DOE unveils a second chance to access $6 billion from carbon capture tech
GreenBiz
MAY 15, 2024
After distributing $4 billion of energy project credits in the first round, the DOE is back with more money for decarbonization opportunities.
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Demolition specialist reports fuel savings with diesel conditioner
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 15, 2024
Green technology firm SulNOx Group describes a trial of one of its diesel conditioner products. Fuel consumption savings of up to 7.59% have been verified in a three-month series of trials with trucks owned by UK contractors MGL Demolition, part of MGL Group, using the product SulNOxEco Diesel Conditioner. The trial has been followed by MGL Demolition’s purchase of an Intermediate Bulk Container (approximately 1,000 litres capacity) of SulNOxEco through master distributor A&S International
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Microsoft launches initiative to counter 30% rise in Scope 3 emissions since 2020
GreenBiz
MAY 15, 2024
The company’s carbon footprint is growing because of demand for its new data centers.
Scottish green chemicals firm launches crowdfunding campaign
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 15, 2024
Scottish technology-led producer of green chemicals (including biofuels), Celtic Renewables, has launched its latest crowdfunding campaign with Crowdcube aiming to raise a minimum of £2.75 million to boost operational capacity and scale revenue growth. Celtic Renewables is the first in the world to produce and supply green chemicals to lower the carbon footprint of thousands of products like cosmetics, paints and household cleaners, and has recently sent its first production of bioacetone and bi
The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing
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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
How investors are using AI to make better sustainable finance decisions
GreenBiz
MAY 15, 2024
It starts with faster, more thorough data analysis.
Soy biodiesel byproduct can be used to make 3D printing filaments
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 15, 2024
MONG recovered from soy biodiesel processing plants without treatment (Fig. 1a), after acid treatment (Fig. 1b), and after acid+peroxide treatment (Fig. 1c). Image credit: Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville 40292, KY, USA. Researchers have discovered a way to transform a significant waste output from soy biodiesel plants into a valuable resource.
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The Low Carbon Apprenticeship is a miss-step says renewables training expert
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 15, 2024
Mark Krull is Director of Logic4training and LCL Awards. Mark Krull criticises the recently launched ‘Low Carbon Apprenticeships’ as a PR exercise that ignores the needs and opportunities in the building services sector. As Director of a leading awarding organisation for renewable qualifications, and “a long-time member of Greenpeace”, he says, “you might be surprised that I’m not a big fan of the new ‘Low Carbon Apprenticeship'” He explans further, below.
World’s biggest grids could be powered by renewables, with little or no storage – if we are smart enough
Renew Economy
MAY 15, 2024
If the world learned to be smarter and more efficient, it could go fully renewable with little or no storage. But that's not the way markets are designed. The post World’s biggest grids could be powered by renewables, with little or no storage – if we are smart enough appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Plug to Revolutionize Middle-Mile Delivery With Class 6 Fuel Cell Electric Truck Integration
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 15, 2024
LATHAM, N.Y.– Plug Power Inc., a global leader in hydrogen solutions for the green hydrogen economy, has announced its latest innovation: the integration of a Class 6, medium-duty fuel cell.
“World leaders” South Australia and California agree to collaborate on final stretch to 100 pct renewables
Renew Economy
MAY 15, 2024
Two of the world's leading renewable energy states – both with grids that regularly achieve periods of 100 per cent solar and wind supply – to collaborate on some of the final pieces of the energy transition puzzle. The post “World leaders” South Australia and California agree to collaborate on final stretch to 100 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
Why heat-pump water heaters could soon take off
Canary Media
MAY 15, 2024
Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Planning on replacing your water heater in the next few years?
Japan does not need Australian gas to keep the lights on in Tokyo
Renew Economy
MAY 15, 2024
Future Gas Strategy anticipates continued demand for LNG exports, but IEEFA research suggests our biggest export market is already in decline and over-supplied. The post Japan does not need Australian gas to keep the lights on in Tokyo appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Oil Companies Use Paid News Media Partnerships to Protect ‘Social Licence to Operate’, Documents Show
DeSmogBlog
MAY 15, 2024
Oil major BP considers deals to place paid-for content in trusted media brands as key to influencing the Washington power players who set U.S. energy policy, according to internal company documents. The communications provide a rare unvarnished glimpse into the strategic value the oil industry places on multi-million-dollar sponsorship deals with outlets such as the Washington Post, The New York Times, Reuters , the Financial Times, and Politico.
KeyState, CNX Advancing Transformational Hydrogen and Sustainable Aviation Fuel Hub at Pittsburgh International Airport
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 15, 2024
Proposed facility will help catalyze hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel industries at scale, propel the aviation sector’s decarbonization goals, lower transportation costs, and create supply chain efficiencies. PITTSBURGH– To accelerate regional.
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.
Accion raises $152.5 million to upgrade emerging market financial institutions
Impact Alpha
MAY 15, 2024
Before the fintech boom, microfinance, rural finance, and small business finance agencies were the key channels of financial inclusion for hundreds of millions. The post Accion raises $152.5 million to upgrade emerging market financial institutions appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Breakthrough in Green Hydrogen: HYPRAEL Achieves Near-Zero Energy Loss with Pressurized Alkaline Electrolysis
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 15, 2024
Innovative Technology Poised to Revolutionize Hydrogen Production Efficiency Breakthrough in green hydrogen production: Pressurized alkaline electrolysis with near-zero energy loss The race for clean energy solutions is on, and hydrogen.
Legislators, Advocates Urge Albany to Take Action to Protect Against PFAS Exposure
NRDC onEarth
MAY 15, 2024
Today state legislators and advocates called for the immediate passage of a set of bills to reduce human exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and limit environmental contamination from PFAS in New York.
Ohmium Collaborates With HYGRO for 5.4MW Green Hydrogen and Wind Turbine Pilot Project in the Netherlands
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 15, 2024
The 5.4MW pilot project will pair Ohmium PEM electrolyzers with HYGRO wind turbines for hydrogen production, storage and distribution, with opportunities for further expansion. NEWARK, Calif.
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?
Scientists generate heat over 1,000 degrees Celsius with solar power instead of fossil fuel
Science Daily: Renewable Energy
MAY 15, 2024
Instead of burning fossil fuels to smelt steel and cook cement, researchers in Switzerland want to use heat from the sun. The proof-of-concept study uses synthetic quartz to trap solar energy at temperatures over 1,000 C (1,832 F), demonstrating the method's potential role in providing clean energy for carbon-intensive industries.
EverWind Fuels Partners With Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s Largest Seaport to Advance Green Hydrogen Supply Chain
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 15, 2024
Partnership recognizes EverWind as a leading green hydrogen project globally ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands— EverWind Fuels (“EverWind”), a leading North American developer of a green fuels hub centered in Atlantic Canada,
Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions
The Verge: Energy
MAY 15, 2024
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers a speech during an event called Microsoft Build: AI Day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 2nd, 2024. | Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP via Getty Images Microsoft’s producing a lot more planet-heating pollution now than it did when it made a bold climate pledge back in 2020. Its greenhouse gas emissions were actually around 30 percent higher in fiscal year 2023, showing how hard it could be for the company to meet climate goals as it simultaneously races to be a le
Levidian Continues Global Expansion With Entry Into North America
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 15, 2024
Second international base to be established in the US Firm targets $2bn+ revenues alongside a new delivery centre to create 250 jobs LOOP technology to decarbonise hard to abate sectors, capturing.
Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers
TechCrunch: Climate
MAY 15, 2024
Charging has long been the Achilles’ heel of electric vehicles. One startup thinks it has a better way for apartment dwelling EV drivers to charge overnight. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
“Conservoltaics:” Developers urged to think of solar farms as artificial reefs
Renew Economy
MAY 15, 2024
Conservoltaics uses the land under solar panels as a home for biodiversity-boosting native flora and fauna, while improving farm efficiency. The post “Conservoltaics:” Developers urged to think of solar farms as artificial reefs appeared first on RenewEconomy.
ADNOC Adnoc Delivers World First Ever Bulk Shipment of Blue Hydrogen-Based Ammonia from UAE to Japan
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 15, 2024
Shipment, produced by Fertiglobe, delivered to Mitsui for use in clean-power generation, underscoring ADNOC’s efforts to support its customers to decarbonize Landmark achievement builds on previous demonstration cargos delivered by.
Is the hydrogen aviation industry dead? Not on Germany’s watch
Hydrogen Fuel News
MAY 15, 2024
The BMDV is dedicated to advancing hydrogen fuel cell tech. Emission-free hydrogen aviation isn’t just a pipe dream and the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) wants it to stay that way. The BMDV announced funding to further the development of fuel cell systems for regional planes with the launch of the BALIS 2.0 Project.
GE Vernova and CIC Sign Non-Binding Agreement to Develop Green Hydrogen
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 15, 2024
GE Vernova and Climate Impact Corp. (CIC) have signed a non-binding agreement to co-develop off-grid modular green hydrogen production systems, aiming to achieve a production cost of US$2/kg. This partnership.
U.S. Exceeds 5M Solar Installations Says SEIA
Solar Industry
MAY 15, 2024
The United States has exceeded 5 million solar installations, according to data released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, coming eight years after the country reached its one million installation milestone in 2016. The data further revealed that over half of all domestic solar installations have come online since 2020 and 25% have come online since the Inflation Reduction Act became law.
Apex Clean Energy secures US$150 million for ERCOT projects with Q3 COD
Energy Storage News
MAY 15, 2024
Renewable energy developer and operator Apex Clean Energy has completed a US$150 million financing with First Citizens Bank for two ERCOT, Texas battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.
Copper can't be mined fast enough to electrify the US
Science Daily: Renewable Energy
MAY 15, 2024
Copper cannot be mined quickly enough to keep up with current U.S. policy guidelines to transition the country's electricity and vehicle infrastructure to renewable energy, according to a new study.
Nel ASA Announces That the Potential New Fueling Company Will Be Named Cavendish Hydrogen
FuelCellsWorks
MAY 15, 2024
Oslo, Norway–Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement by Nel ASA on 28 February 2024 regarding the potential spin-off of its Fueling division into a separate company and listing.
Study highlights geothermal potential for industrial heat in Bay of Plenty, NZ
ThinkGeoEnergy
MAY 15, 2024
A new report prepared by GNS Science and the Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority (EECA) shows that large-scale energy users in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand can benefit greatly from harnessing geothermal energy for process heating. Not only will businesses reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by switching to geothermal, but will have cost savings within only a few years.
3 Tips for the Solar Busy Season
Mosaic
MAY 15, 2024
Summer is no doubt the busiest season for the solar industry. High utility bills are a key motivator for homeowners, encouraging them to seek out cost-saving alternatives like solar panels. For installers, the months of June through September are major contributors to total annual sales. In today’s market it’s essential to spend time strategizing in order to get the most out of the busy season.
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