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Where’s the innovation in induction kitchens?

TechCrunch: Climate

Induction cooking has the potential to liberate us to rethink the kitchen, but new designs have been slow to arrive. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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‘Every square inch is covered in life’: the ageing oil rigs that became marine oases

The Guardian: Energy

Built decades ago, California’s offshore oil platforms are home to a huge diversity of marine life. Now a debate rages over their future On a recent August afternoon, Ann Scarborough Bull motored out two miles from the coast of Santa Barbara onboard a research vessel called the Danny C. The marine biologist and her colleagues had an unusual destination in their sights: a disused oil platform that loomed ahead like a forgotten skyscraper reaching up from the horizon.

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Thermal energy storage startup MGA ‘committed to moving forward’ after overheating incident at demonstration plant

Energy Storage News

Lessons will be learned from an overheating incident at a thermal energy storage demonstration unit to which fire crews were called, the company behind the technology has said.

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Empire Diversified Energy Inc. - Empire Diversified Energy Awarded Funds from U.S. Department of Energy for Green Hydrogen Project

Global Renewable News

Empire Diversified Energy, Inc. (OTC Markets Pink, Ticker Symbol: MPIR) announced today (Oct 13) that the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) has.

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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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EVE Energy is a Tier 1 battery maker with customer-focused solutions for energy storage

Energy Storage News

“We think this is the first battery cell which is designed from the end users’ point of view, based on how they want to use it,” EVE Energy’s head of energy storage Steven Chen says.

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Government of Dominica - Geothermal Global Partners Conference ongoing in Dominica

Global Renewable News

The Government of Dominica is hosting a Geothermal Global Partners Conference to mobilize resources for geothermal energy development on the island. The Dominica Geothermal Global Partners' confer.

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Vision RNG - Vision RNG Celebrates Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting of Landfill Gas to Renewable Natural Gas Plant at the Meridian Waste Eagle Ridge Landfill in Bowling Green, Missouri

Global Renewable News

Today (Oct 12), Vision RNG and Meridian Waste celebrated the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the State of Missouri's first Landfill Gas (LFG) to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) plant at Meridian&#.

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'Alexa, I'm cold': Government teams up with Amazon for energy saving campaign

Business Green

Ministers relaunch winter energy saving public information campaign with new Amazon partnership

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Mitsubishi Power, Ltd. - Mitsubishi Power Named a Sub-recipient in Two Clean Hydrogen Hubs Announced by U.S. Department of Energy

Global Renewable News

Highlights Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub (PNWH2) and HyVelocity Hub (Gulf Coast region) were selected by the US Department of Energy to develop two regional hydrogen hubs. As an ind.

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In Bali, 'sea-sun-sand' tourists threaten ancient rainforest

Eco-Business

Indigenous community in north Bali wants more control of sacred rainforests to avoid the mass tourism in the south of Indonesian island.

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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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Clean Energy Group - Clean Energy Group Statement on DOE's Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs Funding

Global Renewable News

Today (Oct 13), the U.S. Department of Energy announced the recipients of the Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (also known as H2Hubs) funding, which includes up to $7 billion across seven regional hydroge.

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36 energy network innovation projects funded in GB

Smart Energy International

36 network innovation projects have been awarded a total of £16 million (US$19.5 million) by Britain’s energy regulator Ofgem to advance to the next level from feasibility. With funding of up to £500,000 per project, the aim is to advance network and other electricity and gas transmission and distribution innovations to a level from where they can go on to become a demonstrator and thereafter into commercial development.

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Ormat Technologies, Inc. - Ormat Releases 2022 Sustainability ReportCompany Continues Its Commitment to Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

Global Renewable News

Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA), a leading renewable energy company, today released the Company's annual Sustainability Report, providing an overview of the Company's environmental, socia.

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Climate Politics: View from Washington

Energy Central

Note to readers: this an update of an earlier status report. Dominating politics this week is the war in the Middle East between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, in which thousands have died and many more have been wounded. Israel's far-right Prime Minister Netanyahu has promised a scorched earth retaliation against Hamas and other terrorist groups like the Palestinian Islamic.

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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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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Pacific Northwest Set to Launch Hydrogen Energy HubPNNL research team helps define hydrogen's role in the new energy economy of the Pacific Northwest

Global Renewable News

The Department of Energy today (Oct 13) announced $7 billion to launch seven regional clean hydrogen hubs (H2Hubs) to develop clean hydrogen energy that meets the nation's energy needs. The region.

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47% Of New Cars In Netherlands Now Plugin Cars!

CleanTechnica

In the Netherlands, 47% of new car sales were plugin car sales in September. Furthermore, 34% were full electrics! The Netherlands saw an increase in plugin registrations to 13,916 units in September, with the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market thus reaching 47% of the overall auto market last month.

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Midwest Alliance For Clean Hydrogen - Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen (MachH2) Selected as Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub by U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED)

Global Renewable News

MachH2, clean hydrogen industry will deliver high-quality jobs, improved air quality, public health improvements, and economic development to the Midwest Today (Oct 13), the Midwest Alli.

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Floating Offshore Wind Could Bring Billions in Value to the US West Coast

CleanTechnica

Researchers modeled the performance of hypothetical floating wind farms off the coast of southern Oregon and northern California, showing multiple futures in which the benefits outweigh the cost of development

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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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Battelle - Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen (ARCH2) Selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) to Develop Multi-State Clean Hydrogen Hub

Global Renewable News

Battelle announced today (Oct 13) that following a highly competitive evaluation process, the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2) consortium was selected by the Department of Energy (DOE.

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Volt Solar Tile — The Roof of the Future?

CleanTechnica

Peter Leeson, CEO of the Leeson Group, sat down with me yesterday for a video interview from his base in Melbourne, Australia (almost 2000 km away from Brisbane where I sat at my computer).

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Water Power Technologies Office - Winners Announced in Final Phase of Hydropower Operations Optimization Prize

Global Renewable News

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) today (Oct 12) announced four winners in the fourth phase of the Hydropower Operations Optimization (.

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Calling All Rural Electric Co-Ops, Non-Profits, & General Stores! EV Drivers Need Your Help

CleanTechnica

In this article, I’m going to explain what’s holding rural EV charging back, why that matters, and what non-profit and governmental entities in rural areas can do to fix the problem. It’s still going to take a lot of work, but it’s a worthy effort that I’d like to help rural areas tackle.

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European Marine Energy Centre - Record number of tidal energy projects awarded CfD revenue support

Global Renewable News

The fifth round of the UK government's flagship renewable energy auction scheme has secured 3.7 GW of clean energy projects, enough to power the equivalent of 2 million homes. Launched in 2.

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Fuel Cell Trucks Win Big In New $7 Billion US Hydrogen Plan

CleanTechnica

The new $7 billion Hydrogen Hubs program will bring more green hydrogen to fuel cell truck makers, helping to free long haul truckers from the shackles of diesel and natural gas, too.

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Xcel Energy, Inc. - Xcel Energy, Heartland Hydrogen Hub selected for up to $925 million federal awardU.S. Department of Energy award will advance development of new, clean technology and reduce carbon emissions

Global Renewable News

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected the Heartland Hydrogen Hub, including multiple clean hydrogen projects from Xcel Energy, for award negotiations to receive up to $925 million. The award will.

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Tesla Model Y Low-Cost Ride Service Launched In Downtown Tampa

CleanTechnica

An organization named Downtown Area Shared Hubs (DASH) just launched a new low-cost ride service in downtown Tampa, Florida, using 6 electric Tesla Model Y SUVs. Riders can use an app on iPhones or Android phones to schedule short zero-emissions trips in seven downtown Tampa neighborhoods in the bright yellow Teslas.

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AES Corporation - AES Participating in Two Clean Hydrogen Hubs Awarded Funding by US Department of EnergyUp to $2.4 Billion Will Support the Development and Scaling of Clean Hydrogen Infrastructure in California and Along the Gulf Coast

Global Renewable News

The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) announced today (Oct 13) that it is part of two Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs receiving funding from the US Department of Energy. The two selections stand to receive up.

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Land Rovers Keep Catching Fire, But EVs Get Blamed For Luton Carpark Fire

CleanTechnica

Land Rovers and Range Rovers occupy the same place that massive pickup trucks do in North American car culture. They are vastly outsized, overpowered, heavy machines which pretend to be working vehicles, but are remarkably often driven in cities to pick up lattes.

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U.S. Department of Energy - Twenty-One Innovators Selected to Build Startups That Will Develop Revolutionary Clean Energy Technologies Through the Department of Energy's Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program

Global Renewable News

Today (Oct 13), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the latest round of cohorts in its Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP). The 21 selected innovators will now work with an exte.

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Zero Motorcycles Drops Prices, But We Need To Do More To Expand Two-Wheeled EV Ridership

CleanTechnica

If you think about it just a little, it’s pretty obvious that electric motorcycles are about the cleanest form of highway-speed transportation. Even the most heavily-packed of electric buses and electric trains still use heavy vehicles.

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U.S. Department of Energy - Investing in Innovation to Decarbonize American Industry

Global Renewable News

As we celebrate Manufacturing Week throughout the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), it's important to recognize how we're working to ensure the foundational role that manufacturing plays in tod.

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Powering Up Californians Act Is Signed into Law

CleanTechnica

Governor Newsom approves new law that will prepare the electrical grid and reduce the time needed to energize EV charging stations and electrify buildings.

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Ilmatar Energy - Ilmatar Grows in Sweden - First Solar Farm Fully Permitted and Ready to be Built

Global Renewable News

Knihult solar farm is the latest indication of Ilmatar's strong growth in Sweden. Ilmatar started operations in Sweden in the beginning of 2022. Ilmatar's solar power projects in.