August, 2023

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New Google tools to map rooftop solar potential, air quality

GreenBiz

Google Maps functionality harnesses AI and aerial imagery to help businesses and cities plan solar deployments and tackle air pollution.

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New pipeline will accelerate Scotland’s green hydrogen export potential, says report

Envirotec Magazine

Scotland’s hydrogen production and export potential could be significantly accelerated with the development of a purpose-built marine pipeline according to a report published on 31 August by the Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC). NZTC’s Hydrogen Backbone Link project explored the critical hydrogen transport infrastructure required to deliver a cost-effective pipeline solution which would position Scotland as a front runner in the development of a pan-European hydrogen infrastructure for export.

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More States Are Requiring Flood Disclosure

NRDC onEarth

New home buyers and renters should have a right to know a property’s flood history before they commit to calling it home.

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Engie Chile starts building 418MWh BESS at solar PV plant

Energy Storage News

The Chilean arm of France-based multinational utility Engie has started construction on a 68MW/418MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at an operational solar PV plant.

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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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Trina Solar begins commercial production of Vertex N 700W+ modules

PV Tech

Trina Solar, a member of the Solar Module Super League, has started commercial production of its Vertex N 700W+ modules.

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A new AI-generated map of the world’s trees and renewable energy projects could help fight climate change

The Verge: Energy

A view showing the parts of the world covered by SATLAS using images from Sentinel-2 satellites. | Image: Allen Institute for AI A first-of-its-kind map of renewable energy projects and tree coverage around the world launched today, and it uses generative AI to essentially sharpen images taken from space. It’s all part of a new tool called Satlas from the Allen Institute for AI, founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

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EA launches consultation on unlimited fines for the worst polluters

Envirotec Magazine

New laws will scrap the cap on civil penalties and significantly broaden their scope to target a much wider range of environmental offences On 15 August the Environment Agency launched a consultation on changes to variable monetary penalties – financial penalties that can be imposed for certain environmental offences. The consultation will run for eight weeks and will close on 8 October.

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New York City Remains a Battleground for Illegal Ivory Trade

NRDC onEarth

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announces new exhibit of confiscated ivory at the New York State Museum that educates the public about the harmful industry.

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Nuclear power’s future is being disrupted

Financial Times: Energy

Investor interest in small modular reactors is growing as demand for electricity is set to soar

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EV charging is changing, Part 4: Behind the scenes as seven automakers counter Tesla’s Superchargers

Charged

Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms Part 2: No, NACS is not today’s Tesla connector Part 3: Why Tesla’s NACS is unlikely to kill CCS EV charging is changing, but much remains to be settled A flurry of news over less than a year permanently altered the US landscape for EV charging. To put these startling developments in context, Charged interviewed more than a dozen executives, engineers and analysts from automakers, DC fast charging netw

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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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An affordable and scalable strategy to fabricate efficient silicon heterojunction solar cells

TechXplore

Silicon heterojunction (SHJ), solar cells based on a heterojunction between semiconductors with different band gaps, are among the most promising photovoltaic technologies. So far, these cells have exhibited remarkable power conversion efficiencies and good operational stabilities.

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Interest in small nuclear power is rising. Here's why

GreenBiz

Nuclear reactors are getting smaller, cheaper and easier to make. That’s inspiring more companies large and small to angle for a piece of the market.

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Energy transition MSc launched at Heriot-Watt’s Orkney campus

Envirotec Magazine

Heriot Watt’s Orkney Campus. Heriot-Watt University is launching a new Master of Science degree programme to provide advanced training in the increasingly urgent work of energy transition. The programme is taught in person at the University’s Orkney campus through the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS) and focuses on technologies, systems, processes, and economics, alongside the design of transition projects to move away from fossil fuels and accelerate the i

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What Are Heat Pump Air Conditioners?

NRDC onEarth

They’re way more efficient and cost-effective than standard ACs. Even better, they double as carbon-slashing heating systems.

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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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Hawaii quit coal one year ago. Here's how it's been going

Canary Media

OAHU, Hawaii — In the last three weeks, Hawaii’s electric grid has made headlines for horrifying reasons.

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Biden offers $15.5B to boost battery and EV manufacturing

TechCrunch: Climate

The United States Department of Energy is dedicating $15.5 billion to support the transition to electric vehicles. As part of President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda, most of the money will go to automakers and suppliers to retool their plants to produce electric, hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, the agency said Thursday.

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Unveiling of £2.7 Billion Pipeline Blueprint for Scotland’s Hydrogen Exports

FuelCellsWorks

Scotland’s hydrogen production and export potential could be significantly accelerated with the development of a purpose-built marine pipeline according to a report published today (31 August 2023) by the Net.

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Shopify, startup Running Tide tout ocean carbon removal breakthrough

GreenBiz

Over the past 3 months after working on this project for 6 years, ocean carbon sequestration startup Running Tide sank 1000 tons wooden buoys off the Icelandic coast to prevent the embodied CO2 from being released into the atmosphere.

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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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Pyrolysis will convert poultry waste to biochar in major UK carbon removal project

Envirotec Magazine

Pyrolysis – heating in the absence of oxygen – produces biochar, a residue of nearly pure carbon, which can be infused into the soil, sequestering carbon indefinitely. Onnu “will prevent phosphorous run-off and turn a problem into a revenue stream for farmers” Aston University spin-off firm Onnu has announced plans to build what it says will be the first of 16 pyrolysis hubs in the Wye Valley.

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Colorado makes Buildings More Livable, Less Polluting

NRDC onEarth

With a new Building Performance Standard policy, Colorado is leading the nation with clean, healthy buildings.

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Focus: Framing Your Brand Mission and Vision

Michael Grossman

Focus Is About The People You Serve Ask an climate tech engineer or scientist what the focus of their start up company is, and you’re likely to hear a statement beginning with the words, “we make…” That shouldn’t be surprising because scientists and engineers invent things. Ask a CFO what the focus of the company is, and you’re likely to hear the company’s vision and goals, and strategy for generating a specific amount of revenue or even the eventual sal

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Researchers design a new way to capture and recycle carbon dioxide from industrial emissions

TechXplore

Carbon capture is a promising method to help slow climate change. With this approach, carbon dioxide (CO2) is trapped before it escapes into the atmosphere, but the process requires a large amount of energy and equipment. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have designed a capture system using an electrochemical cell that can easily grab and release CO2.

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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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Big investors seek damages from Glencore over ‘untrue statements’ in prospectuses

Financial Times: Energy

Asset managers’ legal action follows trading house’s guilty pleas to bribery and corruption last year

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How to keep your passion burning with a career in ESG

GreenBiz

Burnout is real and even more intense when climate change is your job. Here are 5 ways to keep your head on straight while trying to solve the world's biggest problem.

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Is it time to start engineering plants?

Envirotec Magazine

Crops growing in dry ground. As the climate changes, crop cultivation becomes more challenging (image credit: Joanna Clarke, CC-BY 4.0 license ). A special issue of the journal PLOS Biology explores plant engineering as a tool to improve the climate resilience and carbon capture potential of crops Climate change is affecting the types of plant varieties we can cultivate, as well as how and where we can do so.

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At Long Last, the Vision of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition Is Realized

NRDC onEarth

The designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is not only extremely popular but its protections are long overdue.

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Nailing Your Climate Tech Investor Pitch

Michael Grossman

Is it All About Your Invention? Over the course of my career in the climate tech industry, I’ve had the opportunity to judge the pitches of early stage cleantech companies. I love getting to participate in these events because of the pastiche of promising ideas which continue to pour out of engineers and entrepreneurs in the sector, and also because of the knowledge I get to absorb from the savvy finance people who are sitting next to me and offering their perspectives on the companies’ po

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Snowy 2 Much: How can a 2.2GW water battery be worth more than $12 billion?

Renew Economy

The Snowy Hydro "reset" comes with no details or analysis. The Australian public, as the ultimate shareholders, must be provided with a comprehensive report, not just a two page media release. The post Snowy 2 Much: How can a 2.2GW water battery be worth more than $12 billion? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Nissan is reusing the batteries from old Leaf electric vehicles to make portable power sources

TechXplore

Batteries in older Nissan Leaf electric vehicles are getting a new life as portable power sources that can be used to run gadgets on the go or deliver emergency power in disasters.

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U.S. job growth surges with the IRA

GreenBiz

The United States’ clean energy market was growing before the Inflation Reduction Act became the law of the land. Now, clean energy job creation is booming.

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Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions – even with fewer weapons

Envirotec Magazine

By Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science, UCL, writing in The Conversation. Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer has revived morbid curiosity in the destructive power of nuclear weapons. There are now an estimated 12,512 nuclear warheads. A war in which even a fraction of these bombs were detonated would create blast waves and fires capable of killing millions of people almost instantly.

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Partnering with Beavers to Adapt to Climate Change

NRDC onEarth

Beavers and their habitat increase ecosystem health and help people and wildlife adapt to a warmer planet.