Thu.Nov 16, 2023

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The US/China climate agreement: 5 takeaways for business leaders

GreenBiz

With geopolitical tensions high and the stakes for the global environment rising, the countries reached the starting point for a path forward on mitigating the climate crisis.

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Fish eDNA project highlights promise of environmental survey work at offshore wind farms

Envirotec Magazine

A new report validates the use of fish environmental DNA (eDNA) survey methods, declaring that they could transform the way fish ecology surveys are conducted for offshore wind farm developments. It has been produced by renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, along with project partners, EDF Renewables and environmental DNA and nature intelligence expert, NatureMetrics.

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Petro-aggression and the energy transition

GreenBiz

Azerbaijan’s conflict with Armenia provides a case study of how oil and gas-fueled aggression can impede the energy transition. Here’s what corporations can do about that.

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New Mexico Adopts Crucial Package to Clean up Cars and Trucks

NRDC onEarth

Adoption of the Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks, and Heavy-Duty Low NOx standards will provide significant benefits to New Mexico

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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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14 training resources for designing circularity into business models and products

GreenBiz

Learn how to apply circular economy principles at your organization — whether you’re starting from scratch or reimagining the status quo.

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Cracking Ammonia: Dissociation and Fuel Innovation

CleanTech Group

Ammonia is often touted as the fuel of the future. It is gaseous at room temperature but can be liquefied under low pressure.

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Australia has everything battery storage needs, except the ability to make them at scale

Renew Economy

Australia could support up to five giga-factories, just for domestic energy storage and commercial electric vehicles. The post Australia has everything battery storage needs, except the ability to make them at scale appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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S&P: US nearing 15GW of battery storage, ERCOT rebounds from quiet second quarter

Energy Storage News

The US’ cumulative battery storage installations reached 14.689GW at the end of Q3 2023, with Texas’ ERCOT market contributing 40% of new additions during the quarter.

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Concordia Damen: Trial Run of World’s First New-Build Hydrogen-Powered Inland Shipping Vessel ‘Weva’ Goes Well

FuelCellsWorks

Lenten Scheepvaart (the Netherlands) will go down in history as the owner of the world’s first-ever newbuild hydrogen-powered inland shipping barge. With this, the shipping company sets a new standard.

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NSW Planning backflips on wind energy map messaging: Everywhere is now suitable!

Renew Economy

The NSW Planning department has performed a remarkable backflip on the messaging from its wind farm map. Everywhere is now deemed "suitable" for wind turbines. The post NSW Planning backflips on wind energy map messaging: Everywhere is now suitable! 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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Contrail-Chasing Blue Condor Makes Airbus’ First Full Hydrogen-Powered Flight

FuelCellsWorks

The modified glider at the centre of Airbus UpNext’s hydrogen contrail-studying experiment, Blue Condor, made its first hydrogen-powered flight over Nevada in the United States on 8 November. The flight.

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“Net zero greenwash:” Energy giants called out over plans to burn more fossil fuels

Renew Economy

Woodside Energy was among those assessed to be at significant risk of "net zero greenwash" because of their efforts to influence governments against phasing out fossil fuels. The post “Net zero greenwash:” Energy giants called out over plans to burn more fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Port of Amsterdam Bolsters European Hydrogen Position With New Agreements

FuelCellsWorks

Together with a wide variety of partners, Port of Amsterdam announced three agreements during the H2 Connecting Event in Duisburg, which bolster the port’s position as a key supplier of.

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JFF Ventures aligns venture capital with a national nonprofit to invest in the future of work

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 16 – Creating the tools and technologies to move more than 100 million low-income Americans comfortably into the middle class with. The post JFF Ventures aligns venture capital with a national nonprofit to invest in the future of work 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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South Australia Landmark hydrogen and renewable energy Bill passes state parliament

FuelCellsWorks

South Australia’s landmark Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Bill has passed both Houses of the South Australian Parliament, paving the way for the state to capitalise on its abundant wind and.

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The POWER Interview: DOE’s Unique New Advanced Nuclear Reactor Test Beds

POWER Magazine

In October, the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) kicked off a ceremony to repurpose the iconic Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) containment structure at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) as a new […] The post The POWER Interview: DOE’s Unique New Advanced Nuclear Reactor Test Beds appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Orange EV produces its 1,000th heavy-duty electric terminal truck

Charged

Since Orange EV produced its first electric terminal truck in 2015, we’ve seen many a commercial EV manufacturer boom and bust, as Orange quietly went about its business. Now the company is celebrating the production of its 1,000th electric terminal truck. ( Terminal trucks , also known as drayage trucks or yard goats, shuttle cargo around ports and logistics facilities, and represent an excellent use case for EVs.

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Maxeon to lay off 22% of global workforce, sues Aiko Solar for patent infringement

PV Tech

Solar manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies will lay off about 22% of its global workforce as it decided to entirely phase out its Maxeon 6 interdigitated back contact (IBC) modules as well as other operational realignment.

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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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Omni introduces an electric powertrain for skid steers

Charged

Omni Powertrain Technologies provides electrical, hydrostatic and mechanical powertrain solutions to on- and off-highway markets, including agricultural and construction equipment and commercial vehicles. Omni products include enclosed transmissions, planetary drives, PTO shafts, electric motors and power electronics. The firm has operations in the US, China and Italy.

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Pioneering Hydrogen-Powered Gas Peaking: Inside Duke Energy’s DeBary Project

POWER Magazine

In late 2024, a first-of-a-kind, fully functional project spearheaded by Duke Energy, GE Vernova, and Sargent and Lundy could begin demonstrating the commercial peaking capabilities of an integrated hydrogen power-to-power […] The post Pioneering Hydrogen-Powered Gas Peaking: Inside Duke Energy’s DeBary Project appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Volvo orders two Tesla-style Giga Presses for Slovakia EV plant

Charged

Tesla pioneered megacasting, a technique that uses giant casting machines to make car bodies with just a few massive cast parts (a Matchbox car is said to have provided the inspiration), and other automakers quickly took notice. In 2021, the LK Group reported that it would supply giant casting presses to several Chinese companies. In October of this year, Reuters reported that Italian firm Idra, which supplies Giga Presses to Tesla, had delivered machines to Ford and Hyundai.

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National Grid Renewables Signs PPAs for Blevins Solar Project

Solar Industry

National Grid Renewables has executed two power purchase agreements (PPAs) for its Blevins Solar Project, a 270 MW development located in Falls County, Texas. Blevins is expected to begin construction next year and reach operations in 2025. Once completed, it will be the second National Grid Renewables project located in Falls County. “Blevins represents our strong belief that renewable energy projects deliver a sustainable and reliable source of power, all while invigorating the local eco

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Emerging strategies to improve EV charger uptime (Webinar)

Charged

The growth of the EV market is driving an increase in the demand for public fast charging station infrastructure. However, the uptime reliability of these charging stations remains a problem for EV drivers and Charge Point Operators (CPOs). Join this session on December 4th at the Virtual Conference on EV Infrastructure, where Franklin Electric will explore some of the uptime challenges faced by CPOs and the emerging strategies to enhance DC fast charger station uptime.

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Engie North America signs VPPAs for 282MW of Texas PV generation

PV Tech

Engie North America – the US subsidiary of the French energy utility – has signed two virtual power purchase agreements (VPPA) with WestRock, a sustainable paper and packaging producer.

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‘Wild card’ batteries particularly valuable for virtual power plants, DOE advisor says

Energy Storage News

The versatility of battery storage to provide a broad range of services makes them “particularly valuable” to virtual power plants (VPPs), according to a senior advisor to the US Department of Energy (DOE).

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Vale Ariel Liebman: Tackling big hairy audacious climate goals won’t be the same without him

Renew Economy

Ariel Liebman was a great networker, bringing people together to work on what he called the BHAGs – the big hairy audacious goals relating to climate change. The post Vale Ariel Liebman: Tackling big hairy audacious climate goals won’t be the same without him appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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UK increases maximum auction price for geothermal, other renewables

ThinkGeoEnergy

The UK Government has increased the maximum price that renewable energy projects can receive in the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction round. The increases in maximum bid prices are as follows: Geothermal by 32% – from £119/ MWh to £157/ MWh Offshore wind by 66% – from £44/ MWh to £73/ MWh Floating offshore wind by 52% – from £116/ MWh to £176/ MWh Solar by 30% – from £47/ MWh to £61/ MWh Tidal by 29% – from £202/ MWh to £261/MWh The CfD scheme ensur

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How to Talk Climate with Your Crazy Uncle at Thanksgiving

Energy Central

Ah yes…there’s nothing like Thanksgiving to bring the family together, and often the extended family at that. The thing about extended family, especially ones with older members, is that some of them may have developed very different thoughts about certain things, with climate being one of them. And chances are they will want to share them with everyone else there, either.

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Australian perovskite breakthrough takes the “alchemy” out of solar cell production

Renew Economy

Australian researchers develop a new way to make, reproduce and test new perovskite solar cells within a matter of weeks, bypassing years of human labour and error. The post Australian perovskite breakthrough takes the “alchemy” out of solar cell production appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Prisma Photonics Opens First U.S. Office in Austin 

Solar Industry

Prisma Photonics, an Israeli startup utilizing optical fiber technology to monitor large-scale power-utility infrastructure, has opened its first U.S. office in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2017, Prisma Photonics works with utilities in the U.S. and Europe to deploy solutions that identify threats to transmission assets in real time while offering line ratings to help utilities comply with FERC regulations and increase capacity on congested networks.

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Kwinana green hydrogen hub reaches “major milestone” at former oil refinery

Renew Economy

A large-scale green hydrogen production facility at bp’s former Kwinana oil refinery in WA has made key new progress, backed by $70m from federal Labor. The post Kwinana green hydrogen hub reaches “major milestone” at former oil refinery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Understanding Delhi Air Pollution Crisis: Buildings, Air Quality Index, and Contributing Factors

Econaur

Delhi’s persistent struggle with air pollution has been making headlines, with the air quality index (AQI) hitting alarming levels. While various factors contribute to this crisis, buildings emerge as a significant contributor, accounting for nearly 70% of the pollution, according to the World Health Organization. Buildings and Pollution: Recent data from the National Air Quality Index, maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), indicates a severe air quality situation in De

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GE Vernova, Our Next Energy to Collaborate on Storage Solutions

Solar Industry

GE Vernova and Our Next Energy have signed a term sheet to collaborate toward advancing battery energy storage solutions in the U.S. using locally manufactured batteries. The collaboration covers the supply of Our Next Energy’s battery modules containing U.S.-manufactured lithium iron phosphate cells for GE Vernova’s Solar & Storage Solutions business projects across the country.

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