How New Balance, Crocs and Target work together on circular shoes
GreenBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
In an industry known for intense competition, a new effort's unique take on advancing circularity includes aligning its work with members’ business goals.
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Right Whale Calf Succumbs to Vessel Strike Injuries
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 15, 2024
The months-old calf of Juno has died from the injuries it sustained after being struck by a vessel in early January.
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The week in climate policy: 5 updates you need to know
GreenBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
16 states pass bills against lab-cultured meat, and the SEC was sued over its new climate-disclosure rule approved last week.
EIA Confirms U.S. Producing More Oil Than Any Country in History
R-Squared Energy
MARCH 15, 2024
In mid-December, I wrote here that the U.S. had set a new annual oil production record: “The U.S. set a new annual oil production record on December 15, based on data from the Energy Information Administration. Although the official monthly numbers from the EIA won’t be released for a couple of months, we can calculate that a new record has been set based on the following analysis.
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.
The Long, Long Battle for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 15, 2024
For decades, politicians have vacillated between protecting Alaska’s refuge as one of the last unspoiled places on earth and plundering it for oil.
Federal Highway Administration requests comments on incorporating Tesla’s NACS connector into federal requirements
Charged
MARCH 15, 2024
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has announced a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit feedback from stakeholders on updating FHWA’s minimum standards and requirements for EV charging stations to allow for new technology and continued innovation. The RFI focuses on the types of connectors used at federally funded EV chargers. Current requirements allow for alternative types of connectors so long as there is also a CCS connector.
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Five Hydrogen-Powered Solaris Buses Headed for Mantua, Italy
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 15, 2024
The transport operator APAM Esercizio S.p.A. from Mantua has placed an order for five modern hydrogen-powered buses, Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen. Deliveries are scheduled for the end of 2025. Located.
Chart: EVs are definitely cleaner than gas cars over their lifetime
Canary Media
MARCH 15, 2024
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Myths run rampant about whether electric vehicles are actually better for the climate than fossil-fueled cars.
California Energy Project Prepares to Award Up to $16 Million in Hydrogen Infrastructure Incentives to Applicants in Third Year of Funding
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 15, 2024
PASADENA, Calif— The Energy Infrastructure Incentives for Zero-Emission Commercial Vehicles (EnergIIZE) Hydrogen funding lane will open for two weeks beginning at 9 a.m. Pacific Time on April 17, 2024, and lasting through 5 p.m.
Canaries in a coalmine: Birds and forest degradation in Canada
NRDC onEarth
MARCH 15, 2024
Canada, as a signatory to the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, must halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030.
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.
Chinese SOE Huadian Plans $2.4 Bln Green Hydrogen Plant in Central Vietnam
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 15, 2024
Huadian Group, a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE), plans to cooperate with Vietnamese partner Minh Quang JSC on a $2.39 billion green hydrogen plant in the central province of Quang Tri.
SkillFusion launches EVSE Diagnostic Technician credentialing program
Charged
MARCH 15, 2024
As EV chargers proliferate, an army of technicians will be needed to keep them in working order (and the sooner the better). SkillFusion’s new EVSE Diagnostic Technician (EDT) Credentialing Program provides non-electricians with the needed skills and certifications to carry out specific technical work on EV chargers, such as servicing communication and networking systems.
Cell Impact Meets Representatives of the Hydrogen Industry in the United States
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 15, 2024
Cell Impact has been selected by Business Sweden to participate in a Swedish delegation trip to Texas and California focused on green hydrogen. The purpose is to explore partnerships between.
Ferroglobe and Coreshell to produce battery-grade metallurgical silicon for EVs
Charged
MARCH 15, 2024
Ferroglobe , a producer of silicon metal and ferroalloys, and Coreshell , a US-based battery technology company, have signed a memorandum of understanding under which they plan to produce battery-ready metallurgical silicon for the development of low-cost, high-range EV batteries. Automakers are keen to use more silicon in anodes, because it can potentially store up to 10 times more energy than graphite.
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.
Fortescue Conducts World’s First Ammonia Bunker Trial in Singapore
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 15, 2024
SINGAPORE–Fortescue (FMG.AX), opens new tab has conducted the world’s first ammonia marine bunker operation in the port of Singapore, the city-state’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) and the Australian mining company.
Europe’s grid is receiving record levels of investment. But is it enough?
Smart Energy International
MARCH 15, 2024
Reflecting on a week of record finance results from German and Dutch utilities, Smart Energy’s Power Playbook column sees Yusuf Latief discuss grid investment plans and whether they are indicative of grid planning finally going right. Whenever I think back to 2023, one major sentiment that comes to mind is the urgent need for investment in Europe’s power grid system.
LONGi Hydrogen and Acwa Power Join Hands in Green Hydrogen Project in Uzbekistan
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 15, 2024
Xi’an, Shaanxi–LONGi Hydrogen, the world’s leading green hydrogen production equipment and solution provider, a wholly owned subsidiary of LONGi Green Energy Technology Co Ltd, and ACWA Power, the world’s largest.
Generative AI for smart grid modelling
Smart Energy International
MARCH 15, 2024
MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) aims to apply generative AI to smart grid modelling. The initiative, part of the Tennessee Tech University led smart grid modelling and testing ‘Smart Grid Deployment Consortium’ project in the Appalachian region of the US, will focus on creating AI-driven generative models for customer load data.
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?
UK: Wales & West Utilities Secures Funding for Two Hydrogen Projects
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 15, 2024
Wales & West Utilities continues to accelerate innovation in hydrogen. Wales & West Utilities were successful in their bid for funding for two innovative new projects addressing the pressing need.
Home battery capacity equals that of pumped hydro in Germany
Renew Economy
MARCH 15, 2024
The capacity of household batteries in Germany has reached 6 GW, about equal to the country's pumped hydro capacity. The post Home battery capacity equals that of pumped hydro in Germany appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Green Hydrogen Systems – Annual report 2023
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 15, 2024
Green Hydrogen Systems’ Annual Report for 2023 highlights a year of strategic expansion and technological advancements, with an increase in its A-Series installations, operational production facilities ahead of schedule, and.
Vantastec’s Pioneering Hydrogen Van Paves the Way for Net Zero Ambitions
Hydrogen Fuel News
MARCH 15, 2024
In a significant step toward a greener future, Vantastec has unveiled a revolutionary hydrogen van—set to transform industries and accelerate progress towards net zero goals. Vantastec Launches Trailblazing Trial with Monmouthshire County Council YSTRAD MYNACH, Wales – Vantastec, a leading vehicle conversion company, has partnered with Monmouthshire County Council to field-test an exciting innovation: a hydrogen-powered van designed to fulfill the needs of services like meals on wh
Manchin Announces $20.5m for West Virginia University Research Corporation Projects, New Partnership to Help Grow Hydrogen Industry
FuelCellsWorks
MARCH 15, 2024
Washington, DC– Today, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced a total of $13,800,000 in funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s.
Solar sales is bending, not breaking – but it needs a refresh
Solar Power World
MARCH 15, 2024
Last year, Aurora held its annual Empower event for solar professionals to network and hear from industry leaders. One of the sessions, the Solar Sales Objections Throwdown, looked at common roadblocks for residential solar salespeople and how to overcome them. The Throwdown does a good job of looking at specific homeowner objections, so let’s look… The post Solar sales is bending, not breaking – but it needs a refresh appeared first on Solar Power World.
Hot rock batteries are coming to Europe — soon
Financial Times: Energy
MARCH 15, 2024
Electro-thermal batteries’ selling point is they can heat up bricks and rocks using cheapest six hours of electricity in any given day
Protected: Empowering utilities with digital transformation
Smart Energy International
MARCH 15, 2024
Spotlighting how the digital transformation of utilities is necessary for a sustainable future and the evolving needs of customers.
A rechargeable, non-aqueous manganese metal battery
TechXplore
MARCH 15, 2024
A research team led by Prof. Chen Wei from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) revealed for the first time the important role of halogen-mediated solvation structure in the de-solvation process of multivalent ions. The research result was published in Joule.
RWE starts construction of first wave of UK solar farms
Business Green
MARCH 15, 2024
Energy giant confirms work has started on seven UK solar farms, as it beefs up Europe-wide green investment plans
AI unlocks new solar energy horizons in China
TechXplore
MARCH 15, 2024
In a new study published in the Journal of Remote Sensing in February 2024, researchers utilized data augmentation alongside the LightGBM machine learning model for the estimation of both diffuse and direct solar radiation. By leveraging sunshine duration data collected from over 2,453 weather stations throughout China, this research overcomes the limitations posed by sparse and unevenly distributed ground-based observations.
The World’s Top Oil Producer May Surprise You
Energy Central
MARCH 15, 2024
The climate movement is focused on major infrastructure changes and rightfully so. Creating an EV charging network and modernizing grids around the world will be no easy task. But that challenge may pale in comparison to the economic dependence the world has on fossil fuels.
New bipartisan bill seeks faster permitting for geothermal in US public lands
ThinkGeoEnergy
MARCH 15, 2024
A new bipartisan bill introduced by US Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), James Risch, (R-Idaho), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) seeks make it easier for geothermal projects to get off the ground by putting them on equal footing with oil and gas projects on public land, among a few other provisions. All of the sponsors of the bill are members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Cheaper batteries are key to shifting transport away from fossil fuels. Can the market deliver?
TechXplore
MARCH 15, 2024
High metal prices can drive up the costs of electric car batteries, which will reduce their adoption. Car manufacturers are already responding to this by shifting to different technologies.
United States, Hydrogen | Sectoral Support Details
Energy Central
MARCH 15, 2024
United States Hydrogen Support. | Details Having kept the community informed every step of the way, including the inception of the program as far back as 2021 [link] I thought the enclosed document with fuller details may be of interest? To recap; 52 projects across 24 states; These.
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