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Law? What law? Pandering to the governor, Dominion’s new plan ignores Virginia’s climate law

Energy Central

Last December, Dominion Energy produced a remarkable document: a climate report predicting that by 2040 its electricity supply will be dominated by renewable energy. Coal will be gone by 2030, and methane gas will hang around in ever-smaller amounts, just to fill in the energy gaps.

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Fuel Environment: 5 Ways to Make Your Truck Eco-Friendly

Green Living Guy

Make your Fuel Environment Friendly for you Truck Fleet Green Greenhouse gasses are among the primary global warming causes. Making your fuel environment or eco-friendlier. Especially so it can be beneficial for fueling a safer environment. Eco-friendly vehicles are fuel environment friendly, efficient and require less maintenance. Thereby saving you money.

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North America’s First Hydrogen-Powered Train

Energy Central

Quebec will be the very first jurisdiction in the Americas to operate a zero-emission passenger train powered by green hydrogen Running from June to October in Quebec, the Coradia iLint will be North America's first hydrogen train. The train, developed by Alstom, first entered commercial operations in Germany in 2018. It can be a greener alternative to diesel on.

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Chevy’s Not Taking Any Chances With Bolt Battery Packs

CleanTechnica

Some recent posts on Reddit give us some news that might look bad on the surface but really show us something good. It turns out that GM’s battery software errs far on the side of caution for Bolts and Bolt EUVs after the fire recall.

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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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Decarbonizing Industry in Canada and the G7

Energy Central

Industrial decarbonization is an imperative, but not one that the world is yet prepared to meet. According to the IEA and many other analysts, globally, heavy industry is not on track to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century.1 At the same time, demand for industrial products is expected to increase, especially in fast-growing developing countries. 1 This does create.

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Time To Pay The Piper — The Cost Of Cleaning Up After Fossil Fuel Companies

CleanTechnica

Researchers have computed how much fossil fuel companies should pay to clean up their mess. The answer may surprise you.

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A Toxic Tour Helps Convey What Fenceline Communities Experience

CleanTechnica

Three colleagues from the Union of Concerned Scientists and I were invited to participate in a Toxics Tour in Kansas City. The experience was extremely valuable and I recommend it, especially if you are someone like me who works on environmental justice issues but doesn’t live in a frontline community.

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Understanding Energy Independence In Two Charts

Energy Central

Every time I address the topic of energy independence, it spurs a lot of interest. But people also get confused about the subject. In the previous article, I addressed a number of questions related to energy independence. In today’s article, I am going to make it very simple, using just two graphics. You can see all of the data yourself in the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA).

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3 US Funding Pools Every Industrial Project Developer Should Know About

CleanTechnica

A primer on public loan guarantees, grants, and tax credits for US clean industrial projects.

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Hybrid LNG & Ammonia Infrastructure: Key to a Green Economy

Energy Central

Hybrid LNG & Ammonia Infrastructure: Key to a Green Economy A gas at room temperature, ammonia is incredibly stable and can be easily liquified for storage and shipment around the globe in the same fashion as liquefied natural gas (LNG). It can be used across energy-intensive industries in several ways, helping to lower our carbon footprint. ● Made up of one nitrogen and.

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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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7 More Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) Perspectives & Observations

CleanTechnica

For years, the CleanTechnica reader community has amazed me. The quality of thought, diversity of thought, and depth of information is astounding. When I published a story last night on Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) progress, I didn’t really know what to expect.

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Press Release: Clean Energy Industries Voice Support for Federal Investments in Clean Energy, Sustainable Transport and Energy Efficiency

Energy Central

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12, 2023 Contacts: Lizzie Stricklin, lstricklin@bcse.org, Tel: 202-785-0507, ext. 1504 Andy Barnes, abarnes@cebn.org, Tel: 202-785-0507, ext. 1503 Washington, D.C. – The Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) and the Clean Energy Business Network (CEBN) sent a letter to Congressional leadership on Friday conveying strong support for the federal investments.

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Gotion Introduces LMFP Battery With Energy Density Of 240 Wh/Kg

CleanTechnica

Volkswagen battery supplier Gotion has revealed a new lithium manganese iron phosphate battery it says can go 1000 km.

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U.S. On Pace to Set a New Oil Production Record This Year

Energy Central

One of my 2023 energy predictions was “Total U.S. oil production will again rise, and set a new annual production record.” The previous annual record was set in 2019 at 12.3 million barrels per day (bpd), and by the end of 2022 monthly production was just about back to that level following the devasting Covid-19 impact on the industry in 2020. Of course, we don’t yet know if oil production.

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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’s Electricity System Plans Canada’s Largest Energy Storage Procurement

Energy Central

Natural gas serves as a flexible resource, capable of swiftly responding to changing system needs in ways that other energy sources cannot.