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Sustainable building groups combine to accelerate change

GreenBiz

The green building movement has evolved from local, LEED-centric, grassroots efforts to more regional, broader coalitions of professionals.

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Energy storage market grew faster than ever in 2023, BESS was most invested-in energy tech, according to BNEF, IEA

Energy Storage News

According to IEA and BloombergNEF, battery storage was the most invested-in energy tech, with biggest-ever growth in deployments recorded.

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An ultralow-concentration electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries

TechXplore

Lithium salts make batteries powerful but expensive. An ultralow-concentration electrolyte based on the lithium salt LiDFOB may be a more economical and more sustainable alternative. Cells using these electrolytes and conventional electrodes have been demonstrated to have high performance, as reported by a research team in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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Call for clarity on DEFRA plan to withhold air quality funding

Envirotec Magazine

The Environmental Industries Commission’s Air Quality Taskforce has called for greater clarity on the future of the Air Quality Grant scheme following the news on 17 April that DEFRA will withhold local council grants for air quality improvement projects. After being notified about their successful Local Air Quality Grant scheme applications only two months ago, the decision from DEFRA means that several cash-strapped local authorities may halt their progress on improving air quality in their ar

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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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The week ahead in climate policy

GreenBiz

This week’s most important ongoing climate policy stories.

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Tesla deployed 4.1GWh BESS in Q1, storage and generation is highest-margin business line

Energy Storage News

Tesla made 'all-time high' energy storage deployments in the first quarter of this year, 'leading to record profitability' for its energy business line, CEO Elon Musk has said this week.

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Hidden Fossil Fuels: Plastic Production Drives Climate Change

NRDC onEarth

Study shows that plastic production could be nearly one third of the global carbon budget and emits four times more greenhouse gases than the airline industry.

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Activists want 3 things from the Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution. Will they get them?

GreenBiz

Consumer packaged goods companies, chemical producers and the oil industry are in the crosshairs of watchdogs in Ottawa.

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ERCOT market saturation ‘already happening’

Energy Storage News

Market saturation in the Texas, ERCOT ancillary services market is already happening as the BESS buildout accelerates, Energy-Storage.news has heard.

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Wind and solar in limbo: Long waitlists to get on the grid are a 'leading barrier'

TechXplore

Ninety miles west of Chicago, the corn and soybean fields stretch to the sky, and dreams of the clean energy future dangle—just out of reach.

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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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EU rules compel manufacturers to make repair easier

Envirotec Magazine

The European Parliament voted on 23 April to adopt new rules on the so-called “right to repair” for consumers, which aim to make it easier and more cost-effective to repair goods. The new rules ensure that manufacturers provide timely and cost-effective repair services and inform consumers about their rights to repair. Goods repaired under the warranty will benefit from an additional one-year extension of the legal guarantee, further incentivising consumers to choose repair instead of replacemen

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Salesforce to lobby for new rules on AI’s environmental impact

GreenBiz

Computing uses up to 3 percent of global power consumption and AI could triple that, the company believes.

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Molten hydroxide salt energy storage inaugurated in Denmark

Energy Storage News

Hyme Energy has put a molten hydroxide salt energy storage project into operation in Denmark, the first deployment in the world, it claimed.

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Denmark launches its biggest offshore wind farm tender

TechXplore

The Danish Energy Agency on Monday launched its biggest tender for the construction of offshore wind farms, aimed at producing six gigawatts by 2030—more than double Denmark's current capacity.

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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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Protecting Biodiversity Means Saving the Bogs (and Peatlands, Swamps, Marshes, Fens…)

NRDC onEarth

Wetlands cover just 6 percent of the planet’s land area but provide habitat for 40 percent of wildlife.

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Do these 4 things to set yourself up for success in your first 90 days as CSO

GreenBiz

When stepping into the role of chief sustainability officer, those first 3 months can be crucial and daunting. Here’s what to do to lay the groundwork for future success.

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New York launches 42.5MW of BESS projects including like-for-like gas turbine replacer

Energy Storage News

The New York City Industrial Development Agency (NYCIDA) has approved five BESS projects while governor Kathy Hochul has announced groundbreaking on a sixth, all in all totalling around 42.5MW of capacity.

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AI-powered recycling startup raises £1.65m to solve material sorting gap

Envirotec Magazine

Sorted’s founding team, from left to right: Edward Rosten, Arthur Goujon (CTO), Luis Espinosa (CEO), Kate Pleteneva & Robin Brown. London-based recycling tech business, Sorted, has raised £1.65 million in a seed funding round. The group’s technology enables human pickers to better sort and recover targeted materials. Using computer vision, spectroscopy and coloured lasers driven by AI, their solution identifies, differentiates and pinpoints valuable items on recycling lines.

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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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Power Plant Carbon Rules: What’s Changed Since the 2023 Proposal?

NRDC onEarth

The EPA's finalized rules for carbon emissions from the power sector have just been released. Here's how they've evolved.

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How to access $6.97 billion from the EPA’s green bank

GreenBiz

The Climate United Coalition has billions of dollars to give out to advance decarbonization. Here’s how to qualify.

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Has CATL cracked the battery ageing code? Industry reacts to ‘zero-degradation’ BESS claims

Energy Storage News

Lithium-ion battery OEM CATL's claim that its latest BESS product has no degradation for the first five years of use has provoked much discussion across the industry, with some sceptical of its merits.

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DRS to be delayed until 2027

Envirotec Magazine

Wales plans to press on with the inclusion of glass in its own scheme. The UK government has announced a delay to the scheduled October 2025 start date of a UK-wide Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), which will now roll back to October 2027. This confirmed the expectation set by a 26 March statement from Environment Secretary Steve Barclay, that a delay was to be expected given the need to ensure alignment between the UK Parliament and the various devolved administrations.

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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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Stop Food Waste: Redistribution and Upcycling Opportunities

NRDC onEarth

NRDC and our partners at Drexel Food Lab are raising awareness about expanded liability protections and upcycling opportunities for food businesses.

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3 ways AI could change your sustainability recruitment in 2024 and beyond

GreenBiz

As artificial intelligence tools proliferate, we need to understand their potential — and limitations.

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Canadian Solar: Storage ‘more complex’ than solar when it comes to localising manufacturing

Energy Storage News

The energy storage arm of Canadian Solar said the technology 'has more complexity than solar' when it comes to nearshoring manufacturing away from China, and local cell manufacturing could be part of the long-term strategy to leverage domestic content incentives.

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Report details China’s complex energy landscape and its enormous green energy shift

Envirotec Magazine

Wind is China’s largest source of electricity after coal and hydropower, delivering 9.4% of the total electricity supply in 2023. The seeming enormity of the green energy shift taking place in China is given shape by what’s described as the most comprehensive English-language report on China’s energy transition. It also looks at the persistence of fossil fuels in its energy mix.

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Let’s Commit to Saving Workers from Heat, Not Killing Them

NRDC onEarth

Recent actions by state government officials increase the urgency for a federal workplace heat standard.

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Meet the Woman Making Ikea More Sustainable

GreenBiz

April 23, 2024: 10AM to 10:40AM ET

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Why We Need to, Have to, Want to Act on Climate Change

Andrew Winston

Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? Here’s a three-part framing to convince businesses and their leaders to respond. The battle to get companies to take sustainability seriously is essentially over. Even in the face of the “anti-ESG” movement — a very American phenomenon — there are vanishingly few large organizations around the world that really question the need to address environmental and social issues.

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China’s quiet energy revolution: The switch from nuclear to renewable energy

Renew Economy

China has wound back its ambitious nuclear targets and turned instead to the deployment of solar and wind energy at unprecedented rates. The post China’s quiet energy revolution: The switch from nuclear to renewable energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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New Rule Ups Big Oil’s Financial Responsibility for Offshore Clean-up

NRDC onEarth

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s new rule takes a meaningful step towards holding industry accountable for the true costs of oil and gas drilling.

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No more funding forests in Cambodia: Interface is ending offsets to go carbon-negative

GreenBiz

The carpet company says its carbon-negative manufacturing means it can stop buying CO2 credits.