Fri.Jan 26, 2024

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The Reusies awards celebrate communities, innovators and activists

GreenBiz

Companies advancing product and packaging reuse business models compete for recognition at the awards in May at Circularity 24 in Chicago.

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International Community Wants Biden to Act on LNG

NRDC onEarth

Allies from key countries around the world came out resoundingly in support of the Biden administration's decision to pause permitting of new liquefied natural gas export facilities.

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Next-Gen Honda Fuel Cell System Plays Key Role in Hydrogen Business Strategy

FuelCellsWorks

Honda expanding hydrogen business to realize global goal of carbon neutrality Production of new Honda fuel cell system has begun at Fuel Cell System Manufacturing (FCSM) joint venture facility in.

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Chart: Is LNG worse for the climate than coal?

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Conventional wisdom has long been that it’s better for the planet to burn fossil gas for electricity than it is to burn coal.

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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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Fallback Friday: Ballard Announces Orders for 62 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engines to Power Solaris Buses in Europe

FuelCellsWorks

VANCOUVER, CANADA and BOLECHOWO, POLAND– Ballard Power Systems today announced multiple purchase orders totaling 62 hydrogen fuel cell engines from long-standing customer Solaris Bus & Coach sp. z o.o.

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Big electric-truck charging depots are coming soon to California

Canary Media

California leads the U.S. in the push to swap out diesel-fueled trucks for electric — and in the buildout of the electric truck stops and depots those new trucks will depend on.

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TeraWatt and New Mexico DOT secure $64-million grant to deploy heavy-duty EV charging along I-10 corridor

Charged

TeraWatt Infrastructure , in partnership with the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), has been selected to receive $63.8 million in federal grant funding via the US DOT’s Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) grant program. TeraWatt’s grant is one of 47 awarded to projects nationwide in the first $623-million tranche of the CFI program, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses to Be Tested in the Budapest Area

FuelCellsWorks

Hydrogen fuel cell buses will be tested on the roads of the Budapest agglomeration – between Budapest, Kelenföld station, and Szigethalom – from January 22, 2024, for at least half.

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Regulator quashes ERCOT’s proposed state-of-charge rules for BESS

Energy Storage News

The Public Utility Commission of Texas has ordered the state's grid operator ERCOT to rescind state-of-charge (SOC) rules requiring batteries to hold additional capacity to provide ancillary services.

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Chinese Investors Enter Serbian Renewable Energy With €2Bn Green Hydrogen and Power Project

FuelCellsWorks

Serbia has signed an agreement to enable the Chinese company Shanghai Fengling Renewables and Serbia Zijin Copper to build a €2bn hydrogen and power generation plant, known as an electrolysis.

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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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Veolia completes refuse truck vehicle-to-grid trial in the UK

Charged

Veolia , a water, energy and waste recycling services multinational headquartered in France, has presented the results of a successful vehicle-to-grid (V2G) trial that enabled two specially designed bidirectional vehicles to be charged and then to discharge 110 kW of energy, or enough to power 110 households for over two hours during peak evening hours.

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Pertamina and Toyota Join Forces to Develop Hydrogen Ecosystem for Transportation From Upstream to Downstream

FuelCellsWorks

Jakarta– Pertamina New & Renewable Energy (Pertamina NRE) is collaborating with Toyota to develop a hydrogen ecosystem as a vehicle fuel in Indonesia. During the groundbreaking hydrogen refueling station (HRS).

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Manufacturers, materials dominate Mercom 2023 list of top VC-funded energy storage companies

Energy Storage News

UK-headquartered Zenobē Energy attracted the most venture capital (VC) funding of any company in the energy storage industry during 2023, as found by Mercom Capital.

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Hydrogen-Source Heat Pumps in UK Households Could Significantly Reduce UK Carbon Footprint, New Research Finds

FuelCellsWorks

New research by the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre at the University of Sheffield has revealed that using hydrogen-source heat pumps to heat UK households could markedly reduce the carbon footprint.

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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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The Week in impact investing: Fund discovery

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Category curation. Diversification across asset classes is one of the things that makes the “ownership economy” an attractive. The post The Week in impact investing: Fund discovery appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Will Auxin Solar’s latest AD/CVD lawsuit be a thorn in the side of US solar?

PV Tech

Earlier this month California-based solar manufacturer Auxin Solar announced that it was suing the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and Customs & Border Patrol over unclaimed payments from the antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) tariffs.

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USTDA Advances South Africa’s Green Hydrogen Ambitions

FuelCellsWorks

Arlington, VA– The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will bring a delegation of South African clean energy sector decision-makers to the United States to build partnerships between South Africa.

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Networked geothermal pilot project to be built in Boston, MA

ThinkGeoEnergy

The first networked geothermal pilot project in the city of Boston, Massachusetts is will be built at the Franklin Fields Apartments in Dorchester. The project was announced by Mayor Michelle Wu along with the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) and utility company National Grid. The project design is set to start in early 2024 and construction activity will commence by 2025.

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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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California Energy Commission Awards Enchanted Rock Grant for Hydrogen Blending Study

FuelCellsWorks

Funds Support Research into Innovative Hydrogen Blending Technology that will Mitigate Emissions and Improve Grid Resiliency STOCKTON, Calif.— Enchanted Rock, a leading provider of electrical resiliency microgrids, today announced that the.

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Geothermal Technical Table gearing up for Italy’s geothermal renaissance

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Geothermal Technical Table, coordinated by the Italian Geothermal Union (UGI) and the Italian Urban Heating Association (AIRU), has started a series of dialogues with Italy’s Ministry of the Environment (MASE) to work on the relaunch of geothermal energy as a renewable and strategic energy resource for the country. Despite Italy’s undisputed role as a technological leader in the use of geothermal energy for over a century and the local skills being recognized globally, the curren

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Charles Darwin University (CDU) Has Produced Hydrogen in the Northern Territory of Australia for the First Time

FuelCellsWorks

Charles Darwin University (CDU) has produced hydrogen in the Northern Territory for the first time. The University and the Northern Territory has today taken a step forward in the goal.

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Nautilus Solar, Foss & Company Announce $72M Tax Equity Partnership

Solar Industry

Nautilus Solar Energy and Foss & Company have announced a $72 million tax equity partnership, covering a 62 MW portfolio of 16 projects across Maine, Minnesota, New York and Maryland. “The collaboration with Foss & Company highlights the growing demand for community solar projects that offer an equitable and affordable renewable energy choice,” says Julian Erfurth, Nautilus’ executive director of capital markets. “This partnership not only reinforces our commitment to

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Innovative Green Hydrogen Shore Power Trial Launched at the Port of Leith

FuelCellsWorks

A consortium of four Scottish renewable and maritime companies have been awarded a UK Government Department for Transport grant of over £535,000 to develop an innovative UK-first approach that will.

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Crop Robotics: Interview with Bluewhite’s Alon Ascher on $39M Series C

CleanTech Group

Agriculture is among the industries most heavily reliant on manual labor. But as global demand for food increases and the amount of land. The post Crop Robotics: Interview with Bluewhite’s Alon Ascher on $39M Series C appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Emerson to Showcase Floor to Cloud™ Hydrogen Solutions At Hyvolution 2024 — Booth L26

FuelCellsWorks

Global technology, software and engineering leader Emerson will present its Floor to Cloud™ hydrogen solutions at Hyvolution in Paris, January 30 through February 1, 2024. Emerson will demonstrate how this.

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Nautilus Solar Energy seals US$72 million tax equity deal for 62MW solar portfolio

PV Tech

US community solar company Nautilus Solar Energy has signed a US$72 million tax equity deal with institutional investment management firm Foss & Company for a 62MW solar portfolio.

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Mabanaft and Tui Cruises Sign Mou for the Supply of Methanol

FuelCellsWorks

Hamburg-based energy company Mabanaft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TUI Cruises, one of the leading cruise operators, to supply green methanol in the future. The cooperation between Mabanaft.

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NexWafe Expands Solar Wafer Production to U.S.

Solar Industry

NexWafe has established a U.S. subsidiary to evaluate the development of solar wafer production, with an initial target volume of 6 GW, in the country. The project will leverage the company’s EpiNex production technology. As part of the expansion, NexWafe appointed solar industry veteran Jonathan Pickering as vice president of business development for North America to spearhead regional operations.

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Greenvale Announces Update in Acquisition of Premium Helium and Hydrogen Assets

FuelCellsWorks

Greenvale Energy Limited (ASX: GRV, “Greenvale” or “the Company”) refers to its previous announcement dated 17 October 2023 “Acquisition of High-Quality Helium and Hydrogen Opportunity” (ASX Release). As set out in.

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PVH reduces installation time by 40% with in-house pre-assembly

Solar Industry

PVHardware (PVH) has launched an in-house pre-assembly process across production centers that the company says diminishes the number of components shipped to installation sites by 85%, as well as decreases installation time by 40%. The company has adjusted its product design based on consumer feedback, including adaptation of the conditions for safety and the conditions of factory personnel, by focusing on adapting the spaces to the physical demands of the installation process. “With facto

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Anna-Lisa Mills, SmartCarbon, on Carbon Footprinting, Eco-entrepreneurialism and Eco-anxiety

Terra Infirma

This week’s podcast episode is a wide-ranging discussion with my friend and colleague Anna-Lisa Mills of SmartCarbon – my carbon footprinting expert of choice. You can watch it on YouTube or listen on either the player below – or on your favourite podcast platform. The audio version can be heard here on on your favourite podcasting platform. In this wide ranging chat, we cover: How writing an essay on climate change at school changed Anna-Lisa’s life The genesis and development of Sm

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CATL Floating PV Power Station Operational, Connected to Grid

Solar Industry

Contemporary Amperex (CATL) Yanzhou Phase I, a 250 MW floating PV power station located in Yanzhou District, Jining City, has been completed and connected to the grid at full capacity, says State Grid Jining Power Supply Company. “During the implementation of the project, State Grid Jining Power Supply Company gave us full support with its work style of not avoiding difficulties, not leaving things overnight and striving for excellence in all matters,” says Dong Zheyuan, deputy general man

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It’s time the solar industry embraces e-commerce

Solar Power World

Solar installers and EPC contractors are looking for new strategies to simplify procurement and ensure they have solar components when they need them. E-procurement is emerging as a preferred strategy to source solar panels and components, and B2B solar marketplaces provide product buyers with a central location to request quotes and order supplies.