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Fossil fuel industry loses its grip over Australia’s climate and energy policies

Renew Economy

Change of government will see a clean-out of fossil fuel industry lobbyists that held sway in the corridors of power for nearly a decade. The post Fossil fuel industry loses its grip over Australia’s climate and energy policies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Startup UtilityAPI raises $10M in Series A round

Smart Energy International

UtilityAPI announced the close of Series A funding with a $10 million investment, led by Aligned Climate Capital. The company said the funds will help it expand its platform and meet market demand for utility-level data sharing platforms. In 2014, Daniel Roesler founded the company to fight climate change by offering what it said is a simple, fast, automated solution for sharing utility customer bills and interval data, shared only with explicit customer consent, and revocable at any time.

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Cannon-Brookes says election shows AGL coal plans untenable, as Forrest lays into Coalition

Renew Economy

Billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andre Forrest seize on climate driven poll results to push case for rapid green energy transition. The post Cannon-Brookes says election shows AGL coal plans untenable, as Forrest lays into Coalition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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'Significant savings': Government unveils £553m public building energy efficiency plan

Business Green

Hospitals, schools, libraries, museums, and leisure centres awarded fresh funding to support efficiency upgrades and clean tech installations. The government may have left businesses and campaigners frustrated with its failure to deliver new policies to boost domestic energy efficiency, but the public sector could soon unlock significant energy bill savings thanks to a major new wave of upgrade projects for public buildings.

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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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Offshore wind farm balancing German power grid in green energy “milestone”

Renew Economy

Offshore wind energy in Germany is being used to stabilise the country's electricity system in case of grid fluctuations. The post Offshore wind farm balancing German power grid in green energy “milestone” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Weather data to boost US solar and storage projects

Smart Energy International

Meteorological data from Slovak provider Solargis is being used by US renewable company Apex Clean Energy to advance over 10GW of solar and storage projects. The high resolution, granular resource and meteorological data is being deployed to optimise over 120 of Apex’s solar projects during design, development and operations, while enabling projects to better integrate advanced technologies such as bifacial PV and energy storage.

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Floating wind: Government opens up £160m funding and unveils industry champion

Business Green

Legal expert Tim Pick to to take up role as floating offshore wind industry champion to help spearhead growth of the sector. The government has launched a £160m funding programme to support its goal of delivering up to 5GW of floating offshore wind capacity in the UK by the end of the decade, alongside the announcement of a new industry 'champion' to spearhead the scaling up of the cutting-edge technology.

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Labor must move quickly on climate and energy: Here’s a list of things to do

Renew Economy

Labor needs to move quickly on climate and energy. A trip to Japan for the Quad meeting should be followed by a visit to a wind or solar farm. The post Labor must move quickly on climate and energy: Here’s a list of things to do appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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New £40m government competition promises to 'revolutionise' self-driving services

Business Green

Funding aims to help commercialise self-driving vehicles for use by delivery companies and public transport. Commercial services based on self-driving technologies could soon become a key component of the UK's transport network, according to government ministers speaking at today's launch of the new Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility funding competition.

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A letter to incoming minister for climate change, Chris Bowen

Renew Economy

Australia can become a global clean energy superpower with a modern and prosperous economy powered by reliable, low-cost, clean energy. The post A letter to incoming minister for climate change, Chris Bowen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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OVO launches Tech Academy green apprenticeships scheme

Business Green

Energy giant is seeking software engineer apprentices to earn while they learn in latest boost for green jobs. Energy giant OVO has launched a major new apprenticeship programme in a bid to inspire more people to take up a green career in software engineering and clean technology development. The OVO Tech Academy opened on Friday for applications for level 4 software developers, with the first tranche of new apprentices pencilled in to start in July, the company said.

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A leverage points perspective on transformation: Invitation to a Global Conversation

Ideas 4 Sustainability

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : From India to Mexico, from Bachelor students to senior scientists – people with a shared interest in social-ecological systems research from all over the world exchanged their ideas and discussed questions in four sessions of the online seminar series “Social-ecological systems: A global conversation”.

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Measure climate impact over a decade, not a century

Business Green

Slashing methane emissions is the closest thing the world has to a silver bullet for rapid climate action, writes former Greenpeace CEO Paul Gilding. The IPCC could not be clearer: action on climate change is a 'now or never' task. We have less than 10 years to get the job done. Within this timeframe, the science tells us it is methane reduction that gives us the best - perhaps the only - chance to curb disastrous global heating.

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ForeFront Power - ForeFront Power Installs 2.4 MW of Solar at Eight of Anheuser-Busch's Partner Craft Breweries Across the CountryForeFront Power's Solar Energy System Developments include a 377 kW-DC System at Chicago's Goose Island Beer Co. and a 217 kW-DC System at Long Island's Blue Point Brewing Co.

Global Renewable News

ForeFront Power, a leading developer, advisor,

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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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Weaning Philippine banks away from coal cannot be done overnight—Central Bank chief

Eco-Business

Philippine Central Bank governor Benjamin Diokno downplays local banks still underwriting and selling bonds for coal developers despite public declarations to stop funding the fossil fuel.

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Black & Veatch - Delta Offshore Energy Americas Subsidiary Receives USTDA Grant to Enable Green Projects in Vietnam

Global Renewable News

The United States Trade and Development Agency.

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More Vietnam boats encroach into Indonesian waters as clampdowns ease

Eco-Business

Illegal fishing by Vietnamese vessels in Indonesian waters has ramped up this year, with locals and fisheries observes blaming a dearth of patrols by Indonesian authorities.

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Transitional Energy - Transitional Energy Successfully Produces Geothermal Energy at Oil and Gas Well

Global Renewable News

Transitional Energy a majority women-owned,

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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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Northern India caught in vicious cycle of heatwaves and forest fires

Eco-Business

This year’s wildfires, compounded by a record-breaking heatwave, are leading to a spike in respiratory diseases among mountain communities.

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Hawaiian Electric - Hawaiian Electric seeks developers of projects small and large in latest phase of shared solar

Global Renewable News

Hawaiian Electric is seeking renewable energy.

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'Wildly irresponsible': How top banks could be risking billions on the petrochemicals industry

Business Green

ClientEarth and FairFin claims world's top banks are exposing themselves to major stranded asset risk by backing major petrochemicals projects. Scores of the world's biggest banks are exposing themselves to massive stranded asset risks by continuing to invest tens of billions of Euros in petrochemicals companies such as INEOS and Borealis, which produce plastics from fossil fuels, fresh research has warned.

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Electriq Power - Electriq Power Partners with SEDC Solar to Provide Energy Storage + Solar At No Cost to Homes and Businesses in Washington D.C.

Global Renewable News

Electriq Power, Inc. ("Electriq"), a leading.

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Climate Change Will Force Big Shift in Timing, Amount of Snowmelt Across Colorado River Basin

CleanTechnica

Upper basin in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming may more closely resemble the arid Southwest by Los Alamos National Laboratory New research predicts that changes in mountain snowmelt will shift peak streamflows to much earlier in the year for the vast Colorado River Basin, altering reservoir management and irrigation across the entire region. “Because of global […].

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Anaergia - Anaergia Named by Sustainable Development Technology Canada to Its Inaugural List of Canada's Sustainability Changemakers

Global Renewable News

Anaergia Inc. ("Anaergia" or the "Company").

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Faraday Future In Beverly Hills, Sysco Ordering 800 Electric Trucks — EV News Today

CleanTechnica

Beverly Hills gets a first, a Faraday Future Flagship Brand Experience Center. Sysco plans to purchase 800 battery electric Freightliner eCascadias. For those and a few more other stories, look at the EV news roundup below. Electric Car News Vinfast Partners with FCA Bank, Reveals VF 8 & VF 9 Monthly Payment Details in Europe […].

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California Public Utilities Commission - CPUC Approves Energy Storage Contracts for SCE

Global Renewable News

The California Public Utilities Commission.

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Tesla’s 100-Stall Supercharger Oasis In The Mojave Desert Will Be The Largest In The US

CleanTechnica

Tesla is reportedly building a 100-stall Supercharger station. The station will be the largest station in the US to date. The location is in the Mojave Desert town of Barstow, California, around 115 miles outside of Los Angeles. It’s located 156 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada. Barstow Mayor Paul Cortney shared the announcement during a […].

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U.S. Department of Energy - DOE Awards Over $3 Million to Small Solar Businesses

Global Renewable News

The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy.

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Electric Bike Maintenance: What I’ve Learned In 8 Years (Avoid The Mistakes I’ve Made)

CleanTechnica

The poor UW–Madison professor with 6 kids (my father) had to be very frugal. Somehow, he got to know Mr. Schwinn, the president of the Schwinn bike company, and it was a rite of passage for each of the kids in our family to get a full-size single-speed narrow-tire Schwinn bike for the first Christmas […].

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Georgia Power - Georgia Power welcomes Hyundai Motor Group to Coastal GeorgiaCompany's first fully dedicated electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facility to bring 8,100 jobs and $5.54 billion investment to state

Global Renewable News

Georgia Power today (May 20) joined with.

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Geothermal Technologies Office - Diverse R&D Partnerships Doing Big Things at Utah FORGE

Global Renewable News

Over the past year, the Geothermal.

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ENGIE - ENGIE awarded multi-country on-site solar contract by Faurecia

Global Renewable News

ENGIE announced today (May 12) the.

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Con Edison - 'Con Edison Clean Energy Update' Makes it Easier to Track Electric Grid's Green TransformationProgress Report on Clean Energy Technologies in NYC and Westchester County

Global Renewable News

New York's largest energy-delivery.

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