Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Farmers could soon be reimbursed for creating water storage ponds or water “batteries” as part of an innovative drought-prevention project that has received funding (on 16 May) from Ofwat’s Innovation Fund. This technique is cheaper and more environmentally-friendly than current monitoring practices.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Compiled by global climate tech company, IES, using its digital twin technology, the Local Area Energy Plan (LAEP) identified changes to the borough’s buildings and energy generation needed to hit the net zero target. The rollout of solar alone, in suitable and moderately suitable locations, is estimated to cost just under £500m.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

California has more distributed energy resources than any other state, pressuring it to find ways to integrate them into the grid. That’s the big change enabled by a Rule 21 revision entitled “conditions that allow distributed energy resources to perform while avoiding upgrades.”

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

Or will it dismantle already-weakened public transportation systems? When economies across the world shut down all at once in March, the impact on transportation systems was immediate. According to the International Energy Agency, activity on roads globally was down 50 percent compared to the 2019 average. Learn more.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Six months after inking California’s largest single energy storage procurement, utility Southern California Edison has added another three massive utility-scale battery projects to its portfolio—plus a behind-the-meter battery project with Sunrun. The four-hour duration 2.63 utility record books.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Panasonic’s Cardiff RE100 Facility: Technological Advancements at the Cardiff Facility Panasonic’s newly launched RE100 facility in Cardiff, Wales, represents a bold leap in renewable energy innovation. These systems are managed by Panasonic’s advanced Energy Management System (EMS).

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 18, 2023

A combination of geothermal energy and solar power have provided sustainable cooling and air-conditioning to the Moncloa Transport Hub in Madrid, Spain. The Moncloa Transport Hub is a convergence point for many major bus lines and metro lines in Madrid. This makes the whole system 100% renewable.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

California already has some of the highest electricity rates in the country. Those costs could rise even faster over the next decade, as utilities harden their grids against wildfires, grow their share of net-metered rooftop solar, and add other costs being passed through to utility customers.

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Charged

MAY 27, 2021

Aggreko, a provider of mobile and modular energy solutions, has delivered a smart battery storage system to Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne will incorporate the new system into a fast charging facility at its Smart Energy Plaza near Chicago.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 7, 2025

AI spurred clean firm power, Europe strengthened carbon markets, and emerging economies’ climate tech demand opened up. 🚗 Vertical: Energy came top in 2024 investment, up 12% to $9.4bn. Transportation underperformed, down 36%. Scala and Crusoe both support clean energy for data centers.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

From technology making the railways greener than ever before by removing harmful emissions from train exhausts to research into powering our railways with renewable energy, this year’s successful bidders will revolutionise the future of train travel for generations to come.”. G-VOLUTION LTD. 3SQUARED LTD.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. Solar energy's winter doldrums.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Friendly Technologies IoT platform for smart meter management, a Maryland microgrid for powering an electric bus fleet, solar harvesting to power IoT sensors and new Perovskite solar cell advances are on the week’s technology radar. The ‘Friendly’ platform for smart meters and IoT devices.

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Charged

JUNE 14, 2023

Some of the company’s ships are basically plug-in hybrids, featuring enormous batteries to reduce the use of the diesel engines. Unlike the vast majority of the world’s passenger ships, Hurtigruten’s liners generally plug into shore power when they dock, rather than spewing diesel fumes into nearby neighborhoods.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The solar-plus-storage market is evolving rapidly and will look completely different a decade down the road. Batteries will be incentivized or mandated for practically every new solar PV system across the U.S. System costs will increase with the shift toward batteries. What can we expect on the way to 2030?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2024

Green hydrogen holds many promises: it can serve as a ‘battery’ for energy storage, it can be used in the chemical industry, and its only emission will be water vapour. To make this happen, you need to add some energy. Allowing hydrogen to bond with oxygen again results in the production of water and the release of energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Mika Takahashi, Technology Analyst at market intelligence firm IDTechEx reviews highlights from a new report on an emerging sector Electric vehicles are no longer a niche oddity but fully mainstream, with many automotive manufacturers announcing targets to phase out ICE construction in favor of BEVs (battery electric vehicles).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

While an audible sucking-in-of-breath might have seemed in evidence with energy experts appraisal of the technical challenges of speeding-up the transition to electric vehicles, other observers waxed lugubriously about a lack of ambition in the plan. Electric avenue. Making EVs more affordable was seen as still a major hurdle.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Image: Redwood Redwood Materials has recycled e-bike batteries and Tesla batteries. The decommissioning recently wrapped and the batteries are now being transported to the company’s facility in north Nevada for recycling. That project was a 52 megawatt-hour battery installation plus a 13MW SolarCity solar farm.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 13, 2024

In a recent open letter, 120 scientists and academics have called on the organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics to reconsider the use of Toyota’s Mirai hydrogen-powered vehicles as the official fleet. This method utilizes water, solar power, and agricultural waste to reduce the energy required for hydrogen production by 600 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

This time the temporary crisis mainly affected transportation. But what if an attack like this happens again and it affects our power grid? Peak Energy Usage. In the winter months if you live in the North East, you very likely turn up the heat and since the days are shorter, use more electricity to light your home.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Government-backed project aims to demonstrate how power, transport and heating technologies can be combined to shrink CO2 emissions and electricity bills. The partners are also working with and Newcastle University and West Sussex County Council, with an aim to complete the project in the next three years.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 24, 2020

A tie-up between Vodafone and Energy Web is evidence that an emerging flexibility services opportunity is luring new players to the energy sector, insiders believe. The endgame is to give an even wider range of devices access to future flexibility services markets, said Energy Web chief executive officer Walter Kok. In the U.K.,

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Charged

APRIL 27, 2020

Transit operator Keolis Métropole Orléans, which serves the city of Orleans, France, has ordered 29 Irizar ie tram electric buses. The order is part of the city’s plan to convert its entire public transport system to electric drive by 2025. Each bus is 12 meters long and has a range of 220 km. Source: Irizar.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 9, 2022

As clean energies grow in countries’ energy mixes, ongoing innovation is key for reducing costs and improving the performance. Research, development and demonstration of clean energies is common across countries and regions. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 3, 2022

AI to monitor bird interactions with solar PV, lithium iron phosphate battery production coming in Europe, a lithium mine for EV batteries and the energy infrastructure requirements in the Moon to Mars exploration are on the week’s technology radar. First lithium iron phosphate battery cell prototype in Europe.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

Converting a fleet from fossil-fueled to electric is a lot more complicated than simply buying new vehicles. The electric cars, trucks and buses need carefully scheduled charging to ensure they have sufficient fuel for their duties. Then it's up to Amply to actually deliver power in the most cost-efficient manner.

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Charged

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Charging network Electrify America has been at the forefront of a new trend: installing battery energy storage systems (BESS) at DC fast charging stations in order to manage energy costs and reduce stress on the grid. EA installed the megawatt-level BESS, along with a solar canopy, at its station in Baker, California.

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Charged

MAY 12, 2020

With a fresh round of funding, Wildcat Discovery Technologies is busy expanding its facilities, building up its battery team and doubling down on promising solid-state research projects. We asked the energy storage experts to help clear up the hype around solid-state batteries. The state of solid-state.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The impact of electric transportation on pollution and reduced carbon emissions and fossil-fuel consumption is complicated. On the one hand, well-designed electric vehicles (EVs) use much less energy per mile than conventionally-fueled vehicles. Midwest, wind energy is growing quickly. For example, in the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

Japan’s electricity sector is facing the triple challenges in the energy transition of energy security, cost and decarbonisation , writes James Tedd from GridBeyond. While there has been growth in the solar sector, most generation is provided by gas and coal. Have you read?

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Value estimations for grid-tied photovoltaic systems (PV) prove solar panels are beneficial for utility companies and consumers alike. Beyond the environmental benefits and lower electric bills, it turns out installing solar panels on your house actually benefits your whole community. Value of Solar. Sunny Savings.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 11, 2021

Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. TRANSPORTATION. ELECTRICITY. MANUFACTURING.

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Charged

JULY 7, 2020

The International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook is an annual publication that reports on the current state of electric mobility around the world. One country that has been aggressively deploying electric buses is Chile. SEE ALSO: IEA case study: electric buses in Helsinki, Finland. million in 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The ambition is similar to that of Swedish greenfield battery manufacturer Northvolt. The battery maker has developed a full-scale greenfield manufacturing business in less than five years of operations. One component of the green steel business case is access to Sweden’s ample renewable energy resources.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Electric vehicles are going to be a major load on the grid, which makes them either a threat or an opportunity to utilities, depending on how their charging is managed. EV chargers can pull as much grid power as an entire home when charging at full, he noted.

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