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How data-driven research partnerships deepen energy access across supply chains

GreenBiz

The energy transition risks further exacerbating human rights violations and environmental issues if the global community does not address material supply chains, guided by the most recent empirical evidence, social and climate justice. A truly just energy transition is possible through collaboration between private, public and academic stakeholders.

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Final report on flagship air pollution reporting pilot scheme released

Envirotec Magazine

Thursday, 16 June marks the release of findings from a UK pilot scoping study looking at development of an air pollution reporting system for businesses. The study is said to be the first of its kind to investigate incorporating air pollution emissions into standard greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting, representing an important step-change in environmental reporting.

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Pentair CSRO on growing with sustainability in mind

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Pentair’s head of social responsibility shares the company’s efforts to advance the impacts of its business and how the industry can progress.

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AD & Biogas Awards 2022

Envirotec Magazine

Event announces 13 winners out of 10 categories, with multiple winners for Women in Biogas and AD Pace Setters – Micro AD, as well as 8 Highly Commended entries. The 2022 AD and Biogas Industry Awards , organised by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) and the World Biogas Association (WBA), reached their climax on Wednesday night with the Awards Ceremony celebrating the winners and highly commended entries of this year’s competition.

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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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Icelandic startups tackle energy resilience under extreme conditions

GreenBiz

Iceland, the land of fire and ice and ambitious clean energy goals, is a land well-suited to troubleshoot energy resilience.

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Sesame Solar Debuts World’s First 100% Renewable Mobile Nanogrids

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? Energy systems experts and early SaaS pioneers who’ve partnered with the U.S. Air Force and Comcast unveil new mobile renewable power technology for when disaster strikes ? Fast and easily deployable, the nanogrids can be set up by one person with minimal training and generate power within 15 minutes. ?

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6 Easy Ways to Minimize Your E-Waste Levels

The Environmental Blog

Were you aware that more than 50 million tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) is produced each and every year? These materials are very harmful to the environment and unfortunately, they absolutely essential in our modern world. This is why appreciating how to minimise the production of e-waste has become an important concern. Are there any effective strategies?

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How to address human rights in complex clean energy supply chains

GreenBiz

Minerals supply chains often obscure the impacts of mining, exposing companies to operational, financial and legal risks.

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Summit Coffee Co: Protecting the Environment with Certified Sustainable Coffee

Green Business Bureau

Creating certified sustainable coffee. Summit Coffee Co. is a Certified Organic roaster and retailer based out of North Carolina that focuses on small-lot coffees sourced intentionally from all around the world. Coffee driven and community focused, they value relationships from farm to cup. Summit Coffee has reached Platinum Status at the Green Business Bureau , is Climate Neutral certified and a partner of 1% for the Planet through its roasting business, and is working through the B Corporation

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Time to 'sprint ahead': Race to Zero raises bar for 'net zero' investors, companies and cities

GreenBiz

Campaigners claim new rules ‘throw down the gauntlet’ to the various net zero alliances in the finance sector.

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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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Lunaz’s upcycled electric garbage truck features swappable battery pack

Charged

Lunaz Applied Technologies, a British EV startup known for electrifying classic cars, has revealed a garbage truck with a number of driver-friendly features and a swappable battery pack that’s designed to be replaced in 10 minutes. Lunaz says its upcycled truck, which is based on the Mercedes-Benz Econic platform, will soon be operating in several London boroughs and other areas of the UK.

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ASES National Solar Conference

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-SOLAR 2022: Energy Transition with Economic Justice -June 21-24, 2022 | Albuquerque, NM + Online

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EvoCharge to sell its EV chargers through Uni-Select Canada

Charged

EvoCharge, a provider of EVSE and cable management solutions, has entered into a resale agreement with Uni-Select Canada to sell its Level 2 charging equipment. Uni-Select distributes products to over 16,000 automotive repair shops, 1,000 independent customer locations and 80 company-operated stores. “We have a long-standing relationship with Uni-Select, and extending it to include EvoCharge means that customers across Canada can easily access our EV charging products that are designed for the C

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Konecranes puts the battery in big container handling machines

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A "battery megatrend" has been gathering force for years on a global scale, first in electronic devices with the maturing of Li-ion battery technology and then in large devices such as automobiles. It's part of a huge global effort to increase sustainability and reduce CO2 emissions. Konecranes is doing its part in the container handling industry, taking the lead as a container handling equipment and service supplier.

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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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New reports analyze US electric truck market and global off-highway EV market

Charged

Research and Markets has released a pair of reports that examine the two segments of the commercial EV market. The company’s “ U.S. Electric Truck Market Research Report ” analyzes the current e-truck market, offers profiles of key players, and makes some forecasts for the future. R and M expects revenue from the US electric truck market to grow at an eye-popping compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 54%, and to exceed $15 billion by 2030.

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Study links ‘forever chemicals’ to high blood pressure in middle-aged women

Grist

Even if you forget what “PFAS” stands for, it may be an environmental issue that’s close to your heart. That’s according to a new study that’s linked higher concentrations of the so-called “forever chemicals” to cardiovascular risks in middle-aged women. Polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a group of chemicals that are used in many industrial activities and consumer products.

Health 101
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Market failure: Why no one trusts fossil generators to “do the right thing”

Renew Economy

What makes Matt Kean think fossil fuel generators would start to do the right thing now? For the past two decades or more, they have done everything but. The post Market failure: Why no one trusts fossil generators to “do the right thing” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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These All-Natural Home Remedies Will Help You Gain More Energy

Green Living Guy

Did you know that tiredness is the most common health complaint? These natural home cures for weariness are worth a shot if you’re looking to gain more energy. Are you frustrated with being exhausted? It’s disappointing, demoralizing, and irritating to be bone-tired, as so many people are. You want to race like a thoroughbred, but […].

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More than 1GW of battery storage to replace coal in world’s biggest isolated grid

Renew Economy

How will the WA government prepare for the closure of its last two coal generators? Lots of wind, solar and batteries. The post More than 1GW of battery storage to replace coal in world’s biggest isolated grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Underground rock cavern hydrogen storage facility inaugurated in Luleå

Smart Energy International

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall are inaugurating HYBRIT’s pilot facility for fossil-free hydrogen storage at Svartöberget in Luleå, Sweden. The rock cavern storage facility is reportedly the first of its kind in the world. The inauguration ceremony marks the start of the two-year test period, which will run until 2024. The facility comes as part of the HYBRIT initiative, launched in 2016 by SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall, which aims to create a fossil-free value chain from mine to finished steel.

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Watch out for “net zero induced technical faults” – they might be contagious

Renew Economy

Right wing think tanks says "real Australians" are being hit by "net zero induced" technical faults in coal plants. And we wonder how we got in this mess. The post Watch out for “net zero induced technical faults” – they might be contagious appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Why technology is crucial to the recovery of the energy industry’s reputation

Smart Energy International

While consumers wait for further updates on support from the government, the UK energy industry is already quietly working in the background to alleviate the challenges by helping to improve the way energy is consumed, measured and managed, writes Rachel Eyres, Business Unit Director for Energy and Utilities at Expleo. With consumer champion Martin Lewis recently delivering an emotional rant after it was announced the energy price cap would be updated four times a year from October, the industry

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US auto giant backs niche floating wall of wind turbines technology

Renew Economy

GM Ventures leads investment round to help fund development and commercialisation of start-up behind massive, floating wall of wind turbines. The post US auto giant backs niche floating wall of wind turbines technology appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Europe needs 14GW/year of energy storage – EASE

Smart Energy International

The European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) assesses Europe’s storage needs around 200GW by 2030 and 600GW by 2050. With the current installed storage capacity at approximately 60MW and a historic deployment level of 1GW/year, a massive ramp-up in uptake of at least 14 GW/year is required to meet the targets, according to EASE. “Current market trajectories for storage will fail to meet these requirements of the energy system by 2030 if urgent measures to boost deployment are not taken

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The NEM is suspended, and so is consumer trust – how can we get it back?

Renew Economy

The National Electricity Market will be back up and running in a week, maybe two or three. But consumer trust and confidence? That will take a little more time. The post The NEM is suspended, and so is consumer trust – how can we get it back? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Utility-scale solar panel hail protection

Solar Power World

By Johan Jaques, Senior Meteorologist, KISTERS group According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, in 2020 solar power was good for 3% of total energy production in the United States, with prediction of a 5% contribution in 2022. Meanwhile, its share may well rise to 14% of the U.S. total in 2035 and 20% in… The post Utility-scale solar panel hail protection appeared first on Solar Power World.

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“Australia is under new management”: Bowen tells clean energy investors

Renew Economy

Federal climate minister Chris Bowen says Australia now "open for business", calling on investors to seize a $130 billion green investment opportunity. The post “Australia is under new management”: Bowen tells clean energy investors appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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First ammonia-fueled tractor engine in the United States

Energy Central

Using innovative solution, Amogy aims to reduce >5 billion metric tons of CO2-eq emission by 2040, accelerating the global journey towards Net Zero

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Kean seizes special powers over coal supplies for old, unreliable “bits of machinery”

Renew Economy

Coal to the rescue? Hardly. NSW energy minister underscores the unreliable nature of Australia's remaining coal plants – "particularly when we need them.". The post Kean seizes special powers over coal supplies for old, unreliable “bits of machinery” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Plans for giant battery storage project aims to usurp gas hub proposals

Business Green

New Northumberland battery project latest in a flurry of announcements from across the fast-expanding energy storage sector. Plans are being drawn up for a 30MW battery storage system in Northumberland, on a site once earmarked for a new gas hub. Clean energy developer Enviromena announced this morning it is plotting a battery system near Blyth, in a region that is fast emerging as a major renewable energy hub.

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World squanders “green recovery” as renewables dwarfed by huge fossil fuel subsidies

Renew Economy

Despite global renewables investment surging to a new high, the world has largely squandered a 'green recovery' to the Covid pandemic. The post World squanders “green recovery” as renewables dwarfed by huge fossil fuel subsidies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Replacing all Crude Oil with Drop-in Biofuels Enabled by Massive Heat and Hydrogen Inputs

Energy Central

Our recent workshops and studies (Link: CANES NES TR-23 ) have developed a strategy to replace all crude oil with low-carbon drop-in biofuels using cellulosic feedstocks without significant impacts on food and fiber prices. Existing biofuels plants use biomass as (1) a carbon source for the hydrocarbon product, (2) a carbon source to react with the oxygen (40% by.

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Agribusiness Task Force: Sustainable Markets Initiative launches new regenerative agriculture push

Business Green

Prince of Wales-backed initiative brings together leading food businesses to explore how to accelerate adoption of more sustainable farming practices. The Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) will today formally launch a new Agribusiness Task Force, designed to bring together CEOs from across the food and agricultural sector and leading experts in the expanding sustainable farming sector to explore how to establish regenerative agriculture as the "predominant agricultural system in the world".

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NEW AWARDS RECOGNISE OUTSTANDING RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPLIERS

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A new award ceremony celebrating green energy supply chain businesses is now open for nominations.

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