Fri.Jan 19, 2024

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Grant seeks to recruit Appalachian manufacturers for clean energy economy

GreenBiz

A group of regional partners is seeking to find and support more than 1,000 small and medium manufacturers to play a supply chain role in the growing clean energy industry.

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The 3 Ways To Make Your E-commerce Business More Eco-Friendly

The Environmental Blog

Businesses these days don’t really have much of a choice when it comes to being eco-friendly. To be sustainable in business will be the default one day. Those that aren’t sustainable won’t be able to compete. Even if your business is online, there are ways that you can make things more eco-friendly. For example, the energy needed to keep website servers running, the materials used for packaging, and the fuel for shipping products all impact your carbon footprint as an online business.

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‘Scale out, not up’: Rethink your circular strategy

GreenBiz

Circular Economy Podcast host Catherine Weetman offers three watchwords to create value beyond the customer base.

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From Trash to Treasure: The Role of Technology in Modern Waste Management

The Environmental Blog

There is a lot of latent energy in our waste. Whether that energy is turned into renewable fuels or clean electricity, it can reduce carbon emissions and resource depletion. The adage, ‘one man’s trash is another’s treasure, applies to the world of waste management. From waste segregation to state-of-the-art WTE plants, innovative technology is helping transform trash into valuable resources.

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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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Chart: The world is building renewable energy faster than ever before

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Renewable energy didn’t just grow last year — it expanded at a pace not seen in years.

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China’s Fuel Cell Vehicle Market Shows Significant Growth in 2023

FuelCellsWorks

Hydrogen-Powered Vehicle Sales Surge by Over 72% in China during 2023 On January 11, 2024, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers released the national fuel cell vehicle production and sales.

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Fallback Friday: First Production Line for Fuel Cell Systems Launched at Hamburg Facility

FuelCellsWorks

The first fuel cell systems produced in Hamburg are rolling off the production line today. In a festive ceremony, intralogistics expert STILL officially opened Hamburg’s first production line for 24-volt.

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The real reason Hertz is selling EVs

Charged

It’s the kind of headline EV boosters hate, and EV boo-birds trumpet: just two years after announcing that it would buy 100,000 Teslas and a raft of other EVs, rental giant Hertz announced that it would sell 20,000 of its Teslas and replace them with tried-and-true gas-guzzlers (at this writing, the company is offering around 500 for sale to the public).

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Solaris to Deliver 19 Hydrogen Buses to Essen, Germany

FuelCellsWorks

Solaris has signed a contract with German operator Ruhrbahn GmbH to supply 19 zero-emission, hydrogen-powered buses to Essen. The vehicles will be equipped with hydrogen fuel cells that generate electricity on board, and advanced ADAS safety systems. The innovative.

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Siemens acquires heavy-duty EV charging specialist Heliox

Charged

Electronics giant Siemens has completed its acquisition of Netherlands-based DC fast charger manufacturer Heliox. Siemens says the acquisition will complement its existing eMobility charging portfolio, adding charging solutions ranging in power levels from 40 kW to over a megawatt for commercial EV depots. Heliox’s portfolio also extends Siemens’s market reach, primarily in Europe and North America, while improving capabilities in power electronics.

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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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Provaris Announces Board Change and Appointment of Product Development Director

FuelCellsWorks

Founding Executive Director Garry Triglavcanin retires as a Board Director. Mr Triglavcanin remains committed to Provaris in a new leadership role as Product Development Director, leading the continued development and.

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Amprius offers samples of its new 400 Wh/kg silicon anode battery platform

Charged

Amprius Technologies has announced an expansion of its product portfolio of silicon anode batteries. The new SiCore batteries are based on a proprietary silicon anode material system. Amprius claims its batteries deliver performance that surpasses that of today’s state-of-the-art graphite-based cells: specific energy up to 400 Wh/kg, and cycle life up to 1,200 cycles at full depth of discharge.

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Strata breaks ground on 1GWh Arizona BESS

Energy Storage News

Developer and operator Strata Clean Energy has started construction on its 255MW/1,020MWh Scatter Wash BESS project in Arizona, US.

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Video: Qnovo uses BMS software to increase battery lifespan and charging speed

Charged

It’s widely believed that frequent DC fast charging stresses a battery, shortening its useful lifetime. However, the long-term effects of frequent fast charging can be mitigated with properly designed charging limits. (Battery data specialist Recurrent recently released the results of a study on the subject.) Can BMS software eliminate this problem and push the limits of charging speed?

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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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The Week in impact investing: Disrupting dysfunction

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Embedded resilience. Feeling deflated about the politicization of ESG, DEI and “woke” capitalism? Try this alternative narrative: Positive, The post The Week in impact investing: Disrupting dysfunction appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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RecycLiCo secures investment for battery recycling joint venture

Charged

RecycLiCo Battery Materials, a battery recycling company, has received investment approval from the Taiwan Department of Investment Review for its 50/50 joint venture with Zenith Chemical. RecycLiCo will invest 24 million Taiwan dollars ($768,000) initially, and subsequent investments will be determined as needed through construction and commissioning.

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S-5! Launches its MLPE Mount

Solar Industry

S-5! has introduced an addition to its balance of systems lineup, the MLPE Mount. The product provides a universal method for attaching module level power electronics (MLPE) directly to PV module frames, says the company, adding that the mount secures optimizers and microinverters along the underside of the module frame with the aim of simplifying wire management.

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QCharge seeks site hosts for heavy-duty electric truck charging stations in the Western US

Charged

EV charging station manufacturer QCharge is actively pursuing the development of DC fast charging stations along major commercial routes from Washington State to Houston, Texas. The new charging stations will cater to heavy-duty electric trucks in addition to consumer vehicles. QCharge is set to establish fast charging stations along key Interstate corridors in Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

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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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Strata Breaks Ground on 1 GWh Phoenix Energy Storage Project 

Solar Industry

Strata Clean Energy has broken ground on its Scatter Wash battery storage complex in Phoenix, a 255 MW facility that is expected to become operational next April and will service Arizona Public Service (APS) customers. “This groundbreaking demonstrates a considerable advancement in large-scale sustainable energy solutions in a major growing metropolitan area, underscoring Strata’s dedication to addressing critical grid challenges,” says Josh Rogol, Strata Clean Energy president.

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10 Key Learnings from 2023: The Year Hydrogen Gathered Momentum

Hydrogen Fuel News

ANGI’s Key Takeaways from the Top 10 Trends Shaping the Hydrogen Conversation in 2023 ANGI Energy Systems (‘ANGI’), a Vontier (NYSE: VNT) company and leading global provider of critical technologies and solutions to decarbonize the mobility ecosystem looks back at 2023, the year hydrogen fuel for heavy transport gathered momentum.

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First Solar Purchases Future Ohio Distribution Site

Solar Industry

First Solar has acquired a 1.2 million sq. ft. facility in Troy Township, Ohio, formerly known as Peloton Output Park, that is expected to be repurposed into the company’s new distribution center. The center will serve the company’s three Ohio manufacturing facilities which had a combined annual nameplate capacity of approximately 6 GW of capacity at the end of 2023, says the company.

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Richard Deaville of Balfour Beatty on Sustainability in Construction, Net Zero/SBTs, the right mindset and buzzword bingo

Terra Infirma

This week’s podcast interview is with Richard Deaville of construction giant Balfour Beatty. Listen for Richard’s thoughtful views on a huge range of issues from ESG investor pressure, using Science-based Targets to underpin Net Zero to one of his pet gripes (buzzword bingo!). Don’t forget to subscribe to the Net Zero Business Podcast to get every episode on your favourite podcast platform – and give us a little love on the ratings!

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CAMS Awarded Integrated Services Contract for REC Solar Portfolio

Solar Industry

Consolidated Asset Management Services (CAMS) says it will provide O&M, asset management, accounting, remote monitoring and related services for REC Solar’s renewables portfolio, including solar and energy storage projects for hundreds of U.S. commercial enterprises, such as manufacturers, retailers, schools, universities and municipalities. This award increases CAMS’ renewable assets under management to over 5.6 GW throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

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Are electric car batteries recyclable?

Hydrogen Fuel News

Regarding the prominent issue at hand, it is really true that electric car batteries can be recycled, and there are specific methods that allow for the recovery of up to 95% of the raw materials. Global governments are now insisting that electric vehicle (EV) batteries be designed and manufactured in a manner that facilitates easy recycling.  After they have outlived their lengthy original life in your automobile, EV batteries may be upcycled, reused, or put to other uses in addition to rec

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Women added to Cop29 climate summit committee after backlash

The Guardian: Energy

Panel was originally composed of 28 men, a move condemned as ‘regressive’ and ‘shocking’ The president of Azerbaijan has added 12 women to the previously all-male organising committee for the Cop29 global climate summit, which the country will host in December. The move follows a backlash after the Guardian reported the initial 28-man composition of the committee, which was called “regressive” by the She Changes Climate campaign group.

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Biomass Energy: Pros and Cons Explained

Hydrogen Fuel News

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power. Through the lens of environmental stewardship and innovation, this journey will dissect the layers of organic materials that form the backbone of biomass energ

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And then there were two: England gets its second onshore wind turbine in the last 12 months

Business Green

AWGroup switches on new turbine in Bedfordshire - and calls on the government to make it easier to deliver the cheapest form of new power generation

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New Ontario report provides roadmap for energy transition 

Clean Energy Canada

VICTORIA — Evan Pivnick, clean energy program manager at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the new report from Ontario’s electrification and energy transition panel : “Today’s report marks an important juncture in the development of Ontario energy policy. Across 29 recommendations, the panel has provided a high-level roadmap for the reforms Ontario should consider in order to navigate the energy transition successfully.

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ING faces threat of legal action from climate group behind Shell case

Financial Times: Energy

Campaign group claims bank has ‘duty of care’ under Dutch law to not create any danger that could lead to avoidable damage

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Grant opportunity – Projects on geothermal scaling and lithium extraction

ThinkGeoEnergy

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has announced a Grant Funding Opportunity for projects that seek to address corrosion and/or scaling in geothermal installations in California or advance technologies to enhance extraction of lithium and other valuable minerals from geothermal brine at the Salton Sea geothermal field. The total estimated available funding for “Geothermal Energy Operations and Lithium Innovation” (GFO-23-304) is USD 23 million.

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Deal spotlight: recycling heat waste from data centers

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 19 — Amazon is doing it. So are Meta, Microsoft and Google. The tech giants have begun capturing excess heat generated. The post Deal spotlight: recycling heat waste from data centers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Lowering Energy Costs and Emissions in Rural America

NRDC onEarth

NRDC endorses legislation to improve the Rural Energy for America Program.

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Global Briefing: Azerbaijan updates COP29 committee following backlash over lack of women

Business Green

The EU mulls bolder climate targets, UEFA debuts climate fund, and Australia advances CCS plans in this week's round up of green business news from around the world

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