Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Salar de Uyuni covers an area of over a million hectares on a high plateau in Bolivia (image credit: Avner Vengosh/Duke University). A US group has conducted the first thorough chemical analysis of wastewater associated with mining the lithium brine at the Salar de Uyuni, in Bolivia. Their findings could inform strategies to manage future mining operations and avoid the groundwater depletion and other problems that have affected sites like the Salar de Atacama in Chile.

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POWER Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Imagine a field of solar panels floating silently in the endless day of Earths orbit. Unlike their terrestrial cousins, this space-based solar array never faces nighttime, clouds, or atmospheric interference. […] The post Space-Based Solar Power: The Future of 24/7 Clean Energy Generation appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Innovate UK has committed an additional 4.7 million to support 11 new networks focused on advancing regulatory science. The initiative aims to help policymakers keep pace with rapid technological developments by providing new tools, datasets, and approaches to regulation. Regulatory frameworks play a key role in shaping innovation, providing confidence to businesses and investors while ensuring consumer protection.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Transforming Fuji Five Lakes into a Green Model for the Future A groundbreaking collaboration between SGH2 Energy , a U.S.-based green hydrogen pioneer, and Yamanashi Prefecture of Japan is set to revolutionize the scenic Fuji Five Lakes region. With an ambitious plan in motion, the partnership aims to transform this renowned tourist destination, located near iconic Mount Fuji, into a sustainable “green metropolis.” Through the integration of cutting-edge green hydrogen technology, t

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Resource management firm Veolia says it is now saving 12GWh of gas use per year by using a new distillate product as a fuel for the steam plant that supports the solvent recovery operations at its Garston, Liverpool facility. By developing and testing the new fuel, and using it as a substitute for fossil fuel, the site now displaces the equivalent of 1.1 million m 3 of natural gas, enough to heat over 1,000 houses for a year.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A team of engineers and material scientists in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder has developed a new technology to turn thermal radiation into electricity in a way that literally teases the basic law of thermal physics.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A mortar made from recycled plastic and silica aerogel that improves insulation and reduces plastic waste has been developed by Newcastle University researchers. The team hopes this new building material could reduce heating and cooling bills while being environmentally friendly.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Mr Noah Law MP visits the Fraddon Biogas Plant on 31 January. Last week, Noah Law MP spoke to industry guests at the Eden Project about the need for Government to ensure biogas meets its potential in delivering Britains clean energy needs. The local MP for St Austell and Newquay had previously visited the Fraddon anaerobic digestion plant operated by Material Change in Higher Fraddon, St Columb.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Allegro Energy, an Australian-based developer of water-based redox flow battery energy storage solutions, has been awarded AU$1.85 million (US$1.17 million) in federal government funding to scale its technology.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Only 30% of a coffee bean is soluble in water, and many brewing methods aim to extract significantly less than that. So of the 1.6 billion pounds of coffee Americans consume in a year, more than 1.1 billion pounds of grounds are knocked from filters into compost bins and garbage cans.

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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

Energy

Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Short duration flexibility has a massive role to play in reducing the costs of the Great British energy system, saving 10 billion a year by 2025, Duncan Stone said this morning at the Energy Storage Summit 2025 in the UK.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

DGIST's Professor Chiyoung Park's team has developed a catalytic technology that effectively removes additives that hinder plastic recycling, using components derived from sugar. This study not only provides an alternative to conventional complex and costly processes but also suggests the expandability of this technology into plastic recycling and environmental remediation.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Fire safety should always be the BESS industry's top priority and there are effective steps to achieve it, writes Angus Moodie, engineering manager at consultancy Enertis Applus+.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Berlin-headquartered ENAPI, developer of an EV charging software platform to facilitate communication of transaction data between charge point operators (CPOs) and e-mobility service providers (eMSPs), has raised 7.5 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm Voyager Ventures. This latest round brings ENAPIs total funding to 10 million.

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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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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Invinity Energy Systems and Frontier Power have partnered to deploy vanadium flow batteries under the UK Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) procurement process.

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CleanTech Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

What Drives Automation in Waste Management? Innovation in waste management comes in bursts. Today, the promise of automation through artificial intelligence (AI) offers. The post AI in Waste Sortation: Robotics, Algorithms, & More appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In the pursuit of carbon neutrality, the world is undergoing a third energy revolution driven by renewable energy sources and supported by various types of batteries. Hydrogen energy, as a zero-carbon energy carrier, is an ideal medium for addressing global climate change and achieving the decarbonization of the energy system.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Energy-Storage.news team brings you daily highlights and insights from the Energy Storage Summit EU in London, UK.

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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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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A research team has advanced cathode materials, a key component of electric vehicle batteries. Their findings could usher in a new chapter in the development of high-capacity high-safety lithium-ion battery materials. Their paper is published in the journal ACS Nano.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Birmingham City Council in the UK has partnered with charging point operator ubitricity to carry out a pilot deployment of 560 lamppost charge points in residential areas of the city where access to private off-street parking is limited or unavailable. The charging points will be installed in lampposts on 82 streets around the city. Each charger takes less than an hour to install, according to the company.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Flexible solar cells that do not contain any rare earth metal are paving the way for the development of low-cost, efficient solar energy, according to new research by the University of Sheffield.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In a discussion with Chris Uhlmann, US energy secretary Chris Wright digs in on fossil fuels, climate denial and a hatred of green energy. The post US energy secretary tells UK and Australian conservatives that net zero is sinister and unachievable appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On the first morning of the Energy Storage Summit, an expert panel faced pressing questions from Europes energy storage professionals.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

How to make nuclear look not so expensive: Trick #1: Assume a cost for reactors of around half what they have actually cost to build in the real world. The post Peter Duttons nuclear accounting trick #1: Assume you can halve the cost of nuclear power appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Industry experts discussed the varying approaches in Europe to procuring energy storage via long-term support schemes on Day One of Solar Media's Energy Storage Summit 2025 in London, which kicked off today (18 February).

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

There are hopes techniques borrowed from the oil and gas industry can boost the viability of geothermal energy, as a German town gears up to be a test case. The post German town digs deep for hot rock geothermal energy to replace gas networks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Australias Victoria government has fast-tracked the approval process for a 1.8GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) being pursued by developer Birdwood Energy.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Adelaide-based geothermal drilling startup CoilRig will be receiving a $450,000 grant from the Department of State Development of the Government of South Australia to undertake product development and commercialization. The company had also previously received $250,000 of funding from the Australian government through the Industry Growth Program. We are excited to be a part of the Industry Growth Program which helps expand the pipeline of Australias emerging small and medium manufacturers in the

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Australia's Edify Energy has confirmed that its 185MW/370MWh Koorangie BESS in Victoria has started exporting to the grid.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

South Australia loses patience with Gupta's GFG Alliance and seizes control of the Whyalla steelworks, to protect jobs and the state's green steel and hydrogen ambitions. The post “Lost confidence:” Government takes control of Whyalla steel works, as hydrogen plan hangs in balance appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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LA CleanTech Incubator

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Launched by LA County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath, in partnership with UCLA, the Commission will develop a comprehensive set of recommendations to serve as a roadmap to ensure Los Angeles Countys recovery efforts are designed to withstand the realities of a changing climate. From championing the green rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane […] The post LACI President and CEO Matt Petersen to Chair Blue Ribbon Commission on Climate Action and Fire Safe Recovery appeared first on LACI.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Labor and the LNP might be approaching the federal election from diametrically opposite ends of the ideological spectrum on energy, but there is one key battleground where their policies will collide. The post Battle of the batteries: Solar soakers provide some common ground for Australia’s competing energy visions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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