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ExxonMobil’s $10 billion plan to boost plastics production in China

GreenBiz

A new climate agreement with the U.S. disregards China’s plans to increase plastics production.

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A new approach to create fast-charging lithium-ion batteries with a graphite-based anode

TechXplore

In recent years, engineers and material scientists have been trying to create increasingly advanced battery technologies that are charged faster, last longer, and can store more energy. These batteries will ultimately play a crucial role in the advancement of the electronics and energy sector, powering the wide range of portable devices on the market, as well as electric vehicles.

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Northvolt and Altris develop ‘breakthrough’ 160 Wh/kg sodium-ion battery for energy storage

Energy Storage News

Gigafactory company Northvolt and sodium-ion battery technology firm Altris have together revealed a battery with an energy density of 160Wh/kg, designed for energy storage systems.

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Bees cannot taste even lethal levels of pesticides, says new study

Envirotec Magazine

New research from the University of Oxford appears to reveal that bumblebees cannot taste pesticides present in nectar, even at lethal concentrations. This means bumblebees are not able to avoid contaminated nectar, putting them at high risk of pesticide exposure and posing a threat to crop pollination. Bees are important pollinators of agricultural crops, but this can expose them to pesticides while they collect nectar and pollen – some of which are very toxic to bees.

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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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Behind Amazon’s plan to restore 4 billion liters of water

GreenBiz

Amazon is investing in 13 international water restoration projects in a quest to become ‘water positive’ by 2030.

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Researchers manufacture the first back-contact micrometric photovoltaic cells

TechXplore

The University of Ottawa, together with national and international partners, has achieved a world first by manufacturing the first back-contact micrometric photovoltaic cells. The cells, with a size twice the thickness of a strand of hair, have significant advantages over conventional solar technologies, reducing electrode-induced shadowing by 95% and potentially lowering energy production costs by up to three times.

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Biodiversity benefits of rewilding to be “irrefutably demonstrated” by ag-tech AI partnership

Envirotec Magazine

Make it Wild founders Christopher and Helen Neave bought their first piece of land to rewild as a family project in 2010, with results seemingly so dramatic it inspired them to set up the company. Launching at a time when prominent Royals have just been widely reported expressing opinions on what they see as negative impacts of rewilding, a supposedly groundbreaking environmental partnership using trailblazing AI algorithms to demonstrate the positive impacts of rewilding farmland is newly under

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The green skills gap is widening

GreenBiz

4.7 million more people were employed in clean energy in 2022 than in 2019, according to the IEA. But that's not enough.

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Using AI as a guide for the better manufacturing of perovskite solar cells

TechXplore

Tandem solar cells based on perovskite semiconductors convert sunlight to electricity more efficiently than conventional silicon solar cells. In order to make this technology ready for the market, further improvements with regard to stability and manufacturing processes are required.

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US BESS manufacturing won’t meet demand unless ‘challenges’ are addressed, says SEIA

Energy Storage News

Cost and availability of raw materials is the biggest among a number of challenges that must be addressed if US-made products will be able to meet demand for battery storage in the country.

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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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UK firm is official biochar partner at COP28

Envirotec Magazine

Climate-tech company A Healthier Earth has been announced as the official biochar partner at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28). The firm will be the only UK business exhibiting at the Expo City Farm area of EXPO City in Dubai between 30 November and 12 December. Alongside the policy discussions on how to reach the Paris Agreement of 2015 and limit global warming to 1.5⁰C, a variety of different sustainable agriculture solutions will be on display at the Urban Farm.

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Here's a 'significant step' to halve food waste by 2030

GreenBiz

New data from the Consumer Goods Forum is designed to help tackle the industry's food waste mountain.

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Researchers obtain promising results against capacity loss in vanadium batteries

TechXplore

An article by researchers at the Center for Development of Functional Materials (CDMF) in Brazil describes a successful strategy to mitigate charge capacity loss in vanadium redox flow batteries, which are used by electric power utilities among other industries and can accumulate large amounts of energy. The article is published in the Chemical Engineering Journal.

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US$60 million tax credit transfer completed for W Power, Wellhead & Energy Vault’s 275MWh California BESS

Energy Storage News

A tax credit transaction worth US$60 million using new transferability mechanisms from the Inflation Reduction Act has closed, for a BESS project deployed by Energy Vault for W Power and Wellhead Electric.

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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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The Successful UAW Strike Portends a Successful EV Transition

NRDC onEarth

Automakers can invest in their workers and the electric vehicles needed to cut emissions at the same time.

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What Solugen’s new factory means for the future of green chemicals

GreenBiz

Houston-based Solugen just announced plans for its second sustainable molecule factory. Here’s why you should be paying attention.

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Solar panels vs planting forests: Which reduces climate change faster?

TechXplore

Photovoltaic fields outperform afforestation as a global climate-change mitigation strategy, according to a study published in the journal PNAS Nexus.

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280MW of BESS projects progress in Estonia and Latvia ahead of 2025 Baltic-Russia decoupling

Energy Storage News

Bids have been received by Latvia's grid operator AST for an 80MW/160MWh BESS project while developers Corsica Sole and Everon will build a 200MW system in Estonia, as the Baltic region prepares to decouple from Russia's electricity system in 2025.

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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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EPR schemes will harm recycling sector if not designed correctly, says industry group

Envirotec Magazine

EPR schemes must be designed in such a way that they do not disrupt existing efficient markets, otherwise they will do more harm than good to the recycling industry, according to a new position paper on extended producer responsibility (EPR) published by the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), a global federation of recycling industries, on 20 November.

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Australian Impact Investment’s Neeraj Aggarwal: Find your ‘impact DNA’

GreenBiz

Here's what he first looks for when hiring in the fast-evolving impact investment space.

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Five ways retrofitting cities can help decarbonize our future

TechXplore

Australian cities are not equipped to deal with the shocks and stresses of the near future.

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Grenergy unveils 2023-26 plans including ‘world’s largest’ 4.1GWh Chile BESS project

Energy Storage News

Spain-based developer and IPP Grenergy has detailed its investment plans for 2023-2026, totalling US$2.6 billion including what it claimed is the 'largest BESS in the world' in Chile.

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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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Submersible pumps underpin revamp at water reclamation facility

Envirotec Magazine

Fig. 1: KSB’s dry pit, internal self-cooling submersible pumps for handling RAS. A water reclamation facility in Georgia has been the focus of an ambitious upgrade, providing an opportunity to deploy the latest technology. Bryan Orchard takes us through aspects of the revamp including the specification of pumps. When aging wastewater treatment plants reach a time when they are in need of upgrading or expanding to meet increasing demands on their capabilities, opportunities arise to conside

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ExxonMobil, China plastics partnership reveals global reliance on petrochemicals

GreenBiz

A new climate agreement with the U.S. disregards China’s plans to increase plastics production.

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Residential solar power saves less energy than expected

TechXplore

Imagine a household that consumes 1,000 kilowatt hours of energy per month. Then they install solar panels on their roof that generate 500 kilowatt hours of electricity per month on average. How much should their consumption of electricity drawn from the power grid decline after they install solar? Five hundred kilowatt hours is the expectation, but in reality, it's less than that for most people.

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Ameresco to build 50MW/200MWh BESS in California

Energy Storage News

System integrator Ameresco will build a maximum 50MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in partnership with Silicon Valley Power (SVP), the non-profit utility of the city of Santa Clara, California.

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Water flow monitor fills technology gap

Envirotec Magazine

NivuFlow Stick instruments are now employed by the majority of the Agency’s 23 hydrometry teams, and routinely used in the training of new recruits. The instrumentation company Nivus has developed a new hand-held portable flow monitoring technology in response to a requirement that was originally identified by the Environment Agency (EA). In 2018, the EA hydrometry team challenged the instrumentation sector to develop a hand-held portable flow monitoring solution for small rivers and streams.

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The Critical Role of Procurement in Obtaining ESG Data

GreenBiz

Date/Time: December 12, 2023 (2-3PM ET / 11AM-12PM PT) With new regulations and investment decisions requiring more and better ESG data, Supplier.io has responded with new data and solutions. Procurement teams have a critical role to play in the environmental and social impact of companies today. To play this role, procurement teams need to provide meaningful and transparent supply chain data.

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Researchers develop a stretchable and efficient wearable thermoelectric energy harvester

TechXplore

Dr. Hyekyoung Choi and Min Ju Yun's research team from the Energy Conversion Materials Research Center, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI), has developed a technology that can increase the flexibility and efficiency of a thermoelectric generator to the world's highest level by using "mechanical metamaterials" that do not exist in nature.

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2,800MWh of battery storage projects win New South Wales firming infrastructure tender

Energy Storage News

Three large-scale battery storage projects and one virtual power plant were the winners of a recent competitive tender held on behalf of the government of New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

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Reuse hub for lighting launches

Envirotec Magazine

A flyer promoting the new hub. Lighting and circularity expert Recolight has launched the Recolight Reuse Hub, described as a new digital marketplace for lighting: an online platform to facilitate the donation of new and used lighting products and equipment. Currently, there are considerable volumes of new and used lighting products that are needlessly recycled when they could be reused, says the firm.

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Chris Bowen’s bold and sudden movement on climate sent the Coalition clutching at its pearls

The Guardian: Energy

The existential battle against global heating requires connecting science, politics and community life, often much harder than it looks Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast A lot of the time, politics feels incremental. But every now and again, a big thing happens suddenly. Chris Bowen made it clear this week the government intends to transform the fundamentals of Australia’s energy grid.

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