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£13.7 million of e-waste will be generated by April 3G switch-off

Envirotec Magazine

The O2 networks move to switch off 3G next month could see 13 million worth of e-waste generated, according to business waste collection firm BusinessWaste.co.uk. The 3G switch-off on O2s network is expected to affect approximately 4.3 million people across the UK. 1 It could generate an enormous 70,516 kilograms of e-waste, said WEEE specialists with the group, roughly the same weight as 5.9 double-decker buses.

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New electrolytes enable safe, stable and fast-charging lithium-metal batteries

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In recent years, researchers have been trying to develop increasingly advanced battery technologies that can be charged faster and store more energy, while also remaining safe and stable over time. Lithium-metal batteries (LMBs), which contain a lithium-metal-based anode, have been found to be promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), which are currently the most widely used rechargeable batteries.

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‘Foundational’ market shifts affecting BESS in CAISO and ERCOT coming in 2025

Energy Storage News

There will be ‘foundational’ shifts in the US’ two largest renewables and energy storage markets this year, California (CAISO) and Texas (ERCOT), significantly affecting battery storage market participation. That characterisation comes from Tom Thunell, co-founder and COO of optimisation platform Tyba Energy, who gave Energy-Storage.

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America’s Nuclear Renaissance: How the TVA Can Lead Our Energy Future

POWER Magazine

You may have heard of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), our nations largest public utility and source of cheap, clean, and reliable electricity for 10 million people. You may even […] The post America’s Nuclear Renaissance: How the TVA Can Lead Our Energy Future appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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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Breakthrough Tech Turns Seawater Into Green Hydrogen with £630k Backing

Hydrogen Fuel News

Latent Drive Secures 630k Grant for HydroPort Seawater Hydrogen Project UK-based hydrogen technology company Latent Drive has been awarded 630,000 by Innovate UK to advance its groundbreaking HydroPort project. This initiative focuses on producing green hydrogen directly from seawater using proprietary technology, SeaStack. Scheduled for trials along the Dorset coast, the project aims to fuel a harbour patrol vessel with clean energy and serves as a bold step towards decarbonizing maritime opera

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Vinyl and CD recycling scheme announced by major music packaging broker

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Julie Raccuglia , CC BY-SA 2.0 license. Key Production Group , said to be Europes leading bespoke physical music and packaging manufacturing broker, has announced the full rollout of its Key Production Recycling scheme, which the group says provides a responsible and sustainable recycling option for vinyl and CDs that are no longer playable.

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US energy storage market saw ‘first year of double-digit deployment’ in 2024: Wood Mac

Energy Storage News

According to the Q1 2025 US Energy Storage Monitor from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the American Clean Power Association (ACP), energy storage installations surpassed 12GW in 2024.

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ElectricFish’s microgrid EV charging solution installs quickly, cuts grid upgrade costs

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Microgrids are the coming thing in EV chargingincorporating battery storage can mitigate the need for high-power grid connections, making installations quicker and cheaper. ElectricFish has launched a new, fully redesigned version of its microgrid-based EV charger. Called the 350Squared, the system features battery integration and a proprietary power electronics design that the company says delivers faster EV charging and reduces the need for costly grid upgrades.

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The €15M Hydrogen Project That’s Putting Bulgaria on the Clean Energy Map

Hydrogen Fuel News

Bulgarias Hydrogen Ambitions Take Shape with a New Centre of Excellence Bulgaria is charging into the clean energy future with plans to establish a cutting-edge Hydrogen Centre of Excellence in Stara Zagora. Under the banner of the H2START Hydrogen Valley project, this ambitious initiative is poised to position the Balkan nation as a leader in green hydrogen production and export within Europe.

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Survey suggests strong public support for EPS recycling

Envirotec Magazine

A 2025 YouGov survey conducted by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) appears to indicate a strong public demand for expanded polystyrene (EPS) recycling solutions. Many people remain unaware that EPS is fully recyclable, explains the BPF here, but the survey points to a significant desire for accessible recycling programs. The survey showed that 84% of respondents were unaware that EPS is recyclable.

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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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Biodiesel wastewater treatment: Capturing carbon and valuable chemicals

TechXplore

While biodiesel provides a cleaner-burning alternative to petroleum diesel, it produces CO2 and hazardous wastewater during manufacturing, requiring extra steps to achieve sustainability. A diagnostic study led by University of Michigan researchers works to improve a process that captures CO2 while treating biodiesel wastewater and produces valuable co-products like fuels and green chemicals.

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Ex-Tesla and Freyr team launch sodium-ion ESS startup for ‘distributed hybridisation’ with solar

Energy Storage News

Netherlands-based startup Moonwatt plans to commercialise an energy storage solution for hybridisation with solar using two big technological deviations from today's industry standard - we hear more from the firm's CEO and COO.

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Lithium Americas receives $250 million investment from Orion Resource Partners for Thacker Pass lithium project

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Lithium Americas has received a strategic investment of $250 million from funds managed by Orion Resource Partners, a global investment firm focused on metal and materials projects, for the development and construction of Phase 1 of the Thacker Pass lithium project in Humboldt County, Nevada. The target for completion of Thacker Pass Phase 1 is late 2027.

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Kemi Badenoch Made Anti-Net Zero Speech at Shell Ad Agency

DeSmogBlog

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch today ditched her partys commitment to the UKs flagship climate target in a speech hosted by an advertising group that works for Shell, DeSmog can reveal. During her address, Badenoch suggested that we are bankrupting ourselves in the pursuit of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. She said that the country should still seek to reduce its climate impact, but shouldnt set a date for achieving net zero.

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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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Quarrying’s role in nature recovery celebrated at awards ceremony

Envirotec Magazine

Langford Quarry near Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire was the winner of the Cooper-Heyman Cup for outstanding achievement in quarry restoration. The partnership between Tarmac and RSPB “has transformed an area of 122 hectares of the former sand and gravel quarry into a mosaic of wetlands, lowland meadows, wet woodland and agriculture” The role that quarrying can play in nature recovery and biodiversity gain was celebrated at the Quarries&Nature2025 awards ceremony during March, h

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A new nanoplastic paves the way for sustainable street lighting

TechXplore

A new study resulting from a collaboration between King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) shows how nanomaterials can significantly reduce the carbon emissions of LED (light-emitting diode) streetlights. The research team estimates that by adopting this technology, the United States alone can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than one million metric tons.

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Safety and ESG are non-negotiable requirements in Europe’s BESS market, says Trina Storage

Energy Storage News

Juan Ceballos, Trina Storage head of sales for Europe, tells ESN Premium how one of solars big players aims to become a major presence in energy storage.

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BYD claims its new EV charging system is almost as fast as refueling with gas

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Chinese automaker BYD has announced an ultra-fast EV charging system that it says can deliver a full charge to its latest EV models within five to eight minutes, similar to the amount of time needed to fill a fuel tank with gas. The company says its one-megawatt flash chargers can provide enough energy for nearly 250 miles of driving in five minutes.

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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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BASF Commissions Electrolyzer for Major German Hydrogen Production Project

POWER Magazine

German multinational chemical company BASF has commissioned that country's largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer. The company said the 54-MW facility will have an annual capacity of as much as 8,000 metric tons of hydrogen. The post BASF Commissions Electrolyzer for Major German Hydrogen Production Project appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Collaboration aims to advance graphene use in hydrogen storage and transport

Envirotec Magazine

The Swedish firm behind a novel polymer-graphene composite material, which promises to overcome many of the disadvantages of traditional hydrogen storage methods, has entered a strategic collaboration with UK climate tech startup Levidian, to co-develop new graphene-based polymer solutions for the hydrogen sector and other industries. Graphmatechs flagship technology, Aros Graphene, enables efficient graphene integration and dispersion into other traditional materials like metals and polymers in

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Producing nuclear fusion fuel is banned in the US for being too toxic: Researchers find an alternative

TechXplore

Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, usually requires liquid mercury, which is extremely toxic. Now, researchers have developed a mercury-free method to isolate lithium-6 that is as effective as the conventional method. The new method is presented in the journal Chem.

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‘World-leader in negative prices’: Australia urged to turn renewable energy challenge into opportunity

Energy Storage News

Battery storage can turn record-high instances of negative spot pricing in Australias National Electricity Market (NEM) into investment opportunities.

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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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Voltpost to demonstrate lamppost EV chargers in Connecticut

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Curbside EV charging is the solution to the problem of EV drivers who arent able to install chargers at their homes. Its a red-hot field, and one of the companies targeting this market is Voltpost , which makes an EV charging platform that can be retrofitted to existing lampposts. Now Voltpost has been selected by Connecticuts Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) to perform an 18-month project to demonstrate the feasibility of the Voltpost charging platform, in territories served by two

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Government ‘absolutely up for the fight’ over net zero, Ed Miliband says

The Guardian: Energy

Exclusive: energy secretary says 2050 target is imperative, and accuses opposition of betraying of future generations The government is absolutely up for the fight over net zero, Ed Miliband has said, as he accused the Conservatives and Reform of a total desertion and betrayal of future generations by failing to tackle the climate crisis. After a turbulent week for Labour in which it has been charged with abandoning its values by slashing disability benefits, the energy secretary sought to focus

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How Virtual Power Plants Enhance Grid Operations and Resilience

POWER Magazine

A virtual power plant (VPP) is a network of decentralized, small- to medium-scale power generating units, flexible power consumers, and storage systems that are aggregated and operated as a single […] The post How Virtual Power Plants Enhance Grid Operations and Resilience appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Nanocellulose treated with red onion dye provides effective UV protection for solar cells

TechXplore

Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, investigated how to use bio-based materials to produce effective UV protection films for solar cells. The study, published in ACS Applied Optical Materials, was the first to compare how the properties of different bio-based UV filters change over time.

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Vistra to write off US$400 million from Moss Landing BESS

Energy Storage News

Utility and power generation firm Vistra will write down the value of its Moss Landing BESS to the tune of US$400 million in depreciation expense, its entire remaining book value.

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Northern Graphite starts sampling LDI graphite for battery anode materials

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Canadian producer Northern Graphite is supplying samples of three standard battery anode material (BAM) products, as well as its Porocarb material, to manufacturers of lithium-ion and solid-state batteries. Northerns demonstrator grades, produced using graphite from the companys Lac des Iles (LDI) mine in Quebec acquired in 2022 , are engineered to drive battery performance and meet industry standards for particle size, tap density and surface area.

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Urgent action needed to harness tidal power in Severn estuary, say experts

The Guardian: Energy

Commission launched in 2022 says lagoon project, not full barrage, should be backed by UK and Welsh governments Urgent action is needed to harness the UKs potential for tidal range energy in the Severn estuary but smaller lagoon models should be pursued over a larger dam-like barrage, a panel of experts has said. The Severn Estuary Commission said that harnessing the energy of the tides in the estuary could deliver predictable, renewable electricity that would work independent of weather conditi

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A Growing Chorus of Concerns Signals Peril for the Biomass Industry 

NRDC onEarth

This International Day of Forests, we can celebrate the increasingly widespread recognition that the biomass industry is a bad bet for our forests and our communities.

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New carbon-negative material could make concrete and cement more sustainable

TechXplore

Using seawater, electricity and carbon dioxide (CO2), Northwestern University scientists have developed a new carbon-negative building material.

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California governor Gavin Newsom fast tracks 300MW solar-plus-storage project

Energy Storage News

California governor Gavin Newsom has taken steps to accelerate the 300MW Cornucopia Hybrid Project in Fresno County, California, US.