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EV charging beyond the grid: Forecasts from a new report

Envirotec Magazine

Mika Takahashi, Technology Analyst at market intelligence firm IDTechEx reviews highlights from a new report on an emerging sector Electric vehicles are no longer a niche oddity but fully mainstream, with many automotive manufacturers announcing targets to phase out ICE construction in favor of BEVs (battery electric vehicles). Passenger cars are not the only sectors where electrification is taking off.

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German Coalition Agrees Financing Details of Hydrogen Network

FuelCellsWorks

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s ruling coalition on Friday agreed a financing mechanism for the country’s future hydrogen network, extending a deadline for it to be built by five years to.

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Technology will boost real-time monitoring of remote peatlands

Envirotec Magazine

The Auchencorth Moss test site near Edinburgh (image credit: Konsta Punkka, (c) ICOS ERIC). Researchers will develop new ways to monitor carbon emissions from vast swathes of peatland after winning almost half a million pounds to develop new sensors that can be used in remote areas. Peatlands store around one-third of the world’s soil carbon, playing a vital role in reducing carbon emissions and combatting climate change.

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European Commission Approves €350 Million German State Aid Scheme to Support Renewable Hydrogen Production

FuelCellsWorks

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €350 million German scheme to support the production of renewable hydrogen through the European Hydrogen Bank’s “Auctions-as-a-Service” tool. The German measure is.

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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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Ultra high-pressure robotic cutter clears sewer debris in Glasgow

Envirotec Magazine

Scottish Water has turned to ultra high-pressure robotics in an apparent UK-first to remove decades of industrial deposits blocking a strategic sewer in South Lanarkshire. Nearly a kilometre of Rutherglen’s Eastfield trunk sewer had become clogged with concrete-like calcite and suspected hazardous materials running under former industrial land. All efforts to safely remove them using conventional methods such as jetting, and diamond-tipped milling heads had proved unsuccessful.

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Nikola Corporation Announces Date for First Quarter 2024 Results and Webcast and Q&A Platform for Shareholders

FuelCellsWorks

PHOENIX– Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy supply and infrastructure solutions, via the HYLA brand, today announced it will report its first quarter ended March 31, 2024.

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IEA Think Tank Contributes to Climate Science Denial Documentary

DeSmogBlog

A senior figure at the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank contributed to a new documentary that spread numerous myths about climate change. Stephen Davies, an academic who has worked in educational outreach roles at the IEA since 2010, appeared several times in Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth – a new film directed by climate science denier Martin Durkin.

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Conservation charity launches Scottish Oil Beetle Hunt for 2024

Envirotec Magazine

Short-necked Oil Beetle (image credit: (c) Peadar O’Connell). UK conservation charity Buglife’s citizen science project, the Scottish Oil Beetle Hunt , is issuing a call for help. “As part of the partnership programme, Species on the Edge, members of the public are asked to look out for these amazing beetles and record any sightings.” According to the group, Scottish records of oil beetles on iRecord more than doubled last year due to the combined effort of the Scottish Oil Bee

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Padilla, Lee Highlight $1.2 Billion Investment in California’s ARCHES Hydrogen Hub During Tour of Port of Oakland

FuelCellsWorks

OAKLAND, CA— Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (D-Calif.-12) toured hydrogen projects at the Port of Oakland alongside leadership from the Port of Oakland and.

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Poland’s installed solar capacity exceeds 17GW

PV Tech

Poland's cumulative installed solar PV capacity surpassed 17GW as of the end of 2023, according to Polish research group IEO.

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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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Green Hydrogen: TES Announces the Successful Fundraising of €140M to Support the Development of Its Key E-NG Projects

FuelCellsWorks

Tree Energy Solutions (“TES”), a global green energy company leading the way in the production of e-NG (electric natural gas derived from green hydrogen). Following significant investor demand, the company.

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Projected EV battery recycling capacity outstrips expected supply

Charged

Afraid there won’t be enough recycling plants to recycle EV batteries when they start reaching end of life in large numbers? Well, the opposite might turn out to be the case. Encouraged by generous government incentives, companies have been investing heavily in battery plants. According to new research from technology intelligence firm ABI Research, companies are planning to build enough EV battery recycling capacity by 2030 to recycle 1.3 million EV battery packs per year, but only some 341,000

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Nuvera to Unveil Fuel Cell Genset and Mobile EV Rapid Charger at ACT Expo

FuelCellsWorks

Billerica, Massachusetts— Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC, a leading provider of fuel cell power solutions, has developed a hydrogen-powered genset and rapid charger in collaboration with power management services provider Power.

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Calpine to bring majority of 680MW California BESS online this summer

Energy Storage News

Gas and geothermal plant operator Calpine Corporation will bring 510MW of its 680MW capacity battery energy storage system (BESS) project in California online in summer 2024, with BYD battery units.

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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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New U.S. ‘green bank’ aims to steer over $160B in capital into climate tech

TechCrunch: Climate

The EPA awarded $20 billion in grants to kickstart loans and equity investing in climate technologies across the country. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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SP Energy Networks orders innovative grid balancing power solution

Smart Energy International

Hitachi Energy has won an order from SP Energy Networks to design and deliver an innovative power quality solution to balance the grid and boost the flow of renewable energy across the UK. The solution, which the tech company calls a first-of-its-kind, will enable the UK electricity network operator to add up to 280MW of additional renewable energy to the electricity grid, with the potential to power over 360,000 homes.

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Friday Briefing: Investment and ownership in a rapidly maturing energy storage industry

Energy Storage News

This Friday Briefing energy storage companies getting new ownership, and how the right owners or investors bring a 'synergy advantage'

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Clean Hydrogen Key to Achieving Sustainable Decarbonization: NEOM Green Hydrogen CEO

FuelCellsWorks

RIYADH– Clean hydrogen is one of the most promising ways to achieve sustainable decarbonization and combat climate change, a top official has told Arab News. Wesam Al-Ghamdi, CEO of NEOM.

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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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Billions to trillions: How municipal bonds can multiply the reach of the US ‘green bank’

Impact Alpha

To achieve stated climate goals, the U.S. government is embarking on what should be the largest coordination of private and public capital aimed. The post Billions to trillions: How municipal bonds can multiply the reach of the US ‘green bank’ appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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MacFarlane Simonov | Ammonia Fuel Cell

Energy Central

As shown in the diagram above, nitrogen is fed to one side of cell and water to the other side. Hydrogen atoms are stripped off the water molecules in the form of positively charged protons (shown as H+ in the diagram), which are then transported across the cell. On the other side of the cell they are combined with Nitrogen atoms to form ammonia (NH3).

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HRS Partners with SEVEN for Hydrogen Station in Tarn, France

FuelCellsWorks

Seven Orders From Hrs an Initial 1 Tonne/Day HRS40 Station as Part of the Corridor H2 Project in Occitanie HRS, the French designer and manufacturer and European leader in hydrogen.

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Quinbrook raises US$600 million for Valley of Fire Fund to expand solar portfolio

PV Tech

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has closed funding for its Valley of Fire Fund, raising US$600 million in capital commitments.

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MITSUI E&S Introduces High-Pressure High-Flow Hydrogen Compressor for the Hydrogen Supply Chain Facilities

FuelCellsWorks

MITSUI E&S Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Takeyuki Takahashi; hereinafter “MITSUI E&S”) is pleased to announce the commencement of the sale of high-flow hydrogen compressors tailored for.

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Chart: Tesla’s EV charging lead isn’t going anywhere

Canary Media

Tesla had a disappointing quarter with its first EV sales decline in almost four years, but while inventory and pricing trends are not currently in Tesla’s favor, it does appear to have at least one sustainable advantage: its fast-charging network.

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Norway: Grøn Brint Initiates Final Commissioning Tests, Producing the Very First Hydrogen Molecules in Hjørring

FuelCellsWorks

This week, Grøn Brint started their hot commissioning program, adding power and producing the first hydrogen molecules from its Hjørring plant. This marks a key milestone in the company’s journey.

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'A new chapter for the voluntary carbon market': Gold Standard, CAR and ACR win approval to use CO2 credit integrity label

Business Green

Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market hails ‘new chapter’ for the sector as first three carbon credit programmes assessed as adhering to Carbon Core Principles criteria

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New phase of carbon markets to focus on emission cuts rather than offsets

Renew Economy

Investors are holding back on climate and nature repair investment in Australia as uncertainty continues for the carbon markets and prices fall because of questions about integrity. The post New phase of carbon markets to focus on emission cuts rather than offsets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Thames Water parent company says it has defaulted on debt

Financial Times: Energy

Formal notice to bondholders fires starting gun on potentially messy restructuring

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Romania’s largest BESS inaugurated by local integrator: ‘proof Europe can compete with Asia’

Energy Storage News

Developer Monsson Group and system integrator Prime Batteries Technology have inaugurated a 6MW/24MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Romania, the country's largest.

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KenGen approves GreenFire closed-loop application in Olkaria geothermal field, Kenya

ThinkGeoEnergy

GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) has announced that it has received approval from KenGen to commence the implementation of the company’s proprietary GreenLoop® technology in a geothermal well in the Olkaria geothermal field in Kenya. This follows up on a collaboration between the two parties that had been previously announced during the 2023 Geothermal Rising Conference.

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Alberta awards funding to supercap, energy storage-as-transmission projects in Canadian province

Energy Storage News

The government of Alberta, Canada, has selected advanced and clean energy projects to receive CA$33.7 million (US$24.83 million) in grant funding, including a hydroelectric-plus-supercapacitor technology pilot.

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Sacrificing Snail Darters to Save The Climate

Energy Central

For those of you who know what the Snail Darter is and its place in U.S, History, my title for this piece may come off as blasphemy by yours truly. But stick with me and read on to see how I am trying to use a new angle to chat about where I think things stand in terms of emissions reduction and climate mitigation. The Snail Darter is (not was) a small, endangered fish whose habitat in the.

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Bidirectional trucking: Switzerland’s DPD tests fleet electrification

Smart Energy International

As part of the federally funded TEC-OFF research project, Swiss parcel service provider DPD is testing bidirectional charging with its vehicle fleet to help close potential power gaps at peak times on the power grid. In the research project, coordinated alongside researchers from ZHAW School of Engineering and supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy, intelligent and bidirectional charging is being investigated using a DPD fleet at project site Wolf in Basel as a case study.