September, 2024

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How US utility companies could double electric transmission capacity by 2035

TechXplore

Utility companies in the United States could double electric transmission capacity by 2035 by replacing existing transmission lines with those made from advanced materials, according to a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Energisation underway at 1,680MWh Waratah Super Battery in New South Wales, Australia

Energy Storage News

Energisation has begun at Waratah Super Battery, the energy storage project contracted as a ‘giant shock absorber’ for the grid in New South Wales, Australia.

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Will the brain-computer interface market thrive before Neuralink?

Envirotec Magazine

The headlines have been full of exciting announcements about new brain-computer interface technologies that can read our minds. This data could be used in place of phone touch screens or computer mice to decode our speech and perhaps even control wheelchairs or drive cars. Much of the media’s attention is drawn to Elon Musk’s Neuralink, the company developing an invasive, wireless ‘brain-chip’.

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The Plastics Industry’s Latest Deception: “Mass Balance”

NRDC onEarth

Mass balance “recycled” plastic credit schemes are misleading.

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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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Last coal power station in UK shuts down, bring coal era to end after 143 years

Renew Economy

The UK was the first country to build a coal fired power station and has now become the first major economy to exit coal power. The post Last coal power station in UK shuts down, bring coal era to end after 143 years appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DOE Finalizes $1.52B Palisades Loan for First-Ever U.S. Nuclear Plant Recommissioning

POWER Magazine

Marking the first-ever revival of a nuclear power plant in the U.S., the Department of Energy (DOE) on Sept. 30 finalized a $1.52 billion loan guarantee to Holtec International to […] The post DOE Finalizes $1.52B Palisades Loan for First-Ever U.S. Nuclear Plant Recommissioning appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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‘World’s largest’ 30MW flywheel energy storage project connects to grid in China

Energy Storage News

A project in China, claimed as the largest flywheel energy storage system in the world, has been connected to the grid.

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Nearly half of global companies are ready to pay a premium for lower emission steel and concrete

Envirotec Magazine

In a new report released on 24 September, close to 50% of global businesses surveyed say they are prepared to pay a premium for lower emission steel and concrete, signaling a powerful and growing demand for more sustainable materials. With steel and concrete emissions said to be responsible for 15% of global emissions, their urgent decarbonization is critical to meeting the goals outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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What the Newest Energy Jobs Report Says About the Clean Energy Economy

NRDC onEarth

Market forces and government incentives are creating a growing number of renewable energy jobs.

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Solar and wind less than half the cost of fossil fuels as price falls continue

Renew Economy

When compared to fossil fuel and nuclear options, solar PV’s global costs in 2023 were 56 per cent lower, while onshore wind’s costs were even lower. The post Solar and wind less than half the cost of fossil fuels as price falls continue 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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Chart: Solar power keeps beating expectations

Canary Media

Solar is becoming predictable in its unpredictability — time and time again, experts have underestimated how much the clean energy source will grow globally. This year is no different.

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AI-guided experimentation identifies better energy storage solution

TechXplore

Finding a needle in a haystack is the quintessentially impossible task. But what if new tools could make it straightforwardly achievable? Imagine if, instead of searching through everything by hand, you could portion out small piles of hay and use magnets.

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Fire at battery storage facility in California triggers evacuation order

Energy Storage News

Mandatory evacuation orders were issued by local authorities in Escondido, California, after a fire broke out at a battery energy storage system (BESS) facility.

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Guidance published to help tackle GHG emissions in environment and engineering sectors

Envirotec Magazine

Pledge to Net Zero, an environmental sector programme to facilitate action on greenhouse gas emissions, has published (on 23 September) a resource detailing practical ways for environmental and engineering professionals to estimate greenhouse gases in their designs and advice. Currently, the designs and advice provided by the environmental and engineering sectors represent the largest greenhouse gas impact of the sector.

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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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What Will It Take to Tackle Water Scarcity on the Navajo Nation?

NRDC onEarth

With contaminated wells, climate-fueled drought, and limited access to safe water sources, a study seeks solutions—and perspective—from the reservation’s residents.

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Australia’s oldest wind turbine faces final spin, will be dismantled after nearly 40 years or service

Renew Economy

The Breamlea wind turbine was built in 1987 but owner Barwon Water says the parts no longer exist to keep it operational. The post Australia’s oldest wind turbine faces final spin, will be dismantled after nearly 40 years or service appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Google Could Use Small Nuclear Reactors to Power Data Centers

POWER Magazine

Google’s top executive confirmed the company is working on large-scale data centers that would use more than 1 GW of power. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in a […] The post Google Could Use Small Nuclear Reactors to Power Data Centers appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Researchers develop carbon dots-driven green radiative cooling coating for energy saving in buildings

TechXplore

Buildings account for about 90% of Hong Kong's electricity consumption and over 60% of carbon emissions. Energy conservation in buildings is crucial for achieving climate mitigation goals. Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) researchers have developed an environmentally friendly solar-driven adaptive radiative cooling (SARC) coating for building roofs and walls.

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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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US faces ‘significant challenge’ to establish domestic battery cell supply for BESS market

Energy Storage News

Would-be battery manufacturers that could serve the US energy storage industry with domestically made cells are facing a “perfect storm,” Energy-Storage.news has heard.

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Researchers say chemical cocktail of micropollutants amplified the effect of algal toxins causing mass fish mortality on the River Oder in 2022

Envirotec Magazine

International research team say they have identified more than 120 organic micropollutants and investigated their role in damaging aquatic organisms Tonnes of dead fish, mussels and snails were seen floating on the River Oder (Germany) in early August 2022. It soon became clear what was causing the environmental disaster in the German-Polish border river: a mixture of excessive salinity, high water temperatures, low water levels and excessive inputs of nutrients and wastewater triggered a bloom

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Coalition Urges Renewable Rikers Compliance in NY Air Pollution Permit

NRDC onEarth

Renewable Rikers coalition tells DEC that Rikers power plant permit conflicts with both city law mandating closure of Rikers jails by 2027 and state climate law

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A multi-billion dollar solar sheep rental industry is taking shape in Australia

Renew Economy

Solar grazing is a multi-billion dollar industry in the US. Australian farmers are beginning to think about how it might work here, too. The post A multi-billion dollar solar sheep rental industry is taking shape in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs

The Verge: Energy

Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Microsoft just signed a deal to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. If approved by regulators, the software maker would have exclusive rights to 100 percent of the output for its AI data center needs. Constellation, the owner of the Three Mile Island plant, announced a power purchase agreement with Microsoft earlier today, which should see the site coming back online in 2028, assuming regulators approve it.

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Waste heat to green energy: New approach boosts thermoelectric generator efficiency

TechXplore

Thermoelectric generators that can convert waste heat to clean energy could soon be as efficient as other renewable energy sources, like solar, according to a team led by Penn State scientists.

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Georgia Power secures Tesla battery supply agreement for 2GWh BESS portfolio

Energy Storage News

Georgia Power has secured a battery and equipment supply agreement (BESA) with Tesla for a 500MW/2,000MWh BESS portfolio made up of four projects of varying sizes under development by the investor-owned utility (IOU).

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Study explores complex ocean conditions surrounding world’s most powerful tidal turbine

Envirotec Magazine

Innovative drone technology and boat-based surveys are being used to assist the efficient and sustainable development of tidal energy, explains the Marine Biological Association (MBA). The number of tidal power and other offshore renewable energy installations is set to grow significantly around the UK coastline over the coming decades. However, launching state-of-the-art devices into often turbulent ocean flows has the potential to pose a range of challenges for the tidal energy industry, inclu

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California Legislature Passes Food Date Labeling Standardization

NRDC onEarth

California is aiming to standardize food date labels with the passage of AB 660 (Irwin). The bill is now awaiting signature from Governor Newsom.

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Renewable records tumble for second day in a row, pushing fossil fuels to new lows

Renew Economy

The instantaneous share of renewable energy in Australia’s main grid has reached new highs for the second day in a row, steadily nudging out fossil fuels in preparation for the day that coal generation might be switched off completely, as occurred in the earlier today. As Joshua Hill writes here, the last coal-fired power generator […] The post Renewable records tumble for second day in a row, pushing fossil fuels to new lows appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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First Light Images from Tanager-1 Hyperspectral Satellite

Planet Pulse

Today, we are thrilled to release our first light images from our Tanager-1 hyperspectral satellite. Our first set of imagery is of Karachi, Pakistan, and was taken on September 19th, 2024, from an altitude of 522 km. In the following months, our partners, including Carbon Mapper and customers are expected to use the data to monitor and mitigate point-source methane and CO2 emissions, two potent greenhouse gasses.

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How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

Canary Media

This story was first published by Grist. Matthias Weyland loves having people ask about his balcony. A pair of solar panels hang from the railing, casting a sheen of dark blue against the red brick of his apartment building.

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Germany plans long-duration energy storage auctions for 2025 and 2026

Energy Storage News

The German government has opened a public consultation on new frameworks to procure energy resources, including long-duration energy storage (LDES).

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Nuada picks up innovation award at Carbon Capture Canada 2024

Envirotec Magazine

Nuada, the firm behind an innovative carbon capture approach, combining metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and vacuum swing technology, has picked up the “Innovation in CCUS Technology” award at Carbon Capture Canada 2024 – Canada’s national CCUS convention. “This recognition highlights the significant strides we have made in pushing the boundaries of carbon capture technology,” said an announcement from the group. “We are proud to have been selected as the