Activists want 3 things from the Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution. Will they get them?
GreenBiz
APRIL 26, 2024
Consumer packaged goods companies, chemical producers and the oil industry are in the crosshairs of watchdogs in Ottawa.
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Chitty-chitty-pop-bang! Are noise cameras ready to tackle UK traffic?
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 23, 2024
Speed cameras: Lessons learned in this space are informing the roll-out of noise cameras Noise camera technology is ready to be deployed for monitoring urban traffic, according to a number of firms developing it. Envirotec looks at how different groups propose to do it. While modern cars may be all too easily modified to produce ear-splitting bangs, pops and other eruptions, a growing hazard for the modern city dweller (at least if they value being able to sleep or concentrate on a task), the te
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Sustainable building groups combine to accelerate change
GreenBiz
APRIL 25, 2024
The green building movement has evolved from local, LEED-centric, grassroots efforts to more regional, broader coalitions of professionals.
Hidden Fossil Fuels: Plastic Production Drives Climate Change
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 23, 2024
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.
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.
Bowen says Coalition’s nuclear push would put grid reliability at risk due to delays in coal plant closures
Renew Economy
APRIL 25, 2024
Bowen says Coalition nuclear plan will put grid reliability at risk because it will stop renewables and storage and force ageing and unreliable coal power plants to stay open. The post Bowen says Coalition’s nuclear push would put grid reliability at risk due to delays in coal plant closures appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Hexagon Purus Receives Order to Deliver Hydrogen Storage Systems to HPS Home Power Solutions
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 23, 2024
Oslo, Norway– Hexagon Purus, a world leading manufacturer of zero-emission mobility and hydrogen infrastructure solutions, has received an order worth approximately EUR 3.8 million for hydrogen storage systems from the German.
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Power Plant Carbon Rules: What’s Changed Since the 2023 Proposal?
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 25, 2024
The EPA's finalized rules for carbon emissions from the power sector have just been released. Here's how they've evolved.
China’s quiet energy revolution: The switch from nuclear to renewable energy
Renew Economy
APRIL 25, 2024
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.
Plug Signs Additional BEDP Contracts for a Total of 4.5GW of Electrolyzers Across Europe and the United States
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 25, 2024
Expanding Basic Engineering and Design Package (BEDP) Portfolio with an additional 350MW of electrolyzers LATHAM, N.Y.– Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG), a global leader in comprehensive hydrogen solutions for the.
Salesforce to lobby for new rules on AI’s environmental impact
GreenBiz
APRIL 22, 2024
Computing uses up to 3 percent of global power consumption and AI could triple that, the company believes.
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.
Tesla deployed 4.1GWh BESS in Q1, storage and generation is highest-margin business line
Energy Storage News
APRIL 26, 2024
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.
New Rule Ups Big Oil’s Financial Responsibility for Offshore Clean-up
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 24, 2024
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.
Buildings as batteries: How basic demand response could shift 12GW of peak demand, save billions
Renew Economy
APRIL 23, 2024
New study finds that if one-third of commercial buildings shifted consumption from late afternoon to middle of day it would free peak capacity in the energy market of almost 12GW. The post Buildings as batteries: How basic demand response could shift 12GW of peak demand, save billions appeared first on RenewEconomy.
U.S. Department of Energy Announces $20 Million to Develop Cost-Effective, Highly Accurate Hydrogen Detection and Quantification Technologies
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 26, 2024
ARPA-E Exploratory Topic to Address Need for New Class of Atmospheric Hydrogen Sensing Technologies WASHINGTON, D.C.– The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $20 million in funding.
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.
The week ahead in climate policy
GreenBiz
APRIL 22, 2024
This week’s most important ongoing climate policy stories.
Methane Rising: Three questions investors in the food sector should ask their portfolio companies
EDF + Business
APRIL 25, 2024
By Josh Torres and Andrew Howell, CFA Starbucks and Clover Sonoma said this week they would track and disclose methane emissions within their dairy supply chains, joining the Dairy Methane Action Alliance in the latest sign of accelerating action on food sector methane emissions. Launched in December at COP28, the Alliance has quickly grown to include eight global food and dairy companies representing over $230 billion in annual global sales.
Fears grow over rising number of oil lobbyists at UN plastic pollution talks
The Guardian: Energy
APRIL 25, 2024
Proposed global treaty to curb production represents challenge to producers of fossil fuels, from which most plastics are made The number of fossil fuel and petrochemical industry lobbyists at UN talks to agree the first global treaty to cut plastic pollution has increased by more than a third, according to an analysis. Most plastic is made from fossil fuels, via a chemical process known as cracking, and 196 lobbyists from both industries are at the UN talks in Ottawa, Canada, where countries ar
More than 6,000 sheep now call Australia’s largest solar farm home
Renew Economy
APRIL 23, 2024
The owners of Australia's largest solar project say the site now plays host to a record 6,000 plus sheep. The post More than 6,000 sheep now call Australia’s largest solar farm home appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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?
Bosch Rexroth Unveils Advanced Cryopump for Efficient H2 Refueling Stations At Hannover Messe 2024
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 25, 2024
100 kg of hydrogen in less than 10 minutes. More than 100 refueling operations each day At Hannover Messe 2024, Bosch Rexroth presents drive systems for compressors and cryopumps developed.
Meet the Woman Making Ikea More Sustainable
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APRIL 23, 2024
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US DOE $10m grant to support nation’s first regional cybersecurity center for grids
Smart Energy International
APRIL 24, 2024
A $10 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant will help create a pilot regional cybersecurity research and operations centre meant to help protect the power grid against cyber attacks. Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security was awarded the grant, in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Let’s Commit to Saving Workers from Heat, Not Killing Them
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 24, 2024
Recent actions by state government officials increase the urgency for a federal workplace heat standard.
The two unlikely states leading Australia’s stunning growth in rooftop PV output
Renew Economy
APRIL 24, 2024
Rooftop solar's stunning growth continues, thanks to sunny conditions in two unlikely states. The post The two unlikely states leading Australia’s stunning growth in rooftop PV output appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Grid operators: hydrogen can be added to the natural gas grid
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 25, 2024
Gas network operator Netze BW says it has successfully demonstrated in practice that hydrogen can be mixed into an existing natural gas network. The distribution network for natural gas in.
Plasma treatment enhances electrode material for fuel cells in industry, homes and vehicles
TechXplore
APRIL 22, 2024
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have improved the properties of a carbon-based electrode material by exposing it to air plasma. Such treatment turned out to enhance electrode performance, which is the limiting factor for high-tech energy sources—particularly fuel cells.
New York launches 42.5MW of BESS projects including like-for-like gas turbine replacer
Energy Storage News
APRIL 24, 2024
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.
Nissan to use solid-state batteries, gigacasting in its next-gen EVs
Charged
APRIL 25, 2024
Nissan , Japan’s third-biggest automaker by volume, plans to begin producing solid-state batteries for EVs at scale by early 2029, and will also use Tesla-style gigacasting machines in order to increase efficiency and drive down costs on its future EV models. Solid-state batteries are expected to deliver faster charging and longer lifespans than current Li-ion designs.
Record wind and solar push down prices across grid, except for most coal dependent state
Renew Economy
APRIL 22, 2024
Record output of renewable energy pushed prices down across the main grid in the first quarter, with the exception of the most coal dependent state grid. The post Record wind and solar push down prices across grid, except for most coal dependent state appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Fallback Friday Story: Nikola Celebrates Grand Opening of First Hyla Refueling Station in Southern California
FuelCellsWorks
APRIL 26, 2024
Ontario-based station marks a significant step forward in establishing comprehensive hydrogen refueling network for Class 8 trucks. PHOENIX– Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy supply.
An ultralow-concentration electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries
TechXplore
APRIL 22, 2024
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.
ERCOT market saturation ‘already happening’
Energy Storage News
APRIL 26, 2024
Market saturation in the Texas, ERCOT ancillary services market is already happening as the BESS buildout accelerates, Energy-Storage.news has heard.
Megawatt Charging System from Siemens delivers 1 MW charge during testing
Charged
APRIL 25, 2024
As the Megawatt Charging System (MCS), a new charging standard for heavy-duty EVs, enters the final stages of standardization, automakers and EVSE manufacturers are busily putting the new system through its paces. Commercial implementations of MCS, which industry experts are calling a game-changer for electric trucks, are expected to begin later this year.
Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts as nuclear misinformation swings polls
Renew Economy
APRIL 22, 2024
Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts with government, as the push against renewables and for nuclear gains traction in polls. The post Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts as nuclear misinformation swings polls appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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