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Solar nears 60pct of grid generation for first time, taking biggest bite yet out of coal’s lunch

Renew Economy

Rooftop PV and large scale solar producer nearly 60 per cent of generation for first time, sending grid demand to record low and eating further into coal's lunch. The post Solar nears 60pct of grid generation for first time, taking biggest bite yet out of coal’s lunch appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Food giants team up to make regenerative agriculture a 'no brainer' for farmers

Business Green

Bosses of 12 agriculture and food businesses announce they will work together to push sustainable farming practices into the mainstream. The bosses of a dozen of world's largest food companies have created an action plan which aims to make regenerative farming approaches more accessible to farmers around the world. As part of the initiative, launched late last week, the CEOs of McCain Foods, McDonald's, Waitrose & Partners, Olam, and PepsiCo have produced a joint action plan detailing how to

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Offshore floating solar plant linked with offshore wind in world first

Renew Economy

The world’s first commercial offshore floating solar plant has been commissioned off the east of China, integrated with offshore wind. The post Offshore floating solar plant linked with offshore wind in world first appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Private companies: The net zero blind spot that's everybody's business

Business Green

Privately-owned firms are quietly undermining the net zero transition through foot dragging and non-disclosure, writes the ECIU's John Lang. If you were asked to pick just one obtuse corporation standing in the way of tackling the timed test of climate change, your brain might arrive at a Shell or a BP or another ‘charismatic company' that campaigners enjoy excoriating.

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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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Solar plane and electric vertical take-off and landing technologies win Australian grants

Renew Economy

Australian start-up developing long range electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft technology, and another focusing on solar panels on planes have won federal funding. The post Solar plane and electric vertical take-off and landing technologies win Australian grants appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Poland Plans a Nuclear Fleet of Up to 10 Reactors

Energy Central

Poland Signs MOU to Build Six Westinghouse AP1000s South Korea Signs MOU to Build Four APR1400s in Poland OPG Applies For License To Build First SMR At Darlington Site U.S. and Japan in Bilateral Agreement Will Support Export of SMRs to Ghana TVA Plans New Sites for Up to 50 SMRs Mexico 123 Agreement is Confirmed Poland Commits to a Nuclear Fleet of Big Iron After years of.

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Glance at Namibia’s Green Hydrogen Strategy

Energy Central

Namibia has launched its Green Hydrogen Strategy to accelerate the recovery of the domestic economy and contribute towards its Vision 2030 industrialisation agenda, among others.

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Snowy finally confirms pumped hydro project over budget and behind schedule

Renew Economy

Snowy Hydro's interim CEO tells Senate Estimates of the extent of delays and cost over-runs of the massive Snowy 2.0 project. The post Snowy finally confirms pumped hydro project over budget and behind schedule appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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University of Manchester and National Grid develop SF6-free retrofill solution

Smart Energy International

National Grid and the University of Manchester are to collaborate on a four-year project to develop a full-scale demonstrator at the Deeside Centre for Innovation, designed to test at scale how the UK can retrofill sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) across its network of high-voltage equipment. SF6 is a gas commonly used in the power industry to provide electrical insulation and arc interruption.

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NSW ramps up storage and firming needs before closure of country’s biggest coal plant

Renew Economy

NSW expands second renewables tender to include more long duration storage and firming capacity to deal with early closure of coal fired generators. The post NSW ramps up storage and firming needs before closure of country’s biggest coal plant 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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Rolls-Royce provides uninterruptible power systems for Saudi supercomputer

Smart Energy International

Rolls Royce will deliver mtu Kinetix PowerPacks for a supercomputer in Saudi Arabia where, in the event of a power outage, the constantly rotating accumulator will guarantee the starting of a diesel engine and instantly secure critical load. Rolls-Royce commissioned the first six PowerPacks for the Shaheen supercomputer located at King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.

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Australia praised for methane reductions, but should be prepared for uncomfortable COP

Renew Economy

Coal mines will help Australia meet a COP26 methane pledge but developing countries are gearing up to make loss and damage the cause de jour of COP27. The post Australia praised for methane reductions, but should be prepared for uncomfortable COP appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Oxfam: Tax super-rich to raise funds for climate-vulnerable nations

Business Green

Report highlights significant climate toll from the investment activity of 125 of the richest people in the world. Calls are growing for a wealth tax on the world's super-rich that would raise funds for countries on the frontline of the climate crisis, in the wake of research that shows billionaires significant role in funding polluting industries. A report published this morning by Oxfam, which analyses the emissions linked to the investment activity of 125 of the world's richest people, found

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Electrical storm: Is it time for a reset of Australia’s energy market? 

Renew Economy

Australia's ossified institutions may not have the vision to make the changes our energy markets need. For consumers, that would be a terrible tragedy. The post Electrical storm: Is it time for a reset of Australia’s energy market? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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COP27: How do you stop climate change?

Energy Central

What are the practical things countries need to do in order to tackle climate change?

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Energy hungry EU must regain the trust of poorer countries at COP27

Renew Economy

European countries stand accused of climate hypocrisy as they buy up the world’s fossil fuel resources to secure domestic energy supply. The post Energy hungry EU must regain the trust of poorer countries at COP27 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Bechtel - Bechtel delivers port masterplan supporting Ireland's emerging offshore wind industry

Global Renewable News

Masterplan puts Shannon Foynes Port in Ireland.

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COP27: World leaders agree to talk about paying for loss and damage

Eco-Business

Rich countries have for long resisted calls to pay for the loss and damage caused by global heating-related extreme events in the Global South. Now, for the first time, they’ve agreed to talk about such funds at COP27.

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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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Eos Energy Storage - Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. Selected for 35 MWh Long Duration Energy Storage Project in California

Global Renewable News

Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: EOSE).

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Brazil's Lula hopes to unite rainforest nations, tap cash at COP27

Eco-Business

Brazil's President-elect Lula is expected to use the COP27 climate summit to accelerate efforts to form an alliance of big tropical forest countries and ramp up conservation finance.

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NextEra Energy Resources LLC - NextEra Energy Resources and Coffee County, Alabama to build first renewable natural gas project in the state

Global Renewable News

NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, and Coffee.

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Vivian Lee joins Aurecon to lead Greater China sustainability practice

Eco-Business

Vivian Lee has joined design and engineering consultancy Aurecon as executive director, water, sustainability and climate change for Greater China.

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Enel and Brenmiller Energy - Enel and Brenmiller Energy Inaugurate "TES", an Innovative Rock-Based Storage System in Tuscany, Italy

Global Renewable News

Highlights The pilot is the result.

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Young climate experts ready for top roles in negotiations at COP27

Eco-Business

Sixty newly trained youth negotiators will join their country delegations at the UN summit in Egypt with an aim to speed change.

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Primergy Solar - Primergy Files Permitting Application with La Plata County, Colorado for 155 MWac Hesperus Solar Project

Global Renewable News

Primergy Solar Management, LLC (.

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ESG collides between business and government

Eco-Business

Investors too often ignore the 'E' v 'S' trade off.

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European Investment Bank - EIB at COP27: Financing a global just transition to climate neutrality

Global Renewable News

Highlights The EIB is.

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1st Self-Flying, 4-Seat, All-Electric, Vertical Takeoff & Landing Air Taxi

CleanTechnica

California’s Wisk Aero claims that it has developed the first self-flying, fully electric, 4-seat air taxi in the world. This is its 6th generation air taxi and it is reportedly “designed to meet and exceed rigorous commercial safety standards, making it one of the safest systems in aviation,” according to Wisk Aero. But how real […].

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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD publishes third TCFD report on climate risk assessment

Global Renewable News

By Nigina.

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Kia America Plugs Into Final Round Of Electrify Expo 2022

CleanTechnica

Note: Several core members of CleanTechnica will also be at Electrify Expo in Austin. Reach out if you’ll be there and want to meet up. Kia America has announced it will once again be attending the Electrify Expo, the final show in the series in Austin, Texas, on November 11–13. Kia will be joined by […].

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Honda Exhibits World Premiere of the “e:N2 Concept EV”

CleanTechnica

On Friday, November 6, Honda Brand introduced the world premiere of the e:N2 Concept at the 5th China International Import Expo (CIIE). The expo event is being hosted in Shanghai, China. Honda released the concept for the second phase of its e:N Series of models — the EV model series they plan to market and […].

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Rewiring America Wants To Educate Consumers About The Benefits Available In The IRA

CleanTechnica

There are beaucoup bucks available to American households to improve their energy efficiency and lower their utility bills in the Inflation Reduction Act, but many people are unaware of those benefits and how to claim them. Rewiring America wants to get the word out to local individuals and communities so they can tap into that […].

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The Next Big US Offshore Wind Winners Are Texas & Louisiana

CleanTechnica

Louisiana and Texas are poised to leap from zero to hero in the US offshore wind industry, which is quite a trick considering that wind resources in the Gulf of Mexico are less than optimal.