Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

(Image credit: K.H.Reichert [ … ] , CC BY-NC 2.0 license ). Research published on 25 May appears to show that Britain’s energy regulators are putting billions of pounds of green infrastructure investment at risk by overseeing an energy market which favours EU energy imports at the expense of home-grown schemes. Electricity generators in the UK pay transmission charges for the cost of building and maintaining the network, set by the regulator Ofgem and ultimately paid by consumers as part o

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 25, 2021

Consumers want comfort, efficiency and sustainable design. Heatherwick Studio’s concept electric car, Airo, covers all three.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

AlanCunningham of Ovarro. Water utilities are steadily replacing legacy IT systems with software-as-a-service applications as confidence in data security builds, says a technology firm working in this domain, Ovarro. Its subject matter expert Alan Cunningham discusses the latest developments. What is software-as-a-service and where does it fit with water?

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 25, 2021

Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the new headquarters building for Chinese electronic company OPPO will highlight energy-saving design and green landscaping.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Dawdon mine water treatment scheme (image credit: Copyright Coal Authority. All rights reserved 2018). A new white paper published by the Mine Energy Taskforce and Local Energy Hub network has called for greater support for mine energy as a key low carbon heat source in the UK that can contribute to government’s ambition to reach net zero by 2050. The report also outlines how the introduction of large scale mine energy schemes will support government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda by bringing immediate

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 25, 2021

In a city characterized by iconic skyscrapers and commerce, the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi is highlighting nature with a new urban biodiversity park in the heart of downtown. At 27,500 square meters, Al Fay Park is expertly designed to enhance the local microclimate by maximizing natural cooling through landscaping.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 25, 2021

In 2020, the number of internally displaced people in the world reached the highest level in history.

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MAY 25, 2021

In March, Kia teased us with some exterior and interior images of the EV6 electric crossover , the automaker’s first dedicated (that is, not adapted from a legacy vehicle) EV. Now the automaker’s American division has confirmed official specs for the version destined for the US market. The EV6 will be available with two powertrain configurations and two battery pack options.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 25, 2021

Instances of "zombie fires" are increasing. What does this mean, and what are the environmental effects?

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MAY 25, 2021

The Costa Coffee chain has partnered with charging network InstaVolt to install DC fast chargers at up to 200 of its drive-through sites across the UK. The stations will offer power levels of up to 120 kW. Drivers will pay for charging on a pay-as-you-go basis. Costa Coffee, which has over 9,000 coffee bars in the UK, already operates a network of 176 charging points at selected locations around the country.

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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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altenergymag

MAY 25, 2021

GridX accelerates growth to deliver Business Operations Support solutions that help utility industry transition to clean energy

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Impact Alpha

MAY 25, 2021

ImpactAlpha, May 25 – The raw injustice and the social protests that followed pushed investors, corporate executives and policymakers to recognize the risks of. The post Seven ways finance has changed in the year since George Floyd’s murder appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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MAY 25, 2021

The city of Basel, located on the Rhine at the confluence of Switzerland, Germany and France, plans to fully electrify its bus routes, and power them with 100% renewable energy, by 2027. Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB)’s fleet currently includes 115 buses serving 14 routes (there are also 135 trams serving 9 lines). The city’s latest tender consists of 62 electric buses, of which 54 will be Mercedes-Benz eCitaros—38 eCitaro rigid buses and 16 articulated eCitaro G buses.

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Energy Monitor Electricity Batteries Energy 132

altenergymag

MAY 25, 2021

Fugro has received a contract renewal from Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind (Atlantic Shores) for the provision of real-time wind and metocean measurements off the coast of New Jersey in the US over the next 2 years. The award is the latest in a set of three contract renewals between Fugro and Atlantic Shores based on a successful 2020 work season. Along with metocean services, Fugro's geophysical and geotechnical contracts have also previously been renewed, all three to support the safe design, pe

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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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Impact Alpha

MAY 25, 2021

Editor’s note: Contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith, a longtime senior writer for Institutional Investor, continues her bi-weekly column, Institutional Impact, exploring the policies, practices. The post In a world where fairness is in short supply, a star’s fall isn’t enough to redeem private equity appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Grist

MAY 25, 2021

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate-heating carbon dioxide will be sucked from the air using trees, peat, rock chips, and charcoal in major new trials across the United Kingdom. Scientists said the past failure to rapidly cut emissions means some CO2 will need to be removed from the atmosphere to reach net zero by 2050 and halt the climate crisis.

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altenergymag

MAY 25, 2021

Research from Cornwall Insight's Benchmark Power Curve, which forecasts the power market to 2045 under different net zero scenarios, highlights volatility in the wholesale power market is set to increase.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 25, 2021

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Hop on The Call. Today’s Agents of Impact Call No. 28 will explore how some wealthy families are optimizing. The post The Brief: Impact’s fallen star, financing fresh produce, microgrid maintenance, solar unicorn, bringing racial justice to finance appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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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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altenergymag

MAY 25, 2021

Prioritizes sustainability of key battery material, avoids landfill disposal, enables wider adoption of safe lithium-ion batteries for industrial, commercial, medical, and residential use

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Impact Alpha

MAY 25, 2021

We thought he might fly into space, but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made it clear last month that he is not done with. The post For the sake of Amazon and its workers, Jeff Bezos should fully retire appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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altenergymag

MAY 25, 2021

Humans have harnessed the power of the wind throughout history. From windmills and their use in food production to sailing ships that date back thousands of years, people have understood the resource that is the unseen force of the wind. And now the Earth faces the threat of climate change and the challenge to reduce global carbon emissions, once again we turn to the wind as a source of energy to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 25, 2021

ImpactAlpha, May 25 — Anchorage, Alaska-based 60Hertz Energy helps energy providers manage more than $140 million in remote microgrid assets in seven countries. The post 60Hertz Energy secures $1.3 million for microgrid management appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Charged

MAY 25, 2021

WIMA, a maker of film capacitors, employs Wevo potting compounds in its supercapacitor PowerBlock—a cascaded, double-layer capacitor module whose capacitance, rated voltage and dimensions can be individually adapted to a desired application. This allows a range of mobility applications, such as engine starter modules in large construction and agricultural machinery, ships, locomotives, trams and buses, as well as applications in the energy sector, such as slip controls for wind turbines or gener

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Solar Power World

MAY 25, 2021

Photovoltaic solar is a green business, but the equipment and facilities needed for each step of the installation process aren’t carbon-neutral by default. Company vehicles often use fossil fuels, solar equipment and its packaging aren’t easily recyclable and unless there are modules on the roof or renewable energy credits in place, a company’s building is… The post When solar installers have the moral obligation to be greener in a green industry appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Charged

MAY 25, 2021

SVOLT will begin commercialization of lithium-ion batteries using safety technology from Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG), which, the company says, eliminates the root cause of thermal runaway and improves battery safety. SVOLT’s new portfolio, which will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2021, uses thin metalized film current collectors that improve energy density and weight.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 25, 2021

A few weeks ago we launched our 5-year strategy to advance climate action and social justice, together. Our new strategy calls for taking our traditional 1:1, deep work with entrepreneurs and communities, and moving to a 1:many model. With only 10 years to reverse climate change, we are turning toward sharing what we’ve learned with as broad an audience as possible and advancing climate action on a much greater scale.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems. The three facilities are located in the West Texas region. The project consists of owner-provided LG Chem battery racks populated with JH3 and JH4 modules.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2021

Nearly a third of the directors of Africa’s biggest bank have close connections to the coal industry, casting doubt on their ability to ensure the organisation’s business is aligned with global climate goals. A DeSmog investigation has found that 29 percent of board members of South Africa’s Standard Bank have current or former roles in companies involved in the coal supply chain that are included on the Global Coal Exit List (GCEL).

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altenergymag

MAY 25, 2021

From Brazil to Australia, mining companies tap solar tracker market leader for its high performance and reliable PV system technology

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

by Lisa Prevost, Energy News Network. As the sale of Rhode Island’s largest electric distributor comes before state regulators for approval, a group of solar developers, policy specialists and energy consultants are calling on the governor and attorney general to seize what they see as a golden opportunity to force a faster grid transition. . In an April 26 letter to Gov.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2021

But researchers warn exponential growth of EVs needs a policy boost. Current rates of deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) are consistent with 'S curve' shaped adoption dynamics that suggest the automotive sector could ultimately reach benchmarks consistent with global climate goals if policymakers take action to sustain recent growth trends. That is the encouraging conclusion of research published this morning by University College London's Institute for Sustainable Resources, which notes that

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

EDP Renewables, through its subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, has started commercial operation of the 209-MW Reloj del Sol wind farm in Zapata County, Texas. Reloj del Sol will help strengthen Texas’ grid and is estimated to provide about $36 million in direct payments to local governments and $100 million in payments to landowners throughout the life of the project.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2021

A quarter of UK homes and businesses are said to be situated on former coalfields, according to Mine Energy Taskforce. Heat energy sourced from former underground mines could play a key role in decarbonising UK homes, according to fresh research led by a coalition of firms from North East England. Led by the government-funded Mine Energy Taskforce and Local Energy Hub network, the study paper calls for greater support for harnessing energy from mines, arguing that rolling out large-scale schemes

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