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Episode 338: Women raise voices at VERGE 22

GreenBiz

This episode features VERGE 22 keynote speakers Paris Agreement negotiator Christiana Figueres, behavioral scientist Sweta Chakraborty, marine geologist Dawn Wright and more.

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Crowley, Humboldt Bay to Develop and Operate California Wind Terminal

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Through Crowley’s Wind Services group, the company will enter into negotiations with the port to lease and serve as the port’s developer of the Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal.

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As 2030 draws near, the SBTi has further to go to get us to net zero

GreenBiz

The Science Based Targets initiative has provided pivotal guidance for companies to decarbonize but must embrace alternative solutions, such as the Voluntary Carbon Market, to accelerate climate impact.

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Renewables reach record 68.7 per cent share of generation in Australia’s main grid

Renew Economy

Renewables set new record for instantaneous share of main grid generation on Friday, with wind and solar alone also setting a new benchmark. The post Renewables reach record 68.7 per cent share of generation in Australia’s main grid 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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How science, technology and behavior change can confront the climate crisis

GreenBiz

Behavioral scientist Sweta Chakraborty, president of We Don’t Have Time, says we need to acknowledge cognitive biases and get better at talking about climate risks.

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Australia’s biggest states have set stunning renewable plans. Now we need a national strategy

Renew Economy

Australia makes surfboards, so why not turbine blades? We definitely need a national strategy to deliver on our ambitious state renewable plans. The post Australia’s biggest states have set stunning renewable plans. Now we need a national strategy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Nexamp and IBEW Local 103 Partner on Solar and Energy Storage System

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Project demonstrates the potential for savings, resiliency and clean energy jobs

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Everledger and Ford release EV battery passport pilot for material recycling

Smart Energy International

Digital transparency company Everledger has launched what they tout as a world-first battery passport pilot with automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Company to ensure responsible recycling of EV batteries. The pilot leverages Everledger’s technology platform to track electric vehicle (EV) batteries throughout their lifecycle to ensure responsible management during use and recycling at the end of their useful life.

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Energy Management Systems industry Growth & Trends

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An uptick in the management of energy use across commercial, industrial, and public sector organizations has fueled the demand for energy management systems (EMS). Implementing advanced energy-efficient technologies and reducing energy waste will gain ground to contain greenhouse gas emissions, minimize the potential exposure to fluctuating energy prices and bolster productivity.

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Smart Energy Finances: EIB’s €30 billion equity supercharge for REPowerEU

Smart Energy International

Leading this week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances is a staggering equity decision from the EIB Group. They will pour into REPowerEU €30 billion ($29.9 billion) in loans and equity, which is expected to mobilise up to €115 billion ($114.6 billion) by 2027 in renewables, energy efficiency, grids and storage, EV charging infrastructure, and breakthrough technologies, such as low-carbon hydrogen.

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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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How the solar industry should adjust to growing residential energy independence

Solar Power World

By Christy Roth, director, offer management, software, Schneider Electric With the introduction of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the U.S. has passed a critical milestone in the fight against climate change. The massive climate policy will incentivize Americans to purchase clean technology, such as electric vehicles (EVs) and solar panels, by making them more affordable… The post How the solar industry should adjust to growing residential energy independence appeared first on Solar Pow

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Minnesota utility installs smart grid AMI for enhanced EV load management

Smart Energy International

Crow Wing Power, a US-based cooperative electric utility, has replaced its meter network with a Tantalus TUNet smart grid platform for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and load management applications to bolster an EV charging programme. Smart grid tech company Tantalus Systems announced that the utility, Crow Wing Power, is utilising its system to offer customers a choice of two electric vehicle (EV) charging options.

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How Sustainability Increases Brand Value

Green Business Bureau

Sustainable branding is upholding a purpose-driven statement. Sustainable branding showcases the effective integration of economical, environmental and social issues into business operations. “ It’s the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand ” – Dave Allen , CEO of Enterprise IG (global brand agency).

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Electriq Power to Provide Equitable Solar and Storage Access to Santa Barbara, CA Residents Under Innovative Home Solar and Energy Efficiency Program

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Through the program’s City-vetted Power Purchase Agreement, Santa Barbara County homeowners, regardless of means, will have access to Electriq’s smart home energy storage system, which is recharged by the included solar power system. The system will help achieve the program’s key goal of offsetting 100% of each home’s electricity consumption, providing immediate savings over annual utility costs.

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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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Professor Resigns from Research Center Over Partnership with Oil and Gas Major Eni

DeSmogBlog

An Italian social scientist and professor, Marco Grasso, has resigned from his post as director of a research unit at Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB) in Milan, Italy, over the academic institution’s partnership with oil and gas major Eni, DeSmog can exclusively report. In February this year, UNIMIB and Eni signed a five-year “Joint Research Agreement,” (JRA) in which the university and the fossil fuel company pledged to collaborate on “research projects of common interest” related

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LACI Welcomes 34 Startups & Businesses to their Founder Programs

LA CleanTech Incubator

LACI PROUDLY WELCOMES 34 STARTUPS & SMALL BUSINESSES TO THEIR SUITE OF INCUBATION & FOUNDER PROGRAMS Throughout the Summer and Fall of 2022, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) welcomed 9 startups innovating clean technologies to our light-touch Innovators Program, 9 startups to our 2-year intensive Incubation Program, and 1 company deploying a larger scale impact-focused.

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Electrify America unveils megawatt-level battery energy storage system at California charging station

Charged

Charging network Electrify America has been at the forefront of a new trend: installing battery energy storage systems (BESS) at DC fast charging stations in order to manage energy costs and reduce stress on the grid. Now the company has unveiled its first megawatt-level BESS. Battery energy storage, with or without local renewable generation (solar panels) acts as a buffer between charging stations and the grid.

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Reports: PM mulling expansion of windfall tax on oil and gas profits

Business Green

Government said to be exploring options after Shell reveals it received a tax rebate from UK last quarter, despite bumper profits. The Prime Minister is said to be considering an extension to the windfall tax on oil and gas firms, just days after Shell revealed it had paid nothing through the levy introduced last Spring, despite reporting a massive jump in its global profits.

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The IEA Latest Report Shows the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Plan to Meet Climate Change Paris Targets

Energy Central

The International Energy Agency (IEA) in its latest report “Energy to 2050: Scenarios for a Sustainable Future,” analyzes “the intersection between energy and climate change mitigation.” It describes the transition as fraught with challenges because new energy infrastructure to replace our fossil-fuel-based norms will take time to develop.

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Global Briefing: EU confirms 2035 ban for new petrol and diesel cars

Business Green

Australia vows to cut methane emissions, the US ratifies the Kigali Agreement, and all the other green business news from around the world this week. EU brokers deal to bring an end to internal combustion engine cars. The European Parliament and European Council reached an agreement this week, confirming plans to end the sale of new internal combustion engine cars and vans across the bloc by 2035.

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Webinar 2 Nov: How to harness the power of collaboration: Graphene Flagship

Smart Energy International

Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2022. 10h00 New York | 14h00 GMT | 14h00 London | 15h00 Amsterdam | 16h00 Johannesburg | 19h30 New Delhi | 22h00 Singapore. 60-minute session. In this live webinar, the Graphene Flagship and invited guests aim to illustrate the power of European collaboration using one of the largest scientific research initiatives funded by the European Commission.

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Hydrogen Road Map For Texas: Portfolio Opportunity for Oil/Gas & Energy

Energy Central

Texas is world capital of oil & gas can it be a New Energy capital and lead the world in energy transition? The article focuses on Texas competitive advantage for Hydrogen energy as a vector. Competitive Advantage Texas has several competitive advantages including: Produces 2.0 mtpa of hydrogen (Grey) from natural gas for refining and Ammonia industry.

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Red Eléctrica completes first demand response auction

Smart Energy International

The peninsular electricity system will now have a total of 497MW of demand response available from consumers and retailers who participated in the first active demand response auction, organised by Spanish system operator Red Eléctrica. The auction’s bidders will undertake to reduce their consumption at specific times depending on the needs of the system to ensure a balance between generation and demand.

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Brazilian elections and energy

Energy Central

Brazilian elections and energy Comparing what happens in the developed countries with Brazil, an important difference emerges. When there is a "tight" voting in developed countries, the natural tendency is the search for a non-partisan conduct focused on the greater interests of the population. A compromise is reached that respects the strategies of the parties and thus the.

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APS to install half a million advanced smart meters

Smart Energy International

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is being deployed by utilities across the US to give distribution grid operators better tools to manage the grid. On October 25, Landis+Gyr and Arizona Public Service ( APS ) said they are expanding their contract, originally signed in 2015, to include additional AMI services plus the installation of an additional 500,000 advanced meters over the next seven years.

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TEDTalk: Delicious Food Waste

Sustainability Consulting

We all love a TEDTalk. Here is one of our favorites: Nicole Klaskey, founder of The Good Food , loves food and hates waste. These are the principles that drove her to create a rescue company aimed at keeping perfectly edible, but imperfect looking, food out of trash cans. When she learned that the world could feed every starving person twice with just the food Europe wastes, she gathered her community, introduced them to second harvesting (the practice of picking left-behind produce from the fie

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2022 UN Environment Report: Countries are Not on Track to Meet Global Climate Target

Green Living Guy

There is “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place”, the UN’s environment agency has said. And the failure to reduce carbon emissions means the only way to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a “rapid transformation of societies.” The UN environment report analyzed the gap between the CO2 cuts pledged by countries […]. The post 2022 UN Environment Report: Countries are Not on Track to Meet Global Climate Target appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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Demand side response and VPPs in a changing market

Smart Energy International

Dr Azad Camyab, founder and CEO of the London-based company Pearlstone Energy, talks about the challenges and opportunities of virtual power plants (VPPs) in the burgeoning UK market with Smart Energy International. Countries across Europe have been facing increasing challenges with the demand to wind down fossil fuel generation and replace it with growing shares of renewables and other clean energy.

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Research is Underway on Rare Electric Vehicle Battery Fires

Green Living Guy

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina will soon be the home of two more electric vehicle battery factories. Toyota and Vinfast both announced multi-million-dollar facilities to create new technology to meet the growing demand for electric and hybrid vehicles. Many people have questions and concerns about the batteries, like do they have a higher chance of […].

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Green tea: Asda switches to plant-based tea bags

Business Green

Supermarket says move will allow 550 million tea bags a year to be disposed of in kerbside food waste bins. Asda has today opened up a new and unexpected front in its war on plastic waste, confirming that it is switching its own brand tea bags to compostable, plant-based materials. Some tea brands use bags made from plastic that can contaminate food waste streams and should instead be sent to landfill or for incineration.

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EPA’s Clean School Bus Program to Award NY School Districts $69,620,000

Green Living Guy

Historic investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law headed to all 50 states in an effort to transform America’s school bus fleet NEW YORK (October 26, 2022) – Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the Fiscal Year 2022 recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, awarding $69,620,000from President Biden’s […].

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Can Iron Ox's smart greenhouses take an edge off climate chaos?

Business Green

Rebekah Moses is moving from Impossible Foods to the controlled environment agriculture space, but why? While indoor agriculture startups such as Plenty , Bowery and GrowUp Farms have continued to rein in big checks from impact investors this year, I kept wondering about what good they can actually accomplish. While their vertical operations use less water than traditional farms, they are expensive, energy-intensive and still limited to producing premium leafy greens and berries.

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[Report] The State of Shale Oil & Gas Q3 2022

Energy Central

The State of Shale Oil & Gas — 2022 The Permian, Eagle Ford and Williston. These 3 basins are good for over 6.5 million b/d of US tight oil production (almost 85% of total US tight oil production). In this post, we will analyze the latest developments in the 3 US tight oil basins that are producing more than 0.5 million b/d, which includes the Permian, Williston and Eagle Ford.

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GFANZ cuts partnership with UN's Race to Zero campaign

Business Green

Mark Carney-led, multi-trillion-dollar net zero finance initiative drops requirement for its members to join UN climate campaign. The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) - the global initiative backed by financial firms representing trillions of dollars of investments that is led by former governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney - has cut its direct ties with a UN-backed climate campaign.