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Busting the Myths of New York's Congestion Pricing Program

NRDC onEarth

New Yorks congestion pricing infrastructure is ready for its January 5 startto the benefit of mobility, public health, and the economy throughout the city and beyond.

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What Makes Spain’s New Hydrogen Train a Milestone for Global Transport?

Hydrogen Fuel News

FCH2RAIL Project Successfully Concludes with a Promising Future for Hydrogen Trains The FCH2RAIL project has reached a significant milestone, marking the completion of a four-year initiative to develop and demonstrate hydrogen-powered train technology. This ambitious project, which brought together leading companies and research institutions, tested the first hydrogen fuel cell-powered train on the railway networks of Spain and Portugal.

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UK plant uses clean technologies to recover copper from PCBs

Envirotec Magazine

Preparing for copper extraction. A circular solution to conserve strategic metals and resupply UK industryhas marked important progress with the announcement by Bioscope Technologies of the successful commissioning of a secondary copper electrowinning plant at its bio-refinery in Cambridge. This is believed to be the first in the UK since the IMI James Bridge copper refinery facility closed in 1999.

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New strategy significantly extends lithium-ion battery life by suppressing oxygen release

TechXplore

A research team has developed a strategy to enhance the durability of lithium-rich layered oxide (LLO) material, a next-generation cathode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). This breakthrough, which significantly extends battery lifespan, was published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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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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2024 was a fantastic year for energy storage

Canary Media

Energy storage used to be the cute companion nipping at the heels of solar and wind. Now its increasingly a main attraction, reshaping both the power grid and the automotive industry, and 2024 was easily the sectors biggest year yet.

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Why Recovering Lost Heat Could Change Everything About Carbon Reduction

Hydrogen Fuel News

Waste Heat Recovery Technology Poised to Redefine Energy Efficiency As global efforts to reduce carbon emissions intensify, waste heat recovery is emerging as a critical technology with profound implications for energy efficiency and climate action. Capturing heat that would otherwise dissipate into the environment offers an opportunity to boost industrial efficiency, reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and advance the global transition to net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century.

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Lyten to acquire lithium-metal battery manufacturing assets from Cuberg

Charged

San Jose-headquartered Lyten , a manufacturer of advanced materials and sulfur-lithium batteries, plans to acquire manufacturing assets from San Leandro-headquartered Cuberg, including its lithium-metal battery manufacturing facility and cell-making equipment. Lyten plans to convert the facility to lithium-sulfur battery production and to invest up to $20 million in 2025 to expand its full Bay Area production capacity to as much as 200 MWh.

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Modules, R&D and globalisation complexities: Tongwei Solar on challenges in 2024 and potential in 2025

PV Tech

As the year comes to an end, PV Tech speaks to Tongwei Solar's Qiu Xin about the companys performance in 2024, and its plans for 2025.

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6 charts that show how the grid is getting cleaner

Canary Media

The year has ended, but the energy transition keeps chugging along. In 2024, clean energy deployments reached new heights in the U.S., with Texas and California proving that huge amounts of solar and batteries can drastically reduce grid problems in the face of extreme weather and soaring electricity demand.

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Restructuring Gameplan as Doosan Pivots Towards Hydrogen Leadership

Hydrogen Fuel News

Doosan Corporation Advances Hydrogen Technology Through Business Consolidation Doosan Corporation, a global industrial leader, has recently unveiled plans to consolidate its hydrogen technology efforts. This step is part of a broader strategy to position itself as a significant player in the hydrogen energy sector, responding to the growing global focus on clean energy.

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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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Biggest projects in the energy storage industry in 2024

Energy Storage News

Following similar pieces the last two years, we look at the biggest energy storage projects, lithium and non-lithium, that we've reported on in 2024.

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Pope Francis goes green with a pearly white Mercedes-Benz electric Popemobile

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Pope Francis has repeatedly urged the people of the world to accept the science of climate change and work to protect the environment. When it comes to his personal ride, this pope practices what he preacheshe recently took delivery of a battery-electric Popemobile from Mercedes-Benz. The Vatican says it plans to convert all of its vehicles to emission-free models by 2030.

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Finland probes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker after cable-cutting incident

Financial Times: Energy

Disconnection of power line follows series of suspected sabotage attacks on Baltic Sea infrastructure

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The clean energy transition, in 10 charts

Canary Media

Canary Medias chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column. Every day, Canary Media documents the clean energy transition with words and at least once a week, we do it with charts.

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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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Ammonia Breakthroughs Could Turn the Tide for Green Shipping

Hydrogen Fuel News

Redefining the Waves with Green Shipping Technologies Maritime transport is vital to the worlds economy, enabling international trade, commerce and facilitating the movement of goods and resources across the whole globe. However, the shipping sector is estimated to be the source of 3% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted worldwide since it is still based on the exploitation of cheap and low-grade fossil fuels such as heavy fuel oil (HFO) and marine diesel oil (MDO).

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AMEA Power picks Trinasolar to supply BESS for Africa’s largest single-site solar PV plant  

Energy Storage News

Developer AMEA Power will collaborate with Trinasolar and Energy China ZTPC to install battery storage at a 500MW solar PV plant in Egypt, Africa.

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StarPlus Energy receives loan commitment to build battery factories in Indiana

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StarPlus Energy has received a conditional commitment from the Department of Energy s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) for a loan of up to $7.54 billion to help finance the construction of up to two lithium-ion battery cell and module manufacturing plants in Kokomo, Indiana. StarPlus Energy is a joint venture between FCA US, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Stellantis, and Samsung SDI.

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Carbon footprint traceability, manufacturing downturn and use of AI in modules: GCL SI on challenges in 2024 and potential in 2025

PV Tech

As the year comes to an end, PV Tech speaks to GCL SI's Zhang Kun about the companys highlights in 2024, and its plans for 2025.

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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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Coal-Fired Delaware Plant Will Close Two Years Early

POWER Magazine

Officials with PJM Interconnection said a coal-fired power unit in Delaware can be closed two years ahead of schedule. The grid operator this month announced the Indian River Unit 4, […] The post Coal-Fired Delaware Plant Will Close Two Years Early appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Is Honda Really All-In on Hydrogen?

Hydrogen Fuel News

Exploring Hondas Commitment to a Hydrogen-Powered Future Hydrogen technology is increasingly seen as a crucial element in reducing carbon emissions, and Honda is bringing its long-standing expertise into the spotlight. Building on nearly four decades of research and development, the company is taking bold steps to integrate hydrogen fuel cell systems into their product offerings.

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Residents in Texas county file lawsuit against developers over proposed 100MW BESS project

Energy Storage News

Residents in Van Zandt County, Texas, have filed a lawsuit seeking damages and an injunction over the construction of a lithium-ion BESS.

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Eni fires up €100mn supercomputer in race to find oil and gas reservoirs

Financial Times: Energy

Italian energy giant switches on the worlds most powerful machine outside the US

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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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Sport produces mountains of high-tech waste—researchers are finding new ways to recycle it

TechXplore

In the early days of the modern Olympics and Paralympics, athletes competed using heavy, non-aerodynamic equipment. The record for throwing a javelin, for instance, has almost doubled since 1908, when the sport was introduced. Athletes have got betterbut so has their equipment.

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Battery News: A Proton Battery And A Battery for Mars

Energy Central

To replace fossil fuel as our primary energy source in the creation of electricity and in the powering of transportation, batteries are front and centre providing both storage backup for renewables as well as power to run infrastructure. One of the newest technologies is a proton battery that uses hydrogen ions, electrodes made from an organic material and a water solution to replace.

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Hyzon Motors Issues WARN Act Notice Amid Financial Challenges

Hydrogen Fuel News

Financial Woes and Policy Uncertainty Pushes Hyzon Motors Hyzon Motors, a US based heavy duty hydrogen fuel cell truck manufacturer, recently announced a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act) notice. This decision affects employees at the companys Bolingbrook, Illinois, and Troy, Michigan facilities, alongside its remaining workforce in these states.

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Paua partners with Roam Charging to expand access to EV connectors in the UK

Charged

UK EV charging platform Paua , designed for businesses, has announced its collaboration with UK-based EV charging network Roam Charging (formerly known as EVC) to provide Paua users with access to more than 800 EV connectors at more than 200 sites. Roam Chargings network, now fully integrated into the Paua app, includes hubs at such locations as workplaces, hotels and retail outlets, and offers both AC charging for longer stops and rapid charging.

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De Beers amasses biggest diamond stockpile since 2008 financial crisis

Financial Times: Energy

Chinese demand has slumped as competition from lab-grown alternatives has increased

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Cryptographic protocol enables secure data sharing in floating wind energy sector

TechXplore

Floating wind power offers enormous potential for deepwater offshore energy development. However, the management and secure exchange of data between stakeholders represents a key challenge for its evolution.

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Quiz: How well do you remember 2024’s clean energy news?

Canary Media

Its the holiday season, a time for joy, relaxation and testing yourself on how well you remember the biggest clean energy developments of the year. Naturally. So take our handy quiz below to find out what you do and dont recall from a year chock full of news.

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Unlocking Funding and Trust with EU-Backed Green Hydrogen Certifications

Hydrogen Fuel News

European Commission Grants Certification Schemes for Renewable Hydrogen and RFNBOs The European Commission has taken a major step towards decarbonizing the energy and industrial sectors with its formal approval of certification schemes for Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin (RFNBOs), including renewable green hydrogen. This new framework sets standardized criteria for designating fuels as “green,” helping align international hydrogen producers with the European Union’s st

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Juniper Ventures spins out of Climate Capital to invest in synthetic biology for the climate

TechCrunch: Climate

The first Juniper fund is $10.6 million and is oversubscribed. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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EU burns through gas storage at fastest rate since energy crisis

Financial Times: Energy

Colder weather and lower seaborne imports increase reliance on stored gas

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