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From Engines to Electrolyzers: Bosch’s Bold Hydrogen Vision

Hydrogen Fuel News

Bosch’s Groundbreaking Advances in Hydrogen Technology and Future Transportation Outlook Major Milestones in Hydrogen Investments Bosch is making decisive strides in hydrogen technology, emerging as a key player in the global energy transition. By 2026, Bosch plans to invest nearly 2.5 billion in hydrogen solutions, leveraging its technology expertise and scalable production capabilities.

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185MW solar-plus-storage site to supply Las Vegas Strip following US$340 million financing

PV Tech

Energy generation and storage developer Estuary Power has closed a US$340 million financing package for a 185MW solar-plus-storage project being constructed in Lincoln County, Nevada, US.

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Inside Cranfield University’s Groundbreaking Hydrogen Aviation Hub

Hydrogen Fuel News

Cranfield University’s Role in Advancing Hydrogen in Aviation Technology A New Era in Aviation Fuel Research Cranfield University , renowned for its aerospace research and expertise, has made significant strides towards the goal of sustainable aviation through hydrogen technology. With the launch of the Cranfield Hydrogen Integration Incubator (CH2i), backed by 69 million in funding, the institution solidifies itself as a leader in hydrogen-enabled aviation research.

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Stockholm construction site uses 50% electric construction equipment

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Construction vehicles and equipment are rapidly going electric, and Volvo Construction Equipment is a major purveyor of electric equipmentso its not surprising to find that a construction site in Stockholm is a testing ground for sustainable construction technologies. A construction site in Slakthusomrdet, a former meat-packing district in central Stockholm that has recently been rejuvenated as a trendy nightlife destination, has reached a milestone: 50% of its operations are now performed by el

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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A robust, innovative approach to BESS fire safety with immersion cooling technology

Energy Storage News

EticaAG is the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of a patented immersion cooling battery energy storage system (BESS) technology.

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Nuclear energy groups race to develop ‘microreactors’

Financial Times: Energy

Companies vie to create small plants for deployment to sites from data centres to oil platforms

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Scotland to host 3 biggest battery energy storage systems in Europe

Financial Times: Energy

Investment by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners comes as boost to SNP government before next years elections

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Hyundai Mobis develops new material technology to tackle battery overheating

Charged

South Korean automotive supplier Hyundai Mobis has developed a new battery cell cooling material to prevent EV battery overheating during ultra-fast charging. This material, referred to as the Pulsating Heat Pipe, comprises aluminum alloy and refrigerant and is placed between battery cells to limit internal battery temperature spikes during rapid charging.

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Millions of federal acres to soon open to solar construction out west 2025 Trends in Solar

Solar Power World

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has expanded the scope of potential solar development on federal lands, opening several more western states to gigawatts of PV deployment. In January 2024, the Dept. of the Interior issued an update for the Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, also known as the Western Solar Plan, which formalized the… The post Millions of federal acres to soon open to solar construction out west <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:6

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Solaris wins tender for up to 45 articulated electric buses for Liège, Belgium

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Bus manufacturer Solaris has won a tender for 45 Urbino 24 electric buses to be integrated into the transport network of the city of Lige. An initial order of 18 units, 5 of which are to be delivered in 2025 and the remainder in 2026, was secured by Oprateur de transport de Wallonie-TEC, which manages transport in Lige. Powered by two electric axles, the buses are equipped with Solaris High Energy batteries with a total capacity of approximately 800 kWh.

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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

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Trina Solar sets 25.44% fully passivated HJT solar module efficiency record

PV Tech

Chinese solar manufacturer Trinasolar has set a 25.44% module efficiency record with a solar total passivation (TOPAS) heterojunction (HJT) PV module.

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How hard is it to prevent recurring blackouts in Puerto Rico? A novel framework for grid resiliency

TechXplore

Researchers at MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) have shown that using decision-making software and dynamic monitoring of weather and energy use can significantly improve resiliency in the face of weather-related outages, and can also help to efficiently integrate renewable energy sources into the grid.

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Shell flags weaker gas production

Financial Times: Energy

Oil major warns of significantly lower trading in gas and chemicals units as hedging contracts expire

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'Cold-expanding' materials may solve lithium-ion battery winter woes

TechXplore

Most solids expand as temperatures increase and shrink as they cool. Some materials do the opposite, expanding in the cold. Lithium titanium phosphate is one such substance and could provide a solution to the problem of steeply declining performance of lithium-ion batteries in cold environments.

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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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BLM Approves 600-MW Jove Solar Project in Arizona

POWER Magazine

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced the agency has approved the 600-MW Jove Solar Project, sited on about 3,500 acres of land in La Paz County, Arizona. The […] The post BLM Approves 600-MW Jove Solar Project in Arizona appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Constellation Energy in talks to buy Calpine in big US power sector deal

Financial Times: Energy

Takeover talks come amid surge in demand linked to rollout of artificial intelligence technologies

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American Battery Factory partners with KAN Battery to refine cell production in China ahead of US launch

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Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cell manufacturer American Battery Factory (ABF) has formed a partnership with Chinese manufacturer KAN Battery to develop a pilot line of battery cells at its facility and accelerate its US production launch. As part of the collaboration, ABF will secure training in the latest analytics and machining for its workforce, refine battery cell production and launch its subsidiary ABF China.

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Car park solar panels could generate 1.3GW of 'untapped' green electricity

Business Green

Solar panels mounted above over half a million suitable car parking spaces could generate enough electricity to power 350,000 homes, study claims

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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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Gridware’s boxes literally listen to power lines to find outages

TechCrunch: Climate

Gridware's sensors listen for sounds that the companys software has been trained to identify as different hazards to the grid. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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New York to make major greenhouse gas emitters pay for past pollution

Canary Media

New York state will soon force major oil and gas companies to pay up for mounting climate damages caused by the burning of their products over the last two decades.

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Lithium-sulfur batteries: Study uncovers key degradation insights

TechXplore

Lithium-sulfur batteries have a number of advantages over conventional lithium batteries: they use the abundant raw material sulfur, do not require the critical elements cobalt or nickel, and can achieve extremely high specific energy densities. Prototype cells are already achieving up to 500 Wh/kg, almost twice as much as current lithium-ion batteries.

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One fix for the EV battery fire problem

Financial Times: Energy

Better shock absorption could make a big difference to safety without requiring a complete overhaul of current technology

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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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US solar power generation holds steady even during extreme fire seasons

TechXplore

New research from Colorado State University shows that while wildfire smoke increasingly covers large parts of the U.S. it does not have much of an impact on overall, long-term solar power generation activity.

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Geoengineering: Focus on Cloud Seeding

CleanTech Group

Geoengineering solutions are large-scale interventions to counteract the effects of climate change. The most established of solutions are carbon capture technologies, which seek. The post Geoengineering: Focus on Cloud Seeding appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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UK-listed water utilities pay £3.6bn dividends over 5 years

Financial Times: Energy

First-time publicly traded companies pay out more than privately held rivals since privatisation

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An AI tool may help optimize methane storage solutions

TechXplore

A new approach harnesses machine learning to search for materials to store methane, helping accelerate the adoption of methane as a cleaner alternative fuel for vehicles. The University of Michigan-led study is published in Physical Review Materials.

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SECI awards 2GW solar-plus-storage in Indian reverse auction

PV Tech

Indian state-owned firm SECI has awarded 2GW of solar-plus-storage that will connect to the Inter State Transmission System (ISTS) in India.

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Advanced membrane technology offers superior treatment for high-salinity wastewater

TechXplore

A research team led by Prof. Wan Yinhua at the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an innovative mix-charged nanofiltration (NF) membrane featuring horizontal charge distribution, designed specifically for wastewater treatment.

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Arverne headquarters in Pau, France to be equipped with geothermal system

ThinkGeoEnergy

Drilling work has started for a geothermal heating and cooling system that will be integrated into the Biotope building, the future headquarters of industrial company Arverne Group in Pau, France. The system will harness geothermal energy from a shallow borefield which will provide heating and cooling for 2700 square meters of office space. The project is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2025.

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Two power station owners to get more than £12m for three hours of electricity

The Guardian: Energy

Uniper and a subsidiary of Vitol able to charge 50 times recent market price to ensure supply during evening peak Two gas power station owners will be paid more than 12m to supply just three hours of electricity on Wednesday evening after freezing weather led to some of the highest market prices since the energy crisis began. Britain faced surging power prices after the grid operator warned it would need power plants to fire up in the early evening to have enough electricity to power homes and b

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2024 Wins in Food Waste & What’s Next in 2025

NRDC onEarth

As we jump into 2025, our team reflects on last years progress in the fight against food waste. There have been many key achievements and other exciting developments over the past year and much more to come this year.

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Vodafone cuts advertising and media emissions by a third

Business Green

New Sustainable Media Programme sees company track the carbon efficiency of its media and marketing activities

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