Wed.Jun 07, 2023

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Meta and Aspiration partner to scale nature-based carbon removal solutions

GreenBiz

Sponsored: A collaboration between Meta and Aspiration demonstrates the crucial role of corporate partnerships in scaling nature-based carbon removal solutions.

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Want to save the planet? Save the bus

NRDC onEarth

California, with the fifth largest economy in the world, is at risk of steering public transit off a fiscal cliff. It's time for the State's leaders to take action to protect transit riders and transit jobs.

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Could there be an ‘OPEC of lithium’?

GreenBiz

Chile plans to nationalize its vast reserves of lithium, an element essential for development of batteries and electric vehicles. That could force new public-private partnerships for leading suppliers Albemarle and SQM.

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How To Make Your Building Green And Smart

U.S. Green Technology

Green and smart buildings gain attention due to the growing demand for eco-friendly and energy-efficient solutions. Awareness of conventional construction’s environmental and well-being impact prompts increased emphasis on green and smart buildings. Property owners and managers have the chance to make their buildings into energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, and intelligent settings by using cutting-edge technologies and.

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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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Green accountancy guide to aid 'investor-grade' greenhouse gas reporting

GreenBiz

Reporting guide from accountancy bodies and We Mean Business comes amid tightening mandatory climate risk reporting rules worldwide.

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SEPA urges firms to manage water wisely as whole of Scotland affected by scarcity

Envirotec Magazine

Below average rainfall for May has led to a deteriorating water scarcity situation across Scotland, according to SEPA, with the Loch Maree area in the Highlands moving from Alert level to Moderate Scarcity. The area has now reached the second highest risk level, as shown in the weekly report published by the agency on Thursday 1st June 2023. In addition, the lack of rain and increasingly dry ground conditions means 12 areas in the Northwest and Southern Central region are now experiencing in Ale

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Edinburgh biochar firm secures £1m investment to open first production facility

Envirotec Magazine

Edinburgh-based Carbogenics – the developer of proprietary technology that enhances the efficacy and applicability of anaerobic digestion – has raised more than £1m in investment to build its first production and R&D facility in Scotland. The company turns difficult-to-recycle farm and paper waste which would otherwise go to landfills or be sent for incineration into a product called CreChar®.

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Tigo Energy Releases Solar-Plus-Storage for German Market at Intersolar Europe

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Tigo to showcase residential solar solutions that make solar, energy storage, and data-driven fleet management fast, flexible, and dependable for European installers.

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Building the business case for satellite IoT

Envirotec Magazine

Eric Menard is Vice President Strategy and Business with Swiss satellite communications firm Astrocast. Eric Ménard writes The Operational IoT market continues to expand as organisations across the world imagine an extraordinary range of opportunities to leverage sensor technology. Weather monitoring stations are transforming the efficiency and environmental performance of remote copper mines and helping farmers to safeguard crops and livestock in a changing climate.

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Nevada Bill to Protect Bees Passes with Broad Bipartisan Support

NRDC onEarth

With broad bi-partisan support, Nevada enacted legislation to make it the third state to ban outdoor, non-agricultural uses of neurotoxic neonic pesticides.

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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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ACT passes first law in Australia banning gas in new homes, as fossil empire strikes back

Renew Economy

ACT votes on law to ban new gas connections for homes and businesses, in a major coup for electrification and a new blow to the fossil fuel lobby. The post ACT passes first law in Australia banning gas in new homes, as fossil empire strikes back appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenPower and its California dealership have over 40 electric school buses in the pipeline

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Heavy-duty EV manufacturer GreenPower Motor is doing a brisk business in electric school buses in California, thanks in part to the state’s Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project. GreenPower’s exclusive dealer, Creative Bus Sales, has more than 40 GreenPower Type D BEAST and Type A Nano BEAST school buses in the HVIP voucher funding pipeline.

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The Philips GreenPower LED toplighting force installation delivers more light with considerably less energy consumption, and can be used longer on an annual basis. “The flower quality is excellent, and the production can probably even be increased a bit

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The energy supply of the future is safe, climate-friendly and based on the efficient use of renewable energy. This requires the centralized and decentralized components of the energy system to work together seamlessly. With their new and creative ideas, start-ups are making an important contribution digitalizing our power system.

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Volvo EX30 car: Small Electric SUV with Big Features

Green Living Guy

The Volvo EX30 car. It’s a small yet powerful electric SUV. One that is set to make a significant impact on the electric vehicle market. Designed with safety, convenience, and also enjoyment in mind. For the Volvo EX30 car boasts the smallest CO2 footprint. That’s moreover of any Volvo car to date. I believe that’s […] The post Volvo EX30 car: Small Electric SUV with Big Features appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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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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WAE Technologies develops Elysia battery intelligence software

Charged

WAE Technologies has developed a new battery intelligence software platform for the management and optimization of batteries. Elysia is based on AI, data science and electrochemical modeling. Its embedded and cloud-based products are designed to provide customers—including global automotive OEMs, fleet operators, and battery asset financiers—with battery insights, management, optimization, and performance enhancement across the battery’s entire lifecycle, both in the vehicle and in second-

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Spain on track to pass 50 pct renewable energy generation in 2023

Renew Economy

Spain expected to surpass 50% average renewables mark on its grid this year, beating neighbouring EU powerhouses to the milestone. The post Spain on track to pass 50 pct renewable energy generation in 2023 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Lohmann offers high-conductivity tapes for thermal management in EV batteries

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Lohmann , a German adhesive tape company, has expanded its range of EV battery bonding solutions for damping, sealing, electrical insulation, conductivity and thermal management. Lohmann’s new DuploCOLL TC (thermally conductive) acrylic transfer tapes have ASTM D 5470-tested thermal conductivity of up to 2 W/mK. TC tapes are free of silicones, halogens and solvents and they can adhere to irregular surfaces.

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How is IoT Unlocking the Future Growth of the EV Charging Industry?

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The EV charging stations are connected devices and implemented with several third-party service providers such as energy suppliers, e-MSPs, and charge point operators, unlike the non-networked gasoline fuel stations.

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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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Rheinmetall launches curbstone charger pilot project

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German automotive manufacturer Rheinmetall has announced a pilot project with the City of Cologne and German electromobility services provider TankE to install curbstone charger infrastructure in public streets beginning this summer. Rheinmetall says the goal is to integrate and test Rheinmetall curbstone chargers in two parts of the city for the purpose of assessing public acceptance and design features.

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Bath Water Sustainable: How to Build it Green

Green Living Guy

Into the bath water being more sustainable? Then let’s go folks! More and more individuals today are seeking a greener and more sustainable lifestyle. Especially and in our quest for a greener life. For every aspect of our daily routine deserves scrutiny. And one area that is often overlooked and taken for granted is our […] The post Bath Water Sustainable: How to Build it Green appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Ample unveils next-generation battery-swapping station

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Yes, battery swapping is alive, and it’s in commercial use in San Francisco, where a company called Ample provides swapping services to fleet partners such as Uber and Sally. Ample made its public debut in 2021 after 7 years in stealth mode, and has tested its technology with fleet drivers to understand the suitability of battery swapping for their use cases.

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Hammond Power Solutions Appoints Chief Executive Officer

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The announcement follows an extensive search process conducted by the Board of Directors which included the evaluation of highly qualified internal and external candidates and was aided with the support of an executive search firm.

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Low cost wind and solar protect ACT consumers from bill shock once again

Renew Economy

ACT consumers face minimum rise in electricity bills thanks to its 100 pct renewable policy as households in other states blown away by soaring costs of fossil fuels. The post Low cost wind and solar protect ACT consumers from bill shock once again appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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UK-based OXCCU secures $22.7 million to commercialize sustainable aviation fuel

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 7 — Climate-friendly policy, advance purchase agreements and capital for climate technologies are accelerating demand for sustainable aviation fuel. Many of. The post UK-based OXCCU secures $22.7 million to commercialize sustainable aviation fuel appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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NT looks to throw wind into energy mix as it wrestles with renewable future

Renew Economy

Northern Territory has yet to connect its first solar farms to the grid, and now it wants to explore wind as a renewable balancing act. The post NT looks to throw wind into energy mix as it wrestles with renewable future appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Financing is the Future of Roofing: Here’s Why.

Mosaic

Roofs play a vital role in making homes safe, comfortable and resilient. A high-quality roof can improve a home’s curb appeal, raise the resale value and even increase its overall energy efficiency. But for many homeowners, it is becoming increasingly difficult to afford roofing projects upfront. In today’s economy, almost forty percent of Americans have less in emergency savings than a year ago.

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Queensland breaks ground on massive Wambo wind and battery project

Renew Economy

Works have begun on what stands to be a 500MW wind farm and big battery in Queensland's Western Downs region, half owned by the state government. The post Queensland breaks ground on massive Wambo wind and battery project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Construction Begins on Largest Community Solar Project for Low-Income Residents in California

altenergymag

Fresno's Disadvantaged Community Solar Farm will reduce electricity costs for some disadvantaged community rate payers, and provide solar jobs to local residents

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Victoria takes control of transmission planning to ensure it gets to 95 pct renewables

Renew Economy

Victorian government hands control of transmission planning to VicGrid in new plan to allay community concerns and pave way for 95pct renewables target. The post Victoria takes control of transmission planning to ensure it gets to 95 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ees Europe 2023: Major Progress in New Battery Technologies

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The production of batteries is to become more environmentally friendly and the products more efficient, safer and cheaper. To this end, several manufacturers are now looking for alternatives – and they have found them.

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Redflow seeks to raise $19 million to fund more big flow battery projects

Renew Economy

Australian flow battery maker seeks more funds to support growing pipeline of large battery projects. The post Redflow seeks to raise $19 million to fund more big flow battery projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Celgard Takes Another Step in Energy Storage Growth as It Forms Strategic Alliance with Lithion Battery for Next-generation Battery Cells

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Celgard, a Polypore subsidiary, supports its growth in energy storage systems (ESS) by forging alliance with Lithion Battery, advancing next-generation battery cells for use in micro-grid power applications. The cells could also be deployed in medical tools and military and industrial markets, where Celgard has been providing separator solutions for decades.

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Tasmania backs 2GW Bass Strait offshore wind farm proposed by Norway oil giant

Renew Economy

Deal with Equinor and Nexsphere aims to help get northern Tasmania declared as an Offshore Renewable Energy Zone by the federal government. The post Tasmania backs 2GW Bass Strait offshore wind farm proposed by Norway oil giant appeared first on RenewEconomy.