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Forum to Focus on Cyber Security Advances for North America Utilities

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Two-day Forum in San Diego to focus on real-world guidance for electric utilities in dealing with cyber security threats to critical SCADA and IT/OT networks. Particular emphasis is on key emerging technologies and strategies in response to ever-growing and evolving advanced persistent threat activities.

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Origin teams with Orica to propose Hunter green hydrogen hub

Renew Economy

Origin Energy And Orica sign MoU to assess feasibility of producing green hydrogen from recycled water sources and renewable electricity in NSW coal country. The post Origin teams with Orica to propose Hunter green hydrogen hub appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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E.ON reaches 100,000 smart meter milestone in Germany

Smart Energy International

E.ON reports Germany’s smart meter rollout is still sluggish and the country is lagging others in Europe such as Sweden and the UK. E.ON claims to be the first company to reach the 100,000 smart meter milestone, which occurred in the municipality of Thalmassing in the network area of E.ON subsidiary Bayernwerk. However, the number compares with the one million smart meters E.ON installed in Sweden in the first rollout wave between 2004 and 2009.

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Australian research breakthrough promises “greener, cheaper, faster” batteries

Renew Economy

Monash Uni team says breakthrough in lithium-sulfur battery technology could yield cheaper, greener and more efficient energy storage, made in Australia. The post Australian research breakthrough promises “greener, cheaper, faster” batteries 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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Pressure mounts on Church of England to ditch holdings in ExxonMobil

Business Green

Almost 140 clergy, bishops and other leading Church figures call for divestment in US oil and gas giant over climate concerns. The Church of England is facing growing pressure to ditch its holdings in ExxonMobil, with the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams among scores of figures, including six bishops and 130 clergy, demanding immediate divestment from the US oil and gas giant.

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Eraring effect on future prices is a damning indictment of transmission planning

Renew Economy

A huge wedge between electricity futures in the northern and southern NEM states suggests the market continues to see transmission constraints stuffing up prices. The post Eraring effect on future prices is a damning indictment of transmission planning appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Origin strikes out at News Corp misinformation and “woke cowboy capitalist” slur

Renew Economy

Origin takes unusual step of slapping down Murdoch media claims it refused to sell Eraring in an article slamming "woke cowboy capitalists.". The post Origin strikes out at News Corp misinformation and “woke cowboy capitalist” slur appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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End of Summer Soiree – A Volunteer Appreciation Event • 9/15/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

September 15, 2022. 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST. Register. The WCS End of Summer Soiree is a virtual social event to celebrate our volunteers and recognize their achievements and the positive impact they have made on the organization. Virtual event. Free for everyone! Refer to the membership options here. B ecome a member here. Become a WCS Volunteer! Learn more here.

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Rebranded Redflow boosts revenue, gears up for ZBM3 battery launch

Renew Economy

Redflow closes out first half of 2022 financial year with strong growth in revenue and the completion of its biggest installation of zinc bromide batteries, yet. The post Rebranded Redflow boosts revenue, gears up for ZBM3 battery launch appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Demand side flexibility in Europe – some progress but more required

Smart Energy International

We are not yet where we need to be to fully exploit the benefits of demand side flexibility, smartEn reports in its 2021 Market Monitor. The new annual update reviews 30 European markets to find that participation of demand side flexibility is developing in the region but significant progress is still required. Moreover, participation is dominated by industrial and commercial loads with residential and local flexibility still nascent.

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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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Save the Date: Volunteer Appreciation Event • 9/15/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

The post Save the Date: Volunteer Appreciation Event • 9/15/22 appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability.

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'Most devastating assessment so far': IPCC climate impacts report to set out vision of a dangerously heated world

Business Green

First IPCC report on climate impacts in eight years to detail huge scale of existing and future climate threats is set to be published later today, after tense negotiations came to a close on Sunday. The impacts of climate change on humans and nature are worse than previously anticipated, and the window of opportunity to deal with the crisis is narrowing fast, with some of the effects of global warming now irreversible.

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Save the Date: Executive Leadership Workshop • 8/24/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

The post Save the Date: Executive Leadership Workshop • 8/24/22 appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability.

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National Highways vows to make controversial Lower Thames Crossing UK's 'greenest road'

Business Green

Roads agency sets out raft of sustainability plans for project expected to double road capacity across the Thames east of London. National Highways has announced it plans to make the controversial Lower Thames Crossing the "greenest road ever built in the UK" by tapping a range of pioneering sustainability measures, including through the use of low carbon construction materials, clean energy, sustainable waste management practices, and carbon offsets.

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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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Avangrid Renewables, LLC - Avangrid Renewables Statement on Federal New York Bight Offshore Wind Auction

Global Renewable News

Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of AVANGRID,

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Study: Two-fifths of London businesses are at risk of flash flooding

Business Green

Analysis warns extreme weather poses major threat to UK’s economic centre. Flash floods prompted by climate change threaten more than two-fifths of businesses in London, fresh research from insurance firm Zurich UK has warned. The analysis, published just days after storms Dudley, Eunice, and Franklin swept across the UK and left 1.4 million homes without power, shows that 42 per cent of London's 301,000 commercial buildings are at risk of being hit by surface water flooding.

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Renewables Exceed EIA's Forecast; Provide 21% of U.S. Electricity in 2021 as Solar and Wind Grow by 25.2% and 12.4% Respectively

Global Renewable News

Driven by strong solar and wind power growth,

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Bridging the gap between big tech’s net zero aspirations and reality

Eco-Business

Despite being on the forefront of innovation, many technology firms are still figuring out how to slash their carbon footprint. How can tech firms implement green strategies throughout their business?

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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 - Solar Energy Technologies Office Releases Solar Photovoltaics Supply Chain Review Report

Global Renewable News

On February 24, the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Measuring the real cost of sand mining in the Mekong

Eco-Business

Sand mining in the Mekong is happening far more than officially reported — meaning the damage is far worse. More sustainable options are available.

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World Green Building Council - WorldGBC launches Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards with first APN Festival

Global Renewable News

Since 2014, the World Green Building Council.

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'Useless for us': New Indonesian capital excludes indigenous, poor

Eco-Business

New capital city will uproot thousands of indigenous people, and offers little incentive for poorer residents in Jakarta to move.

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UK Government, South Tyneside Council - Groundbreaking Carbon-Cutting System to Draw Geothermal Heat from Abandoned Flooded Coal MinesCarbon-Cutting Scheme to Enter Next Phase

Global Renewable News

A groundbreaking carbon-cutting system that.

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24 hours with. wildlife trade researcher Daniel Bergin

Eco-Business

Bergin's job is trying to understand how to stop people consuming wildlife. Here's how he spends a typical day.

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Australian Renewable Energy Agency - Future Fuels funding round open for fleets

Global Renewable News

On behalf of the Australian Government, the.

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Of parachutes and helicopters: reconstructing the decolonisation agenda in environmental research

Eco-Business

There is an intrinsic North-South divide in environmental research, which is also felt in Southeast Asia. There needs to be a mindset change to roll back some of these inequalities.

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Consumer Energy Alliance - Record $4.37 Billion Offshore Wind Lease Sale a Landmark for America's Energy Future

Global Renewable News

Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), the leading.

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'The next decade will determine our future': A business guide to IPCC's atlas of climate impacts and resilience

Business Green

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. The IPCC - a group of thousands of the world's leading climate scientists convened by the UN - has released yet another blockbuster dossier on the state of the planet's climate. The terrifying information and dire warnings it contains are a lot to take in, but crucially the report also sets out potential political, financial, and practical solutions for enabling climate resilient d

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Ontario - Province Supports Clean, Renewable and Affordable Energy

Global Renewable News

As part of ongoing efforts to modernize the.

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Green businesses must ensure the right to protest is protected in the UK

Business Green

Ecosia is one of over 250 UK businesses urging the government to scrap noise-based protest restrictions in its Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, writes Ecosia's Sophie Dembinski. MPs are preparing to debate the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on Monday. This ruthless attempt to curb protests and undermine civil liberties must be stopped.

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California Public Utilities Commission - CPUC Sets Biomethane Targets for Utilities

Global Renewable News

The California Public Utilities Commission.

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Time To Stand Up For The People Of Ukraine: Locking Future Generations Into Fossil Fuels Won’t Help

CleanTechnica

WASHINGTON — In recent days, the oil and gas industry and its apologists have sought to exploit the Russian invasion of Ukraine by pushing for policies that would lock future generations into decades of more dependence on fossil fuels. Following is a statement from Manish Bapna, president and CEO of NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council): […].

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Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks - Electricity networks collaborate to support decarbonisation of Scottish transport

Global Renewable News

Fleet operators will be supported in their.