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This clean energy hack serves Scope 3 goals and small buyers

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Small to mid-sized entities can team up and buy renewable energy through Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) aggregations, which large companies can also use to extend renewable energy benefits to small suppliers.

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DEFRA Air Quality Strategy: Health, environment and transport groups urge Government to re-think

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Alena Veasey / Shutterstock.com. Dozens of health, environment and transport businesses and charities are calling for the government to change course on its Air Quality Strategy. This comes as a result of organisations and local authorities being prevented from submitting views on the strategy because the public consultation closed after just ten days.

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How universities can help fill the climate jobs gap

GreenBiz

Universities can be on the forefront of upskilling the net generation workforce on sustainability, if they move quickly.

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No butts: Time to eradicate litter item as research clarifies toxic cargo

Envirotec Magazine

Cigarette filters are the world’s most common form of litter. New research appears to show that the filters leak thousands of toxins and plastic fibres that are toxic to aquatic larvae. The researchers are therefore calling for these filters to be completely banned. On the footpath, at the bus stop, in the park and on the beach. Cigarette butts are an omnipresent feature of the urban landscape in many cities.

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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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Salesforce boots up best practice guide for sustainable software

GreenBiz

The cloud-based software giant sets out a green code of practice to help programmers cut computer-generated emissions.

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Clean Heat Market Mechanism: ‘out of touch and fundamentally wrong’ says industry group

Envirotec Magazine

The Government should put an end to the proposed Clean Heat Market Mechanism says the Heating and Hot Water Industry Council (HHIC). The second consultation on the policy is running until 8 June. The policy seeks to fine boiler manufacturers £5,000 for every gas boiler sold over a certain quota compared to their heat pump sales in an attempt to kickstart demand for heat pumps in the UK.

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Green Climate Fund Pledge Tracker

NRDC onEarth

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is undergoing its second replenishment round in 2023. Keep track of all the pledges here.

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Green, Live, Leitman: The Green Living Guy Seth

Green Living Guy

Green, Live, Leitman Holy Green Live Leitman, Yes folks, I was live in NY Weekly. Here’s the jist of it. Seth Leitman, also known as The Green Living Guy. For has been a pioneer in the green living movement for over 25 years. He has written over 10 books on the topic and has been […] The post Green, Live, Leitman: The Green Living Guy Seth appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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The Debt Limit: How Do We Get Out of This Mess?

NRDC onEarth

The United States is on the brink of a devastating debt default, but a bold new effort is underway in the House to help pave the way to fiscal sanity.

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Li-Cycle and Glencore Announce Plans for a Significant European Recycling Hub

altenergymag

Expected to create the first European fully closed-loop solution from lithium-ion battery material inputs to battery-grade products; would be the largest source of recycled battery-grade lithium as well as recycled nickel and cobalt in Europe

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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 Cars Are a Win All-Around

NRDC onEarth

This blog explores EPA’s newly proposed regulations for light- and medium-duty vehicles and highlights testimony from NRDC's Kathy Harris before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the environmental and consumer benefits of these standards.

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‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed

Energy Central

Leaks of potent greenhouse gas could be easily fixed, say experts, and would rapidly reduce global heating THE GUARDIAN BY DAMIAN CARRINGTON ENVIRONMENT EDITOR, TUE 9 MAY 2023 Methane leaks alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK, satellite data has revealed.

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Expiring Confusion About Food Date Labels

NRDC onEarth

The Food Date Labeling Act would standardize date labels on food packaging and reduce confusion about their meanings which is a leading cause of food waste.

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Epishine’s Unique Production Process Brings Further Advancements to the Solar Energy Industry

altenergymag

Swedish Epishine has made advancements for printed outdoor organic photovoltaics within the Solar Era funded project NFA4R2ROPV thanks to their breakthrough manufacturing process of roll-to-roll printed solar cells.

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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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Turning local community ownership projects into a national movement

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 9 – Kentucky Derby winner Mage isn’t the only community-owned asset with national momentum (almost 400 fractional investors held a 25%. The post Turning local community ownership projects into a national movement appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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ZeroNox to electrify fleet of 1,000 refuse trucks in Ghana

Charged

Commercial EV provider Zero Nox has partnered with the Jospong Group, a diversified holding company based in Ghana, to retrofit a fleet of 1,000 refuse trucks from Jospong Group subsidiary Zoomlion. The trucks will be converted from gas to electric power using the ZeroNox Electric Powertrain Platform (ZEPP), which uses LFP batteries. The companies demonstrated a prototype of the electric refuse truck at a recent ceremony to announce the partnership.

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Engie taps WA hydrogen tech outfit to build production facility in France

Renew Economy

Perth-based hydrogen tech company Hazer Group signs MOU with French giant Engie to build the first Hazer production facility in Europe. The post Engie taps WA hydrogen tech outfit to build production facility in France appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Aquatech to provide lithium refining process for Lithium Americas’s Thacker Pass project

Charged

Water treatment company Aquatech has been awarded a contract for the lithium refining and purification process plants by Lithium Americas for the Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada, the largest known lithium reserve in the US. Aquatech specializes in delivering process technology for the refining and purification of battery-grade lithium chemical products from clays, brines and hard rock.

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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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“It’s a start:” Forrest welcomes Australia’s $2 billion hydrogen response to US plan

Renew Economy

The 2023 Budget is the first response to the $US1.2 trillion Inflation Reduction Act. Andrew Forrest says it's a start, but experts say it's not nearly enough. The post “It’s a start:” Forrest welcomes Australia’s $2 billion hydrogen response to US plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Colorado Legislative Roundup: 2023

NRDC onEarth

A suite of important, yet heavily negotiated, environmental bills are making their way to Governor Polis’s desk.

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WA plans huge switch to solar and storage as part of stunning 50GW green energy boom

Renew Economy

Western Australia unveils stunning plan to build more than 50GW of new capacity, with a focus on solar and storage, to meet electrification and green industry needs. The post WA plans huge switch to solar and storage as part of stunning 50GW green energy boom appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Netherlands: Battolyser hydrogen system installed at Magnum power plant

Energy Central

The Netherlands: Battolyser hydrogen system installed at Magnum power plant Dutch company Battolyser Systems today announces that the first industrial-scale Battolyser system has been installed at the RWE Magnum power plant in Eemshaven. A Battolyser is a combination of a battery and a hydrogen generator (electrolyser) in one device. As a result, the system includes the.

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Queensland sets new wind output record as it plays catch up to rest of country

Renew Economy

Queensland sets a new wind output record as the state plays catch up with the rest of the country. The post Queensland sets new wind output record as it plays catch up to rest of country appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Italy’s Eni Faces Lawsuit Alleging Early Knowledge Of Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Italian oil major Eni is facing the country’s first climate lawsuit, with environmental groups alleging the company used “greenwashing” to push for more fossil fuels despite knowing of the risks posed by burning its products since 1970. Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030.

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Genex Power names new CEO to lead big battery and pumped hydro charge

Renew Economy

The changing of the guard comes as Genex prepares to power up its first big battery, the 50MW/100MWh Bouldercombe project in Queensland. The post Genex Power names new CEO to lead big battery and pumped hydro charge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Powernice secured solar tracker linear actuator order for Trina’s 875MW solar in Qatar

altenergymag

Trina Solar and Powernice have signed a contract for the supply of intelligent linear actuators. This significant order of drive parts has been making waves in the industry, and it has now been settled, with all linear actuators being supplied by Powernice.

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CSIRO names new head of energy with a fuel cell and solar thermal twist

Renew Economy

Aerospace engineer and fuel cell expert, CSIRO's new head of energy has also served a stint as director of the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute. The post CSIRO names new head of energy with a fuel cell and solar thermal twist appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Elleidium Wave Power's fully functional prototype demonstrates a new approach to wave energy and doubles device movement to twice the height of each incident wave

altenergymag

Elleidium Wave Power is a startup developing a new technology for point absorber wave energy conversion: Adaptive Displacement

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From 1,000GW to 63TW: NREL sets massive solar target for global decarbonisation

Renew Economy

National Renewable Energy Laboratory says an “unprecedented ramp-up" of solar production capacity will be crucial to the global effort to avoid climate catastrophe. The post From 1,000GW to 63TW: NREL sets massive solar target for global decarbonisation appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Apex Advances 400MWh of Energy Storage with Powin Battery Technology

altenergymag

Angelo Storage and Great Kiskadee Storage will support grid reliability in the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market

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Labor’s budget is good for climate and renewables – and great for the gas cartel

Renew Economy

The Labor budget lacks ambition to leverage massive decarbonisation opportunities – and fails to deliver substantial social dividends through gas tax reform. The post Labor’s budget is good for climate and renewables – and great for the gas cartel appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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A new way to deliver the energy transition

Energy Central

Less than two years ago, the NSW Government appointed AEMO Services to manage a decade-long competitive tender process to transform the state’s energy sector. The anticipated retirement of NSW’s coal-fired generation fleet and the need to decarbonise has created an urgent need to develop new sources of energy generation, storage and firming to ensure NSW homes and businesses have.

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The Driven Podcast: Tony Seba on the rapid switch to EVs

Renew Economy

Stanford University’s Tony Seba on the accelerating shift to electric, and how EVs will change the face of the car industry forever. The post The Driven Podcast: Tony Seba on the rapid switch to EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.