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SMA America Opens New Headquarters for the Americas in Northern California

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Local and global representatives from SMA Solar Technology alongside regional stakeholders held a ribbon cutting for the new SMA America headquarters, the Sunny Center building, in Rocklin, California

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Greens pledge billions in loans and grants to boost battery uptake and get off gas

Renew Economy

Greens outline grants and loans scheme to boost uptake of rooftop solar and battery storage and encourage customers to get off gas. The post Greens pledge billions in loans and grants to boost battery uptake and get off gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GridBeyond launches operations in Australia

Smart Energy International

Dublin headquartered GridBeyond, a specialist in demand response, continues its expansion with its presence in Australia. GridBeyond will provide AI-powered demand response, virtual power plant (VPP) services and generation and storage asset optimisation across Australia’s National Electricity Market. Using artificial intelligence and data science, the company’s technology solution will enable C&I customers to participate both in grid services for balancing the grid and in wholesale markets

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Now we know the flaws of carbon offsets, it’s time to get real about climate change

Renew Economy

We have to move past the magical thinking that carbon offsetting alone will lead to the technology shifts that will save us. The post Now we know the flaws of carbon offsets, it’s time to get real about climate change appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Global Recycling: The Environmental Impact and The Future

Unsustainable

Preventing pollution and improving public health are only some of the benefits of global recycling. It also creates employment, saves money, and reduces waste.

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Time is running out: Why we need moonshot thinking more than ever

Renew Economy

It's taking too long for grid owners and operators to resolve the actual and (often incorrectly) perceived reliability risks of connecting new renewables. The post Time is running out: Why we need moonshot thinking more than ever appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Ready for take-off: Coventry 'vertiport' opens to showcase electric flying taxis and drones

Business Green

Temporary site is the 'world's first' demonstration of a fully operational hub for electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles. The UK's first 'vertiport' for electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOL) has been unveiled today in Coventry, where operator Urban-Air Port is aiming to showcase the potential for zero emission air taxis and autonomous delivery drones to become the next frontier in air transport.

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Why Trees Are An Ideal Source Of Renewable Power

Energy Central

One of the more controversial renewable energy resources is woody biomass, such as trees. It shouldn’t be, because biomass can be a highly sustainable resource, if it is properly managed. I lived in Hawaii for five years, where I worked for a company that managed forests (among other things). I was sometimes asked to give talks at the local high school about energy and sustainability.

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How cloud computing can close the gap between green commitments and action 

Business Green

Individual businesses cannot solve the climate crisis alone, but thanks to advances in cloud technology we have the tools to help, writes Google Cloud's Justin Keeble. When it comes to protecting our environment, we are long past the point of making promises. Reacting to the UN's latest flagship climate report , Secretary General António Guterres put it plainly: "Climate promises and plans must be turned into reality and action, now.".

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Advanced methanol facility in the Port of Rotterdam

Energy Central

Rotterdam Advanced Methanol Rotterdam will achieve a reduction of 350,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2eq) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per year, producing approximately 90,000 tons of renewable methanol yearly by converting 180,000 tons of local non-recyclable waste that is currently being incinerated. All side streams of the conversion process at the AMR facility.

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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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UK Transition Plan Taskforce aims to help firms develop 'rigorous' climate strategies

Business Green

The government wants to develop the 'gold standard' for robust company climate strategies aligned with net zero by 2050. The government has formally launched a new UK Transition Plan Taskforce today, geared at developing a "gold standard" for robust company decarbonisation and climate adaptation plans aligned with delivering a net zero emissions economy by 2050.

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With Fossil Fuel Plants Overvalued, It’s Time to Get Capacity Right

Energy Central

Grid operators today are managing a changing portfolio mix while facing new system reliability challenges, such as extreme weather events occurring with greater frequency. As the clean energy transition accelerates, it’s vital that grid operators accurately understand how much they can count on different generating resources.

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Satavia announces historic carbon trade covering non-CO2 impacts of aviation

Business Green

Tech company argues market for carbon credits that cover non-CO2 climate impacts of flight could hit $9bn. Satavia, a UK start-up which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to create flight planning solutions that minimise emissions-intensive contrails from planes, has announced it has partnered with AirCarbon Exchange to conduct the world's first carbon trade to help fund efforts to tackle the non-CO2 climate impacts of aviation.

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France, Korea, Belgium, UK, China Will Expand Nuclear Energy

Energy Central

The UK has setup a new program called Great British Nuclear, which has the goal of building up to seven new nuclear reactors by 2050. They will identify sites, cut through red tape to speed up the planning process, and bring together private firms to run each site. The United Kingdom currently has eleven operable.

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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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Independent Electricity System Operator - Ontario's Transit Fleets of the Future: $14.6 million investment to explore how TTC subways, electric buses and batteries can support growing electricity needs

Global Renewable News

No longer just a means of getting from point A.

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HY4 Passenger Plane Sets Hydrogen Altitude Record

Energy Central

Aviation First hydrogen-powered electric airplane to fly between two European airports.

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Covanta - Covanta and EQT Infrastructure to Create a Standalone Waste-to-Energy Platform in EuropeSeparation creates a leading Waste-to-Energy platform in Europe, meeting growing demand for sustainable waste infrastructure

Global Renewable News

Covanta is pleased to announce, alongside EQT.

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Wind power, while cheap, stutters without government support

Eco-Business

Global warming requires renewables to grow at a pace that may outstrip the rules of economics. For capital intensive and complex wind power, energy experts say it’s not money that’s needed, but the easing of bureaucratic bottlenecks.

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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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Ontario Power Generation - PowerON project receives funding to help green transit

Global Renewable News

A Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) project to.

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‘Massive shortfall’ in green financing for region's emerging markets: Asean chair Cambodia

Eco-Business

Environmental sustainability is top of the bloc’s latest agenda and investors are keen to finance Asean’s climate goals. There is, however, a severe lack of ‘bankable projects’, say observers.

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Leyline Renewable Capital - Leyline Renewable Capital $52 Million Loan Launches Texas Solar ProjectThe Longbow solar project near Houston to generate over 100 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy

Global Renewable News

Today (April 22), Leyline Renewable Capital.

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Lessons from COVAX could help vaccine equity

Eco-Business

COVAX was supposed to be the elixir for vaccine inequality – it wasn’t. However, lessons can be taken from previous global experiences to help make progress.

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Mississauga - Mississauga Goes Green as the First Canadian City to Receive Prestigious ISO 50001 Certification for Energy Management

Global Renewable News

This Earth Day, the City of Mississauga is.

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Will the Ukraine war upend the sustainability agenda?

Eco-Business

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is intensifying the economic, social, and geopolitical pressures countries face, casting a shadow on efforts to address the shared challenge of climate change.

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Government of Canada - Renewable Energy for District of Sicamous

Global Renewable News

Canadians have been clear about what they.

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Europe strives to end dependency on Russian gas

Eco-Business

The global energy landscape is being reshaped as Europe looks for new supplies and Russia pivots to Asia.

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Vattenfall - First wind turbine installed in Hollandse Kust Zuid

Global Renewable News

The first turbine of the Hollandse Kust.

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Lithium’s “Insane” Price Levels Predicted Years Ago By Mr. Lithium & Lithium Market Experts

CleanTechnica

Elon Musk and “Mr. Lithium” are both right about the issues surrounding lithium’s supply and demand. Lithium prices are rising to insane levels — especially for a metal that isn’t rare. The issue isn’t rarity or scarcity, but it’s how to get it out of the spodumene and into an EV battery. Tesla CEO Elon […].

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New York State Energy Research and Development Authority - On Earth Day, Governor Hochul Announces $59 Million Now Available for Clean Green Schools InitiativeProgram Will Improve Air Quality, Advance Clean Energy and Reduce Carbon Emissions in Pre-K-12 Public Schools

Global Renewable News

Governor Kathy Hochul today (April 22).

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EV Owners Join Supporters At Connecticut State Capital In Favor Of SB 214

CleanTechnica

EV owners across all brands recently showed up in the Connecticut State Capital to show their support for Senate Bill 214. Paul Braren, writer at TinkerTry, was invited and he shared his perspective in a recent post with several photos. Paul noted that Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid were all represented at the event and there […].

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Geothermal Technologies Office - U.S. Department of Energy Passes $100 Million Milestone in American-Made Challenges Prize Program

Global Renewable News

Washington, D.C. Today (April 22).

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Why Tesla Needs A Specialized Robotaxi

CleanTechnica

At the Tesla Cyber Rodeo, Elon Musk said, “There’s going to be a dedicated robotaxi that is going to look quite futuristic-looking.” Then, in the recent earnings call, he briefly discussed the “futuristic” robotaxi. He declined to give details, but told us that they plan to do a robotaxi event of some kind next year. […].

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U.S. Department of Energy - DOE Announces 15 Universities Selected for EcoCAR Electric Vehicle Challenge Collegiate Engineering Teams Will Compete to Advance Clean Transportation Technology and Accelerate the Equitable Transition to Electric Vehicles

Global Renewable News

The U.S. Department of Energy, in.