Fri.Sep 29, 2023

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How To Build No-Cost On-Site Solar & Battery Storage Projects

GreenBiz

In today’s energy landscape, on-site energy solutions like solar panels and battery storage provide valuable benefits, helping organizations reduce energy costs, drive sustainability goals forward, and even leverage energy flexibility to unlock revenue.

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Food Is Made to be Eaten: New Videos Encourage Food Donation

NRDC onEarth

NRDC teamed up with Chef Tom Colicchio to highlight liability protections for food donors because food is made to be eaten and should not end up in landfills.

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Watchdogs urge Nestlé, Danone and other food giants to 'deplastify'

GreenBiz

Nine "Big Food" corporations that were served notice last year over their plastic footprint are failing to take sufficient action to tackle pollution, a new report says.

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Alstom to Present Italy’s First Hydrogen-Powered Train and the Latest Innovations for Smart Mobility at EXPO Ferroviaria 2023

FuelCellsWorks

Alstom and Ferrovie Nord Milano (FNM) will unveil the hydrogen-powered Coradia Stream, Italy’s first hydrogen train The new Metropolis train for the Turin Metro Line 1 will also be unveiled together.

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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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BSR's climate director: How climate justice fits into business strategy

GreenBiz

Deb Gallagher shares how big organizations can make an impact with frontline communities.

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Chart: China’s solar export dominance grows with surging European orders

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. China has long been the solar module supermarket to the world, and its dominance will only increase in the coming years.

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NENS Power and e-power Launch a 250kVA Hydrogen Dual Fuel Generator Leveraging CMB.TECH’s Innovation

FuelCellsWorks

NENS Power and e-power® are taking concrete steps towards green power generation for temporary energy supply. This generator with a Volvo Penta Stage V D8 industrial engine, applying CMB.TECH’s hydrogen.

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Looming Government Shutdown Puts Public Safety and Health at Risk

NRDC onEarth

The House majority must do their job before people are forced to pay the price.

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Fuel Cell Power for Electric Vehicle Charging

FuelCellsWorks

Global sales of electric cars are set to hit another record year, with their share of the overall car market expected to grow to one-fifth in 2023. Add to this the.

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2,100-passenger electric Ro-Pax ferry ship features powertrain from Wärtsilä and batteries from Corvus

Charged

Australian shipbuilder Incat Tasmania is building a gigantic new battery-electric ferry. The lightweight catamaran has an overall length of 130 meters and a capacity of 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles. It is being built for Uruguayan ferry operator Buquebús, which plans to operate the vessel between Argentina and Uruguay. Finnish technology group Wärtsilä will supply the energy management, power conversion and DC shore charging systems, as well as the 40 MWh battery modules, the DC hub, the ei

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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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Big and Small Steps to Beat the Heat

The City Fix

It’s an island no one in their right mind wants to be on, but sadly many of us increasingly find ourselves due to global warming. “Heat islands” are a concept British climatologist Gordon Manley came up with way back in.

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Replacing tape used to make lithium-ion batteries could slow battery degradation and reduce self-discharge

TechXplore

A team of chemists and physicists at Dalhousie University in Canada has found that replacing the type of tape used to make lithium-ion batteries could slow battery degradation and reduce the amount of self-discharge in smartphones and other personal devices. In their project, reported in the journal Nature Materials, the group studied the behavior over time of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) tape used to make lithium-ion batteries in smartphones.

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Green Procurement Programs for Steel Cannot Merely Lock in the Status Quo

NRDC onEarth

Low-carbon procurement programs must encourage decarbonization across the steel industry.

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The EV Network and bp pulse open public EV charging hub with 180 charging points in the UK

Charged

UK charging infrastructure supplier bp pulse , along with The EV Network and events management company NEC Group, have partnered to open a bp pulse Gigahub on the NEC campus at the heart of the UK’s national motorway network. “The strategic placement and impressive scale of this charging hub within the UK’s transport infrastructure offers reassuring support to drivers journeying between cities,” said Reza Shaybani, CEO and co-founder of EVN.

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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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Equity in Energy: How Community Solar Is Involved

POWER Magazine

In the U.S., there has always been a direct correlation between the disparity in income and the distribution of renewable resources. Equity in energy refers to fairness in the distribution […] The post Equity in Energy: How Community Solar Is Involved appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Sion Power partners with Citrine Informatics to accelerate lithium metal EV battery development

Charged

Sion Power , a US-based battery developer, has entered into a multi-year agreement with Citrine Informatics to use the Citrine platform for artificial intelligence (AI)-guided product development. The partnership will focus on the digitalization of R&D and product development workflows for next-generation battery products. “The Citrine Platform allows us to accelerate our development of the next-generation lithium metal battery with twice the energy density of a conventional lithium-ion batt

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Groundbreaking Welsh Hydrogen Project Hits Six-Months Milestone, and Paves the Way for a Greener Future

FuelCellsWorks

A pioneering hydrogen project in Wales is celebrating its six-month milestone as one of the first operational hydrogen production facilities in the UK. Spearheaded by green hydrogen leader Protium, Pioneer.

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American Battery Factory and First Phosphate to produce LFP cathode active material in North America

Charged

American Battery Factory (ABF) has partnered with Canadian mineral development company First Phosphate to produce more than 40,000 tons of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode active material (CAM) annually for the battery storage sector in North America. The agreement envisions LFP CAM manufacturing of $500 million to $1 billion annually at future raw material 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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Electric vehicles balance the grid in UK for first time

Smart Energy International

Electric cars are balancing supply and demand on the UK power grid for the first time in a trial hosted by National Grid ESO and Octopus Energy. Through participation in an industry-wide trial, via the Power Responsive programme, the smart tariff ‘Intelligent Octopus’ will use batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) to balance the grid while charging. This trial will explore the role that smaller-scale assets, in particular EVs, could have in providing flexibility to the energy system via the Balan

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Two days left to join the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering

Charged

Next week, Charged is hosting a virtual conference on EV engineering that’s free to attend. The conference includes live webinar sessions with interactive Q&As and on-demand webinars. View the daily session schedule online here. All live sessions will be recorded and available to view after the broadcasts. You can access the recorded videos on each session’s registration page.

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Greece and Saudi Arabia form power interconnection joint venture

Smart Energy International

Greece and Saudi Arabia are looking at interconnecting electricity transmission and have taken a first step through the formation of a special purpose company, Saudi Greek Interconnection. The new company will prepare feasibility studies for the commercial viability of such interconnection between Greece and Saudi Arabia. Greek transmission system operator (TSO) ADMIE and Saudi Arabia’s TSO National Grid S.A – Saudi Electricity Company, will each hold a 50% stake in the special purpose com

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Energy storage can make community solar more financially resilient in wake of bank failures

Energy Storage News

Electriq Power CEO Frank Magnotti on how energy storage could help unlock the potential of community solar and enable more people to benefit.

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Hydrogen for Heat

Energy Central

Hydrogen for Heat With around 23 million homes in the UK using natural gas for heating and cooking, generating nearly a quarter of the entirety of UK emissions, decarbonising the homes must remain at top of the political agenda. The consensus is that we need investment in insulation, in heat pumps and Hydrogen. Heating UK homes is a real political issue.

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TLS Geothermics awarded geothermal exploration license in Martinique

ThinkGeoEnergy

French geothermal development company TLS Geothermics has been awarded The “Cœur Martinique” geothermal research license – the first exclusive license to research geothermal resources in Martinique. Covering an area of 133 sq. km., the exploration license was granted via a ministerial decree dated 11 September 2023. The Coeur Martinique geothermal exploration license area in Martinique (source: TLS Geothermics) Back in 2021, a consortium of Engie, TLS Geothermics, and Storengy

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John Kerry: Energy transition is the ‘new industrial revolution’

Financial Times: Energy

US climate envoy is worried by ‘lack of reality’ in some countries about global warming but is confident the market will drive green energy shift

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U.S. Department of Defense facilities to explore geothermal technologies

ThinkGeoEnergy

The deployment of geothermal technologies to provide reliable energy supply will be explored in four facilities under the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Agreements with three companies were signed for these projects by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). The geothermal companies and the facilities they will be working on are as follows: Eavor Technologies Inc. will assess the viability of deploying their deep closed-loop geothermal solution at the Air For

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Atlas Renewable Energy commissions 600MW of solar PV in Brazil

PV Tech

Latin America-focused solar developer Atlas Renewable Energy has commissioned 600MW of solar PV in Brazil.

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New method reduces carbon emissions from zinc oxide rotary kilns, boosting profits for zinc smelting industry

TechXplore

The zinc smelting industry is facing new challenges in meeting China's carbon peak and carbon neutrality targets. To address these challenges, researchers from Central South University in China have developed a control method that reduces carbon emissions from zinc oxide rotary kilns while maintaining high profits. Their findings have been published in the journal Engineering.

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Sunrun Securitizes Solar Leases, PPAs

Solar Industry

Sunrun, a provider of residential solar, storage and energy services, has closed the securitization of leases and power purchase agreements, known as Sunrun’s solar-as-a-service offering, and raised additional subordinated non-recourse financing. “We are pleased with Sunrun’s record-setting transaction, placing the largest ever residential solar securitization for the industry and subsequently raising additional non-recourse financings,” says Danny Abajian, Sunrun’s CFO. “Sunru

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Career experts answer 6 top questions from climate jobseekers

Canary Media

Looking for a career in climatetech? We’ve got you covered: This week, Canary Media convened industry experts to discuss how jobseekers can pursue a role in the climate space.

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Biden announces more offshore drilling, angering environmentalists

TechXplore

President Joe Biden's administration on Friday announced it would auction three new oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering a furious reaction from environmental groups who said the move would accelerate climate change.

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Labor and capital align in new movement for worker ownership (Video)

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 29 – It’s the age-old struggle: labor vs capital, workers vs. owners. But what happens when employees get a stake in the. The post Labor and capital align in new movement for worker ownership (Video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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An intelligent control method reduces carbon emissions in energy-intensive equipment

TechXplore

A research team led by Professor Tianyou Chai from Northeastern University, China, has developed an innovative intelligent control method for the low-carbon operation of energy-intensive equipment. This research, published in the journal Engineering, presents a significant step towards reducing carbon emissions in the process industry.

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