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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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GB’s East Coast Hydrogen project delivery plan set out

Smart Energy International

A single coordinated network plan has been set out for the delivery of Britain’s East Coast Hydrogen (ECH2) project. ECH2, an initiative of the gas network operators Cadent and Northern Gas Networks and transmission operator National Gas, is aimed to deliver a large-scale hydrogen infrastructure in Britain’s East Coast region as a key building block of a wider national hydrogen economy.

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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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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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How Europe can lead the way in transitioning oil and gas to geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

The transition of oil and gas to deep geothermal is one that requires radical transformation of paradigms, business models, and policies. However, it is also one that is inevitable with effects of climate change becoming more dangerous and unpredictable, prompting a more drastic response to reduce CO2 emissions as the world nears the imminent tipping point.

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It’s one of Europe’s last pristine rivers. Can scientists save it from 50 dams?

The Guardian: Energy

The Neretva, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is one of the most biodiverse rivers on the continent – supporting bears, wolves, lynx and many rare species – but more than 50 planned dams could permanently transform the ecosystem At the bottom of a ravine, near the mountain town of Ulog, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, lie the sparkling turquoise waters of the Ljuta, a tributary of the Neretva.

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Toyota is turning to startup Redwood Materials for critical battery materials

TechCrunch: Climate

Battery cells produced at Toyota’s future North American EV factory will someday contain a little Redwood Materials DNA. The two companies announced Thursday that Redwood Materials will supply Toyota with cathode material and anode copper foil for battery cells produced at the automaker’s $13.9 billion factory in North Carolina that’s slated to go into production […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Incredible new hydrogen research sounds more like sorcery than science

Hydrogen Fuel News

Australian scientists have found a way to pull hydrogen directly out of the air. Scientists from the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne, Australia have revealed via their hydrogen research that they have produced and analyzed an enzyme that pulls hydrogen from the atmosphere and transforms it into electricity. The enzyme is called Huc and comes from a common soil bacterium.

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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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Cop28 host UAE breaking its own ban on routine gas flaring, data shows

The Guardian: Energy

Exclusive: Fields run by climate summit host have burned gas near daily despite 20-year-old pledge, satellite monitoring reveals State-run oil and gas fields in the United Arab Emirates have been flaring gas virtually daily despite having committed 20 years ago to a policy of zero routine flaring, the Guardian can reveal. The UAE is hosting the UN Cop28 summit, which starts on 30 November, and Sultan Al Jaber, the CEO of the state oil company Adnoc, will preside over the international negotiatio

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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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The Brief: Inclusive future of work, circular fashion, eye care in Africa, survey of climate tech opportunities, outcomes-based financingThe Brief:

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Thanks to the hundreds of you who joined yesterday’s climate + gender call. We’ll have the writeup and replay. The post The Brief: Inclusive future of work, circular fashion, eye care in Africa, survey of climate tech opportunities, outcomes-based financingThe Brief: appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Solar energy could power all health facilities in poorer countries and save lives, experts say

The Guardian: Energy

Move would cost less than $5bn and cut toll of deaths from power outages and lack of supply, Cop28 delegates will hear All healthcare facilities in poorer countries could be electrified using solar energy within five years for less than $5bn, putting an end to the risk of life from power outages, experts will argue at Cop28 this month. “I would like the international community to commit to a deadline and funding to electrify all healthcare facilities,” said Salvatore Vinci, an adviser on sustain

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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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Starmer says £2.5bn renewables jobs fund will help North Sea oil workers

The Guardian: Energy

Labour leader aims to set up ‘British jobs bonus fund’ to challenge oil firms to accelerate shift to clean energy Keir Starmer has challenged the oil industry to dramatically speed up its shift to clean energy by offering up to £2.5bn to subsidise new jobs in renewables for North Sea workers. The Labour leader has told executives from firms including Shell and BP that the UK is in a global race to move away from oil and gas, with competitor countries such as the US investing billions in climate-

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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