Google reports 13% emissions increase fueled by AI
GreenBiz
JULY 2, 2024
The company is struggling to add carbon-free energy fast enough, CSO Kate Brandt told GreenBiz.
GreenBiz
JULY 2, 2024
The company is struggling to add carbon-free energy fast enough, CSO Kate Brandt told GreenBiz.
NRDC onEarth
JULY 18, 2024
OSHA's proposed heat standard is an essential step toward a safer, healthier future for U.S. workers.
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Renew Economy
JULY 24, 2024
Dutton dismissed report on nuclear SMR by the highly respected Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, saying he is not interested in the views of "fanatics." The post “I’m not interested in the fanatics:” Dutton responds to science academy’s report on nuclear SMRs appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Storage News
JULY 23, 2024
The CPUC has proposed the procurement of over 10GW of new energy resources, including 1GW of multi-day long-duration energy storage (LDES) and another 1GW of 12-hour-plus LDES.
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
FuelCellsWorks
JULY 22, 2024
The way cars are powered isn’t a done deal yet – the mix of methods could be more interesting than ever before. Alpine’s exhibition of its Alpenglow prototype at the.
Canary Media
JULY 19, 2024
Renewable energy still supplies less of the world’s electricity than fossil fuels do, but it’s being built at a rate that far outpaces the construction of non-renewable forms of energy.
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Impact Alpha
JULY 15, 2024
The House Judiciary Committee has delivered a clear message to the free market: shut up about climate change or pay the price. The. The post How oil barons and right-wing billionaires are manipulating the free market to extend fossil fuels appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Renew Economy
JULY 24, 2024
Origin to double size of Eraring battery, adding a more than four-hour second stage to help soak up solar at the site of Australia's largest coal generator. The post Origin to double size of Eraring battery to soak up solar next to country’s biggest coal generator appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The Guardian: Energy
JULY 13, 2024
Ed Miliband sets new rules on solar panels and approves three giant solar farms as Labour seeks to end years of Tory inaction Keir Starmer’s new Labour government today unveils plans for a “rooftop revolution” that will see millions more homes fitted with solar panels in order to bring down domestic energy bills and tackle the climate crisis. The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, also took the hugely controversial decision this weekend to approve three massive solar farms in the east of England tha
FuelCellsWorks
JULY 24, 2024
In collaboration with Coca-Cola and Air Liquide, Toyota is undertaking a pilot programme for a new hydrogen fuel cell, zero tailpipe emission long-haul truck. Toyota has provided a proof-of-concept hydrogen.
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.
Energy Storage News
JULY 18, 2024
The Spanish government has progressed plans to launch a competitive auction for renewable generation and energy storage in two regions where coal plants have been retired, totalling 829MW of capacity.
POWER Magazine
JULY 24, 2024
The Zinc Battery Initiative (ZBI) and its members have collaborated with experts from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and West Virginia University (WVU) to develop an effective path to […] The post Zinc Battery Manufacturers Partner to Speed Commercialization appeared first on POWER Magazine.
NRDC onEarth
JULY 11, 2024
Diverting existing clean power will increase pollution
Renew Economy
JULY 25, 2024
A giant battery project that will help get the national capital get off gas and reach its net zero target has won development approval. The post Giant Canberra battery gets approval to help wean national capital off fossil gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
The Guardian: Energy
JULY 18, 2024
Penny Wong confirms that German freedom of information advocacy non-profit Wau Holland Foundation will be invoiced for the charter flight portion of the bill. Follow today’s news headlines live Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Federal, state and territory energy and climate ministers have gathered for a day of meetings in Melbourne today, something they do (locations vary) every four months or so.
FuelCellsWorks
JULY 19, 2024
Nel has achieved a significant milestone by doubling its annual alkaline electrolyser manufacturing capacity to 1GW, following the installation of a second 500MW automated production line at its Herøya factory.
The Verge: Energy
JULY 16, 2024
An aerial view of the flooded neighborhood of Juana Matos in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Cataño, Puerto Rico, on Friday, September 22nd, 2017. | Photo: Getty Images Puerto Rico filed suit against fossil fuel companies this week, alleging that the oil and gas giants have misled the public about climate change and delayed a transition to clean energy.
Canary Media
JULY 8, 2024
The first canal-based solar project in the U.S. is nearing completion on tribal lands south of Phoenix, Arizona. Native Americans have been using canals to irrigate the Gila River Valley for thousands of years , starting with the Huhugam people.
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?
POWER Magazine
JULY 1, 2024
Adding new reactors to the U.S.’s fleet of nuclear power plants doesn’t happen every day. In fact, prior to the addition of Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4, it hadn’t been done from scratch in decades The post Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 Win POWER’s Plant of the Year Award appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Renew Economy
JULY 25, 2024
Texas has around the same population as Australia and double the grid consumption. And it's been able to add renewables and storage at a rate Australia would envy. The post Learnings from the Texas grid, and why it’s been able to add so much solar and battery storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 22, 2024
Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates. Company spending on advertising outstripped that on low-carbon solutions, the report by campaign group Changing Markets Foundation found, as corporations ramped up attempts to win consumers over with their green credentials.
FuelCellsWorks
JULY 25, 2024
LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa– Today, Air Products (NYSE: APD) unveiled plans to build a network of permanent, commercial-scale hydrogen refuelling stations (HRSs), strategically located along major transportation corridors near the Trans-European Transport Network.
BloombergNEF
JULY 2, 2024
The slowdown in US electric vehicle sales may be a mere blip as they could make up almost a third of new car sales by 2027, according to BloombergNEF’s latest electric vehicle outlook. The post Every Third Car Sold in US Could Be Electric by 2027 appeared first on BloombergNEF.
Canary Media
JULY 9, 2024
For half a century, a sprawling lot in Ravenswood, West Virginia, was home to a giant aluminum smelter. But in 2009, Century Aluminum idled the facility then permanently closed it six years later, and the 2,000-acre site became an empty expanse along the bending banks of the Ohio River.
POWER Magazine
JULY 23, 2024
Officials in India said that country’s energy transition plan will focus on developing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), pumped energy storage projects, and more efficient coal-fired power plants. Finance Minister […] The post India Pledges Support for Nuclear, Coal, and Pumped Storage Projects appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Renew Economy
JULY 23, 2024
Surge in wholesale electricity prices in June quarter highlights the problem of digging in with ageing coal plants and fossil gas generation. The post Costly gas, coal outages and generator bidding lead to big jump in electricity prices in June quarter appeared first on RenewEconomy.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 11, 2024
This article was first published in Common Dreams and is reprinted here. A new parody ExxonMobil advertisement released Tuesday by a group founded by Adam McKay — the Academy Award-winning writer and director of the blockbuster doomsday climate comedy Don’t Look Up — mocks humanity for letting Big Oil get away with causing one of the biggest existential threats of all time. “There’s a world we all want to live in again.
FuelCellsWorks
JULY 17, 2024
Lysaker, Norway– TECO 2030 ASA (OSE: TECO, OTCQX: TECFF, ISIN: NO0010887516) releases its Annual Report 2023 and ESG Report 2023. Main Operational Highlights in 2023 Fuel Cell Modules Development In.
The Guardian: Energy
JULY 25, 2024
Despite climate-friendly plans, the government’s controversial decision to take over the pipeline made it one of world’s biggest promoters of fossil fuel projects Like all major rivers winding through the country, Canada’s most controversial oil pipeline is destined for the ocean. The Trans Mountain pipeline crosses two provinces, threads a national park in the Rocky Mountains, dips underneath bodies of water and passes through dozens of First Nations communities before terminating at a sprawlin
Canary Media
JULY 1, 2024
The sun showers us all with energy, but not everyone can put solar panels on their roofs to harness it for themselves. Enter community solar, an increasingly popular way to expand access to solar and help fix its equity issues. For the first time, evidence shows that it’s working.
TechXplore
JULY 9, 2024
A new way to store carbon captured from the atmosphere, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, works much faster than current methods without the harmful chemical accelerants they require.
Renew Economy
JULY 22, 2024
On Sunday, we published an analysis on the soaring cost of nuclear power by leading economist John Quiggin. On Monday we attempted to post it in our feed on social media. Facebook removed it. The post We published an analysis from a leading economist on soaring nuclear costs. Facebook removed it appeared first on RenewEconomy.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 25, 2024
Former Conservative minister Robert Jenrick, who has today entered the race to lead the Tory party, has a growing record of attacks on climate action. The MP for Newark – who saw a 23.9 percent swing against him in the general election, and served as secretary of state for immigration under former prime minister Rishi Sunak – has attacked what he calls “net zero zealotry”, and has labelled the UK’s net zero target “dangerous fantasy green politics unmoored from reality”.
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