic, provoking organizations to increase their creation limit. The pervasiveness of irresistible and destructive infections, like the Ebola infection and COVID-19, has prodded the utilization of Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE).
Ratch buys Lincoln Gap wind and battery and other assets from Denham Capital
Renew Economy
AUGUST 17, 2022
Ratch to buy Australian and south-east Asia renewable assets of Nexif, including the Lincoln Gap wind farm and battery. The post Ratch buys Lincoln Gap wind and battery and other assets from Denham Capital appeared first on RenewEconomy.
How Medical Laboratory Management Software Helps Clinical Labs?
U.S. Green Technology
AUGUST 17, 2022
The benefits of using quality medical laboratory management software are numerous, including reducing paperwork, storing big data, automating sample handling, and minimizing human errors. Here are five of the most common reasons medical laboratories should consider implementing this software. Read on to learn more. This software also helps clinical laboratories to manage the vast amount.
M&S partners with AgriSound in bid to boost pollinators and crop yields across farms
Business Green
AUGUST 17, 2022
The in-field sensor trial aims to support farmers with pollinator management to maintain quality of produce and improve crop yields. Marks & Spencer has teamed up agri-tech start-up AgriSound on a three-year collaboration aimed at helping farmers increase their yields by using acoustic and environmental sensor technology to track the number of pollinators in their crops.
Solar Insiders Podcast: Spring clean on the grid
Renew Economy
AUGUST 17, 2022
Early spring brings solar surge and coal crackles as landmark changes made to policy. The post Solar Insiders Podcast: Spring clean on the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Pandora unveils lab-grown diamonds range made using renewable energy
Business Green
AUGUST 17, 2022
The jeweller announces that its lab grown diamonds are all made using 100 per cent renewables. Global jewellery brand Pandora has hit a new sustainability milestone by announcing that its lab grown diamonds are now produced using 100 per cent renewable energy, with a carbon footprint which it estimates to be less than five per cent of an average mined diamond.
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