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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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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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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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A Second Natural Hydrogen Jackpot Unearthed in Lorraine’s Geologic Goldmine

Hydrogen Fuel News

Frances Hidden Treasure: Unveiling Natural Hydrogen Deposits France has made headlines with groundbreaking discoveries of natural hydrogen , also known as white hydrogen, buried beneath its soil. These findings, located in the Lorraine region, have the potential to disrupt global energy markets by providing an abundant, naturally occurring, zero-carbon fuel source.

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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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Eleven companies join project to demonstrate optimized battery production for EVs

Charged

Eleven companies will jointly present their battery cell production project, demonstrating a model production process to scale and optimize robot-assisted production of EV battery cells and packs. Bosch Rexroth, DBR77, EDAG, FANUC, Fraunhofer FFB, IBG, KEYENCE, Lenze, Mybotshop, SCHUNK and Vision Lasertechnik will show how different technologies interact to make production processes scalable and increase resource efficiency.

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Christians worldwide urged to take legal action on climate crisis

The Guardian: Energy

Handbook outlines practical ways faith organisations can speak truth to power to help protect planet Christians around the world are being encouraged to take legal action against polluters and those who finance them. In a new climate justice handbook , the World Council of Churches sets out practical ways faith organisations can help protect young people and future generations from the climate crisis.

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Step into the spotlight: Apply to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunch: Climate

Calling all tech innovators, startup fanatics, marketing gurus, and emerging VCs this is your moment! You’ve waited long enough, and now the time has come to step into the spotlight at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 2729 in San Francisco.

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SK On and Nissan announce North American EV battery production supply agreement

Charged

SK On and Nissan announce North American EV battery production supply agreement Global battery manufacturer SK On and Nissan have announced a new battery supply agreement that will support Nissans EV production in North America. Under the agreement, SK On will supply nearly 100 GWh of high-nickel batteries to Nissan from 2028 to 2033. These US-manufactured batteries will power Nissans next-generation EVs to be produced at its Canton, Mississippi assembly plant.

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Green hydrogen has stalled in nearly every corner of Australia. So why is the government still revving it up?

The Guardian: Energy

Chris Bowen announced $814m for the clean energy source despite projects in doubt across NSW, Queensland and South Australia See all our Australian election 2025 coverage Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The green hydrogen revolution wasnt supposed to go like this. In September, the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, declared Australia the green hydrogen capital of the world with 50-plus companies on the ground and a pipeline of investments worth $200bn.

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Revel opens first EV fast-charging hub in San Francisco

TechCrunch: Climate

Brooklyn-based electric vehicle charging infrastructure startup Revel on Monday launched its first fast-charging station in San Francisco, kicking off its plans to expand across the Bay Area over the next year.

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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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Upgraded anode moves seawater batteries step closer to primetime

TechXplore

As the world makes more use of renewable energy sources, new battery technology is needed to store electricity for the times when the sun isn't shining, and the wind isn't blowing.

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US market focus to broaden out beyond CAISO and ERCOT in 2025

Energy Storage News

This year will see a shift in focus in the US market beyond the two leading states of California (CAISO) and Texas (ERCOT), BESS owner-operator Zenob says.

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8.26% efficiency boost in eco-friendly solar cells achieved, advancing commercialization prospects

TechXplore

A research team has developed a technology that can significantly increase the efficiency of eco-friendly solar cells. The solar cells they developed showed increased power conversion efficiency of up to 8.26%, compared with conventional solar cells. This finding is expected to accelerate the commercialization of next-generation eco-friendly solar cells.

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VERDE HYDROGEN World’s First 25MW Hydrogen Electrolyzer Module Reaches a Significant Milestone

Hydrogen Fuel News

VERDE HYDROGEN Unveils World’s First 5-in-1 25MW Alkaline Electrolyzer with Record-Breaking Green Hydrogen Output VERDE HYDROGEN has announced the successful operation of the world’s first 5-in-1, single-module 25MW pressurized alkaline hydrogen electrolyzer system, delivered to CHN ENERGY and seamlessly integrated with the VERDE ANALYTICS fully automated control system.

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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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Equis claims New South Wales’ first merchant BESS debt financing for 500MWh asset

Energy Storage News

Equis claims it has secured New South Wales first merchant BESS debt financing for a 500MWh BESS in Australia.

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Off-Grid Energy Gets a Makeover with Fraunhofer IWU’s Hydrogen Microgrids Leading the Way

Hydrogen Fuel News

Revolutionizing Energy Storage with Hydrogen Microgrids Renewable energy is on everyones radar, but theres one glaring challenge it consistently faces: storage. Solar panels and wind turbines generate power when the sun shines and the breeze blows, but energy doesn’t always sync with demand. Enter the hydrogen microgrid, a game-changing solution thats poised to make renewable energy more reliable.

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Squadron Energy seeks approval for 1,000MWh BESS in New South Wales, Australia

Energy Storage News

Squadron Energy is seeking approval from the Australian governments EPBC Act to develop a 1,000MWh BESS in New South Wales.

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Novel synthesis method boosts efficiency of organic solar cells

TechXplore

A research team led by Prof. Ge Ziyi from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a low-crystallinity guest acceptor, D-IDT, using a tin-free direct CH activation method that they incorporated as a third component into binary organic solar cells (OSCs).

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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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Australia on the Cusp of Big Battery Boom, According to BloombergNEF Report

BloombergNEF

A volatile power market, supportive government policies, and looming coal plant retirements are driving uptake of utility-scale batteries in Australia: BloombergNEF Sydney, March 25, 2025 Australia could be on the cusp of a utility-scale battery boom, propelled by sustained high volatility in the power market, government policies that support batteries, and expected coal plant […] The post Australia on the Cusp of Big Battery Boom, According to BloombergNEF Report appeared first on Bloomb

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Engineered surface holds promise for tech to convert CO₂ into liquid fuel

TechXplore

Researchers have developed a novel combination of materials that have organic and inorganic properties, with the goal of using them in technologies that convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into a liquid fuel. The paper, "Mild-Annealed Molecular Layer Deposition (MLD) Tincone Thin Film as Photoelectrochemically Stable and Efficient Electron Transport Layer for Si Photocathodes," is published in ACS Applied Energy Materials.

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What’s really driving high power bills (hint, it’s not renewables) and how can we reduce them?

Renew Economy

New research cuts through the noise to find what is really driving up electricity costs over the longer term, and how governments and consumers can turn the trend around. The post What’s really driving high power bills (hint, it’s not renewables) and how can we reduce them? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Using niobium tungsten oxide to allow lithium batteries to charge faster

TechXplore

A team of engineers, chemists and materials scientists in China and the U.S. has found a material that can be used to dramatically speed up charging time for lithium batteries without loss of capacity. In their study published in the journal Nature Communications, the group used electron microscopy and machine learning to find a material that could be used to overcome bottlenecks during charging.

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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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Egypt’s Orascom Joins Spanish Group to Build 3-GW Gas-Fired Plant in Saudi Arabia

POWER Magazine

An Egypt-based construction group is partnering with a Spanish energy infrastructure company to build a 3-GW combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in Saudi Arabia. The post Egypt’s Orascom Joins Spanish Group to Build 3-GW Gas-Fired Plant in Saudi Arabia appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Concrete innovation promises greener future with deeper CO₂ absorption

TechXplore

Concrete is everywhere. As the world's most widely used construction material, it forms bridges, buildings, roads and other infrastructure. But concrete, and its primary ingredient, cement, are responsible for roughly 8% of the world's CO2 emissions. In fact, if the cement industry were a country, it would rank as the fourth largest greenhouse gas emitter, behind China, the United States and India.

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Effective landscape screening can enhance solar site aesthetics

Solar Power World

When introducing a solar project to a community, one of the primary concerns among residents is often its visual impact. A thoughtfully designed and strategically implemented landscape buffer can address these concerns by seamlessly integrating the project into its surroundings. However, many municipalities lack clear specifications or solar ordinances, leading to inconsistent visual screening approaches.… The post Effective landscape screening can enhance solar site aesthetics appeared fi

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Can energy-hungry AI help cut our energy use?

TechXplore

It takes 10 times more electricity for ChatGPT to respond to a prompt than for Google to carry out a standard search. Still, researchers are struggling to get a grasp on the energy implications of generative artificial intelligence both now and going forward.

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World adds 553GW of solar capacity in 2024 as energy demand grows

PV Tech

The world added 553GW of new solar capacity in 2024, although renewable power accounts for a fraction of the worlds electricity generation.

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3D nanotech blankets offer new path to clean drinking water

Science Daily: Renewable Energy

Researchers have developed a new material that, by harnessing the power of sunlight, can clear water of dangerous pollutants.

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Türkiye’s first Central Anatolian geothermal plant being built in Aksaray

ThinkGeoEnergy

Gzelyurt Geothermal is preparing to build the first geothermal power plant (JES) in Trkiyes Central Anatolia Region. A subsidiary of GMK Energy , Gzelyurt Geothermal Energy Inc. plans to construct a two-unit power plant with a total installed capacity of 20 MW in Aksarays Gzelyurt and Glagac districts, as well as surrounding villages. The project, with an investment cost of 490 million TL (approx.

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Regulator finds fossil fuel group engaged in greenwashing in defence of gas stoves

Renew Economy

Regulator finds industry group breached Greenwashing Code with claims electric cooktops are more expensive and more emissions intensive than cooking with gas. The post Regulator finds fossil fuel group engaged in greenwashing in defence of gas stoves appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Registration open for GRMF Heat Training Workshop; 2-3 April 2025, Tanzania

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility for Africa (GRMF) is inviting everyone for the GRMF HEAT Training Workshop , taking place on 2-3 April 2025 at the Four Points by Sheraton in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Those who are interested to register are advised to send emails to grmf@africa-union.org and grmf@roedl.com. Please include the following information for each attendee: Name Company / Public Entity Email address Phone number This workshop will cover a range of topics essential for geothermal

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Texas Senate passes bill to upend energy market, spur gas over renewables

Canary Media

Texas legislators have a new plan for their states famously competitive energy market, and it looks a lot like the government picking winners and losers.

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