Fri.May 06, 2022

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Circularity requires collaboration from companies, large and small

GreenBiz

Individual circularity efforts are great and they can make a dent, but it’s clear at this point that no level of “going it alone” is going to get us where we need to be economy-wide.

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Strata Clean Energy contracts another 400MWh BESS in California

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“The IEES project in Rialto, CA is a 100MW stand-alone battery energy storage system contracted to produce 400MWhs of capacity by the summer of 2024,” said Josh Rogol, Chief Development Officer for Strata. “As a fully developed BESS with site control, an executed interconnection agreement and completed entitlements, IEES was well positioned to respond to the request for offers.

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Ørsted will try growing coral reefs at the base of offshore wind turbines

GreenBiz

Danish energy firm is aiming to achieve a net positive impact on biodiversity across all of its new projects from 2030.

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The Most Efficient and Sustainable Construction Ideas for 2022

Green Living Guy

Even though most people believe that the construction industry is to be blamed for the catastrophic ecological situation we’re living in at the moment, this concept couldn’t be further away from the truth. On the contrary, the people in this industry are constantly looking for ways to take their efforts to the next level and […]. The post The Most Efficient and Sustainable Construction Ideas for 2022 appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living,

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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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Episode 315: Meet the VC firm advised by Leo DiCaprio

GreenBiz

Dan Fishman and Mike Smith, general partners of Regeneration.VC, talk about what differentiates its investment thesis and how it will work with large corporations.

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Can We Make Plastic More Sustainable?

Green Living Guy

As pollution causes a significant loss of biodiversity and humans now face a compromised aquatic-based food system, it’s time to meet a simple truth: The world has a serious plastic problem. Every year, 14 million tons of plastic pollution enter the ocean, causing illness and death in marine species through entanglement and ingestion. Seeing that […].

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Beyond Highways: Funding Clean Transportation through the US Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

The City Fix

U.S. President Biden has touted the potential climate benefits of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which makes historic investments in transportation, the country’s largest and fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. But while the bill’s investments could significantly lower transportation emissions, those reductions are not. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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TWAICE raises additional $30 million Series B funding to expand battery simulation model library

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Battery analytics software company TWAICE has raised $30 million in additional Series B funding, in addition to the $26 million in Series B financing raised in May of 2021. The funding round extension includes existing investors. TWAICE will use the funding to further optimize its cloud analytics platform and grow in Europe, North America, and at its new Chicago office.

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Green Travel Tips To Help You Travel More Sustainably

Green Living Guy

Many people think of sustainable travel as leaving the least environmental footprint as they travel. However, this subject encompasses more than just that. It is all about striking a balance in all aspects of life, including environmental health, human well-being, and economic growth. The goal usually is to heighten the benefits of tourism to the […].

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Vietnamese EV-maker VinFast builds factory in North Carolina, plans US IPO

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Vietnamese EV-maker VinFast has designs on the US auto market—the company recently began building a factory in North Carolina , and now it has filed for an initial public offering on the US stock market. VinFast is also planning a funding round that could raise up to $1 billion ahead of the IPO. At this point, the company says it hasn’t decided on the size of its IPO, but Bloomberg estimates the share sale could raise some $2 billion, which would make it the biggest ever by a Vietnamese company.

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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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BLINK Charging Plymouth, Minnesota EV charging station location

Green Living Guy

So let’s say hello. I mean to a Plymouth, Minnesota BLINK Charging station location. I love showing off cool ev charging station locations So far starters, it’s at: 9700 56th Ave N, Plymouth, MN 55442, USA Moreover, here’s the Plugshare link: [link] Here’s also the top four cool things I know about this spot! Fairly […].

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Tritium to supply chargers and services to bp’s EV charging network

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The long-term consequences of oil companies’ interest in the charging industry remain to be seen, but they’re moving in, and they’re buying hardware. Australian EVSE manufacturer Tritium (Nasdaq: DCFC) has entered into a multi-year contract with bp to supply chargers and related services to the bp pulse charging network. bp has placed an initial order of just under 1,000 chargers for the UK, Australia and New Zealand markets.

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The Future of Solar Technology: 2022 and Beyond

Green Living Guy

Solar technology is evolving rapidly, and in just a few years, it will be even more efficient and affordable than it is today. In 2022, solar technology will have progressed to the point where it can provide a significant portion of the world’s energy needs. Here are just a few of the exciting advancements that we can […]. The post The Future of Solar Technology: 2022 and Beyond appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car New

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CONGRESSWOMAN BARRAGÁN AND LACI TOUT “EV’S FOR ALL ACT” TO BRING EV CAR SHARE & CHARGING TO PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS NATIONALLY, JOIN RESIDENTS IN HIGHLIGHTING BENEFITS FROM LACI ZERO EMISSIONS CAR SHARE PILOT AT RANCHO SAN PEDRO

LA CleanTech Incubator

Barragán and LACI CEO Matt Petersen Urge Passage of HR 6662 to Increase Access to EVs and Charging in Neighborhoods Facing Disproportionate Air Pollution such as from diesel trucks moving goods from the Port of LA; LACI’s EV car share pilot created to address equity while accelerating regional progress toward the Transportation Electrification Partnership’s 2028.

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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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Software integration key to future-proof grids – Siemens’ Sabine Erlinghagen

Smart Energy International

With the ever-increasing number and complexity of distributed energy resources (DERs) requiring integration comes the question of how best to manage the grid to avoid shortage and inertia while sustaining its stability. Yusuf Latief spoke to the CEO of Grid Software at Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Sabine Erlinghagen, who is adamant that software integration is the answer, but speed is required.

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Need an EV tour guide for the ACT Expo 2022 show in Long Beach? NACFE can help color your trip.

Energy Central

NACFE takes the education of electrification in commercial trucking very seriously. We have a far reaching network of fleets, OEMs, dealerships, suppliers and others engaged in this transformation. If you are attending the huge ACT Expo in Long Beach and would like to have a "tour guide" of some of the products as well as many of the people, please contact David.Schaller@NACFE.org or.

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Global heating risks most cataclysmic extinction of marine life in 250 million years

Grist

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Global heating is causing such a drastic change to the world’s oceans that it risks a mass extinction event of marine species that rivals anything that’s happened in the Earth’s history over tens of millions of years, new research has warned.

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How to accelerate sale-to-install time and squash solar soft costs

Solar Power World

By Pete Cleveland, VP of solar, EagleView In competitive residential solar markets, a solar sales and installation company competes with an average of 20 solar businesses for customers, referrals and market share. For many companies, the pressure to stay competitive has emphasized a new need to reduce system costs. While overall system costs in the… The post How to accelerate sale-to-install time and squash solar soft costs appeared first on Solar Power World.

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'We can compete on a national stage': Greens on track for significant local election gains

Business Green

Co-leader Adrian Ramsay tells BusinessGreen Party's electoral success underlines growing public concern over the climate emergency. The Green Party is on track for one of its best ever showings in UK local elections, having secured close to 100 seats across the country with around three quarters of councils declared. As of late Friday afternoon, the Green Party had won 97 seats, representing a net gain of 54 seats compared to the last time the councils were contested.

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20 million smart meter milestone for GB data network

Smart Energy International

The GB Data Communications Company (DCC) has reported the connection of the 20 millionth smart meter to the national network. The milestone achieved with the installation of an electricity smart meter by supplier Utilita Energy Ltd at a location in Brighton also marks a doubling in size of the network in just 14 months. With the connection the DCC network comprises 8.5 million first-generation meters which have been migrated and 11.5 million second-generation meters.

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Coldplay team up with biofuels giant Neste to help slash world tour emissions

Business Green

The band is aiming to make its upcoming world tour 'as sustainable as possible' by utilising waste-derived biofuels to power its tour buses, flights, and staging operations. Coldplay has teamed up with leading biofuels producer Neste in a bid to slash emissions from the band's tour buses and plane travel during the European and North American legs of its upcoming world tour this year, the company announced yesterday.

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MISO worries about meeting electric power demand this summer

Smart Energy International

The US Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) said in a summer readiness workshop that it will likely need to import more non-firm energy and/or need additional energy resources to meet the 2022 summer peak demand. Warmer-than-normal temperatures are forecasted throughout the MISO footprint. The summer weather forecast is based on a variety of vendor forecasts as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA).

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Net Zero Innovate Podcast: 2. Lord Adair Turner and the exciting world of green industrial innovation

Business Green

LISTEN: Energy Transitions Commission chair Lord Adair Turner chats to James Murray about the growing business case for decarbonising heavy industry and CO2 removals. Just a few short years ago, the idea of fully decarbonising heavy industrial manufacturing and processes such as steelmaking, cement and chemicals production seemed like a fairly far off prospect, as many doubted whether the technologies and solutions would be found to drive down emissions from these energy-intensive industries, at

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Surging bills plunge customer satisfaction for water utilities

Smart Energy International

A six-year streak in the US of improving or flat customer satisfaction rates with residential water utilities has, due to a significant increase in monthly bills, come to an end. The past few years have seen customer satisfaction for water utilities either maintain a stable level or continuously increase. This was earned through investment in water quality, proactive customer communications and digital customer service channels.

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Biden Administration Announces $3.1 Billion Grant Program for Battery Processing and Manufacturing to Support Clean Energy and Transportation

Energy and Cleantech Council

On May 2, 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the release of a funding opportunity announcement (“FOA”) through which DOE may provide $3.1 billion in grant funding to support projects that will accelerate the development of a resilient supply chain for high-capacity batteries. This FOA, the authority for which is provided in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”), is the first release of more than $7 billion included in the IIJA to strengthen the U.S. battery supply

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Siemens’ grid software suite to support net zero momentum

Smart Energy International

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has announced an open, modular grid software suite to support energy stakeholders and enable them to be fast, agile and flexible when coping with existing and future challenges. The suite, claimed to be an industry first, will enable users to run grid protection simulations up to six times faster than the current speed of execution and increase grid management efficiency by up to 85%.

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Green moves: CDP CEO Paul Simpson to step down, as Guy Newey appointed next Energy Systems Catapult boss

Business Green

Plus Laura Sandys appointed to board of directors of pioneering energy storage company Highview Power. Paul Simpson is to step down as chief executive of CDP, after more than 12 years at the helm of the influential corporate climate disclosure body. CDP announced yesterday that Simpson, who helped found the organisation 21 years ago with Paul Dickinson, Tessa Tennant, and Jeremy Smith, would be stepping down as CEO at the end of June.

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Methanol-to-Hydrogen Power Could Boost the Potential of Fuel Cells

Energy Central

Methanol-to-Hydrogen Power Could Boost the Potential of Fuel Cells.

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Rapid electric car charging hub opens on M25

Business Green

EV drivers are now able to charge up their cars within 15 minutes at Thurrock motorway service station. Electric vehicle (EV) drivers now have access to 12 new rapid chargers on Britain's busiest motorway, after a new dedicated EV charging hub on the M25 was officially opened this week by Gridserve and Moto. Located at Moto's motorway services station in Thurrock on the eastern side of the M25 between junctions 30 and 31, the new site enables EV drivers to power up their batteries with 117 miles

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Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights finds world’s biggest fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damage

Eco-Business

Days before the national elections, activists urge the incoming government to use the decision on the world’s first national enquiry framing climate change as a human rights issue, as basis for seeking climate justice from big polluters.

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State lands open for carbon crediting, but how good are those credits?

Business Green

An important new front is opening up in the US carbon offset market, but can it deliver on its promise? Last year, the global carbon offset market hit a record $851bn , according to analysts at Refinitiv. But in the US, there are millions of acres that haven't been available for carbon projects - located on federal and state land. Indeed, there are currently only two carbon projects generating carbon credits on state land; there are none on federal land.

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Henkel introduces new protective coatings for battery housings

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German chemical company Henkel has introduced two new coatings designed to protect battery housings from heat and fire in case of a thermal runaway event. The company says, “When applied to battery packs, the coatings help to inhibit and delay the spread of fires to protect the passengers as they evacuate the vehicle.”. Loctite EA 9400 is a two-component, active flame-retardant, epoxy-based fire-protective coating.

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Local Elections: Greens celebrate gains across the country

Business Green

Greens, Lib Dems, and Labour all enjoy significant gains, but Conservatives maintain their performance was better than expected. The Green Party has emerged as one of the main winners in yesterday's local elections, having chalked up a net gain of 22 seats with less than half the contested councils declared. As of 9:30 this morning, the Party had won 39 seats, a net gain of 22 seats, and was hotly tipped for further gains as all the opposition parties enjoyed a significant uptick in support.

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How the Oil and Gas Industry Is Trying to Hold US Public Schools Hostage

DeSmogBlog

By Leanna First-Arai, The Guardian. This article originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. The oil and gas industry wants to play a word-and-picture association game with you. Think of four images: a brightly colored backpack stuffed with pencils, a smiling teacher with a tablet tucked under her arm, a pair of glasses resting on a stack of pastel notebooks, and a gleaming school bus wel