Wed.Sep 07, 2022

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Green is good: The ESG talent war in private equity

GreenBiz

ESG roles are opening at an increasing clip at private equity firms both small and large. What’s behind the trend, and how is private equity skilling and staffing up to meet the moment?

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Power-thrifty SAFs perform

Envirotec Magazine

Premier Tech Water and Environment has enhanced its range of Rewatec SAF sewage treatment plants to combine energy efficiency with an exceptionally high wastewater treatment performance. As part of the redesign, the Rewatec SAF now features an internal baffle in the primary chamber to assist with the removal of solids and organics, and to prevent potential blockages downstream.

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The compelling case for being ‘climate positive by design’

GreenBiz

Designing climate positive societies, workplaces and widgets is the missing element in climate models and, by consequence, climate action.

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How will the economic downturn affect PRN prices?

Envirotec Magazine

Joseph Doherty, Managing Director of waste management services firm Re-Gen Waste, believes that the PRN prices will be affected by the cost of living crisis. The graph below shows the amount of packaging placed on the UK market reported by registered packaging producers since the early days of the packaging waste regulation. Figure 1: Packaging placed on the market.

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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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Dolly told us to sing in the sunshine, and Sunfolding listened

GreenBiz

In Part 2 of the WWDPD series, we take a deeper look at how California-based Sunfolding is changing the solar panel game.

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Super sewer progress

Envirotec Magazine

Recent aerial photography shows some of the changes being made to the banks of the Thames during the construction of London’s 25-km super-sewer, Tideway. Now said to be three-quarters complete – and on-schedule to finish in 2025 – the 2.5m-diameter tunnel will provide an extra 1.6 million m3 of storage in London’s sewers. Around 40 million m2 of untreated sewage is dumped into the Thames every year, according to Tidway – once a week, on average, and the project will help tackle this, while also

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Surveyors call for urgent regulation of spray foam industry

Envirotec Magazine

Industry leaders from the Residential Property Surveyors Association (RPSA) and the Property Care Association (PCA) are calling for urgent regulation of the spray foam insulation industry as lenders tighten restrictions leaving as many as 250,000 homes “unmortgageable”. Sprayed polyurethane (PU) expanding foams are used in the lofts of houses, either to stabilise a failing roof covering, or to provide extra insulation.

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How to make cities greener and cooler as temperatures soar

GreenBiz

Building a new investment asset class of “urban forest” carbon credits to save the trees in population centers.

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Sponsored Content: Firm prioritises air quality

Envirotec Magazine

“At Air Spectrum Environmental, our priority is improving air quality in the industrial and workplace setting. Where possible, we believe that greening supply chains will make a huge difference to reduce or even eliminate emissions in our environment and improve occupational health and safety. This has become a focus for us as a product provider and as an organisation.”.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. This guide, useful for homeowners, designers, contractors and builders alike, highlights important green building materials to consider and suggests credible, certified sustainable brands to help you build a truly sustainable home.

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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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Maximising thermal hydrolysis production with the correct pump

Envirotec Magazine

SEEPEX cites zero downtime and no drop off in performance with its PC pumps and digital solutions. Pumps manufacturer SEEPEX offers a few thoughts on a contemporary challenge. According to government sources, there are 7,078 sewage treatment works (STW) in England and Wales, and 10,814 STW in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Pumping and storing sludge cake during the wastewater treatment process can be costly, driving water companies to technologies that reduce their volume to minimise such costs.

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EDP launches Energy Starter 2022, a program to promote innovative initiatives in the energy sector

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After the launch of the first module in May, EDP is now launching the second phase of the collaborative innovation program, with the aim of developing innovative solutions in renewable energies and green hydrogen for the global energy transition. Applications for startups are open until September 30.

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Sponsored Content: Budget-friendly clean air technology

Envirotec Magazine

A dual-pass Monashell installation. Anua Clean Air UK is an established leader in the fields of high performance, low-cost odour and solvent emission abatement primarily based on its patented biofiltration and bio-scrubbing technologies. These technologies, in the main, use recovered materials as the core component and provide a hat trick of environmental benefits in terms of circular economy, carbon footprint and removal of harmful atmospheric pollutants.

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Archer Aviation receives $10 million from United Airlines for 100 eVTOL aircraft

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Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) has received a $10-million pre-delivery payment from United Airlines for 100 of the company’s initial production electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. This represents a deposit on aircraft which United agreed to purchase in 2021. Archer is developing eVTOL aircraft for use in urban air mobility networks.

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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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Sponsored Content: MCERTS ensures best available technology for monitoring

Envirotec Magazine

ABB’s AWT420 Transmitter as well as the 100GP and 500 Pro pH sensors now join the WaterMaster Electromagnetic flowmeter and AST430 TSS sensor with MCERTS accreditation. MCERTS accreditation relieves the pressure for water quality measurement of effluent discharge. Increasingly strict legislation is focusing attention on the quality of discharged effluent, placing added emphasis on the effective management and control of wastewater.

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San Diego resort deploys smart EV charging with battery energy storage

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Sycuan Casino Resort plans to deploy 40 Level 2 chargers, 5 DC fast chargers, and a 250 kW/560 kWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at its San Diego location. To complete this project, Sycuan partnered with PowerFlex, a provider of intelligent onsite clean energy solutions. The EV chargers are integrated into a network that uses PowerFlex’s patented Adaptive Load Management (ALM) software to dynamically balance the total system load by controlling the output of individual chargers in real ti

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Sponsored Content: Heat regeneration should be key consideration

Envirotec Magazine

By Matt Hale, International Sales & Marketing Director, HRS Heat Exchangers. Many industrial processes require energy, but only a portion of that energy input is used for each operation, such as evaporation. Using heat exchangers, it is possible to recapture most of this untapped energy through waste heat regeneration. Heat regeneration (also known as heat recovery) is the process whereby heat from a process which would otherwise be lost or wasted is recaptured and used for useful heating pu

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South Australia wind farms lift Australia to record monthly output in August

Renew Economy

Four wind farms in South Australia lead country to record monthly wind output in August. The post South Australia wind farms lift Australia to record monthly output in August appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Sponsored Content: Guardian2: The solution for multi-agent site monitoring

Envirotec Magazine

Casella continues to demonstrate its commitment to helping its customers reduce environmental risks from large construction projects with the Guardian2. The system allows the simultaneous monitoring and reporting of noise, dust, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and vibration as well as wind speed and direction for an all-encompassing assessment of emitted levels.

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Carbon Capture: The Fossil Fuel Industry and Government Panacea

Energy Central

The International Energy Agency estimates that carbon capture technology's contribution to CO2 emissions reduction will fulfil 15% of the total needed to keep mean temperatures from rising beyond 1.5 Celsius. Yet the U.S. and other governments are throwing billions in terms of tax credits and subsidies to encourage new carbon capture projects. Wouldn't the money be better spent on.

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Sponsored Content: Purifiers remove microplastics and PFAS

Envirotec Magazine

Independently verified research by Swedish water technology firm Bluewater has apparently verified the efficiency of its water purifier technology at removing up to 99.99% of health threatening microplastics and chemicals such as toxic PFAS from tap water. In late March 2022, researchers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, reported finding microplastics in the blood samples of 22 anonymous donors.

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German government proposes limited extension of “high risk” nuclear

Renew Economy

German economy and climate minister says tweak to nuclear exit law will only entail a limited extension until spring next year, due to the technology's risks. The post German government proposes limited extension of “high risk” nuclear appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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A DNA “receipt book”?

Envirotec Magazine

Genetic techniques like CRISPR are being used to engineer cells to behave like living biosensors, capable of providing an unprecedented window into the behaviour of cells and, as such, to help with keeping track of changes in environments such as ponds and wastewater facilities. If you want to track a person’s activities for a day, you could call them up every ten minutes and ask what they’re doing.

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3 design considerations for next-gen EV charging stations

Charged

Sponsored by Littelfuse. How to make tomorrow’s charging stations more efficient, highly reliable, and safer. Global hybrid and electric vehicle adoption depend on the network of fast-charging EV stations available. Users don’t want to run out of juice where they cannot recharge their vehicles. Widespread adoption also depends on reducing the charging time, with the goal of getting EV charging times as close to the time it takes for a conventional fossil fuel fill-up.

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Paying billions in subsidies to fossil fuel industry makes absolutely no economic sense

Renew Economy

Subsidies serve an important function, but it makes absolutely no economic sense to subsidise things a government is, or should be, trying to discourage. The post Paying billions in subsidies to fossil fuel industry makes absolutely no economic sense appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Umicore to build cathode precursor and active material plant in Canada

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Umicore , a materials technology and recycling company, is planning to build a cathode precursor material and cathode active material plant in Ontario, Canada. “The planned facility would be the first of its kind in North America, combining cathode and precursor materials manufacturing at a large industrial scale and thereby completing the missing link in Canada’s battery value chain, from natural resources to electric mobility,” says Umicore.

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Aurora Solar Platform Generates 10 Millionth Solar Roof Design, Helping Millions Make the Switch to the Future

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More than 7,000 solar installers around the world depend on Aurora every day to deliver a new energy experience

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New Zealand startup hopes to deploy 6,000+ charging stations in Florida

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Invisible Urban Charging (IUC), a New Zealand-based firm that was founded in 2019, has announced plans to roll out more than 6,000 EV chargers in Florida. That sounds like a lot—according to the DOE, there are currently 5,023 Level 2 chargers and 1,461 DC fast chargers in the state. However, IUC hasn’t specified a timeline, and has only announced one site so far.

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Spanish energy giant Iberdrola to invest $A4.4 billion in Australian energy transition

Renew Economy

Spanish energy giant Iberdrola says it plans to spend up to $4.4 billion on Australia renewable and storage developments. The post Spanish energy giant Iberdrola to invest $A4.4 billion in Australian energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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innolectric and CBMM study soft magnetic materials to increase charging efficiency

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A joint research project of EV component manufacturer innolectric and Niobium products company CBMM is studying the role of nanocrystalline magnetic materials in boosting EV charging efficiency. The research is testing a soft magnetic core material with niobium in an innolectric on-board charger. “To achieve the best possible results, the functional properties, thermal behavior and electromagnetic interference behavior are tested directly in an existing system architecture,” says CBMM.

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Green hydrogen industry is sick of feasibility studies, wants backing for showcase projects

Renew Economy

Australia's green hydrogen hopefuls are tired of feasibility studies, and want support for a large scale project to show path to global dominance. The post Green hydrogen industry is sick of feasibility studies, wants backing for showcase projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Global RAIS resurrects tenKsolar’s panel and racking technology

Solar Power World

It’s common for technologies to leave the solar market. The industry is constantly growing and changing, and not every manufacturer survives. What’s uncommon is for a solar technology that’s been dormant for half a decade to resurface under a new name. In 2017, solar racking and module manufacturer tenKsolar shuttered. Today, its technologies are available… The post Global RAIS resurrects tenKsolar’s panel and racking technology appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Sunshine state dominates winter performance tables for solar PV

Renew Economy

Strong winter sun helps Queensland solar farms dominate list of best performing large scale solar PV assets in August. The post Sunshine state dominates winter performance tables for solar PV appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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