GreenBiz

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here are highlights of an inspiring conversation between two 21-year-old youth climate activists and Google chief sustainability officer Kate Brandt.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Anyone who works in business right now will tell you that business data is the water of life. Data gives businesses as well as private entrepreneurs the ability to find out what their clients and potential customers want. So, the data-driven approach is not only a boon to businesses but also to customers since it helps businesses understand their needs better.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The State of the Circular Workplace in 2023 is promising. Major corporations, innovative startups, ambitious non-profits, and industry associations are making progress toward the idea of the zero-waste office, and they share their best practices in this new report by Green Standards. Turning our linear “take-make-waste” economy into a regenerative loop that designs out waste and keeps resources in use is a huge undertaking.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

One of the owners of GB News runs a hedge fund that has a major financial stake in more than 100 oil and gas firms, DeSmog can reveal. This news comes after former prime minister Boris Johnson was announced as a new presenter on the television broadcaster on Friday. An investigation by DeSmog in May found that one in three GB News presenters had spread climate science denial on air in 2022, while more than half had attacked climate action.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A new report from BCG spells out what will "make or break brands" in fashion and apparel.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Communities around the world impacted by the plastics giant Formosa are launching a global hunger strike on October 31. Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA).

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Financial Times: Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Governments around the world have set ambitious targets to tackle climate change, but developers say power prices will have to rise to pay for it

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Many people, and not just climate advocates, have wished they could make their utility company disappear. On November 7, the people of Maine may actually do that.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Lithuanian energy supplier Green Genius has secured €9.5 million (US$10.07 million) from investment and insurance company INVL towards building 500MW of renewables projects in Romania.

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The solar workforce is changing because of IRA apprenticeship and prevailing wage requirements that went into effect in January. Contractors that haven’t yet made a long-term recruitment plan have a few options available to help them do so. To collect the full 30% ITC for projects 1 MWAC and larger, contractors with four or more workers… The post How solar contractors can meet IRA apprenticeship requirements appeared first on Solar Power World.

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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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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Catalytic Capital Doubling down on guarantees, MCE Social Capital aims to unlock capital for climate + gender. Moving. The post The Brief: Climate + gender in agriculture lending, pollinating impact tech, collateral-free trade finance, digital edge for Black entrepreneurs appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charged

OCTOBER 30, 2023

GKN Automotive has unveiled a new plug-and-play eDrive concept aimed at the niche EV and EV conversion markets. GKN will use the concept to test market appetite for a new eDrive that’s suitable for various purposes, including small to large cars and light commercial vehicles in series production. The first commercial products based on the concept could be available as early as 2025.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

US-made battery energy storage system (BESS) DC container solutions will become cost-competitive with those from China in 2025 thanks to incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Clean Energy Associates said.

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Charged

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Barcelona-based Circontrol provides efficiency solutions for public and private car parks, along with smart EV chargers. Now the company has made important improvements to its eVolve Smart “semi-fast” EV charger. The latest upgrade of the eVolve Smart charger adds new cybersecurity, electrical protection and communications features, as well as a new integrated contactless payment system.

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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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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Energy sector digital identity app spins off for global use, an intelligent power solution for China’s high energy physics platform and a hydrogen-powered superyacht unveiled are in the week’s technology radar. Energy sector digital identity app spins off for global use A digital identity application that was developed by the Belgian TSO Elia Group and Energy Web has been adopted by the OpenWallet Foundation as a new project.

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Charged

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As the demands for electric vehicles evolve, so do the venting requirements used to protect Electric Drive Modules. Applying the appropriate Electric Drive Module (EDM) venting solution helps maintain vehicle performance in both every day and more challenging driving conditions. Join this session and discover the role venting technology plays when considering pressure equalization and contaminant protection in EDM environments.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) says it is committing up to $1.3 billion to transmission lines crossing six states, enabling 3.5 GW of additional capacity to come online in the U.S. The DOE is entering into capacity contract negotiations with three interregional transmission projects that will strengthen grid resilience and reliability, enable the addition of more clean energy resources to the grid, and bring diverse, clean energy to more customers.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Edify Energy has closed financing on a battery storage project which will support the hosting of solar and wind at a government-designated Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) in Victoria, Australia.

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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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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Hoymiles has announced the North American launch of its three-phase microinverter, the HMT-2000-4T-208-NA series. This new microinverter is purpose-built to meet the demands of high-powered PV modules and deliver strong performance, cost-effectiveness and safety for commercial and industrial PV applications across North America. “Today, we are thrilled to introduce the HMT-2000-4T-208-NA series three-phase microinverter to the North American market,” says Rocky Gao, CEO of Hoymiles U

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Three interregional transmission lines connecting six U.S. states will receive the first $1.3 billion tranche of $2.5 billion in federal funding designated under the Transmission Facilitation Program (TFP), a revolving […] The post Three Key Transmission Links Get $1.3B Boost With Federal Capacity Contracts appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Canadian Solar Inc. says it is establishing a 5 GW solar cell production facility at the River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville, Ind. Canadian Solar is building a state-of-the-art solar manufacturing plant whose output will be approximately 20,000 modules per day. The Jeffersonville facility represents a projected investment of more than $800 million and will create approximately 1,200 skilled high-tech jobs once production is fully ramped up.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Exclusive: Projects that risk 1.5C heating target operated by companies receiving financing from European, Chinese and US banks Banks pumped more than $150bn last year into companies whose giant “carbon bomb” projects could destroy the last chance of stopping the planet heating to dangerous levels, the Guardian can reveal. The carbon bombs – 425 extraction projects that can each pump more than one gigaton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere – cumulatively hold enough coal, oil and gas to burn

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The design phase has started for a geothermal heating and cooling demonstration project in the municipality of Carbondale in Colorado, USA. Test drilling for the project is then likely to commence by November. The Carbondale Community Geothermal Coalition has been awarded a grant of USD 716,000 for the feasibility, modeling, design, and planning of a large-scale geothermal heating and cooling system that will supply a 16-acre block of institutional and residential buildings.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Climate Analytics says onshore emissions of proposed fracking understated by up to 84% in ‘a rosy picture that simply doesn’t reflect reality’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Fracking to extract gas from the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin could lead to much larger greenhouse gas emissions than the territory government has claimed, according to new analysis.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

State-owned electricity company KenGen has reported a 48% growth in profit after tax for the year ending in June 2023. The profit growth has been attributed in large part to increased operation efficiency and capacity growth of the company’s geothermal facilities in Olkaria in Naivasha, Kenya. KenGen’s profit number has grown from Ksh 3.4 billion (approx.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Narrowband powerline communication technologies enjoy enduring success and are set to remain vital components of the smart grid landscape.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The company recently broadened their services into the Houston market with the hiring of Steven Hill. Coffman Engineers, Inc. recently announced that they have hired Steven Hill, PE, a mechanical engineer, in a key position to support the company’s hydrogen fuel and Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) projects. Coffman is moving forward as momentum in the H2 and CCUS markets rapidly builds.

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Financial Times: Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

What was once America’s premier waterway for trade looks to a wind farm boom to power its renewal

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The H2-powered vehicle was able to stand up to the harsh weather in the United Arab Emirates. The BMW iX5 hydrogen car is a 401-bhp SUV that offers a range of as much as 313 miles on 13.2 pounds of H2. As many people look to alternative vehicles to those using fossil fuels, they want a realistic option. Electric vehicle ownership has been associated with a number of challenges that aren’t experienced by drivers of conventional gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The industries that produce the building blocks of modern society — steel, cement and chemicals — are incredibly carbon-intensive.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2023

North Sea Transition Authority confirms 27 new licenses awarded for 'quicker to production' areas, as reports suggest King’s Speech will double down on anti-green measures

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Researchers developed an efficient process that can convert carbon dioxide into formate, a nonflammable liquid or solid material that can be used like hydrogen or methanol to power a fuel cell and generate electricity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Aviva's latest Climate-Ready Index ranks UK third among the G7, but warns its position is under pressure as government prioritises short-term energy security over long-term sustainability

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