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Care about biodiversity? Push for food systems transformation

GreenBiz

Increasing biodiversity is the new kid on the block for sustainability professionals. But solving it will require investing in the old guard that we keep overlooking.

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£1 million grant for novel hydro energy storage system

Envirotec Magazine

BEIS-funded research project to identify and test minerals and discarded wastes for use in RheEnergise’s grid scale hydro energy storage system In partnership with the University of Greenwich and the University of Exeter, RheEnergise, a UK company developing a novel form of pumped hydro-energy storage, has secured a grant of £1 million, funded through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) as part of the UK Government’s Energy Entrepreneurs Fund.

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Amazon freshens up sustainable farming with first low-impact lettuce

GreenBiz

The tech giant is partnering with startup Hippo Harvest, which grows lettuces using robotics and greenhouses designed to slash water and fertilizer inputs, reduce food waste and cut land use requirements.

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New certification aims to boost British hydrogen sector

Envirotec Magazine

Hydrogen can be used in innovative ways in industries like steel manufacturing (image credit: Zhang Sheng / Shutterstock.com) In a bid to elevate transparency and confidence in the UK’s low carbon hydrogen sector, the UK government has outlined plans for “a globally recognised low carbon hydrogen certification scheme.” There is currently no recognised way for producers of low carbon hydrogen to prove the credentials of their product.

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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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How AEG connects corporations and other stakeholders to help cities deliver on climate goals

GreenBiz

AEG, founded by entrepreneur H.G. Chissell, has helped activate clean energy and infrastructure projects in places such as San Juan and New York, where it helped win a $110 million grant.

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Birds bounce back when farms devote 10% of their land to nature-friendly measures, says RSPB

Envirotec Magazine

Skylark Alauda arvensis, at the grassy edge of a small field in Cornwall. A more strategic approach to wildlife-friendly farming schemes is required to recover England’s farmland bird populations, according to a new study led by the RSPB. A new paper published in January in the Journal of Applied Ecology , with support from the BTO and funding from Natural England, monitored how farmland bird populations responded to different levels of agri-environment schemes in arable, pastoral and mixed farm

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A Good Cleantech Story Is Worth Its Weight In Gold

Michael Grossman

Last year, investment in clean energy technologies topped a trillion dollars for the first time. What’s the secret to tapping into it if you have a cleantech startup? For starters, get your story straight. Your Story Needs An Answer For This… Because so many cleantech startups are founded by scientists and engineers, they naturally lean towards focusing their story on their technology.

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RS Adds Three New Suppliers to its Industry 4.0 Technology Portfolio

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ILME, ABB Robotics, and Madison Company further extend RS’ industry-leading selection of industrial automation solutions, including connectors, robotics, switches, and sensors.

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Is an EV future sustainable?

Energy Central

Strolling through the Washington Auto Show on January 27, my eyes popped at all the bright and shiny new cars, SUVs and trucks. Also on display were assistive technology wheelchairs and other mobility devices. Vehicles representing 25 brands — from Acura to Volvo — occupied two full floors of the Washington Convention Center. Suddenly, a replica of a Chevy Super Sport hubcap.

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Fluke Announces New Solar Leadership and Kickstarts Solar Training Initiative

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Solar Applications Specialist Will White to bolster Fluke’s solar training and education efforts, beginning with Intersolar North America, an upcoming webinar and a NABCEP 2023 session

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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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Solar’s stunning journey from lab curiosity to global juggernaut wiping out fossil fuels

Renew Economy

Leading solar researcher predicts technology will "wipe fossil fuels" out of the global economy, and help deliver a resilient, reliable and extremely cheap energy grid. The post Solar’s stunning journey from lab curiosity to global juggernaut wiping out fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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SolarEdge and Freedom Forever Announce Multi-Year Agreement that Includes PV and Battery Storage Systems

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SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., a global leader in smart energy technology, announced today that it entered into a multi-year agreement with Freedom Forever, a leading U.S. residential solar installer, for the supply of residential smart energy products and solutions.

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EVAIRTECH system can inflate your tires while you charge your EV

Charged

Tire-maintenance specialist Tire Logics has announced the launch of EVAIRTECH, its patent-pending technology designed to allow users to carry out tire inflation while charging their EVs. Underinflated tires can lower driving range, increase charging costs and tire wear, and reduce vehicle safety. The company says that with the trend toward charging stations taking advantage of wait times to offer value-added services, tire maintenance becomes a logical extension of such incremental business.

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Munis 101: Players, capital flows and mechanics in the $4 trillion municipal-bond market

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 9 – Municipal bonds have been called the original impact investments, the source of much needed capital for highways, bridges, schools and. The post Munis 101: Players, capital flows and mechanics in the $4 trillion municipal-bond market appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Cost of manufacturing ammonia is cheaper compare to hydrogen as fuel ?

Energy Central

The cost of manufacturing ammonia is generally lower than the cost of producing hydrogen as a fuel. This is because ammonia can be produced from readily available and inexpensive feedstocks, such as natural gas or nitrogen and hydrogen from renewable sources, while hydrogen typically requires more expensive and energy-intensive processes, such as steam methane reforming or electrolysis.

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evLABs to provide Box Truck Network with electric trucks and delivery vans

Charged

Electric truck and bus builder evLABs has signed a 5-year exclusive agreement with Box Truck Network to supply new and repowered electric trucks, including a Class 6 electric truck called the CurrentT and an electric delivery van called the Thunderbolt. evLABs specializes in vehicles ranging between 19,500-pound and 33,000-pound GVWR, including delivery vans, school/transit buses and electric repowers.

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The Brief: Racial equity in municipal finance (video), Common Future’s accelerator, refrigeration management, battery manufacturing, Black business boom

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Muni Impact Engaging racial-equity risks and opportunities in municipal finance (video). The fatal beating by police of Tyre. The post The Brief: Racial equity in municipal finance (video), Common Future’s accelerator, refrigeration management, battery manufacturing, Black business boom appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Cracker of a deal: Arnott’s takes iconic biscuit operations to 100 per cent renewables

Renew Economy

Iconic biscuit brand announces shift to 100% renewables, in a deal with major Queensland utility that's also making the move from black to green. The post Cracker of a deal: Arnott’s takes iconic biscuit operations to 100 per cent renewables 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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Leclanché’s aqueous  process reduces cobalt usage in NMCA cells, eliminates toxic solvent

Charged

Swiss battery maker Leclanché says it has found a way to reduce the cobalt content in nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum oxide (NMCA) cathodes from 20% to 5%, by using in a new environmentally friendly water-based process. The company’s G/NMCA cell has a nickel content of around 90%, which it says increases energy density and enables the reduction in cobalt content.

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100 per cent renewable XXXX, as oil giant and beer giant strike new PPA

Renew Economy

More solar beer for Australian fridges as iconic Queensland brewery goes 100% renewable in an energy offtake deal with Lightsource bp. The post 100 per cent renewable XXXX, as oil giant and beer giant strike new PPA appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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This provision of the IRA could deliver much bigger results than the EV tax credits

Charged

The so-called Inflation Reduction Act includes a long list of measures intended to promote e-mobility and renewable energy. The one that’s gotten the most press is the revamped system of tax credits for EV purchases—and naturally so, because that’s the measure that most drivers can see benefitting them directly. However, as John Voelcker writes in Car and Driver , there’s another provision that could end up having a much greater impact on EV prices (and it’s the price premium over ICE vehicles t

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International Offshore Wind Conference to Address Industry Hurdles, Including Inflation and Supply Chain Development

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Starting March 28 in Baltimore, Business Network for Offshore Wind’s three-day event will connect global leaders, policymakers, and businesses as industry moves to commercialization

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Was Britishvolt’s collapse the beginning of the end for the UK auto industry?

Charged

When Charged spoke with execs from aspiring battery manufacturer Britishvolt back in May of 2022, we were impressed by the company’s big ambitions and innovative ideas. We were very disappointed to hear of its recent demise, but not unduly surprised. As is typically the case in nascent industries, the attrition rate among EV-related companies is high.

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Energy Insiders Podcast: The Australian solar heroes bringing down coal and gas

Renew Economy

Professor Andrew Blakers, one of the team awarded "Nobel prize" of engineering, and how solar will eliminate fossil fuels, and Australian's leading role in that transition. The post Energy Insiders Podcast: The Australian solar heroes bringing down coal and gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Lawsuit Targets Shell’s Board of Directors Over Energy Transition Plans

DeSmogBlog

Shell’s board of directors officially has been served with a world-first lawsuit aiming to hold its corporate directors personally liable for alleged mismanagement of climate risk. The lawsuit, filed Thursday by UK-based environmental law organization ClientEarth, contends that Shell’s strategy to address climate change and manage the energy transition fails to align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and leaves the company in a vulnerable position as society shifts away from fossil fuel

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ZOLA electric announces launch of world’s largest off-grid solar home solution - FLEX MAX

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-New solution expands on ZOLA’s portfolio of leading hybrid solar energy and storage solutions purpose-built for emerging markets -Provides ‘electrical infrastructure in a box’ for off-grid and peri-urban markets

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Australian energy transition guru to lead “most exciting climate strategy anywhere”

Renew Economy

Australian energy transition expert officially joins Saul Griffith in his company's mission to "electrify everything" with solar and battery storage. The post Australian energy transition guru to lead “most exciting climate strategy anywhere” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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E-Bike market size will become USD 40.98 billion by 2030

altenergymag

According to projections, the e-bike market size accounted for approximately USD 18.86 billion in 2022 and it will become USD 40.98 billion by 2030.

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Coal whack-a-mole: Current efforts to phase out coal power just won’t cut it

Renew Economy

We can’t expect markets to end the burning of coal as quickly as we need to halt global warming. That means we’ll need policies to do the work. The post Coal whack-a-mole: Current efforts to phase out coal power just won’t cut it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Ampliform and Nevados Establish Long-Term Strategic Partnership for Solar Tracker Supply

altenergymag

Nevados to provide all-terrain solar trackers that reduce construction costs, time, and risks under long-term supply agreement with Ampliform

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MG4 debuts in Sydney, as Fully Charged show ‘almost every EV’

Renew Economy

Fully Charged LIVE Australia will be packed with progressive companies and 10-15,000 positive consumers. The post MG4 debuts in Sydney, as Fully Charged show ‘almost every EV’ appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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INTERSOLAR & EES MIDDLE EAST AND MIDDLE EAST ENERGY 2023 ARE GEARING UP TO HELP NAVIGATING THROUGH THE ENERGY TRANSITION

altenergymag

Middle East energy transitions are picking up speed. Driven by well-designed auctions, favorable financing conditions and declining technology costs, renewables are being brought into the mainstream. The Middle East is set to become a market leader in renewable energy. Up to 90GW of renewable energy capacity, mainly solar and wind power, is planned across the MENA region over the next 10 to 20 years.

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Adani: Are we witnessing a corporate Hindenburg?

Renew Economy

These are interesting times for the previously teflon-coated coal tycoon Gautam Adani and his hydra-like empire. The world is watching. The post Adani: Are we witnessing a corporate Hindenburg? appeared first on RenewEconomy.