Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Scotlands First Hydrogen Homes Open, Leading the Transition to Clean Energy The unveiling of Scotland’s first hydrogen homes marks a crucial step forward in the nation’s ambition to achieve net-zero emissions. Known as the H100 Fife project, this groundbreaking initiative is set to transform the way hundreds of households cook and heat their homes, using hydrogen as a clean and carbon-free energy source.

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BloombergNEF

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

New York/ London, February 6, 2025 The cost of clean power technologies such as wind, solar and battery technologies are expected to fall further by 2-11% in 2025, breaking last years record. According to a latest report by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF), new wind and solar farms are already undercutting new coal and gas […] The post Global Cost of Renewables to Continue Falling in 2025 as China Extends Manufacturing Lead: BloombergNEF appeared first on BloombergNEF.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Construction of a large multi-storey building on a hill in Lynmouth, Devon in April 2022 (image credit: Armands Photography / Shutterstock.com). Growth must not come at the expense of an already fragile environment, warned the Institute for Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), following the Chancellor’s announcement last week of plans to replace Environmental Impact Assessment with a new system in an effort to cut red tape and speed up planning application approvals.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Although last year saw a dip in installations and projects submitted for planning, the BESS market in the UK continues to steam ahead with over 8GWh online and nearly 20GWh being built.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A Clearer Future for Glass Manufacturing Understanding the Glass Industrys Environmental Impact Glass surrounds us, from the windows in our homes to the screens on our devices. Yet, few are aware of the environmental price tag attached to its production. The glass industry is a major energy consumer, with furnaces operating at over 1,500C to melt raw materials such as silica, soda ash, and limestone.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Recycling lithium-ion batteries to recover their critical metals has significantly lower environmental impacts than mining virgin metals, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. On a large scale, recycling could also help relieve the long-term supply insecurityphysically and geopoliticallyof critical battery minerals.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Los Angeles is a hub of freight activityand (not coincidentally) the home of the worst ozone pollution in the nation. Electrifying trucks in La-la Land will deliver an outsize benefit in emissions reduction. The city needs many more chargers suitable for medium- and heavy-duty EVs, and managed charging, which maximizes the number of trucks that can charge for a given grid connection, will be a critical part of the ecosystem.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Breakthrough in Wide-Bandgap Kesterite Solar Cells with Hydrogen Annealing What Is CZTS and Why Should You Care? CZTS, short for CuZnSnS , is a semiconductor material composed of copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), tin (Sn) , and sulfur (S). It belongs to the kesterite family of materials and has become a promising option in the field of solar energy. What sets CZTS apart is its unique combination of properties.

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POWER Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Texas A&M University System has unveiled four nuclear developers with which it plans to explore building and operating small modular reactor plants (SMRs) at its Texas A&M-RELLIS campus near College […] The post Texas A&M Launches SMR Energy Proving Ground with Selection of Four Nuclear Firms appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Ladybower reservoir, in the Peak District, in summertime. The government has announced 7.9 billion of investment to build nine new reservoirs across the UK. This comes as Water UK announced household water bills in England and Wales are to rise by an average of 123 from 1 April. Professor Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology at the University of Reading, commented: The sharp scale of rises in water bills will be felt by many people.

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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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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Electricity distributor UK Power Networks and Falco Construction, an English multi-utility contractor, are trialing electric diggers for underground work in London. Falco is currently deploying two of the diggers, and hopes to eventually replace all of its 120 diesel-powered excavators with the zero-emission Takeuchi TB20e mini-excavators, which would directly remove over 200 tonnes of carbon emissions each year, Falco said.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

IPPs BrightNight and Cordelio have announced a new power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 300MW solar and 1,200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) facility with utility Arizona Public Service (APS), in Arizona, US.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The poor things cant help it, but cows are really gassy, and thats really bad for the planet: Microbes in their guts produce methane a greenhouse gas up to 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide which comes out as burps. Consequently, livestock is responsible for 30 percent of humanitys methane emissions. But its not just bovine belching that makes agriculture drive so much warming.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Zanskar Geothermal & Minerals, Inc. (Zanskar) has announced exceptionally positive results of a new production well drilled at the Lighting Dock geothermal field in New Mexico. The production well exhibited a productivity index of around 50 GPM/psi and fluid temperatures of around 325 F (162 C). The well was self-discharging at 1000 GPM, but with a high-flow pump installed, the well was modeled to produce around 5000 GPM at 330 F (165 C).

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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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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Nidec Motor, a US-based manufacturer of commercial, industrial and appliance motors and controls, and Noveon Magnetics have signed a five-year, binding offtake agreement to potentially supply more than 1,000 tons of finished sintered neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) rare earth magnets. Deliveries are set to begin in 2025, supporting Nidec’s operations across industries including automation, industrial, and defense applications.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Board of Supervisors (BoS) of Orange County, California, has enacted an emergency moratorium on the approval of any new BESS facilities proposed for unincorporated areas of the county in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of its residents.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Power2Xs eFuels Rotterdam Project Leads Innovation in Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production Power2X, a pioneer in the green energy sector, has taken a major step forward with its eFuels Rotterdam project, a large-scale production facility designed to deliver sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) and ultra-low carbon fuels. The project has brought together three significant players in the energy spacePower2X, engineering firm Worley, and technology giant Honeywell.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland and Taiwan’s National Central University (NCU) have entered into a partnership to jointly advance research and innovation in the field of GeoEnergy, specifically in the subjects of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Geothermal Energy. The Memorandum of Understanding between the two universities was signed in Taoyuan City in Taiwan with Professor Andreas Busch, Professor of Earth Sciences at Heriot-Watt, and Professor Shu-Kun Hsu, Dean of

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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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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

US-based lithium battery technology company Pure Lithium has signed a joint development agreement with Saint-Gobain Ceramics to accelerate the production of Pure Lithiums selective, water-blocking membranes for lithium metal anode production from brine. Pure Lithium has also invented a flexible lithium conducting membrane for next-generation lithium metal battery applications, which can serve as both a solid electrolyte and separator in a lithium metal battery.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The government of Estonia will financially back a 500MW pumped hydro energy storage project to meet the country's need for long-duration energy storage, as the Baltics prepare to disconnect from Russia's grid this weekend.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Plug Power Pioneers Flexibility with the First Spot Pricing Program for Green Hydrogen Plug Power, a leader in green hydrogen solutions, has changed how the green hydrogen market works by introducing the first-ever spot pricing program for liquid green hydrogen. This move is a major step towards making the market more dynamic and adaptable. With a growing push for sustainable energy solutions, Plug’s innovative approach offers buyers new opportunities and streamlined access to this clean e

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The following is a guest post published by Dave Waters on LinkedIn. Given the wealth of thoughts and interesting aspects, we asked for permission to share this post here on ThinkGeoEnergy as a guest post. Whats the hold-up? A question which has long interested many geoscientists, is why is geothermal taking so long to gain traction at a larger scale than what it has to date achieved.

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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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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

German start-up Circunomics, which is developing a battery lifecycle management system, closed an 8-million Series A financing round in December 2024. The company promotes the circular economy for lithium-ion batteries by “advancing internationalization and developing new digital services.” Circunomics provides a lifecycle management system featuring a digital business-to-business (B2B) marketplace and analytics that cover the entire battery lifecycle.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

William Derasmo, partner at Troutman Pepper Locke, on the hyperscale data centre boom and how grid-scale storage could play a key role.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Researchers at FORTH have developed a new type of artificial neural network (ANN) that incorporates features of biological dendrites. This innovative design allows for accurate and robust image recognition while using significantly fewer parameters, paving the way for more compact and energy-efficient AI systems.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Community consultation has begin on the creation of the Hunter-Central Coast renewable energy zone, which is featuring an upgrade of existing network capacity rather than new transmission lines, and which could emerge as a model for future plans. The state government has said the Hunter-Central Coast REZ will be the first in Australia to focus […] The post “Putting fatter lines on poles:” Consultation begins on renewable zone for nation’s coal hub appeared first on RenewE

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

I love travelling by train and I love cycling. Train plus bike is an incredibly fun, flexible and low carbon way to get around… if you can get your bike on the train. Normally at this time of year I’m ramping up preparations for local elections, but this year we have a ‘fallow’ election-free year and I’m relatively free to enjoy the Spring.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

BrightNight has kicked off the permitting process for one of its hybrid solar and BESS projects located in Wasco County, Oregon.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

An international research team led by the Universitat Politcnica de CatalunyaBarcelonaTech (UPC) has created a hybrid device that combines, for the first time ever, molecular solar thermal energy storage with silicon-based photovoltaic energy. It achieves a record energy storage efficiency of 2.3% and up to 14.9% total solar energy utilization.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Billions of pounds from energy bill payers to run out in 2027 but could be extended as soon as Monday Green campaigners fear ministers are poised to award billions of pounds in fresh subsidies to Drax power station, despite strong concerns that burning trees to produce electricity is bad for the environment. Drax burns wood to generate about 8% of the UKs green power, and 4% of overall electricity.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

JeMyn, an affiliate of Swiss firm Widmer Rail Services , has ordered two Vectron locomotives with battery power modules from Siemens Mobilitythe first order for this new version of the Vectron. The battery module enables the Vectron to operate for short distances without an overhead power line, enabling the loco to cover the last mile of service and carry out shunting runs on non-electrified sections of rail line.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Eku Energy's chief technology officer, Elias Saba, discusses the shift in economics of long-duration BESS in Australia's NEM.

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