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Microsoft signs 15-year deal to remove carbon by replacing forests

GreenBiz

The deal with Chestnut Carbon covers the removal of 2.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over 15 years to support Microsoft's climate ambitions.

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Will Small Modular Reactors Surpass Regulatory and Supply Chain Hurdles to Fill the Need for Stable, Baseload Power?

CleanTech Group

Global energy demands are expected to increase dramatically over the next few years. For decades, experts suggested estimates that 2050 could require twice.

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2023: A Transformative Year for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

POWER Magazine

The small modular reactor (SMR) concept has long been viewed by many within the nuclear sector and by policymakers as somewhat of an arriviste—an upstart with bold promises but lacking […] The post 2023: A Transformative Year for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Fuel Cells Works Year-End Message: Reflecting on Achievements and Looking Forward to 2024

FuelCellsWorks

Dear Fuel Cells Works community, We address you with enthusiasm and gratitude as we approach the end of another exceptional year for the hydrogen industry. Firstly, we want to express.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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On Minnesota's Iron Range, producers explore hydrogen fuel to reduce emissions

GreenBiz

The high-temperature processes needed to make steel can be powered by electricity, and hydrogen produced using renewable energy would cut emissions significantly.

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Six reasons to be optimistic about the energy transition

Canary Media

The transition away from fossil fuels is a messy, frustrating and frequently uncertain story. Sometimes it seems like major change is just around the corner; other days it feels like we’re moving in the wrong direction. But despite the ups and downs, one thing is clear: The energy transition is happening.

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EV fast-charging networks face a challenging 2024

TechCrunch: Climate

The EV world, from a charging perspective, was previously split in two. There was Tesla and then there was everyone else. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Diageo signs partnership that could replace up to 95% of bar and pub bottles

GreenBiz

The company is testing a circular, closed-loop system for delivering liquor with ecoSPIRITS.

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10 charts that sum up 2023's clean energy progress

Canary Media

As a team of writers and editors, we at Canary Media certainly believe in the power of the written word. But when you're reporting on a story as big as the energy transition, sometimes text alone doesn’t cut it.

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Wales fears another Aberfan as Westminster refuses to clean up tips

The Guardian: Energy

Map shows 350 coal tips close to communities as UK government unwilling to take on costs Edmund Richards, who worked for 40 years as a miner, shakes his head sadly as he gazes at one of the many disused coal tips at the head of the Rhondda Fawr valley in south Wales. “They’re on the move,” he says. “No doubt. From time to time, inspectors will come and have a look, and say all is fine, but everyone around here knows they are on the move, on the slide.

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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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LG Energy Solution and Impact Clean Power sign agreement to power electric buses in Europe

Charged

LG Energy Solution , a manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries, and Impact Clean Power Technology (ICPT), a supplier of heavy-duty battery systems, have signed a supply agreement for nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) battery modules. LG Energy Solution will ship 200,000 battery modules from its Wroclaw, Poland plant to ICPT’s GigafactoryX in Pruszkow over the next three years to be assembled into battery packs and systemsfor about 3,000 large commercial EVs.

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The most over- and under-hyped climate trends of 2023

GreenBiz

Some climate solutions don’t deserve the spotlight, while others deserve more attention.

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European ESG funds face fossil fuel showdown after French ruling

Financial Times: Energy

France’s stipulation for its sustainable ISR label could lead to billions of euros of divestments by pan-European vehicles

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POWER’s Top 5 Posts from 2023

POWER Magazine

POWER magazine’s website gets millions of pageviews every year. Looking over the stats from 2023, the following five articles were the most-viewed by our audience, which includes many power industry […] The post POWER’s Top 5 Posts from 2023 appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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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Working to eliminate dangerous e-bike batteries

Charged

Electric bicycles have quickly become enormously popular—the Light Electric Vehicle Association estimates that some 880,000 were imported to the US in 2021. However, some of them have a way of catching fire unexpectedly, sometimes in residential settings, with unfortunate consequences. At this point, unfortunately, a disclaimer is necessary. This is not one of those “EVs catch fire, better stick with gas” articles.

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After Clean Water Act ruling, states that want to protect affected wetlands need millions

GreenBiz

It could take years for states to address the loss of federal standards — if they do at all.

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Why Australia is ripe for VC

TechCrunch: Climate

The addition of new technology sectors into Australia’s landscape could also help attract the necessary capital and business acumen, while creating a more inclusive environment. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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What Is ERCOT and What Does It Do?

POWER Magazine

To understand what the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is, it helps to understand how the North American electric power system is configured. The contiguous U.S. is comprised of […] The post What Is ERCOT and What Does It Do? appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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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InCharge Energy launches charge management software on Geotab Marketplace

Charged

California-headquartered InCharge Energy , a provider of commercial fleet EV charging infrastructure, has integrated its proprietary InControl CMS charge management software with the Geotab Marketplace, a network of fleet-management telematics services. The integration allows fleet managers to view EV data even when their vehicles are not plugged in, according to the company.

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The future of ‘cap-and-trade’ carbon markets could hinge on Washington state

GreenBiz

More states are pursuing cap-and-trade, but closely watching a likely ballot measure on repeal in Washington.

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Deal Dive: Thank god a startup is solving the bed bug problem

TechCrunch: Climate

Spotta's devices can identify bugs before they become infestations, both indoors and outdoors. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Alliant Energy Completes Six Wisconsin Projects

Solar Industry

Alliant Energy has completed six new solar projects in Wisconsin, adding 514 MW of energy to the company’s generation capacity. “Completing these projects is a huge milestone and a pivotal moment in our journey toward a brighter energy future,” says David de Leon, Alliant Energy’s Wisconsin president. “We’re proud to leverage new technology and locally generated energy solutions to increase customer value and help avoid long-term costs.

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Florida transit agency will use VW settlement funds to buy 60 electric buses

Charged

The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, which serves Charged ’s home city of St Petersburg, Florida, will use $18 million in funding from the VW settlement to acquire 60 Gillig electric buses. “Volkswagen lied and pumped extra pollution into Florida’s air, so they had to pay up. We went after a share of that money to reduce future pollution and continue PSTA’s leadership in sustainability,” said PSTA CEO Brad Miller at a recent unveiling event.

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Cotton has a waste problem: This startup says it can solve it

GreenBiz

Most cotton garments end up as landfill. Seattle’s Evrnu says it can recycle those items.

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ISGAN advances smart grids

Smart Energy International

ISGAN (International Smart Grid Action Network) has launched new initiatives to advance smart grids globally. A new ‘Lighthouse Project’ entitled ‘Electricity network planning and implementation under uncertainty for the clean energy transition: The roles of smart distribution grids in energy systems’ is aimed to initiate closer collaboration between the Networks’ six working groups to address smart distribution grids.

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First Solar Enters Tax Credit Transfer Agreements With Fiserv

Solar Industry

First Solar has entered into two separate tax credit transfer agreements to sell $500M and up to $200M of 2023 Inflation Reduction Act Advanced Manufacturing Production tax credits to Fiserv, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions. Under the terms of the agreements, Fiserv will pay $0.96 per $1 of tax credits to First Solar during the first half of next year, inclusive of fees and commissions paid by First Solar to the placement agent.

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IoTecha’s EV charging tech enables Hager Energy to power VW’s bidirectional ID. models

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IoTecha , provider of a smart charging platform for EVs, and Hager Energy are collaborating on charging products to power Volkswagen EVs. Volkswagen’s recent announcement of bidirectional charging support for its new ID. models (and existing models through an ID. software update) and availability of a vehicle-to-home (V2H) solution with Hager Energy’s DC home power station marks a major milestone in their collaboration.

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Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done

The Guardian: Energy

Stung by the 2008 oil price spike, Uruguay now produces up to 98% of its electricity from renewables. Can other countries follow suit? It was the 2000s, and fossil fuel prices were rising worldwide. After a period of volatility in the 1980s, the crude oil price per barrel had reached one its lowest points – $20 – at the end of 2001 but then, over the course of six years, it tripled before a new oil shock saw prices surpass those of the 1970s, reaching a record $145 a barrel on 3 July 2008.

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Five priorities for US utilities in 2024

Smart Energy International

The year 2023 has reaffirmed the position of electric and gas utilities as the epicentre of the energy transition. Innovations have been achieved across the sector, including in the domain of artificial intelligence and digitalised flexibility driving efficiency gains, which then brings to question what the priorities will be in the coming year. According to West Monroe, in the US specifically, there are five priorities for utilities in 2024: decarbonisation and integrated electrification and ga

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MPSC Approves I&M Plan for Lake Trout Solar Plant

Solar Industry

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) has approved the plan by Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) to build its largest solar farm to date. I&M will own and operate the Lake Trout solar plant near Montpelier, Ind., which will be connected to the power grid serving both Michigan and Indiana. The company says it expects the project to generate power by 2026.

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OVO and Kaluza to provide managed EV charging services for Volvo

Charged

UK-based energy supplier OVO and energy software company Kaluza have announced a partnership with Volvo Cars to develop EV managed charging services for Volvo Cars and OVO customers in the UK. One-way smart charging and bidirectional charging from Kaluza are scheduled to launch in 2024, as is the Volvo EX90 SUV, the company’s first vehicle capable of bidirectional charging.

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Climate scientists hail 2023 as ‘beginning of the end’ for fossil fuel era

The Guardian: Energy

Cautious optimism among experts that emissions from energy use may have peaked as net zero mission intensifies Global efforts to slow a runaway climate catastrophe may have reached a critical milestone in the last year with the peak of global carbon emissions from energy use, according to experts. A growing number of climate analysts believe that 2023 may be recorded as the year in which annual emissions reached a pinnacle before the global fossil fuel economy begins a terminal decline.

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Transforming Industrial Power by Electrifying Steam

POWER Magazine

Steam power drove the Industrial Revolution, freeing manufacturers from the need to set up their factories near water power sources. Industrial steam is still largely used across various verticals, including […] The post Transforming Industrial Power by Electrifying Steam appeared first on POWER Magazine.