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Engie Chile commissions 48MW/264MWh BESS Capricornio in Antofagasta

Energy Storage News

Utility and independent power producer (IPP) Engie has started commercial operations of its 48MW/264MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) Capricornio project in the northern region of Antofagasta, Chile.

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Gibraltar enlists UK firm for modelling to facilitate net zero design of new buildings

Envirotec Magazine

Glasgow-headquartered climate tech company, IES, has unveiled a bespoke Dynamic Simulation Modelling (DSM) tool as part of its Virtual Environment (VE) – an advanced performance modelling technology – to help building professionals meet Gibraltar’s Part F energy regulations for new buildings and extensions. Developed in partnership with HM Government of Gibraltar and funded through the territory’s Climate Action Fund, the new dynamic modelling platform becomes the sole DSM performanc

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Victoria government fast-tracks 400MWh utility-scale BESS and 500MW solar-plus-storage site in Australia

Energy Storage News

Australia’s Victoria government has fast-tracked a 400MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) and 500MW solar-plus-storage project via its Development Facilitation Program (DFP).

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Huge wind farm cleared to add another seven turbines in state nearing 100 pct net renewables

Renew Economy

EPBC approves changes to a massive wind farm that is part of an even bigger renewable energy hub in Australia's most fossil-free state. The post Huge wind farm cleared to add another seven turbines in state nearing 100 pct net renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Construction emerges as major source of black carbon in central London

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: j Thomas Salas / Shutterstock.com New research has revealed that construction activity is now a dominant source of black carbon emissions in central London. While pollution levels from road traffic have fallen significantly thanks to policies like the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), new air pollution data reveal emissions from non-road mobile machinery, such as generators and heavy-duty construction equipment, can exceed those from vehicles, particularly in areas where there is a l

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Sydney can become its own renewable energy zone, take a load off NSW regions

Renew Economy

Sydney could use its untapped rooftop solar resource to generate up to 75% of its own electricity – and take some of the heavy lifting away from NSW regions. The post Sydney can become its own renewable energy zone, take a load off NSW regions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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State blows away wind generation records and hits a new big battery high

Renew Economy

Records continue to tumble as the nation's most renewable powered state notches up new highs for wind generation and big battery discharge. The post State blows away wind generation records and hits a new big battery high appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Tech sector emissions and energy use growing with the rise of AI

Envirotec Magazine

Tech sector carbon emissions continued their rise in recent years, fueled by rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and data infrastructure, according to a report from groups within the sector, which profiles some of the actions being taken by leading companies to address this. Greening Digital Companies 2025 , produced by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), tracks the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy use, and climate commitmen

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Acacia, Green Tower and Eren Industries to deploy 500MW of standalone BESS in France

Energy Storage News

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Can green iron replace Australia’s coal and gas exports?

Renew Economy

Australia probably has about 10 years left to develop a viable export industry to replace fossil fuels. Could green iron be the best bet? The post Can green iron replace Australia’s coal and gas exports? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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This start-up turns steel and aluminum waste into usable metals

Canary Media

A Chicago-area start-up says its technology could shave emissions from the global metal industry by allowing companies to recycle grimy metal slivers and sludge left over from steel and aluminum production.

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BMW Group and Solid Power test solid-state battery cells in a BMW i7

Charged

German automaker BMW is testing large-format, all-solid-state battery (ASSB) cells from Solid Power in a BMW i7 it is operating in the Munich area. The concept battery integrated into the BMW i7 test vehicle combines a Gen5 construction approach, placing prismatic cells in modules, and new module concepts. The use of solid power cells with sulfide-based electrolytes and their integration into a battery pack will provide BMW Group with further findings in the test program over the coming months.

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The clean energy transition won’t succeed without community trust. And we’re running out of it

Renew Economy

The challenges facing the transition to renewable energy are no longer primarily technological or financial; they are social. So what needs to change? The post The clean energy transition won’t succeed without community trust. And we’re running out of it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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This food bank saved big with solar. GOP cuts could crush similar efforts.

Canary Media

When the team at Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina first started planning construction of a new headquarters in Winston-Salem in 2019, they seriously considered solar panels.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Windrose and Terawatt collaborate to demonstrate high-power electric truck charging

Charged

Electric truck OEM Windrose and EV charging infrastructure provider Terawatt have completed a series of interoperability tests at Terawatt’s flagship charging site in Rancho Dominguez, California. These tests successfully demonstrated Windrose’s dual-input charging capability, delivering over 650 kW using two 350 kW chargers from Delta Electronics. The Windrose Class 8 electric truck features 700 kWh+ of battery capacity.

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UK tech job market rebounds with AI boom, finds Accenture

Envirotec Magazine

A surge in demand for AI professionals has helped tech job vacancies across the UK to grow by 21% in a year, with the UK expanding its tech talent pool to its highest level since 2019, according to new data from consultancy firm Accenture’s UK Tech Talent Tracker. The research, which tracks the UK’s technology sector vacancies and skills, indicates a nearly 200% year-on-year increase in demand for AI skills across UK cities.

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New Director of Civil Engineering Joins Castillo, Develops Advanced Site Optimization Technology

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Two climate investors on raising in today's tough market

Climate Tech VC

It’s no secret that there’s a new normal in climate tech, where investment numbers, round sizes, and valuations are all down. In today’s environment, VC investors are becoming increasingly skeptical of high valuations and averse to capital-heavy solutions, while hungry for those ever-elusive returns.  So what does this mean when it comes to raising a fund right now?

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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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Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment

The Guardian: Energy

Ed Miliband promises to ‘get Britain off the fossil fuel rollercoaster’ with new plant expected to create 10,000 jobs The biggest nuclear programme in a generation will “get Britain off the fossil fuel rollercoaster”, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has said, announcing £14.2bn to build a new nuclear power station and a drive to build small modular reactors.

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Teenage Mothers in Mathare 4B Lead Climate Action Through Urban Farming

The City Fix

In the heart of Nairobi’s Mathare slums, a quiet but powerful revolution is growing – one plant at a time. Teenage mothers, often marginalized and overlooked, are transforming their lives and their community through urban farming and organizing. Their efforts.

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Woodside gas expansion plans – and approvals – face fresh legal challenges

Renew Economy

Woodside’s WA gas plans are facing fresh legal challenges, including an eleventh-hour bid to challenge approvals for the extension of North West Shelf gas processing facility. The post Woodside gas expansion plans – and approvals – face fresh legal challenges appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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India’s energy storage story

Energy Storage News

India Energy Storage Alliance president Debmalya Sen takes a comprehensive look at national and regional efforts to promote and deploy much-needed energy storage capacity.

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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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Canada can build for the present and future, but not the past

Clean Energy Canada

TORONTO — Rachel Doran, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the Government of Canada’s proposed legislation to build “One Canadian Economy.” “As our largest trading partner and key ally threatens to unfriend Canada, business as usual is not an option. Accordingly, the One Canadian Economy bill, tabled late last week, provides a framework for removing federal internal trade barriers and advancing national interest projects, aiming to ‘strengthen

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Qcells launches recycling arm, EcoRecycle, in US

PV Tech

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‘We are just sitting here’: South African coal belt town split over green transition

The Guardian: Energy

The country wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions without destroying livelihoods, but progress is slow – and the residents of a small town are in the crosshairs Cooling towers and smokestacks still loom over the single-storey houses of Komati, but the winter sky is clear: smoke hasn’t billowed from the vast concrete chimneys of the South African town’s power station since it stopped burning coal in 2022, 61 years after its inauguration.

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Queensland government confirms AU$2.4 billion funding for major transmission project

PV Tech

Australia’s Queensland government has confirmed an AU$2.4 billion investment in the CopperString transmission project, aiming to extend the National Electricity Market (NEM) to the North West Minerals Province.

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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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Tasmania Backs Bell Bay as Green Hydrogen Hub with $70M Investment

Hydrogen Fuel News

The Tasmanian Government picked the Bell Bay Powerfuels Project by Abel Energy to take the lead in creating the state’s very first large-scale green hydrogen hub. It’s all happening in the heart of the Bell Bay industrial zone in northern Tasmania—a spot that’s quickly shaping up to be a key player in Australia’s clean energy game. A Major Step Toward Net-Zero—Right in Bell Bay This ambitious project is set to deliver big: expect up to 45,000 tonnes of renewable hydrogen and a massive 300,

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EU Promoter project visits Larderello geothermal hub

ThinkGeoEnergy

As part of the Interreg Europe-funded Promoter project , over 50 participants from 10 European countries gathered in Tuscany from June 4–6, 2025, to study the integration of sustainable transport and renewable energy. A central highlight was the visit to the Larderello geothermal area , widely recognized as the cradle of geothermal electricity generation.

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PV Price Watch: N-type poly prices fall as project rush abates

PV Tech

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EDC continues on ambitious geothermal drilling program

ThinkGeoEnergy

Philippine geothermal developer Energy Development Corporation (EDC) is advancing its multi-year drilling campaign aimed at boosting geothermal capacity by up to 85 MW by 2026. The company has committed up to PHP 30 billion (approx. USD 510 million) for the program, which covers 40 wells across several sites. As of June 2025, EDC has already completed 29 of the planned 40 wells, with 5 wells expected to be drilled this year and an additionl 5 wells by the end of 2026.

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The POWER Interview: Advanced Technologies Support Microgrid Movement

POWER Magazine

Microgrids have grown in importance as the need for a reliable and resilient supply of power has grown. The technology has proven itself for a variety of commercial and industrial (C&I) enterprises, in both urban and rural areas where a source of off-grid—or in some cases grid-connected—energy is needed, whether a backup power or as a primary source of electricity.