TechXplore
DECEMBER 19, 2024
An international team of scientists has used machine learning to help them develop perovskite solar cells with near-record efficiency. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they used the machine-learning algorithm to help them find new hole-transporting materials to improve the efficiency of perovskite solar cells.
Solar Industry
DECEMBER 19, 2024
SunVest Solar, a developer of distributed renewable energy projects in the United States, has completed construction on a 19.5 MW solar project at Charter Steel’s manufacturing facility in Saukville, Wis. The landmark project is the largest behind-the-meter solar installation in the state and helps ensure that Charter Steel – Wisconsins largest single energy user – will produce steel using clean electricity.
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TechXplore
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Monash University researchers have made a breakthrough in energy storage technology that could significantly advance the global shift away from fossil fuels. The discovery, detailed in a study published Dec. 18 in Nature, involves a new thermal energy storage (TES) material that could help harness renewable energy more effectively and efficiently.
ThinkGeoEnergy
DECEMBER 19, 2024
In a resounding success for Icelands renewable energy sector, it was announced today that North Tech Drilling ehf. , in partnership with Hydro Drilling SRL, has been awarded one of the largest geothermal drilling contracts in the countrys history. Following a competitive tender process initiated in August 2024, Reykjavik Energy (Orkuveitan) and its subsidiary, Veitur , have entrusted the consortium with drilling up to 35 geothermal wells under a contract valued at ISK 4,600 million (approx.
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.
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Regulator says big energy players are manipulating prices to their benefit. It's not illegal, but it's putting a sour note on the energy transition and may require changes to market design. The post How big utilities manipulate the energy market, even with a high share of wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.
POWER Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Well over half of North America faces a potential shortage of electricity supplies in the coming years, compounded by surging demand growth, accelerating generator retirements, and delays in resource development, […] The post Five Critical Insights from NERCs 2024 Long-Term Reliability Assessment appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Pit-latrines are being promoted in Malawi as the most accessible form of sanitation. New research carried out by the James Hutton Institute in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde, alongside partners in the Government of Malawi, has highlighted major concerns for the quality of water in Malawi, as well as in other countries facing similar changes in population and heavy reliance on pit-latrines.
Financial Times: Energy
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Customer charges to increase by an average of 31 a year before inflation between now and 2030
CleanTech Group
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The textile industry is responsible for an estimated 6% of landfill volume, 10% of global emissions, and 20% of global water pollution. Troublingly, The post Textile Recycling: Emerging Ecosystem Pursuing Daunting Waste Challenges appeared first on Cleantech Group.
Financial Times: Energy
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Ninety per cent of countrys crude came from Iran before fall of Bashar al-Assad, says refinery chief
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
Canary Media
DECEMBER 19, 2024
When Steelton-Highspire School District decided to go solar, it wasnt because of climate altruism. It wasnt sustainability goals that drove it to convert its six school buses from diesel to electric, either.
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The Albanese government approved a batch of four coal mines on Thursday, including a super-emitting mine that could almost crash the Safeguard Mechanism. The post Albanese’s four new coal mine extension approvals could crash the Safeguard Mechanism appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Financial Times: Energy
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Ofwat has not given heavily indebted Thames Water the increase in customer payments it was seeking
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 19, 2024
CEFC winds up 2024 with record investment in two huge transmission projects, as Marinus reveals the cost for undersea cable has jumped again. The post CEFC creates buzz with record investment in poles and wires, as Marinus bill blows out again appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
NRDC onEarth
DECEMBER 19, 2024
In June 2024, NRDCs Edwards Clean Air Act settlement team spent three days in Peoria, Illinois, catching up with some of our 15 grant recipients and seeing the fruits of their work.
Charged
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Irish/UK technology company Go Eve has obtained European CE Mark certification for its DockChain EV charging technology. DockChain enables multiple vehicles to connect to a single fast charger through a daisy chain of compact charging points. Each vehicle on a chain charges one at a time, at full power. The DockChain charger offers power ratings between 150 and 400 A, enabling charging speeds of up to 320 kW for compatible vehicles.
NRDC onEarth
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The U.S. commitment to reduce GHG emissions 61- 66% below 2005 levels by 2035 is a call to action for what needs to be delivered in the coming years.
TechXplore
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Freight trains criss-crossing the country carry cars of coal and tanks of oil and natural gas to power plants to help keep the nation's electric grid going. Could freight trains haul electrons generated by renewable energy sources for the same purpose?
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.
Financial Times: Energy
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Investor cites irrefutable case to abandon miners dual-listed structure
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Australia's biggest coal grid witnesses record output of wind energy - in the evening peak. The post New wind output record arrives in time for evening peak appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Storage News
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Western Australias Economic Regulation Authority has set the peak and flexible benchmark reserve capacity prices (BRCPs) at AU$360,700/MW (US$224,898/MW) annually from 2027-28.
Charged
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Qnovo , which provides battery software for e-mobility, has unveiled its SentinelX battery health and safety solution designed to protect passenger and commercial EV operators. The software is designed to act as a first line of defense for automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to prevent catastrophic safety incidents, such as fires related to faulty or degraded EV batteries.
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?
Energy Storage News
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The UK is in the middle of a massive overhaul of its queue system for connecting projects to the grid, and BESS is one of the most oversubscribed technologies, leading to a "nervousness" for a lot of projects, law firm Freeths said.
TechCrunch: Climate
DECEMBER 19, 2024
For many industries, lithium batteries just don’t cut it they’re getting increasingly expensive, require too much space, and sometimes they are just overkill for many industrial use cases. Thermal batteries, on the other hand, can store energy in the form of heat for long periods, are often cheaper to invest in and deploy, and […] 2024 TechCrunch.
Energy Storage News
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Engie has signed an energy storage as a service contract with technology provider Energy Dome for a long-duration energy storage (LDES) project in Sardinia, Italy.
TechXplore
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The operating life and life span of buildings are often far apart. If a property is no longer fit for purpose, it is usually demolished even though it would still be perfectly usable. Even in the event of damage to individual parts of the building, the entire building usually has to make way. This is because in most cases it is cheaper to build a new building than to carry out a conversion or renovation of the existing one.
Energy Storage News
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The extremely low prices from state-owned EPC firm China Power Construction Group's recent 16GWh BESS supply tender come amidst a squeezing of market share and increased buying power from state-owned companies, an S&P analyst told Energy-Storage.news.
Solar Industry
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) has completed its 200 MW Morrow Lake Solar project, located in Frio County, Texas, and providing Microsoft Corp. with renewable energy under a previously announced long-term power purchase agreement. Morrow Lake Solar is the first of two solar facilities developed under the agreement with Microsoft and is LREs second project in Frio County, located across from its 200 MW Horizon Solar project.
Energy Storage News
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The Australian government has approved the development of HumeLink, an almost AU$5 billion (US$3.1 billion) energy transmission project that will unlock the 350GWh Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) expansion.
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 19, 2024
A new wave of geothermal energy companies are emerging, and they're using shale gas tech to make it cheaper, faster and simpler than a decade earlier. The post It getting hot down under: Hot rock geothermal energy is making a comeback in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Storage News
DECEMBER 19, 2024
IPP Enlight Renewable Energy has completed commissioning its flagship Atrisco solar and energy storage project in New Mexico, US.
TechXplore
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Dozens of massive data centers humming at the outskirts of Dublin are consuming more electricity than all of the urban homes in Ireland and starting to wear out the warm welcome that brought them here.
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