Mon.Aug 22, 2022

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The intersection of ESG and reproductive rights

GreenBiz

Suzanne Biegel, a longtime respected advocate of “gender-smart” investing, on why corporate sustainability teams should double down on their understanding of gender equality and women’s health issues.

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Certain environment authority decisions are based on trust in citizen data

Envirotec Magazine

Citizen scientists at Mount Rainier National Park, Washington State (image credit: Mount Rainier National Park , CC BY 2.0 license ). County administrative boards and the Swedish Forest Agency use species sightings reported by the public to make various environmental decisions. This is done largely on the basis of trust between a few actors who determine which sightings can be used as a basis for decisions.

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How to navigate your way through the sustainability field

GreenBiz

Finding your way there can be hairy, but there are ways to make yourself stand out and achieve your goals once you've arrived.

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Sulphur shortage: Study highlights “potential resource crisis” as the world decarbonises

Envirotec Magazine

Sulphur obtained by mining in Kawah Ijen, a volcano in East Java, Indonesia: Research is urgently needed into low-impact methods of extracting sulphur from mineral deposits, say the authors of the study. A projected shortage of sulphuric acid, a crucial chemical in our modern industrial society, could stifle green technology advancement and threaten global food security, according to a new study led by researchers from UCL.

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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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Navigating your way through the sustainability field

GreenBiz

Finding your way there can be hairy, but there are ways to make yourself stand out and achieve your goals once you've arrived.

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Distributed Energy Generation Market is Growing Faster

altenergymag

The global distributed energy generation market is growing at a registered CAGR of 9.89% from 2022 to 2030, according to Vision Research Reports.

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American Battery Solutions, Inc. Launches Energy Storage Solutions Division and Product Line

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-“ABS ESS” to leverage American Battery Solutions’ established mobility battery systems capability to produce best-in-class energy storage solutions. -ABS ESS’ launch includes TeraStor™, its new lithium-ion battery energy storage platform, specifically for large-scale energy storage projects. -ABS ESS’ launch includes StorView™, an energy management suite of software and control hardware to optimize TeraStor™ performance, market participation, and financial performance.

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Navigating the Bermuda Triangle of sustainability communications

GreenBiz

The state of corporate sustainability communications is dismal. It’s not just the comms folks’ fault.

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Impact Clean Power starts building battery gigafactory in Poland

Charged

Polish battery system manufacturer Impact Clean Power Technology (ICPT) has started construction of a factory designed to produce battery systems for public transportation, railroads and stationary energy storage applications. “For 2021, Impact held about 15% of the European electric bus battery market,” says the company. According to ICPT, the GigafactoryX “will be powered by a photovoltaic installation stabilized by energy storage built from recycled battery systems previously used in public t

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Walmart’s would-be role as circular packaging matchmaker

GreenBiz

The retailer plans to open up Circular Connector, a database of packaging innovations, in late 2022.

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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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World Rallycross racing championship goes electric

Charged

EVs have firmly established themselves in the racing world— Formula E has been delivering thrills for eight seasons now, and the more rough-and-tumble Extreme E is midway through its second season. Electric racers, both 4-wheeled and 2-wheeled, have distinguished themselves at the yearly Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Teslas have been shaking up the street racing subculture.

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Ultracool - Off Grid Solar Cold Storage

altenergymag

Ultrathon electric has developed 5MT Solar Cold Storage Systems for Fruits and Vegetables which completely used thermal energy as a back up system. There is no requirement of DG / Grid or Battery Backup to maintain the desired temperature inside the cold storage.

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Nouveau Monde Graphite commissions coating line for graphite

Charged

Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG) has completed phase 1 of a two-part plan by finishing a coating line for the production of coated spherical purified graphite and beginning cold commissioning of a kiln and utilities. “Coating helps create a stable electrolyte interface-layer in the battery system and increase initial coulombic efficiency and discharge capacity, thus extending the battery performance over time,” says NMG.

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Open-source data-science toolkit to augment DER efficiency

Smart Energy International

A team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has developed an open-source, data-science toolkit for power and data engineers to improve DER efficiency for smart meters, batteries and solar PV units. The toolkit called GridDS provides an integrated energy data storage and augmentation infrastructure, as well as a flexible and comprehensive set of machine-learning models.

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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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Coal plant outages and rebidding: Why electricity prices surged towards market cap

Renew Economy

Latest regulatory report shows how multiple coal plant outages left electricity market at mercy of. other coal plants to rebid small amounts of capacity to guarantee price spikes. The post Coal plant outages and rebidding: Why electricity prices surged towards market cap appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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BLINK Charging Goes to Bridgestone Tires Stores

Green Living Guy

Blink Charging Announces Agreement with Bridgestone Retail Operations to Bring Electric Vehicle Charging Stations to Tire and Vehicle Service Centers Miami Beach, FL — January 26, 2022 — Blink Charging Co. (Nasdaq: BLNK, BLNKW) (“Blink” or the “Company”), a leading owner, operator, and provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and services, today announced a cooperation […].

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Solar’s growing daytime dominance caps a miserable winter for ageing coal plants

Renew Economy

Solar output first beat coal in winter just over a year ago, but it is now happening more often, and by a greater margin. The post Solar’s growing daytime dominance caps a miserable winter for ageing coal plants appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Solar Energy Systems Market Size to Surpass Around USD 607.97 Bn by 2030

altenergymag

The global solar energy systems market size is expected to surpass around USD 607.97 billion by 2030 and growing at a CAGR of 15.

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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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“Start of a new era:” Market operator bulks up to manage accelerating transition

Renew Economy

AEMO is bulking up with a vastly increased budget to manage the engineering challenges of a rapidly accelerating switch to renewables and storage. The post “Start of a new era:” Market operator bulks up to manage accelerating transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Demand response proves more profitable than Bitcoin mining in Texas

Smart Energy International

Bitcoin miner Riot Blockchain earned estimated power credits of $9.5 million for demand reduction from ERCOT in July. In its July production and operation update, Riot Blockchain, one of the largest US Bitcoin miners, reported mining 318 Bitcoins in July – a decrease of approximately 21%. However, based on a Bitcoin price of $21,634, the $9.5 million in power credits and other benefits from curtailment activities including the reduced power costs equates to approximately 439 Bitcoins – significa

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Rio Tinto starts commissioning Gudai-Darri solar farm, and Tom Price battery

Renew Economy

The first solar farm to power one of Rio Tinto's huge iron ore mines begins commissioning, as does a new big battery on the same network. The post Rio Tinto starts commissioning Gudai-Darri solar farm, and Tom Price battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR): Driving Sustainable Real Estate Design Through Collaboration

Green Business Bureau

NAR supports a more profitable and sustainable real estate industry. The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) is America’s largest trade association, representing more than 1.5 million members, and is becoming the driving force behind sustainable real estate. NAR members are involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

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South32 ditches big Australian coal mine boost, saying costs no longer add up

Renew Economy

South 32 cancels a controversial expansion of the Dendrobium coal mine, saying it is looking to spend money on low carbon investments. The post South32 ditches big Australian coal mine boost, saying costs no longer add up appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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‘Solar generators’ provide flexible backup power for less

Solar Power World

Bells and whistles are great, but sometimes the basic model is all that’s needed for energy storage. When solar customers and power-concerned homeowners aren’t interested in or able to take advantage of load-shifting and demand arbitrage opportunities managed by energy storage systems, there are simpler products available today just for emergency backup.

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Can aluminium be used as ultra long term storage for renewable energy and heat?

Renew Economy

Research group is looking at how aluminium can be used to store renewable power as energy and heat - for months or even years. The post Can aluminium be used as ultra long term storage for renewable energy and heat? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Contractor’s Corner: Carolina Solar Energy Utility-scale solar developer uses empathy and education to secure community buy-in.

Solar Power World

Carolina Solar Energy is a utility-scale solar pioneer in its home state of North Carolina. The company was founded in 2004 by Richard Harkrader, who worked to bring the first Renewable Portfolio Standard legislation to the state in 2007. After more than a decade leading the business, his daughter Carson Harkrader joined the company and… The post Contractor’s Corner: Carolina Solar Energy <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>Utility-scal

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Ampol prepares retail electricity pilot, as it shifts from the forecourt into homes

Renew Economy

Petrol refiner and retailer reveals further details of its plan to take on the Australian retail energy market, starting with a pilot fuel plus electricity offer. The post Ampol prepares retail electricity pilot, as it shifts from the forecourt into homes appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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First carbon neutral apartment building coming on blockchain

Smart Energy International

Australian blockchain pioneer Powerledger’s Montreal Commons project is set to be one of the world’s first carbon neutral apartment buildings. The project, under way with Perth-based property developer OP Properties, is a 39 apartment building in Fremantle, Western Australia, in which residents will live low carbon through the use of solar panels and battery storage along with Powerledger’s power trading technology to deliver a 50% offset to the building strata levies.

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'Major turning point': Octopus Energy and National Grid ESO hail V2G tech milestone

Business Green

Latest tests show consumers with V2G technology could play an active role in a green energy system by helping to balance the grid for the first time. Octopus Energy Group and National Grid ESO have successfully trialled pioneering vehicle-to-grid technology (V2G), concluding that a million electric vehicles (EVs) could export power to the grid equivalent to that generated by 5,000 onshore wind turbines.

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Can We Adapt Old Power Plants to Run on Green Hydrogen?

Energy Central

Star Scientific is a 25-year-old research laboratory north of Sydney, Australia. The company is one of many trying to make existing power plants carbon-free. This includes old coal-fired thermal power stations which remain among the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions on the planet. Star has invented a patented non-polluting catalyst which it calls HERO® which is an.

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'Fiduciaries must act': Ceres calls on world's largest firms to respond to global water crisis

Business Green

New campaign aims to engage 72 of the world's largest companies and investors to drive reforms that can protect global water systems. Global sustainability investment group Ceres has launched a new effort to engage 72 of the world's largest companies to encourage them to tackle water-related financial risks and drive the large-scale reforms needed to protect global water systems.

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Brum, Brum, Brum

Terra Infirma

So, my first day back after a far-too relaxing fortnight’s summer holiday. For the first week, we hired a narrowboat and explored a loop of canals through the centre of Birmingham and then a rural leg south of the city. Brum was in full Commonwealth Games mania and we had a rather larger audience than we would’ve liked navigating our first set of locks bang in the city centre.

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'Positive impact': Cycling and walking to be offered on prescription

Business Green

Shared transport charity welcomes new proposal, which could play a key role in boosting public health and delivering on net zero transport goals. Cycling and walking are to be offered on prescription by GPs, as part of a new trial announced by the government that is designed to improve mental and physical health while curbing transport emissions across the country.