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Workshop: Distributed Solar PV and its Financial Implications

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Can you make residential and commercial PV system sizing more accurate and how would you know if the system performs well amidst the climatic anomalies worldwide? Learn on advanced methodologies to assess decentralized solar PV performance and the related technology edge, as well as advantages of such techniques for improving finance reports and decreasing financial risks.

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Solar farms pocket eye-watering returns as fossil fuels drive power prices higher

Renew Economy

Two solar farms reveal they pocketed average revenue of nearly $200/MWh in the June quarter, thanks to the surge in wholesale prices propelled by fossil fuels. The post Solar farms pocket eye-watering returns as fossil fuels drive power prices higher appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Entec Polymers and Rivian support public chargers at Oregon state parks

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Plastic manufacturer Entec Polymers has partnered with Adopt a Charger and Rivian to support public charging stations at selected state parks in Oregon. Over the course of the next year, Level 2 EV chargers will be installed in selected state parks as part of a pilot project created by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) and Adopt a Charger (AAC), a nonprofit that works to bring charging stations to public facilities by lining up sponsorships.

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Four lessons for Labor in making its climate targets law

Renew Economy

The Albanese government should take lessons from existing climate laws to ensure it follows best practice. We can't afford to get this wrong. The post Four lessons for Labor in making its climate targets law 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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Dow and Mura plan pipeline of plastic recycling facilities for Europe and US

Business Green

Firms behind major recycling plant on Teesside announce major expansion of partnership. Advanced plastic recycling firm Mura and leading chemicals giant Dow have announced they plan to work together to construct multiple large-scale recycling facilities in the US and Europe. Under the terms of the partnership, which was unveiled late last week, Dow will purchase the "circular feed" that Mura produces at the sites, with a view to then using it to produce a recycled plastic feedstock for the devel

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Energy Insiders Podcast: Can offshore wind float in Australia?

Renew Economy

BlueFloat’s Carlos Martin discusses his group's 5GW of Australian projects. Plus: Genex bid, climate bill, and Clean Energy Week. The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Can offshore wind float in Australia? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Feds want to build massive wind farm larger than the City of Houston off the coast of Galveston

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Heroes or monsters: What's the most compelling story to galvanise climate action?

Business Green

Fresh research from IPPR sets out how campaigners and businesses can best ring fence climate action from culture war divisions. What is the best way to frame discussions about climate change that will be prove most effective at galvanising the public in support of bold action to tackle global emissions? Is it best to focus on risk, or opportunity? Humans, or animals?

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Airbus backs specialist hydrogen infrastructure fund

Business Green

Company argues expanded hydrogen economy is required to pave the way for zero emission commercial aircraft by 2035. Airbus has announced it has teamed up with a specialist renewable hydrogen infrastructure investment fund that claims to be the largest of its type in the world. The aerospace giant confirmed late last night that it had joined the Hy24 investment fund, which is managed by private investment house Ardian and specialist investment manager FiveTHydrogen.

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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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Unlocking potential of clean energy technologies with better regulation

Eco-Business

Novel ideas will need to be proven safe before use, while roadblocks need to be cleared for existing solutions like wind and solar power to scale faster, according to speakers at sustainability conference Ecosperity Week.

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Hoopsy launches home pregnancy test made from 99 per cent paper

Business Green

Firm says product will tackle ‘shocking’ amount of plastic waste caused by 12.5 million home pregnancy tests annually. A pregnancy test made almost entirely from paper has been launched by start-up Hoopsy, in a bid to cut down on the "shocking" amount of plastic waste sent to landfill each year. The UK-based firm claims to have developed a pregnancy test comprising 99 per cent paper, which is now available to UK consumers.

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Nepal’s honey hunters cling to traditions as bee numbers fall

Eco-Business

For thousands of years, the Gurung people have risked their lives for the honeycomb of the Himalayan giant honeybee, but its numbers are plummeting due to overharvesting and the construction of dams and roads.

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Is “Recall” Really The Right Word In The Era Of Auto Over-The-Air Updates?

CleanTechnica

Nowadays it seems the automotive industry cannot do without quick and flexible connected updates for consumer safety, product maintenance, and enhancing functions.

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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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Weather factors key to ‘predicting’ dengue outbreaks

Eco-Business

Dengue transmission is expected to intensify due to climate change as the amount of rainfall can predict mosquito prevalence within the month.

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Real Life Stories To Show How Dangerous Climate-Fueled Hot Nights Are

CleanTechnica

A recent post we shared by a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists really hit close to home for me. In the post, we got an in-depth look at a major problem with climate change: hotter nights. While it’s good work, I think we often forget to talk about the human side of the […].

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Inflation is triggering chaos worldwide, where are the hotspots?

Eco-Business

Soaring living costs are triggering protests worldwide. After Sri Lanka, which countries might be next?

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Charging Up to Drive Cheaper & Cleaner Just Got A Lot Easier in Virginia

CleanTechnica

Amid record high gas prices and record high climate-changed temperatures, there’s a sliver of good news this week.

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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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Charge2Go, Opening Up The Australia EV Charging Market

CleanTechnica

By Hung Phan, Co-Founder, CTO, Charge2Go.

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UK Government Publication Debunks EV Myths

CleanTechnica

By Charles Morris, EVANNEX.

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Tesla Gets Its Own Lane At Mexican Border Crossing

CleanTechnica

Tesla now has a dedicated lane at the border between the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon and the US state of Texas.

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Loneliness of the Long-Distance Tesla Uber Driver

CleanTechnica

Lack of charging infrastructure can give a Tesla Uber driver the blues. By Adam Nelson, as told to David Waterworth For over 6 years, I have provided transportation services for Uber, Didi, Ola, and my own business, while accepting various other rideshare bookings. Last year, I purchased a Tesla Model 3 Standard Range. I have […].

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Recycling Lead-Acid Batteries Is Easy. Why Is Recycling Lithium-ion Batteries Hard?

CleanTechnica

By James Morton Turner, an environmental studies professor at Wellesley College and author of the forthcoming book "Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future." He published the lead op-ed in the journal Science’s special climate change issue last month (June 24, 2022).

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Sustainable Electric Car That Cleans The Air While Driving — Zem

CleanTechnica

TU Eindhoven students develop passenger car that captures more CO? than it emits while driving TU Eindhoven student team TU/ecomotive has developed a sustainable electric passenger car that captures more carbon dioxide (CO?) than it emits while driving. It is a prototype, called Zem, that purifies the air through a special filter. By storing the captured CO?

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Baby Steps for EV Chargers in Australia

CleanTechnica

Slowly and with baby steps, Australia’s charging network is being built out. As well as large networks of high-speed chargers being built by state governments, along the coastal highways circling this vast country, motoring associations and commercial providers are ramping up their provisions. (It must be noted that these commercial ventures are also in part […].