GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I posed the question to experts at the foremost utility trade conference: DistribuTECH

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Energy Energy 321

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Climate justice considerations center Salesforce’s latest renewable deal, while Microsoft moves to shore up access to U.S. solar panels and turnkey project management services.

Energy 287

Energy Energy 287

Charged

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

US integrated circuit manufacturer Microchip Technology has announced its new comprehensive three-phase hybrid power drive module, which is the first of 12 variants in the company’s product line with either silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors or insulated-gate bipolar transistors. Microchip says its new module helps meet the needs of electric aircraft designers who are looking to convert flight control systems from hydraulic to electric to reduce weight and design

Energy Monitor 138

Energy Monitor Polyphase Energy Monitor Aviation Electricity 138

R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union Address, he relayed an anecdote that I believe explains his stance toward the oil and gas industry. At first, he stayed on script with his prepared remarks , claiming: “You may have noticed that Big Oil just reported record profits. Last year, they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis.

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Demand Investment Electric vehicle Climate change 122

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.

Energy

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

New research seems to reveal that more than half of UK surveyors are unfamiliar with spray foam insulation and have a limited understanding of the material; leading to concerns over whether their lack of knowledge is preventing homeowners from exploring the benefits of spray foam insulation. Commissioned by Huntsman Building Solutions, the research sought the opinions of a cross-section of UK-based surveyors* and found that 41% possess limited knowledge of spray foam and 17% have very limited kn

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Education Innovation Energy Energy 277

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We shouldn’t underestimate the continued destructive force of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s influence on climate policy. Why not counter that negative influence by stepping up your own leadership on climate policy?

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Policy 310

Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest is passionate about his companies' decarbonisation progress, and damning of those who are not "up to speed." The post “If they don’t believe the science, they can f**k off:” Forrest backs coal and gas ban appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Hydrogen 139

Hydrogen Government 139

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Chris Packham is urging the public to spend 20 minutes counting stars to help build a crucial national database mapping light pollution. The broadcaster is backing a campaign by CPRE, the countryside charity to rewild the night sky to restore truly dark natural habitats for threatened wildlife. Artificial light pollution is one of the biggest threats to nocturnal creatures, many of which have suffered sharp population declines.

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Pollution Policy Health Government 263

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Substitutes for clinker. Carbon capture, use and storage. Process electrification. New construction codes. All are vitally important for taking urgent action to cut the footprint of the most widely used manmade resource on Earth.

Construction 310

Construction Carbon 310

Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

ABB E-mobility has announced the delivery of its one-millionth electric vehicle charger. The 2022 launch of ABB E-mobility’s new $30-million, 16,000-square-meter production facility in Valdarno, Italy completed a doubling of the company’s production capacity over the last two years. The manufacturing site can produce one DC fast charger every 20 minutes thanks to its seven production lines.

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Energy Monitor Electric vehicle Innovation Investment 138

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.

Transportation

Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

China installed 125GW of new wind and solar capacity in 2022, and now generates enough wind and solar to meet demands of every home, but not industry. The post China now has enough wind and solar to power every home appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Demand 138

Demand Government 138

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The number of households switching their energy supplier could skyrocket from July 2023, as falling energy wholesale prices coupled with reduced government support look set to provide suppliers with the chance to offer millions of domestic customers more competitive deals, according to analysis by energy consultancy Cornwall Insight. Since the start of winter, the default tariff cap, or price cap, and the Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) have left the government-supported Standard Variable Tariff (S

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Energy Energy Government Policy 255

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Two recent analyses underscore how the global PPA market has surged over the past decade, as businesses have increasingly sidestepped wholesale markets to tap low-cost clean energy.

Energy 304

Energy Energy 304

Charged

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The day when all EVs can use the same DC fast chargers just moved a little closer, as the White House announced that Tesla will move forward with plans to open its Supercharger network to non-Tesla EVs in the US. (Is that how it works when a company has no PR department?) Tesla, which rolled its own charging standard back in the early days as other automakers dithered, has been moving towards opening up its Superchargers for some time.

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North America Law 137

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.

Sustainability

altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

There are many reasons to be optimistic about the future growth of the commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage market. The rising popularity of renewable energy comes with volatility and intermittence, which brings potential risks and operation concerns to the grid. Energy storage system (ESS) coupled with renewable energy contributes to grid stability.

Energy 122

Energy Energy 122

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Karl Metcalfe has been shortlisted in the “Association Executive of the Year” category. A trainer with the Association for the Electrical and Mechanical trades (AEMT) has been recognised for his work in enabling the AEMT to continue to deliver its training throughout the pandemic. Karl Metcalfe, Lead Trainer and Technical Advisor with the AEMT has been shortlisted as a finalist in the annual Trade Association Forum Awards under the “Association Executive of the Year” cate

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Electricity Energy Energy 246

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The author, a sustainability professional and management school professor, shares the thinking behind her deep commitment to advancing Indigenous reconciliation. Content warning: This article contains descriptions of abuse in residential schools.

Sustainability 304

Sustainability 304

Charged

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Supercharged solutions that provide for fast charging reliability, efficiency, and safety The adoption of electric vehicles will reduce pollution and help slow the effects of climate change. A significant impediment to broader EV adoption is both a public charging infrastructure that can support long-distance travel and chargers that can recharge an EV battery in a time that drivers will accept.

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Automotive Batteries North America Organic 137

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?

Carbon

Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

French nuclear energy giant EDF buys massive floating offshore wind project in Australia that it plans to build in stages. The post French nuclear giant EDF buys massive Australian floating offshore wind project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Energy Energy Government 126

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reef islands in the Maldives. Seagrass meadows produce large volumes of sediment that can build coral reef island shorelines, increasing the resilience of low-lying reef island nations to future sea level rise, according to new research. The new study, from Northumbria University, amd published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment , provides seemingly the first evidence of the volume of sediment produced by a seagrass meadow in a reef island setting.

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Sea level rise Climate change Resilience Biodiversity 245

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Recent surveys and pilots can help us better understand the consumer appetite for reusable packaging — and provide insights into how reuse should move forward.

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Packaging 312

Charged

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Production processes, the production environment, and the final packaging all have an influence on component cleanliness. As a result, compliance agreements with limiting values often need to be implemented between the customer and supplier or between product development and production. This means that the cleanliness requirements are not fixed and can be specifically chosen by the customer in accordance with the product geometry function, manufacturability, and verifiability of the component.

Automotive 137

Automotive Lithium Batteries Electric vehicle 137

altenergymag

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The co-located conferences, being held in Long Beach, Calif. from February 14 to 16, are the energy industry’s premier solar + storage event. Visitors to Leclanché’s booth, #1413, will learn about the company’s breakthrough LeBlockTM energy storage solution, its proprietary energy management software (EMS) and comprehensive system integration skills.

Energy 109

Energy Energy Technology 109

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How it might look above the water (CGI courtesy of ©Smartland). A project to create a commercial-scale seaweed farm located between offshore wind turbines has gotten underway, with funding from Amazon. The project, known as North Sea Farm 1, will be located in a wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands. It has been designed to test and improve methods of seaweed farming, while researching the potential of seaweed to sequester carbon.

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Europe Carbon Biodiversity Climate change 246

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Synthetic biotechnology is projected to surpass $61 billion in revenue by 2030, driven by companies interested in shifting sourcing strategies away from petrochemicals or practices harmful for biodiversity.

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Biotech Biotechnology Biodiversity 286

Charged

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) don’t get much respect in the EV industry these days. They’re the epitome of a transitional technology, and it would be hard to argue that many of them justify their price premiums over plain hybrids. It’s widely believed that, thanks to ill-considered government incentives, many PHEVs are bought by drivers who never intend to plug them in.

Batteries 135

Batteries Transportation Technology Government 135

altenergymag

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

• Facility intended to create around 420 direct jobs and generate approximately $500 million in local investment • Several new supplier facilities are also planned, creating a sustainable local supply chain ecosystem • Tremendous potential economic benefit for local businesses across New York state • Large-scale investment reflects crucial nature of U.S.

Investment 108

Investment Sustainability 108

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Owner and operator of the 100MW battery, Zenobē, announced the system – in Capenhurst, Chester – had gone live on 11 February, describing it as the first commercial reactive power services of its kind in the world. Located in the Mersey region, the site will support the increasing development of renewables in-line with local and national zero-carbon targets.

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Batteries Fossil fuels Carbon Wind power 243

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Sponsored: In this guide, 3Degrees' Manager of Energy and Climate Practice, Europe, Elena Cernov, walks through the new SBTi FLAG framework to help ensure your organization can meet compliance and make meaningful progress in addressing its emissions footprint.

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Europe Organic Energy Energy 281

Charged

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

British same-day delivery company CitySprint is expanding its EV fleet by adding 40 new electric vans from Maxus , a subsidiary of Chinese automaker SAIC. The new electric vans have a range of up to 213 miles (344 kilometers) and are deployed across the UK cities in which CitySprint operates, including London, Leeds, Bristol, Manchester, Southampton and Birmingham.

Electricity 133

Electricity Carbon-neutral Carbon 133

altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The upcoming new report builds on similar comprehensive analyses of the solar PV industry, for which Clean Energy Associates is already well-known. It will take a deep dive into today’s sprawling energy storage supply chain, which consists of dozens of critical minerals and supplier countries.

Energy 107

Energy Energy Batteries 107

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Princess Royal Vessel. A £4.6m innovation project, led by renewable electrification specialist AceOn, to develop battery and hydrogen technology to power the marine vessels used for servicing offshore wind turbines, has been given the green light for Government funding. The RESTORE project will seek to replace the fossil-fuelled power and propulsion systems of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) with green hydrogen and battery storage-based alternatives.

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Hydrogen Batteries Innovation Transportation 231

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With the proper sourcing, biobased buildings can be hugely instrumental in combating climate change as they store vast amounts of carbon.

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Climate change Sustainability Carbon 320